I agree. It's not scholarly. And if it's accepted as such then I really don't want to know what the world is coming to. A copy and paste job in alphabetical order isn't scholarly work.

Uhuh. He was skeptical to include that clause, which in my eyes makes him greedy. Why agree to do it in the first place???

Yes, I agree on the publishing house being the evil one. However, SVA agreeing to work with them puts him in a very similar boat.

I hope the publishing house loses because otherwise, I can really see any popular author putting much more stringent conditions on the various fandoms, and many may take the Anne Rice route of not allowing fanfiction at all...