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". ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Eric Elmore Electronic Resources Coordinator The University of Texas at San Antonio One UTSA Circle San Antonio, TX. 78249-0671 [log in to unmask]] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++