1st March 2013, 01:09 AM
Quote: lets see how much the copyrighted wiffle is valued atmines valued at almost nothing and thats kind of my point. I totally agree that what I produce would I expect to get nothing from royalities. As Achilly island points 18,000 pieces of
Quote:almost zero interest or significanceI havent paid a penny to create this collection and I dont care much for it but they have got my stuff off me for free, but it must cost somebody to keep it and presumably that can be defined as "demand". Just on principle I would like measure this demand by economic means as I know of no other way to measure it. But it seems to me and I am unsurprised by stuarts observations about "quality control" but then stuart falls into the same lack of quality control inherant in
Quote: I also think the companies are missing a trick in regards to their staff, in terms of boosting moral and strengthening loyalty the management should consider spending a few quid publishing things, most of us get a buzz from seeing our stuff in print.that might result from the control of "demand". Demand my friends for publication is measured by royalties. The form, structure, content, of these 18000 things are produced without any concern that it might be of any interest to anybody. Basically all oasis is is vanity publication and the same can be said for most excavation publication too. Pdurdin wants to talk about dissemination. I dont see how produceing some publication for which there is no demand is much in the way of dissemination. which is why archaeology should take payment for copyright to the coal face of digging. Every post hole description should be in the compertition to find that best seller.
Just as another aside, in my contenplation that if the presance of one of my grey literature reports could be construed as a gift to oasis I just wondered what the tax implications could be. Came accros this http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/charities/guidanc...ctionc.htm but whats a grey literature report worth?
Reason: your past is my past