Re: SV: Knight and Public Domain

[Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>]

David Marjanovic writes:
 > In any case, what I don't understand is why scientific articles are
 > subject to the same copyright laws as works of art. How many people
 > have ever paid 30 to 40 $ for an article? If they can't find a pdf
 > for free, people go to their university library and take a
 > photocopy for free (that is, none of the money left in the machine
 > goes to the publisher... let alone to the author who paid the page
 > charges and/or the 900 $ per color figure out of their grant).

What grant?

:-(

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         Acknowledgements: I wrote this paper for money" -- A. A. Chastel,
         _A critical analysis of the explanation of red-shifts by a new
         field_, A&A 53, 67 (1976)