Re: [BOAI] Re: THES article on research access Friday June 6 2003</T= ITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">On 6/10/03 5:44 PM, "Peter Suber" <peters= @earlham.edu> wrote:<BR> <BR> </FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">At 04:42 PM 6/10/2003 -0400, you wr= ote:<BR> </FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">On 6/10/03 1:26 PM, "Stevan Ha= rnad" <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:<BR> <BR> > So copyright is certainly not the problem.<BR> <BR> That may be true for certain disciplines, but I can attest that in the<BR> humanities, where we cite original literature, we find it expensive and<BR> sometimes impossible to make our research internet accessible.<BR> <BR> Margaret<BR> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR> Margaret,<BR> Could you elaborate on this a bit further? &n= bsp;I can understand why art historians and art critics have problems. = ;They want to reproduce entire works to illustrate their points. But I= don't see any comparable problem for scholarship in literature, history, ph= ilosophy, or religion. Citing original literature, and quoting passage= s in fair use, do not violate copyright. <BR> I can also see why copyright would thwart tho= se who want to make anthologies or reprint whole works; but these problems a= ffect all disciplines equally. <BR> <BR> Best,<BR> Peter<BR> <BR> <BR> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Sorry I wasn’t more explicit= . By “literature” I was thinking of creative writings, such as p= oetry, fiction, drama, the texts of which do not get into the public domain = for years (and the time has recently been increased further). Publishers con= sider one poem a “complete” work (as opposed to a book of poems)= , which means if you want to cite an entire poem, it is not considered fair = use. I know this could be debated, but scholars tend not to be willing to ta= ke on the publishers on their own. Even in scholarly articles, we have to pa= y fees (e.g. $200 for one poem by Sylvia Plath), and the restrictions are he= avy (no publishing elsewhere or loading on websites).<BR> <BR> Margaret<BR> </FONT> </BODY> </HTML>