Dear all

Calling the legal beagles on Lactnet.  If you write an article and 
it's published in a journal, which is not open-access, who are you 
allowed to share it with?  Presumably the journal owns the copyright, 
but who owns the intellectual property?  For instance I'm assuming 
it's OK to share single copies with colleagues for educational 
purposes.  And if one were to use it as a handout at a conference 
presentation, would that be OK too?   What about putting a copy up on 
your own or someone else's website so that the people who really need 
the information, but didn't have subscriptions to the journal in 
question, could have access to it - could that be counted as education too?

Thanks if you can help.

Pamela Morrison IBCLC
Rustington, England


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