Re: [CNI-COPYRIGHT] Re: "Do not sell to schools" and copyright

on 3/29/03 1:06 PM, Belvadi, Melissa at mbelvadi[_at_]maryville.edu wrote:

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>
> But in the last 10-15 years, some for-profit publishers of scholarly
> journals have gotten, well to speak subjectively, greedy, and increased
> institutional pricing far above the inflation rate, year after year
> after
> year, causing libraries with modest-to-none budget increases to face a
> genuine crisis. (Everyone on this list knows already about the monopoly
> pricing power inherent in copyright law; that power exists to the hilt
> in
> the domain of scholarly publishing.)

It seems to me that institutions of higher education are the ones that give these scholarly publications this power and maybe it might be time to take some power back.

Nancy

Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D.

Center for Advanced Technology in Education University of Oregon, College of Education E-mail: nwillard[_at_]oregon.uoregon.edu
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