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Re: Special Issue of Serials Review
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PF Anderson)
Wed May 20 08:51:25 1992
Date: Wed, 20 May 1992 07:47:33 CDT
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From: PF Anderson <pfa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <01GK6UPMW0PC000K46@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu>; from "David Mattison" at
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
David Mattison says:
> Charles W. Bailey's message brings to mind the article by Czeslaw Jan
> Grycz, "Economic Models for Disseminating Scholarly Information" in ALCTS
> Newsletter, v. 3, no. 2, 1992, p. 1, 10-13. What I found interesting about
> Grycz's article is that the issue is discussed from the perspective of
> librarians and publishers only, with the authors being given only peripheral
> attention. As someone who's functioned in all three capacities, I tend to
> side with the author and the need to redress the historic imbalance in which
> authors, like farmers, nourish humanity, but are often poorly compensated for
> their efforts.
This is what the original copyright laws were intended to do: to establish
a relationship between the consumer and the producer in a way which
encouraged the producer to support his product, and to reward the creative
person in a way that encouraged them to continue to be creative. In those
days the producer and the creative person were the same. Somehow things
have degenerated, with the result that the coopyright laws as they now
stand fail to serve the function for which they were intended.
Pat Anderson
Northwestern
pfa@nwu.edu
