Jessica, I was more saying I understood where they were coming from. In a time of budget cutting it is hard to justify a whole new world of annual subscriptions to older materials. Of course fighting this case will cost more than $925, even $925/year in perpetuity <grin>. I also looked at the request to dismiss the case, and it struck me as a layman that there was a lot of legal tapdancing going on there. So I agree on that point, though it is interesting to see what comes up. As you say, the Ambrose aspect is interesting because they do offer what looks like a good model for institutional streaming, though also because of their longtime insistence on the purchase of institutional rights to their hard media.
Re doing this to books, remember the Kinko's case. Professors DID Xerox whole books, whole articles, etc. (my course packet once contained an entire play in translation, most of a book that was out of print). Professors tend to be ruthless about the use of materials that they want to teach. If something will get the point across, or on the other hand is worth discussing, they want to use it. Their ruthlessness perhaps has to do with the fact that most professors make $0.00 royalties on their publications. Unless the book is a textbook, it will not make money, and the press involved may require a subvention from the author even if the work is peer-reviewed and the press is respectable. Scholarly presses tend not to make money, either-if a title sells well, it allows them to print a book that will not sell so well but that they think is important. So the knowledge that if someone steals my book I will lose nothing at all may make me (not me, Judy, but "me" the wicked professor) more cavalier about the rights of others. Judy
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