Re: Coursepacks

On Sat, June 27, 1998, Karla Gower <kgower[_at_]email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, John Noble <jnoble[_at_]dgsys.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is your point here that permission is never required to reprint
> > articles in coursepacks, or that CCC can't grant that authority, or
> > that David's course is like a day in the park. Actually my initial
> > reaction to Post's post was 'hell, given what they're paying for
> > tuition, and what a textbook would cost, an authorized coursepack
> > wouldn't dent the wallet much.'
>
> As a graduate student who has had to buy authorized coursepacks, I can
> tell you they are expensive. I know professors who have stopped using
> coursepacks because the students complain about spending $70 on 100
> pages or so of photocopied material with a cerlox binding. At least
> with a $70 textbook you have the option of reselling it.
>
> The idea behind coursepacks is to expose students to a wider variety of
> material, hopefully increasing their critical reading skills, than you
> can with a regular textbook. Also the material in a coursepack is often
> more current than that in a textbook. The downside is that getting the
> different permissions for something that may only be used for one
> semester is time-consuming for professors and the end product is
> expensive for students. This isn't meant to be a justification for
> unauthorized coursepacks, just an explanation for why the problem
> exists.

Isn't it quite easy to obtain coursepack permissions with "one stop shopping" at CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) http://www.copyright.com/ ?

Fredrick Rea O'Keefe "Rick"
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Copyright 1997/1998, All Rights Reserved Received on Sat Jun 27 1998 - 13:55:08 GMT