Copyright, Diggers and archaeology

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[SIZE=3]The only way I can see such a scheme work in the real world would be to further reduce the wages of archaeologists, in return for the 'gift' of allowing them to generate income through 'selling' access to their context sheets. Think I'd prefer to see the money in the bank and let my employers enjoy the 'rights' to collecting copyright royalties
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Kevin there are a lot of session musicians who may regret that they took the money and ran. I* am interested in how much do you think that it would reduce the wages by?

Shadowjack you have lost me. In the example of the sound engineer I see the archaeologists as the musician, with the publishers I see the archaeologists as the author. In both those industries they have examples where the sound engineers or the publishers take control of the copyright as well as examples where the musician or the authors do. The critical point is that both industries realise that it is the copyrights that matter and also virtually anybody, you and me, outside those industries knows that as well. Right now those copyrights are being stretched to the limits on the internet but because we all understand copyright we can kind of work out if something?s legitimate or not.

I am asking why are we any different. If we dont know or make a demand on how the copyrights should work why should anybody like the public give a monkeys. What do the museums do with your context sheets? does anybody care at all.

I think that I have tried to explain how the current system without any major statutory authority has come about. We have evolved too rapidly out of a civil service rescue ethos into educational trusts through the last forty years. I don?t think that the academics work the same way and I don?t think the original concepts of the ifa thought that there was no such thing as copyright. They tried to fight them with the ten year primacy clause but unfortunately because they were mostly civil servants they were clueless about copyright implications. In the process the name archaeologist has been contorted until the people who produce the archaeology are called ?diggers?, ?site assistants? supervisors project officers and if any body has the word archaeologist associated with their profession they are not on site or anywhere near the creation of archaeology.

We are on ludicrously low wages, the thing is they have got most of you thinking that a few pence more makes all the difference. Take control of what you produce, its not the report , it?s the context sheet, lets see what its worth the next time someone tries in your area to do an eia under numerous eu directives after the Valletta convention.