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

[Sandy Thatcher <sandy.thatcher@alumni.princeton.edu>]

Please note that two of the presses in the suit are non-profit 
and that much of the material copied comes from books, for which 
the authors are paid royalties.

Sandy Thatcher


>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