You might be interested in the attached. Comments to Fred Friend as well
as discussion here, I guess.
Forwarded message:
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> Subject: Effect of copyright payments on studypack provision
> From: [log in to unmask] (Fred Friend) at :external_mail
> Date: 12/9/96 3:15 pm
>
> Dear Anne,
>
> Below is the text of the paragraph/appendix I would suggest should
> be included in the report of the UCL Working Party on Intellectual Property.
> I am copying this message to Lynne Brindley, in case she is able to feed it
> into national discussions under the auspices of JISC on the copyright issue.
> As we discussed at the meeting this is a matter for which the solution can
> only be found by UCL acting in collaboration with other universities.
>
> Fred Friend
>
>
> EFFECT OF COPYRIGHT PAYMENTS ON STUDYPACK PROVISION
>
> In session 1994-95 UCL Library began to produce studypacks for students
> containing lecture notes, journal articles or chapters from books as
> recommended by lecturers in various departments. These studypacks were
> greatly appreciated by students and by academic staff as an efficient and
> effective way of communicating vital teaching material. The service was seen
> as a supplement to rather than a replacement for the traditional
> undergraduate textbook provision either in the Library or purchase by
> students.
> The barrier to the development of this service is proving to be the
> copyright payments to publishers for the right to reproduce multiple copies
> of journal articles or chapters from textbooks. These payments are
> particularly galling when the payment is for a publication which contains
> research which has originated at UCL; we have been buying back our own work.
> In 1995-96, the first full year of the service, a total of 30,240 pounds
> was paid
> to the Copyright Licensing Agency and a further 5,848 pounds direct
> to publishers
> by UCL Library for reproduction rights for studypacks. These payments form
> the major cost of the service. Printing costs, for example, only amounted to
> 28,606 pounds. As well as the direct cost, the copyright payment system also
> involved us in considerable indirect cost in the form of staff time writing
> to the Copyright Licensing Agency and publishers.
> The costs I have quoted above undoubtably represent the proverbial tip
> of the iceberg. This was a new service and therefore would probably have
> grown, and if such a service were to be offered by all universities (some
> others already do) the cost to the higher education budget nationally of
> payments to publishers to reproduce work done in universities themselves
> would be horrendous. As it is, the effect of the copyright payments has been
> to stifle the growth of the studypack service. Neither UCL Library nor
> academic departments nor individual students can afford the sums requested
> by publishers for reproduction rights. Publishers have not gained,
> therefore, by overcharging. The real losers however have been the students,
> who have been deprived of a valuable learning resource.
>
> F.J.Friend
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