Re: electronic journals CCC

[Tom Williams <twilliam@bbl.usouthal.edu>]

This is in response to Anthony's comment.

No, I don't have AAP bugged but I have learned to read licenses and when
one publisher after another tries to write contracts for online full text
that eliminate all or portions of "Fair Use" rights that libraries
currently have, I get a sneaking suspicion.  Also, when Pat Schroeder, the
current AAP lobbyist and mouthpiece, makes a statement such as "in the
past, nobody has been willing to take on libraries, that's what we're here
for(referring to the AAP)."  This may not be the exact wording but close
and it was from the Washington Times or Washington Post a few months ago.  
What else does the AAP have to "take on" with libraries but fair use??

By the way, for those of you in the UK and elsewhere, Pat Schroeder is a
former U.S. Senator, I don't remember from which state, who was hired by
the AAP as a lobbyist/spokesperson etc., who has (or so it would seem by
her statements) thrown down the gauntlet to libraries and, I believe,
"Fair Use."

Tom

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On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Anthony Watkinson wrote:

> I am absolutely fascinated to learn that publishers "as a group" would
> love to see "fair use" go away. How Tom Williams knows this I cannot tell
> unless he is bugging AAP. Across the water publishers and the library end
> of the higher education community (JISC) have come to an agreement on the
> interpretation of what we call "fair dealing" in the electronic
> environment. Many US companies are represented by the PA (UK Publishers
> Association). I am surprised if they take a radically different stance in
> the US. If anyone is interested in this example of cooperation the
> document is available at
> www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/pa/fair/intro.html.
> 
> Anthony Watkinson
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