Follow Up Re: [ANN] XML Prague 2010 Final Call for Participation (CFP)

[daniela florescu]

Dear James,

thank you for the clarification. This answers my question.

Best  regards, looking forward to an interesting conference in Prague !
Dana



On Dec 22, 2009, at 9:27 AM, James Fuller wrote:

> as promised, here is a more official followup from the University
> about speakers presentations and published papers.
>
> * In Czech law copyright is always implicit and remains with the
> original author, unless an explicit agreement (Copyright Transfer
> Agreement) is signed by the Author. The copyright symbol has no real
> meaning in legal terms so it being attached or not means naught.
>
> * as for licensing, If there is no written agreement about license
> terms in Czech, authors are always giving non-exclusive rights to
> publishers as default setting.
>
> * In last years proceedings you will see the following copyrights  
> asserted
>
> Copyright (c) 2009 Jiří Kosek, Vít Janota
> Copyright (c) 2009 MATFYZPRESS, vydavatelství Matematicko-fyzikální  
> fakulty
>
> Copyright of individual articles remains in hands of original authors.
>
> MATFYZPRESS retains copyright only on the cover pages, whilst Mr.
> Kosek and Mr. Janota retain copyright on the design and
> ordering/layout of the articles. Once again, by czech law, the
> copyright symbols themselves mean nothing and all rights would get
> asserted based on authorship or separate signed agreements.
>
> hope that clears up any misunderstandings.
>
> regards, Jim Fuller
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Daniela Florescu  
> <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
>> James, Michael,
>>
>> thanks for your answers.
>>
>> I think my question wasn't clear.
>>
>> XML Prague has to take a clear decision about the status of the  
>> papers:
>> (a) are they part of an informal proceedings (in which case they  
>> can be
>> submitted
>> somewhere else without infringing any copyright and affecting prior
>> publication
>> status), or (b)  they are part of a copyrighted publication (in  
>> which case
>> they cannot).
>>
>> The Web site doesn't say either way, and that causes problems.
>> [[ I understand from James's answer that (a) is what is meant to  
>> be, but
>> it's not clear...]]
>> [[ and unfortunately, being published "on the Web" can be  
>> interpreted either
>> way...]]
>>
>> For example, if a student submits a research proposal to XML  
>> Prague, and
>> sends it
>> in the same time to a copyrighted publication (like Sigmod), then  
>> Sigmod
>> had serious
>> grounds for rejecting the submission because of the lack of clarity  
>> of the
>> XML Prague
>> web site about this issue.
>>
>> The students I am working with are worried about this.  Copyrights  
>> are
>> serious business
>> in their world.
>>
>> Thanks, best regards
>> Dana
>>
>>
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>> On Dec 17, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> here is link to 2007 proceedings
>>>>
>>>> http://www.xmlprague.cz/2007/images/xmlprague2007.pdf
>>>>
>>>> to give you an idea.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Having attended and spoken at several past events, but not being  
>>> in any
>>> way
>>> involved in the organisation, I would say: concentrate on saying  
>>> something
>>> that is going to be interesting to the audience, and not  
>>> commercial; don't
>>> worry too much about the academic criteria of originality or full
>>> citations
>>> of previous related work. For example, if you were to talk on  
>>> scripting in
>>> XQuery, present the current state of play, not the delta changes  
>>> that have
>>> occurred in the three months since your last paper on the subject.  
>>> No-one
>>> except other researchers in your own field wants to hear that kind  
>>> of
>>> paper,
>>> and this is not primarily a conference where you are addressing  
>>> other
>>> researchers in your own field.
>>>
>>> It is (or has been in the past) a single-stream conference, which  
>>> means
>>> your
>>> audience is less specialized. This also means that because  
>>> everyone is
>>> present at the same talks, speakers get a lot of opportunity to  
>>> relate
>>> their
>>> work to other things that have been discussed in the conference,  
>>> which
>>> makes
>>> it a more interactive experience.
>>>
>>> Michael Kay
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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