How do copyright rules for online publication differ from normal copyright rules?
A9. Strictly speaking, they don’t. The law is the same but the cultural framework and professional expectations are different. The web is an incredibly democratic institution and one dominated, or at least heavily inhabited, by young people who have grown up with the experience and expectation that things on the internet are free, as in fact they often are. Interestingly, even when one turns to traditionally published books issued by commercial and academic presses, one is beginning to find pdf copies of books being made available for free by their authors simultaneously with the sale of the print copies (e.g., Benkler 2006, Lessig 2004). Thus online publications tend to have fewer copyright restraints and restrictions in practice than comparable paper publications, although there is no reason in principle why this would have to be so. Q10. If I take an article from a free, open-access online journal, is it fair to assume that I can use the material for whatever academic purposes I wan
