At 9:40 AM 12/6/97, Prof. Charles Oppenheim wrote:
and your employer is
>perfectly entitled to do things to it, or authorise that someone else
>does things to it, and you, the employee, have no say in the matter
>at all.
Would one work in such an academic institution? Would such an institution
be academic? Its the same as controlling the contents of your bookshelve
or desk drawers and controlling what pen you write with and the colour of
the ink.
>
>On the question of "if I cannot copy it, it's not academic and not
>worth citing" - anyone is perfectly entitled to cite or not cite what
>he or she likes, but to use as the criterion whether it can be copied
>or not seems irrational.
There is no point in citing something which I can't quote.
> The quality of the item is what counts.
Quality is always the most important factor but only if the material is
usable. High quality work locked away in a commercial lab, a defence
department or a closed format which blocks reproduction is hardly in the
spirit of free enquiry which we expect in a university.
Tony
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