- From: Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:52:49 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
On 2022-09-29 18:12, Flavius Frasincar wrote: >The World Wide Web is relentlessly evolving [..] Perhaps not fast or good enough for scholarly communication? Evidently, the whole WE/SAC community is content with archaic constraints imposed by third-party publishers to do its communication for them: > Accepted full papers should not exceed 8 pages in a double column format ... > (with the option to add more pages at extra charge). really now? As for "transfer of copyright" in https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2023/authorkit/author-kit-2023.pdf : >As a condition for acceptance of papers, authors must execute the copyright transfer to ACM. Please >note that by signing the form you are simply giving your permission to ACM to publish the paper. For >this reason, there is no problem if the material is already in the public domain, such as work done with >government support. ACM controls the commercial use of material we publish, while your company or >you retain the right to reuse the work, in whole or in part. That is nonsense and theft. Authors *can* keep their copyright and apply a CC license (with the exception of NC) to achieve that exact same thing. In this day and age. ACM is not the problem. WE community drums about the amazing Web and all the advances for society but can't even use the infrastructure that's right in front of it for three decades to communicate without having to go through third-parties, hand over rights, cram stuff into double columns. Vote with your wallet. -Sarven https://csarven.ca/#i
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