[LINK] Copyright question

[Michael Lean]

I couldn't agree more, but this is not an easy thing to negotiate. In the 
world of academic publishing, publishers tend to have the upper hand, due 
to the need people have to be published.

>An academic sent a paper off to a learned journal. Much to his delight, he 
>received a letter from the publisher, saying that his paper had been found 
>to be excellent, and that the publisher wished to publish it the next 
>issue of the journal, and would the academic be happy with a fee of $50?
>
>The publisher duly received the completed assignment of copyright, and 
>pinned to it was the academic's cheque for $50!

Funny? I dunno.
Mike



At 04:45 PM 11/09/2002 +0200, Auer, Karl James wrote:
>Publishers need content; they are even prepared to pay for it. But that 
>they then own that content, exclusively and in perpetuity, is a condition 
>that no content creator has to accept. Far better is a limited 
>reproduction right, renegotiable at agreed intervals and preferably 
>non-exclusive.

Michael M. Lean JP (Qual)
University Copyright Officer
Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
  Phone 07 3864 4024 Fax 07 3864 1823

...the raison d'etre of the web, both in its  utopian and capitalist 
manifestations, is the click; to resist the click is to resist the web. Who 
would want to do a thing like that?
Keith Gessen  "The New Write"  in The Australian 30/5/01

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