RE: Scholarly communication, copyright, and fair use

[<Toby.GREEN@oecd.org>]

Doesn't it rather depend on what the publisher has sold in the 
first place? In our case, we allow (indeed encourage), educators 
to use subscribed material in course packs because we work on the 
principle that we have sold subscribers the content on the basis 
of unlimited use - and that means course packs and any other use 
within the institution. If libraries want to become subsidiary 
printing operations - that's fine by us. (The only thing we ask 
is that subscribers do not re-sell our content to third parties.)

Toby Green
Head of Publishing
Public Affairs & Communications Directorate
OECD
toby.green@oecd.org
www.oecd.org/publishing


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sandy Thatcher
Sent: 18 August, 2009 11:10 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Scholarly communication, copyright, and fair use

If the library subscribes to journals in electronic form and 
teachers provide URLs to the content paid for, publishers have no 
objections. When libraries turn into subsidiary printing 
operations and create many more copies of articles than they 
purchased through subscription, that indeed exceeds what they 
paid for and interferes with the market for the publishers' 
products.

Sanford G. Thatcher
Executive Editor for Social Sciences and Humanities
Penn State University Press

>I'll probably show my ignorance of the publishing world here, but
>here goes anyway...
>
>Sandy says that"income streams must be generated to pay the costs
>[of peer review]. These streams include charges for use of
>massive amounts of materials in course packs and e-reserve
>systems like Georgia State's."
>
>I understand the need for revenue streams to support the peer
>revue process. But in cases where a library already subscribes to
>the journals in question, isn't that sort of double-charging? An
>institution pays for a subscription to a given journal, and then
>pays again to use pieces of the same journal in electronic course
>packs and e-reserves?
>
>Bernie Sloan