Copyright

One of the journals that I regularly contribute to emailed it’s authors today re-asserting it’s copyright ownership of our efforts.

I didn’t have the heart to tell them that unless there is an executed assignment deed all such assertions are meaningless.

In truth their journal has a small professional readership that get the journal free of charge as part of their membership. The journal should be freely published under creative commons.

Nothing would be lost except maybe the sneaky income they get from the e-journal database service providers, which they don’t tell their authors about.

The same e-journal databases are under the illusion that the journal is selling content for which they own copyright.