自然 | 通过加入版权集体管理组织，研究人员可以确保在版权书籍内容和论文被复制时能够获得报酬

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“Lots of our members call us ‘the magic money tree’,” says Alison Baxter, head of communications for the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), based in the United Kingdom. “They don’t really understand where the payments come from,” she says, “but they like getting them.” The ALCS is one of a global group of collecting societies and agencies that compensate authors when their works are copied or shared after publication. This year, the ALCS says, it is due to pay out more than £45 million and, when money is earned from the use of academic textbooks and research papers, the copyright holders who stand to benefit are often scientists.

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