[pp.int.general] cultural flatrate: PP position?

[Christian]

Reinier Bakels wrote:
> A an author, I personally hate copyright. If I publish in a magazine, I
> may risk that the publisher does not allow to publish my article
> elsewhere, e.g. on my website. 

Thats basically a problem of the contract you signed.

> I guess that is in Germany even "default"
> law, i.e. the law that applies if nothing else has been explicitly
> decided. German articles rarely appear on the Internet, despite the
> "Berlin declaration" on open science. In that sense, it is an *old
> fashioned* country, compared with e.g. the US. I have to admit, Dutch
> publishers never objected agains publishing my articles on the Internet
> either.

That's indeed something we want to change.

Christian