Sample Copyright Transfer Agreements

From Seizing the Moment: Scientists’ Authorship Rights in the Digital Age (report of a study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science), July 2002.

Traditional Full Copyright Transfer Agreements:

• American Geophysical Union
• American Meteorological Society
• Elsevier Science
• Institute of Electronics, Information & Communications Engineers (Japan)
• Springer-Verlag [PDF]

Transfer with Author Retaining Some Rights to the Work:

• American Physical Society [PDF: 12kb]
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers [PDF: 8kb]

Author Retains Copyright & Range of Non-Commercial Uses:

• Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers [PDF: 11kb]

Author Retains Copyright & Unlimited Rights after First Publication in Journal:

• Journal of Machine Learning [PDF: 7kb]