> It's possible to support and encourage free access to scientific knowledge while not supporting IP infringement. Not even theoretically. IP is the concept th

> It's possible to support and encourage free access to scientific knowledge while not supporting IP infringement. Not even theoretically. IP is the concept that people should be prevented from reading things without negotiating with the people who own them. So "free access" quite obviously requires that future "scientific knowledge" be excluded from IP protection, and that people who already own "scientific knowledge" be compelled and/or bribed into relinquishing their ownership. And to expand, those options would also require the government to define what is "scientific knowledge" and what is not. Or else, I could just call my paper a satire and Elsevier could become a publisher of satires.