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ACM's Copyright Policy

By Ronald F. Boisvert, Jack W. Davidson
Communications of the ACM, October 2011, Vol. 54 No. 10, Pages 5-6
10.1145/2001269.2001270
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Ganesh Sittampalam

September 30, 2011 12:30

I'm afraid I still don't really understand why copyright transfer is required, rather than grant of a permissive license to ACM.

This blog post on a practical result from ACM's policy is well worth reading: http://r6.ca/blog/20110930T012533Z.html

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