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Don't Publish with IEEE

rns out that, in response to #3, IEEE is overriding its scientific referees and flat-out refusing to accept public-domain papers. I learned about this from a UIC graduate student who had submitted a paper to a conference whose proceedings were to be published by IEEE.

I looked at the IEEE Copyright Policies and found that public-domain papers were clearly exempted from the copyright-transfer requirement: The IEEE Intellectual Property Rights Manager had also devoted some effort to trying to fool the student into believing that papers could not simply be dedicated to the public domain. Instead you said that you were ``dubious about the idea of simply declaring one's intention to inject a work into the public domain,'' and that IEEE needed to be able to ``prove'' its rights.

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