Re: What's at Stake in the Georgia State University Copyright Case

["Karl F. Bridges" <kbridges@uvm.edu>]

A related point, which no one considers, is this:  As a faculty 
member at a state university I am paid with tax payer dollars. 
Yet I contribute my work, for free, to a for-profit business. 
It would be a reasonable question for administrators to ask 
whether that is appropriate.  Why, after all, should a private 
business in effect get a subsidy from tax payer to cover part of 
its overhead costs (the costs of articles)?

Karl Bridges
University of Vermont


Quoting "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>:

>> From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
>
> "A closely watched trial in federal court in Atlanta, Cambridge 
> University Press et al. v. Patton et al., is pitting faculty, 
> libraries, and publishers against one another in a case that 
> could clarify the nature of copyright and define the meaning of 
> fair use in the digital age...The plaintiffs are asking for an 
> injunction to stop university personnel from making material 
> available on e-reserve without paying licensing fees. A 
> decision is expected in several weeks. The Chronicle asked 
> experts in scholarly communications what the case may mean for 
> the future."
>
> Full text at: http://bit.ly/igSYAj
>
> Bernie Sloan