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Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation
- malshe 2y agoAll these issues are well known for a long time and nothing happened. Can someone with law background weigh in on whether this lawsuit has any chance of winning?
- passwordoops 2y agoOne thing that changed is the FTC remembering monopolies are a bad thing and enforcing the law again
- generic92034 2y agoPossibly only till November 5th (no matter who wins)?
- malshe 2y agoOK, but this is a lawsuit not by FTC and FTC is not a judge
- croes 2y agoMaybe someone thought if the FTC can do it we can too
- youainti 2y agoThe three major claims is that the defendants conspired to > First, an agreement to fix the price of peer review services at zero that includes an agreement to coerce scholars into providing their labor for nothing by expressly linking their unpaid labor with their ability to get their manuscripts published in the defendants’ preeminent journals. > Second, the publisher defendants agreed not to compete with each other for manuscripts by requiring scholars to submit their manuscripts to only one journal at a time, which substantially reduces competition by removing incentives to review manuscripts promptly and publish meritorious research quickly. > Third, the publisher defendants agreed to prohibit scholars from freely sharing the scientific advancements described in submitted manuscripts while those manuscripts are under peer review, ...
- kelipso 2y agoSecond is reasonable because the peer review is done by academics for free, and there would too much duplication of work. Peer review is a good amount of work, takes a few hours per paper.
- siamese_puff 2y agoThis industry is so fucked for so many reasons. First, impoverished postdocs pay thousands to publish their own research into $MONOPOLY. Second, the people actually reviewing this shit on the committee aren’t even paid. Source: academic
- kelipso 2y ago> impoverished postdocs pay thousands to publish their own research If anyone does this, they should just quit academia. Research funding literally always provides money for publishing, unless maybe it's some shady bs journal that you submit to because your work can't pass muster.