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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaveStebbins" data-source="post: 1386867" data-attributes="member: 1427">DRS - True, but see below.  DRS - I don't think this is quite the problem. Publishers are (I believe) allowed to reprint works in their entirety, such as making another print run of the publication. What they cannot do without renumeration to contributors is reformat and republish the work in a different, new, publication. The publishers stance is that since the CD compilations contained the entire original publications unchanged, they were just an electronic form of reprint and not a new work.  DRS - I don't know enough to comment with reliable information here. The ruling MAY have been that the electronic format was not a simple reprint and thus was a "new work." Again, just ignorant suppositions.  DRS - Again, I'm not sure.   DRS - Perhaps those people agree with the publishers' stance that electronic copies of the entire publication, unchanged except to bring it to electronic format, constitute a reprint instead of a new work. Or maybe they just want relatively cheap access to large quantities of past published material.   DRS - But merely having to keep track of the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of individual contracts involved would escalate the administrative costs of CD compilation projects past the point where they could ever be profitable, regardless of whether the authors want lots, little or even no renumeration.  The fact is, rooting for the publishers is the only wayt these projects will ever happen. Some people see that as reason enough, while others simply agree with the publishers' opinions that these are not "new" works, but (electronic) reprints. Does that help?-DavePS - I may have gotten the opinions completely wrong or misremembered outdated information. If so, someone will hopefully correct me and this entire post can be happily ignored.</blockquote>

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