RE: Authors rights: Going too far

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-llists.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