RE: Call for input on digital rights management

[David Goodman <dgoodman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>]

Wait a minute, Jan. Do you mean that if I were to take selected excellent
articles from your publications, and reprint them as an anthology, and
sell them in hard copy for my own profit, you (and the authors) would
consider this fair? Agreed, this very very rarely happens. Practically the
only publisher who has in recent years done this on a more or less regular
basis is Scientific American, which of course is not a primary research
publication. But what if a profit-making commercial enterprise wanted to
reprint 50,000 copies of an article involving one of their products and
use it as a sales promotion?

David Goodman
Research Librarian and
Biological Sciences Bibliographer
Princeton University Library
dgoodman @princeton.edu            609-258-7785

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Jan Velterop wrote:

[SNIP]

> All use is fair use. At least for research published by BioMed Central.
>
> Jan Velterop
> Publisher BioMed Central