I second Jeremy's note - the association should not coerce anyone to do anything. We have encouraged people to share their work, and we have a means (again, as with so much else of our online presence, courtesy Jeremy) of distributing work electronically. If there are people interested in doing so I am sure Jeremy will help them (though if there is truly great interest in this I would hope that there will be people who will help Jeremy, for he, along with Charlie Breindahl's help, has been shouldering virtually the entire burden of running AoIR's Internet applications and hardware). Let us not also forget that many of the papers presented at AoIR conferences have been published in various forms and venues, and that for many people publication of work in a proceedings (whether online or offline) may foreclose other publication opportunities that "count" for much more in academic settings. There are interesting ways in which academic work is implicated in intellectual property matters, and not all of them are only based on legal considerations. Perhaps some of those who have published could share citations. AoIR will continue to encourage the sharing of work, but should not obligate or coerce anyone to share it (or to do anything else for that matter). Thanks, Sj At 7:17 AM -0500 11/1/02, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
i fully support free paper distribution, i even have a server at cddc dedicated to eprints that anyone can use to distribute electronic prints, aoir members and non members alike. but free and open distribution must be the decision of the individual not an obligation put on them because they participate in an organization or attend a conference. i'm not into removing people's freedom to provide free papers. i'm not even into having an organization provide free papers if that organization relies on the good will of its members to provide those papers without the organization returning something to those members in kind. so i don't support making papers and proceedings available to the world, i don't think we've ever said we would, and i don't think it is a good idea institutionally to take over those rights and duties involved with intellectual ownership and electronic distribution, though it is a great idea for people to do it individually, as many members do already.
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