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The New Copyright Law Under the new United States copyright law, which became effective ,January 1. 1978, the author becomes the owner of a copyright t o his work immediately upon its completion. T o permit the ACS t o continue its past practice of holding copyright on individual articles published in its journals, it has become necessary to obtain transfer of copyright from t h e authors of each paper. T h e form for such a transfer and an accompanying letter of explanation are presented on p 9t;A of the current issue. It is important to emphasize that the ACS does not through this procedure abridge the rights that its authors have traditionally enjoyed, as spelled out in the explanatory letter. Authors may submit the transfer form a t the time of submit1:ing the manilscript, or they will be provided forms with the acknowledgment letter. If for any reason manuscript is not published, copyright is not transferred and the form will he returned t o t h e author. A single author is empowered to obtain t h e consent of ro-auth(irs and execute t h e form. The procedure outlined above has been carefully worked out by ACS management in consultation with staff and journal editors t o entail the least disturbance of its traditional practice, to protect the rights of authors, and to guard the ACS journals against erosion from unauthorized reproduction of individual a r t i c l i s An important provision of the new law is a requirement t h a t l a r g e - e d e users seek permission and pay royalties for copying beyond the limits of fair use. In approving this provision, the Congress in a n accompanying report urged the copyright Owners and users t o set up a convenient centralized mechanism to facilitate rokalty payments. T o this end, the Association of American Publishers in cooperation with others has set up the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. This will permit large-scale users of technical, scientific, and medical articles to work through a single agency rather than with hundreds of individual journal publishers. Beginning in January 1978, each ACS journal will use an article-identification code on the first page of each article to permit computer identification of the individual publisher and article. This will permit the Copyright Clearance Center tu allocate payments to the proper sources and to keep records of the numbers of copies of each article. T h e publisher will retain the right t o establish whether a given article will carry a copying fee, and what the fee will be. These new procedures constitute an important step towards solving the difficult problem of taking advantage of new technology in the dissemination of information and yet protecting the rights of publishers and of individual authors.
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