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It's actually the case with most conferences now. I simply won't include my
stuff in Proceedings for this reason. This is my intellectual property and
it has a dollar value to me and my company. It really is not hard for them
to change it to First North American rights. But conferences simply don't do
that for reasons I don't understand.
But others may feel differently about including their stuff. I just can't
afford to sign away my copyright, even if they then revert back to me in a
way I don't understand.
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Subject: Re: Deadline extended for proposals for STC Annual Conference
> I agree that requiring copyright transfer is greedy. I agree that
> one-time publication rights would be much more author-friendly. It may
> even be true that the policy will discourage presenters.
Right, but in most cases the presenters at these conferences are paid
for their contributions, in which case the transfer of copyright is
the result of a financial transaction (the conference purchases the
intellectual rights). This is not the case with the STC, which bothers
me.
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