| After having published extensively
in her field, medieval manuscript production, Dr. Dickson is ready to publish
a comprehensive book compiling all of her work. The book has already gone
to the publisher, and she is finishing up the details, such as securing
permissions for photographs, when she is startled by a letter from the
editor of a small journal in which she has published before. The letter
informs her that before she can publish, she will have to pay the editor
$250 for copyright permission for every article she has published in that
journal, over $1,000 in all. Knowing that she never signed a copyright
agreement for any of the articles, she checks a copy of the journal and
cannot find a copyright policy. Although she is outraged, she doesn't want
the journal editor holding up the book publication. What should she do? |
