Even for the subset of works for which authors secured copyright, the conditional regime's registration requirement served to keep records of works for which copyright was claimed, and moved most protected work into the public domain after a relatively short initial term -- again, by the voluntary decision of the author.
In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Turow – who is also a lawyer – mourns the devaluing of copyright, pointing to the Supreme Court ruling last month "to allow the importation and resale of foreign editions of American works", which he predicted would "open the gates to a surge in cheap imports" for which authors will not get royalties.
The team found that the odds of acceptance were twice as high for manuscripts for which authors had excluded reviewers compared to those whose authors had not done so.
Last night was the second annual World Book Night, an event for which authors, booksellers, librarians, publishers and simply passionate literary fiends gave away 500,000 free memoirs, novels and non-fiction titles in the United States and 1 million in the United Kingdom, where it all began last year.
Among those trials for which authors reported obtaining individual consent, the quality of consent processes appeared to improve over time (ordinal logistic OR 1.12 (95% CI 0.98 to 1.28)).
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All of these errors involved mice for which authors used the appropriate gene or allele identifier from Mouse Genome Informatics, MGI, rather than the stock number or genotype identifying the organism.
To assess reporting, we present proportions reporting ethical approval and seeking individual consent for participation and, for trials for which authors reported obtaining such consent, proportions assessing capacity, using proxies for consent (including type of proxy), excluding cognitively impaired individuals and obtaining consent only in the intervention arm.
Of the 22 trials for which authors did not report obtaining individual resident consent, we judged that in 14 consent was either not required, or the description made it difficult to judge if consent was required, but if it had been, a waiver of consent could been appropriate (table 3).
She gave author spices for recipe, which author put into his copy of Forster's novel.
