[WEB4LIB] Re: "Piracy is Progressive Taxation"

[Jim Jacobs]

  Along the same lines as this tread...

    Harnad, S. (2001) "For Whom the Gate Tolls? How and Why to Free the
    Refereed Research Literature Online Through Author/Institution 
	Self-Archiving, Now." 
      http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm

  Harnad desribes his take on:
  1.1. Distinguish the non-give-away literature from the give-away literature
  1.2. Distinguish income (arising from article sales) from impact
  (arising from article use)
  1.3. Distinguish between copyright protection from theft-of-authorship 
  (plagiarism) and copyright protection from theft-of-text (piracy)

  and much more...

  jj

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> I'll add my concern about copyright as an author.
> While I do want to get paid for my work, past a 
> certain point I'm more interested in getting my
> ideas out there and discussed.  Once I've submitted
> my contribution to a publisher and gotten paid for
> the work I've done, I'm not terrible concerned that
> individuals copy and share my work with friends
> and colleagues.  I'm not dependent on writing for
> my livelihood (don't quit your day job) so my 
> perspective here may be substantially different
> than those who do.  However, I do take exception
> when someone else takes possession of my work and
> essentially chooses to republish it, without my
> permission or attempting to compensate me for any
> benefit they gain from that use.  As far as I know,
> I haven't had anyone resell my work, but I'm still
> concerned when I lose control of something I've
> done, where I'm unable to reclaim it or remove it
> as I see fit.  I know of several instances where
> one of my ongoing projects has been "mirrored" by
> other sites, without permission, effectively pre-
> venting me from being able to control which version
> of the work is available to the public.  Though I
> don't receive any compensation for this project,
> and the pirates aren't charging for access either,
> I still feel that they are taking advantage of
> me to my detriment by this practice.
> 
> -- Lee Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz
> 
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