maybe the publisher's copyright is implicit under dutch law?? anyway it's
definitely true that the contents of *WL&L* are copyright by benjamins.
when the article was later published in *studies in the linguistic
sciences*, it was explicitly marked (p. 70): "copyright by john benjamins
publ. co.; reprinted by permission." cheers; bill

>Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>>
>> William Bright wrote:
>> > [...] it was published under the title "a matter
>> > of typology:
>> > alphasyllabaries and abugidas" in two periodicals: *written
>> > language and
>> > literacy* 2(1):45-56 (1999) and *studies in the linguistic sciences*
>> > 30(1):63-71 (2000). if anybody would like a hard copy of the
>> > article, you
>> > only have to ask me via email, and i will send it by
>> > snailmail, with a nice
>> > picture of king sejong on the cover.
>>
>> You just made a dangerous statement. :-) This list has about 100
>> subscribers, all interested in this kind of things, so you risk to receive
>> about 99 requests...
>>
>> If you agree, and if we have a volunteer with a scanner and half an hour
>> free time, you could send the hard copies to only one person, and (s)he
>> could send the scanned pages to all the others.
>>
>> If you have no problems making the articles public domain, the scans could
>> simply be posted on the list (or, better, added in the pictures section),
>> otherwise they could be sent privately to the interested people.
>
>Incredibly, there's no copyright notice anywhere in the journal number,
>but I'm pretty sure I signed one of those forms assigning copyright to
>the publisher.
>
>See what's at http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/sls.html
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