Many other fields also suffer, maybe not from image right fees but from open access journal fees (many journals request $1000-$2500 if you want the PDF to be fr

Many other fields also suffer, maybe not from image right fees but from open access journal fees (many journals request $1000-$2500 if you want the PDF to be freely available on the Web). In some places, not all teaching is paid (Germany has a law that after passing one's habilitation - a sort of second Ph.D. thesis and exam that gives the venia legendi or right to teach -, in order not to lose it, one has to teach at least one hour per term every year, but there is no right for compensation; universities of applied sciences have teaching quota but preparing a lecture is not accounted for only holding it). The situation is bad, but there won't be a solution because the system does not receive collective pressure to initiate change: instead, individuals are willing to pick up the cost, and if one drops out, there's 50 waiting in line to take their place. In other fields, unions fight for the rights of workers; academics have not yet come up with the idea to team up and to take collective remedial action.