> We need new publishing models with strict copyright protections that protect against theft. No, we need new publishing models that release the publicly-funde

> We need new publishing models with strict copyright protections that protect against theft. No, we need new publishing models that release the publicly-funded information into the public domain. If tax dollars paid for the research then there should be no copyright on the results of that research at all, owned by the publisher or authors. This wouldn't represent a change for the authors anyway, who already are accustomed to having to sign away copyright (hence this story). The problem in this instance isn't that the papers are being fed into machine learning models, the problem is that the publisher is extracting a check for the privilege.