Re:Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
by jonathankoren on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:53AM
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If you transfer copyright at all, you typically only transfer it to the ACM, not Springer. Springer is just a contractor running a website and occasionally printing up phone books of papers that no one reads, and USB drives of PDFs people use for the week of the conference.
See http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy