PGSG Nov 11, 2010 Meeting Speaker

Donna Ferullo from the University Copyright Office

Questions and Answers Session
Q: How do we seek advice or suggestions from your office?
A: Contact Donna Ferullo by email: ferullo [at] purdue [dot] edu

Q: Can we get legal help from your office?
A: You can get advice, but you would have to get your own attorney.

Q: Do we need a CIC addendum to our theses and dissertations?
A: No. ProQuest allows you to retain your copyright, but they need permission for third party content. If permission is not supplied, they will black out the related content.

Q: How do copyrights work with IRB?
A: You will own whatever comes out of your research. Purdue will claim ownership to your data, but you own interpretations of that data.

Q: What are the biggest mistakes grad students make when publishing?
A: They don't read the contract and just sign it anyway. Then later they want to republish it in a book or post it to a website. Publishers then contact you and ask you to remove it because it violates the contract.

Q: What is the success rate of the people that attach the CIC addendum?
A: I don't know the exact number, but I hear more positive stories than negative. You should received a signed copy from the publisher, but if they publish your work without sending a signed copy, it is assumed that they agree with the addendum.

Q: If you attach the CIC addendum and the publisher agrees, can you attach that paper to your thesis without getting consent?
A: Usually you can without a problem. Read the contract first.

Q: When you publish in an international journal and you are in the US, how does that work?
A: You have to read the contract carefully, but since you are agreeing to it in the US it would be under US law.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• PGSG
• Purdue
• Grad Student
• Copyright