From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 08:48:30 -0500

I would be interested in knowing what evidence Chuck has to back up
his claim that "most" authors of scholarly journal articles and book
chapters sign contracts that provide for no sharing of income with
them from subsidiary rights. That was certainly not true at the two
university presses at which I worked (and whose contracts I wrote),
Princeton and Penn State.

Sandy Thatcher


> From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 01:53:37 +0000
>
> Dear Sally.
>
> Revenue sharing with authors of articles published in scholarly
> journals.  That's the part they leave out of copyright transfers for
> most authors of academic journal  articles and chapters in scholarly
> monographs . CCC for that stuff is just a little lagniappe for
> academic journal and book publishers. Catnip so to speak.
>
> Chuck
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> From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:39:40 +0100
>
> If I remember correctly (no doubt someone will put me right if not), in the
> UK journal photocopying income is shared between PLS and ALCS, and ALCS
> distributes among those authors (of articles published less than 3 years
> ago) registered with it;  you have to register to get any share of this
> income.
>
> In the USA, I believe, journal photocopying income goes to the publishers
> who are required to distribute it to authors according to contract.
>
> Sally
>
> Sally Morris
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 11:20:57 +0100
>
> In the UK the ownership of the CLA is jointly between the Authors' Licensing
> and Collecting Society and the Publishers Licensing Society. ALCS represents
> two author groups and the PLS three publisher representative organisations.
> I belong to the ALCS and in spite of the fact that I am hardly a major
> academic I get enough each year to have at least 90 prints of beer a year (a
> British measure). Maybe when you are a rightsholder you have to join up to
> the CCC?
>
> Anthony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 00:06:06 +0000
>
> And some of that CCC income stream ends up in author's pockets ?  I don't
> think so. I've got several articles CCC tracks. But never seen a cent.nor
> ever heard of any author of articles who has. When i asked the publisher
> assured me it wasn't large enough a source to warrant tracking it.
>
> Chuck