Re: copyright protection paper

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@worldnet.att.net>]

At last!  And this is, precisely, the crux of the matter.  It is widely
believed that the public domain liberates texts from the hoarding
imperatives of commercial publishers, but it is the opposite that is the
case.  No one has a greater incentive than commercial publishers in seeing
that as many people as possible--paying customers--have access to texts.
Open access will make proprietary publications all the more valuable,
lowering publishers' costs, and contributing to higher profits, in the
process.

Joe Esposito

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sally Morris" <sec-gen@alpsp.org>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: copyright protection paper

> What interests me is what difference, if any, the public domain status of
> such works has actually made to their accessibility.  I wonder whether
> anyone is studying this?
>
> Sally Morris, Secretary-General
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