Re: Texaco Memo

> I have a a query about the legality of us copying our own articles
> and distributing them to colleague who send a reprint request,
> students in short courses for which they pay a fee and students in
> regular classes paying tuition.
>
> Many faculty make their own copies rather than purchasing reprints
> which seem to be very expensive. What is the legality of this,
> especially after Texaco or before if it matters.

A few years ago a colleague paid the publisher of one of his earlier books for permission to use a table in a latter work (for another publisher.) He had no doubt about the first publisher's legal right to a fee but I doubt that he will ever publish with them again. Nor will some of the people to whom he has told this story.

The law aside, there are incentives for publishers not to alienate authors.

Carl Drott
<drott[_at_]dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu> Received on Wed Nov 30 1994 - 03:59:48 GMT