Yes. The University of British Columbia at one point put out a press release that said they were decreasing student costs by making course packs free. When the Writers' Union of Canada saw this, they wrote them a blistering letter and told them they were doing this on the backs of writers.
The response of the university was not to say, “Gee, maybe we should reconsider our stance on this.” It was to go to the chair of the creative writing department at UBC and say, “How dare your peers”—the writers—“take us to task?”