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Physicists demand their wiki rights or else
PHYSICS BOFFINS HAVE clashed with a large Scientific publisher over not being allowed to post spin offs of their research on Whackypedia.
The dispute arose over two studies which were disqualified from publication by the American Physical Society (APS), after the authors asked that the copyright agreement they were made to sign with the journal Physical Review Letters, would also allow them to reproduce parts of their research on blogs and online encyclopaedias. The ASP has always demanded that copyright be transferred solely to them before they will consider publishing a scientist’s work in one of their journals.
38 other physics boffins flocked to aid their colleagues’ cause and called on the APS to scrap its restrictive policy. Some publishing societies, like the British Royal Society, have already adapted their copyright contracts to allow for electronic reproduction.
The APS’ Chief Editor, Gene Sprouse, reckons that the society will take the physicists demands into consideration at a meeting set to take place in May of this year.
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This is totally wrong. I believe the ASP should enforce its rights to the hilt, just like the RIAA does.
I think the ASP should hire an entire legal department to track down blog posts in real time, and sue the panties off all those anarchists grandmas and punk kids who have the gall to think they actually have the right to learn something.
The ASP should also put an armed guard beside every scientist who has ever signed over his/her soul to them, with instructions to shoot the bugger if he so much as hints to anything that is in the ASPs' rights portfolio.
By enforcing these measures, and more like them, I wish the ASP a swift transition to the dustbin of History, while the rest of the world goes on sharing knowledge, which is the one true wealth we have that costs nothing to give.