> isn't Elsevier a major copyright holder for all academic papers and thus causing all sorts of problems No, I could be wrong, but it’s my understanding that t

> isn't Elsevier a major copyright holder for all academic papers and thus causing all sorts of problems No, I could be wrong, but it’s my understanding that the author of the academic paper still holds the copyright, it’s just the author licensed sole (or near exclusive) distribution rights to Elsevier in exchange for publication in their journals. It’s basically the same in the publishing world, I own the copyright on the book I coauthored, but WROX Press owns the distribution rights as we gave those up in exchange for them publishing.