Authors rights: Going too far

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

Heather Morrison wrote:

"Perhaps it is timely for collections librarians to add Author's 
Rights as a key criterion, when evaluating journal subscriptions 
to add, or to cancel?"

JE:  Perhaps some lawyers on this list would like to offer a 
point of view, but this suggestion seems to me to go too far. 
It is disconcerting to suggest that librarians insinuate 
themselves in the contracts between authors and publishers, whose 
dealings are a private matter.

Joe Esposito