Re: Supreme Court Ruling--Copyright--New York Times v. Tasini

[Carole Richter <Carole.J.Richter.8@nd.edu>]

I have to agree with Anthony that researching, clearing, renegotiating (if
possible) for rights to include this content WILL cost money...we will
either have to settle for lest, or acknowledge that it will cost more.
This will definitely take awhile to shake down, but I'd be astonished if
it didn't have some kind of repercussions for us.

Carole Richter
Electronic Resources Coordinator  
University of Notre Dame Libraries
(219)631-8405   
richter.8@nd.edu


At 06:55 AM 6/26/2001 EDT, Anthony Watkinson wrote:
>
>Aggregators have contracts with publishers. If publishers do not have the
>rights to license downstream, aggregators will have to remove the content
>from their databases which will become less useful to their customers. I
>cannot see that they will be able to ask for more. It will make their
>product less attractive and will handicap their business.
>
>If publishers want to get the rights they may have to pay more but,
>leaving aside the payments, there will be a huge bureaucratic workload to
>accomplish a complete rights coverage. That costs money. Some extra costs
>will get passed on to the customer even if some can be absorbed.
>
>I am interested to learn what John Webb means by the word "excuse". Is
>this a philosophical critique of capitalism or just a knee-jerk reaction
>to a situation which is not going to help information providers at all
>(either publishers or librarians or aggregators) however fair and
>reasonable the judgement may have been
>
>Anthony Watkinson