[WEB4LIB] RE: Article - "Post-Tasini: Pity the Librarians"

[Dan Robinson]

Following up from Walt Crawford's reply, I went to the pages for the
Publication Rights Clearinghouse. <http://www.nwu.org/prc/prchome.htm>
from the National Writers Union. It grew out of agreements for royalties
with Contentville. Part of the problem may be a lack of differentiation
between pay per view aggregators and flat fee aggregators. 

Dan Robinson
drobinson at hwwilson.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Robinson 
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 9:43 AM
> 
> 
> You know, maybe you have something there... <grin>. It's more work for
> us, but would take the heat off.
> 
> dan
> drobinson at hwwilson.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rich at richardwiggins.com [mailto:rich at richardwiggins.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:25 PM
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, and it will include the name, e-mail address, and home 
> > phone number of the article's author -- and of Mr. Tasini.  :-)
> > 
> > /rich
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 29 June 2001, "Dan Robinson" wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I don't think you'll have to worry about getting a 404. Any good
> > > fulltext vendor will have a 'rights restricted' explanation 
> > screen. That
> > > file gets linked as the fulltext file comes out. <grin>. 
> > > 
> > > Dan Robinson
> > > HW Wilson Company
> > > Bronx, NY
> > > drobinson at hwwilson.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Nancy Sosna Bohm [mailto:plum at ulink.net]
> > > > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 3:22 PM
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I foresee it as potentially even more far-reaching--way 
> > > > beyond the NYT and
> > > > Lexi(sans hyphen)Nexis.
> > > > When I first read about it, my "gut" reaction was like 
> > > > Jenny's. Though I
> > > > will not be working in a college prep library this next 
> > year, I had
> > > > nightmares of logging in to the NYT Book Reviews to retrieve 
> > > > an article for
> > > > a desperate student, only to have my search end in a 404 screen.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > 
>