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Yes! Literally the copyright for scientific articles should be 1 year. This is how we fix open access.

• _jal 6y ago
  OK. Step one: Renegotiate the Berne Convention.
  • corty 6y ago
    Just abandon it. International treaties are mostly hindrances to progress because re-negotiating them is considered hard to impossible. States should aim to be free from such obligations and reduce the amount of applicable treaties as far as possible.
• Fomite 6y ago
  The NIH and the Wellcome Trust both negotiated effectively this - papers funded by those organizations are open access within 12 months.
• a3_nm 6y ago
  No, they should be immediately open-access. Why give commercial publishers a 1-year exclusivity window for free?