Comments on: Copyright law and the digital library – compatible? http://www.teleread.com/library/copyright-law-and-the-digital-library-compatible/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Preece, Publisher http://www.teleread.com/library/copyright-law-and-the-digital-library-compatible/comment-page-1/#comment-1042647 Rob Preece, Publisher Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:06:35 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=20765#comment-1042647 Interesting and thoughtful. Not sure I agree with all of it, though. Academics have found an alternate funding mechanism. They hit up the government for grants or pretend to teach (the skillsets for teaching and for research are not identical). In contract, researchers working for business don't expect to get their materials for free and certainly aren't willing to offer what they develop freely. Which is the more accurate model of the future? I suspect, the answer is a combination. Assuming that everything will be free and that alternate funding mechanisms will exist for all digital content seems a huge and unwarranted extrapolation. Rob Preece Publisher Interesting and thoughtful. Not sure I agree with all of it, though.

Academics have found an alternate funding mechanism. They hit up the government for grants or pretend to teach (the skillsets for teaching and for research are not identical). In contract, researchers working for business don’t expect to get their materials for free and certainly aren’t willing to offer what they develop freely. Which is the more accurate model of the future? I suspect, the answer is a combination.

Assuming that everything will be free and that alternate funding mechanisms will exist for all digital content seems a huge and unwarranted extrapolation.

Rob Preece
Publisher

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