Thaddeus - I beg to differ with your analysis regarding the provision of
law review articles on Westlaw/Lexis. Where you put the burden on the law
school/law review to do what is necessary to get their law review
included on Westlaw and Lexis, I would say that the onus is on MDC/West to get
these law reviews on their system. MDC and West have much more to gain by
including more law reviews and more to lose by not providing them, ie. the
more law reviews provided online, the more use their system
will get; especially since West and MDC are competing for the same market
share. (Competition is a great thing :-)!) Of course MDC and West are
going to try and negotiate the most favorable deal for themselves, that's good
business. And MDC, in this instance using a characteristically "hard
ball" approach to business, is going to try to get the best deal on
royalties, but that's all part of the game. MDC and West need the law
reviews more than the law reviews need them. Make them come to you and don't
sell out for too little!
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Stuart Zimmerman
Stoel Rives
(206) 386-7502
srb-lib@wln.com
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On Sun, 29 Aug 1993, Thaddeus P. Bejnar wrote:
> Re: royalties from MDC (or WEST)
>
> You might want to consider the loss of exposure if your law review is not
> provided on one or both of the major law full-text services. It is
> my experience that the image of the school, and the prestige of the
> authors is refected in 1.) being selected for electronic pub and
> 2.) being cited. The second is greatly enhanced if the works are
> avaialble for electronic searching.
>
> Also, how many of the works are in fact copyrightable? In many places
> works prepared predominatly with public funds are public domain, and
> hence no royalties would need to be paid. What is the rule in your
> state for state pubs?
>
>
> Money is no always the deciding issue.
> --Thaddeus lgllawlib@technet.nm.org
>
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