Thank you to @AccessCopyright and others, like @SylviaMcNicoll who continue to fight for fair compensation for content creators like children's writers.

You might not know it, but I have a PhD, which means I spent 11 years attending university. I've also worked in and around universities every year since I graduated. That's more than 20 years in academia.

I don't understand why so many of the institutions that are devoted to the production of knowledge and intellectual property are so averse to paying the creators of that knowledge, and of the texts that express it.

Particularly when these institutions are staffed by people who are only too aware of how much time and emotional energy goes into the production of written works.

We can't do that work for free. And if we stop doing the work, our entire society becomes the poorer for it.

Licensing fees for photocopying of my work are an important part of my income - mine, and that of so many others.

So again - thank you, @AccessCopyright for continuing to stand up for me and the entire creative community.