Dutch law has little to say about US journals (except as under the
Universal Copyright Convention). But since what you offered was the US
version ("picture of king sejong"), it's _its_ copyright notice that
prevails.

william bright wrote:

>
> 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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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...