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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From: "Peretsman-Clement, Gail" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 04:07:35 +0000

Sorry for any confusion, but there seems to be no prior reference in this thread to theology or evidence of reifying anything. Some of us library copyright managers in this discussion are recognizing the importance and value of following existing law, which in the U.S. system balances the rights of owners and users, yes?

-- Gail