For e-books, the new model would look something like this: Instead of paying permission fees upfront based on estimated print runs, book creators would pay based on a periodic accounting of downloads.
Build on the greenbelt aggressively, end protected lines-of-sight, remove listed status to all but the most important nationally historic buildings, remove as many of the planning permission barriers as possible (e.g. all but health, safety, and noise laws), and make planning permission fees £0 for all affordable housing developments.
In Finland and England, the agencies were financially dependent on their tasks, with various permission fees, particularly drug licensing fees, making up most of their income.
If publishing firms were to follow the recommended fees proposed by the CLA then institutions would have a greater capacity to realistically budget for the likely permission fees when developing web based courses.
Michael Groden, a scholar at the University of Western Ontario, spent seven years creating a multimedia version of "Ulysses," only to have Stephen block the project, in 2003, with a demand for a permissions fee of one and a half million dollars.
Schools currently pay an annual license fee for permission to copy and reuse hundreds of thousands of published works.
Scholars were charged extortionate permissions fees, and often bluntly refused the right to quote from his grandfather's work at all.
Since publishers can't afford to fully cover permissions fees for print books, and cannot yet predict what they will earn from e-books, the writer has to choose between taking a loss on permissions fees or short-changing readers on content.
All responses will be e-mailed, and if permission is granted, the terms and conditions and any permissions fees will be e-mailed as an attachment.
But for universities awaiting the first round of the TEF, there are plenty of more immediate concerns – not least how many institutions are expected to pass and get permission to raise fees.
