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Non-profit does not mena that they do not make a profit, it just means that any profits are put back into the organization instead of it's leadership or shareho
by cdcarter 15y ago
Non-profit does not mena that they do not make a profit, it just means that any profits are put back into the organization instead of it's leadership or shareholders.
- _delirium 15y agoShareholders yes, though there's more gray area on "leadership". There's no law against using the revenue of a nonprofit organization to pay its leadership arbitrarily large salaries, unless it rises to the level where the IRS starts to see it as dirty tricks. I have no idea what JSTOR's are, though (or if that's even public). But I don't suspect they are pocketing the cash. My guess is that their reticence to open things is more of an institutional megalomania of sorts. Sort of what you often find at art museums--- while their official mission is to promote the arts and educate the public, many of their staff are at least as interested in building the prestige/fame/fortune of their institution, which explains why they would have weird policies about reproducing their public-domain artworks.