Gregory's Server@RustyBertrand Not to well actually.... but in Belgium if you sign up as an author with the copyright agency they will actually pay you something (pennies probably, but still).
I would argue that to undercut the system, all scientists should sign up for this (or similar). The overhead would be immense and a huge pain for the publishers involved (having to run the stats etc).
@koen_hufkens Does that guarantee that authors specifically get paid, or only copyright holders?
The copyright licensing scheme in New Zealand pays the copyright holder - so if the publishing agreement the author signed transferred copyright to the publisher (common in academia for books, and near universal for journal articles without a Creative Commons licence) then the payment goes to the publisher.
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