The law professor gets it. The (untenured) law professor just doesn't
have the bargaining position to negotiate a change in the contract when
the elite journals (that I rely on to get tenure) have explicitly said
that they won't negotiate contract terms and that if I don't like it I
can piss elsewhere.
And, seriously, if you think that the solution to this problem is
individual contractual responsibility then I would, with the greatest
of respect to you, suggest that you're part of the problem.
Dan Hunter.
On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 09:59 AM, Steve Hitchcock wrote:
Dan Hunter may be "merely asking the California Law Review to become
'green', which is to formally support author self-archiving", but if
so perhaps it could be put more succinctly and more practically. As it
stands, there seem to be some obvious faults in the argument. First Dan
Hunter says
In agreeing to publish with you I have not made any amendments to your
standard form publishing contract which provides, inter alia, for an
assignment of copyright in the articles to your journal.
Then later to the student editor
Thanks to you, if people want access to my ideas then they
can pay Westlaw or Lexis or Hein monopoly rents to get it.
Why blame the student? If the law professor doesn't get it, how can the
student be expected to?
Steve Hitchcock
IAM Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Email: sh...@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3256 Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865
