From: "Uhlinger, Eleanor (CIV)" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 19:22:13 +0000

I have been having a distressing negotiation with a small publisher who is not willing to change standard licensing terms in his contract to comply with requirements for US federal contracts and licenses.  I understand that small publishers do not necessarily have Counsel on retainer but there are core terms we simply cannot abide with in a basic license.

As it turns out, that publisher's content is also on an aggregator's platform so I informed the publisher I was calling off negotiations and would access the content from the aggregator's platform.

The publisher then asked for a copy of my license with the aggregator, which I declined to provide, and reminded him that his publication sets terms with the aggregator and the aggregator sets terms with licensees.

Now publisher is telling our subscription agent he will not activate our subscription period until he has an individual license with us.

To which I replied  "Cancel! AND, by the way, we do not want it in print either"

Now I am very curious  -- have others experienced this?

Eleanor

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