I get 75 pence for each copy of my books sold to the original purchaser. I
get 75 pence for the one copy bought by a library. There are insufficient
borrowings from the library for me to get the 1 penny per borrowing that
authors can get (public lending right). Then the tax man demanded his 22 per
cent of the huge amount I received. I get nothing from the person who buys
it from the original purchase. I have to accept that I get nothing from a
book resold, but I would be very annoyed if someone was so mean that they
wanted to use the patterns for free by borrowing the book from the library.
That shows they put no value on the work done by the designer. Would they be
employed for no pay?
I'm now happy to give away any of my work to anyone who wants it - I can
afford to now. But when I originally wrote my books I did it because I
needed to earn some money.
I met a lacemaker last year who positively bragged about copying CDs and
sticking her own labls on the copies, and borrowing lace books from the
library and copying huge chunks of them as well as the patterns. She did not
understand that copying from printed material is allowed for educational
purposes and then for information or research only.
Cearbhael wrote:
<I have seen classes where instructions were copied and I
suspect they didn't write for permission...I think that is a widespread
issue these days but it is hard to catch unless it is done on a "large".>
I had a colleague who wrote text books, and who made more money out of suing
educational establishments for infringement of copyright when more than the
portion allowed to be copied for educational purposes was made than he did
from royalties on sales.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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