Empire of Dirt: time to call time on commercial archaeology in Northern Ireland?

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where should this troll start

It isn't contractually my copyright, no, but since I'm afraid I regard my work as contributing (or getting trashed by future work) towards a greater and public whole, once it's production has been been paid for that's the end of any financial involvement as far as I'm concerned anyway. All I expect is some acknowledgement - if someone wants to use it thats fine as long as they ask first.

I will try and paraphrase what I think that you are saying: Your company what you work for sells the copyright that you create. The cost of production includes your pension; instead of paying you royalties the company possibly arranges for you a pension, a pension is a bit like royalties. the contribution towards a greater and public whole and someone wants to use it I think that you will find is no concern of yours but of the company that you work for because they are matters of copyrights which you dont retain as I understand it.

If you're not taking the cost of dissemination into account and charging accordingly, then you're undercharging and that's irresponsible.

But I don't condone archaeology without dissemination

the word publication has now become dissemination which I thinks is a bit of sticky word. Is that you have lumped archive, grey literature and publication into one and joined it with running a museum, liberay and of course putting something on the world wide web and come up with irresponsible. So what your saying is that all these firms in noddy isle are irrisponsible because they did not take into account publication in their charges for field work and post ex. Were the diggers also irrisponsible when they took on the jobs at the rates of pay that they were given for their copyrights and remind me what did they do about dissemination or even if they felt any concern at all. Its not as if there might be any royalties riding on it.