>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. >

>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.