Issues in Scholarly Communication is a newsletter produced by Paula Kaufman, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, for the Illinois community. Entries from 2001-2005 newsletter are available.
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Alex Beam wonders how the New Yorker had the legal right to produce their eight-disc COMPLETE NEW YORKER SET. As Beam points out, a similar venture from the National Geographic issued in 1997 has produced two different rulings from federal Appeals Courts in different districts. Photographer Jerry Greenberg won his suit against National Geographic, upheld in the 11th Circuit, and passed over for review by the Supreme Court. But a group of authors, including Jon Krakauer, lost their case against National Geographic before the Second Circuit--ironically, because of the Supreme Court's Tasini case, which benefitted freelancers on the sale of individual articles but protected certain "collected works." Beam notes that the National Geographic took their product out of the market two years ago. "An exasperated executive vice president Terry Adamson explains that the Society has spent 'millions of dollars' defending its right to publish its best-selling digital tome in several courts, with no firm decision yet rendered." Publishers Lunch 10/4/05 Boston Globe 10/4/05 http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2005/10/04/its_a_case_of_who_owns_the_words/
Posted by P. Kaufman at October 4, 2005 3:41 PM
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