There are a range of attitudes when you get into it. My experience - it's not so much the individual universities that gripe about it, but the overarching funding bodies. When I was involved, they were the ones we had to negotiate with. Academics, by and large, were on side and understood the issues. On the whole, academics are forced into signing away their copyright to mega-rich journals who claim they're too poor to pay (and it's through this network, that academics at least get something back for the secondary use).

Same thing for the overarching funding bodies from any of the big areas that use copyright material. They always fight to pay less. As ever, the writer is the one expected to work for nothing. The whole history of it is interesting if you dig - well, if you're interested in that sort of thing. I can be a bit of a geek about it all having been so closely involved. But anyway, thanks for taking the time to comment and I hope you find some money in the system.