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...There are more publishers now--especially in England and small university presses--that insist that we go through the Copyright Clearance Center, which adds another fee," says William G. Witt, copyright officer at Harvard's Sourcebook Publications office. Copyright Clearance Center is a Salem, Mass.-based, not-for-profit corporation that processes copyright permissions request for the academic community...
...This year's sourcebook went up pretty substantially, from [about] $50 to $63," says John Owen, head section leader for Historical Study A-12, "International Conflicts in the Modern World." "I'm not an expert, but I think the changes in the syllabus and the permissions was responsible for that...
Publishers concede that sourcebook costs have gone up, but only because so many copiers and universities were not in compliance before. Publishing companies deny that there has been any increase in the royalty fees themselves...
Some Harvard professors and section leaders say publishers on average have denied access to about 10 percent of the material requested. In Foreign Cultures 14, "Society and Politics in India," 10 of the 30 pieces planned for the sourcebook could not be used, according to teaching fellow Rina Verma...
Even if the case is resolved in favor of Smith, publishers still control the sourcebook industry...