Re: The p's and q's of publishing

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:56:31 +1100
> To: "digital-copyright" <digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: "Siegfried Angerer" <sseaprod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thank you Mr. Stevan Harnad for your post on Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 .
> Does this mean that Universities hosting self-published or self-archived
> academic papers and online teaching and learning materials are in fact
> acting as publishers? Does this mean that they are therefore subject to the
> rules obligations and conventions that apply to all publishers? Do these
> publisher conventions and obligations demand that Universities begin to pay
> royalties, cash advances and other incentives, for all online teaching and
> learning content they agree to publish on equipment owned and managed by
> them? If Universities are engaged in a publishing activity that is carried
> out as an integral part of their standard business service delivery activity
> should they not pay those who offer their intellectual property for
> publication. Is it not reasonable to assume that those who deliver the
> content that allows a publisher to provide a service and to benefit from it,
> deserve to be paid for it?

Your premise is incorrect. See:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#1.4