Re: Coursepacks

On Sat, June 27, 1998, Bert Boyce <lsboyc[_at_]lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu> wrote:
>
> On 6/25/98, Michael A Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> wrote:
> >
> > It surprises me to no end that so many academic types find it
> > "inconvenient" to pay for rights to works.
>
> It may have something to do with the fact that the same academics
> that want to use these papers are the people who collectively wrote them
> and assigned the copyright to a publisher without receiving payment (in
> fact sometimes paying the publisher for the privlidge), had them
> refereed for quality by other academics who were not paid for their
> efforts, and edited by other academics who sometimes get a few travel
> dollars to solicit more papers.

It's pitiful that academia seems to view the writings of their employees as worthless, hence not worth paying the authors for. As a professional writer, I wouldn't give my work away for free - it's part of my living. Of course, it is strange that the colleges who won't pay academic "types" for their writing will gladly charge a small fortune to students for the privilege of reading those writings (as in mandatory text books).

Fredrick Rea O'Keefe "Rick"
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