1. How To Keep Your Author Rights (and Influence People)By
Marilyn Billings
Scholarly Communications Librarian
W.E.B. Du Bois Library

2. Science Faculty Colloquy
What are author rights?
What do we mean when we say “author rights”?
Transferring copyright: do publishers really need these rights?
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3. Author rights: the rights of copyright
For original works of authorship
Conferred at fixation upon tangible media (registration is not required)
Limited by time and certain uses
Inheritable, separable, assignable
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4. Science Faculty Colloquy
What are they? In the US...
The right to reproduce the work (to publish, make copies, reformat, etc.)
The right to create derivative works (to edit or to build upon an existing piece of scholarship)
The right to distribute the work (to publish, republish, give away, sell, etc.)
The right to perform the work publicly
The right to display the work
The right to broadcast the work
The right of attribution and integrity
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5. Inheritable, separable, assignable
Rights held from fixation through the author’s life plus 70 years
Each right included may be sold, given away, or granted to another person or body under a non-exclusive license
All rights may be given away
Subsequent rights holders may assign rights
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6. When the author assigns copyright
Author loses rights under copyright
Author’s institution may not enjoy expanded rights through permission
Current and future uses completely controlled by new rights holder (no moral rights for written works in US)
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7. Science Faculty Colloquy
Resources for your use
Alternative Licenses
Creative Commons
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Alternative Actions
Editorial and peer reviewer roles
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8. What is UMass Amherst Doing?
Amherst
Contact the Team
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