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["David Hirst" <dhirst AT pavilion.co.uk>]

As a supporter of CC and related freedoms, I find the form requested by the IEE for publication of conference proceedings to border on the unethical. For example, it will require me to acknowledge the IEE every time I use a diagram or some text that I happen to have included in a paper, although I may well have used it elsewhere beforehand. The relevant text is at:

http://conferences.iee.org/acdc/copyright_form.pdf

So, although I have a paper that I think relevant and important to a conference, I find myself quite unwilling to put up with these conditions. This harms the profession, and is arguable unprofessional.

Have others faced similar dilemmas, and what have they done about it?

Regards

David

David Hirst

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