From: Winston Tabb <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 20:49:32 +0000
Subject: RE: SciHub

Thank you, Eric.  The perversion of copyright term from its original 7
years to the current (in many countries) life of the author + 70 has
had a tremendously debilitating effect on whatever balance there may
originally have been.  The only counter-weight  – weak as if often is
– to this perversion are limitations and exceptions to copyright,
which vary widely, are under constant attack.  Examples of such
balance-destruction measures include the DMCA and licenses that
attempt to override copyright exceptions.



From: Eric Elmore <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 17:20:49 +0000

Does it really though?  Or has copyright become just another tool for
the for-profit publishing industry to extract ever increasing fees
from the academic market?  Copyright started out as a limited right to
authors, but how long does it extend now? 150 years? Longer? That
doesn't sound like a right a human author would realistically need.
It's not an especially large leap of logic to see copyright as having
been subverted and warped, only benefitting the large corporations who
wield it like a bludgeon against the very academics who do the actual
research, and writing, and editing of the materials they "publish".


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