RE: Authors rights: Going too far

[Mark Kille <mkille@naropa.edu>]

It seems no more disconcerting to me than Fair Trade coffee or 
Sweatshop Free shoes or Buy American campaigns (do those happen 
any more?).

Opinions on the appropriateness or effectiveness of such things 
will vary, of course.

Mark Kille

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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:52 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Authors rights: Going too far

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