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Fundamentally Elsevier's content is not funded or created by them. But they have a monopoly on it because most studies cannot be published in multiple places.
by whiddershins 11y ago
Fundamentally Elsevier's content is not funded or created by them. But they have a monopoly on it because most studies cannot be published in multiple places.
In the case of AWS market forces could undercut their margins.
That sort of copyright monopoly was granted by our legal system to encourage people to create intellectual property, but it is being twisted in this situation, as the creators are being funded by a mechanism completely irrelevant to Elsevier's costs.
In this case what they are doing is more similar in a sense to patent trolls.
- ikeboy 11y ago>Fundamentally Elsevier's content is not funded or created by them. They pay publication and editing costs, and in return get copyright signed over to them. >market forces could undercut their margins. And market forces can open new open access journals as well. To date, this hasn't solved it, perhaps because their margins weren't so high to begin with. >patent trolls Generally this refers to patents that should not have been issued, or that don't apply to the defending companies' product. It's not applicable here.