Critics say a directive to make federally funded research immediately free to the public could violate authors’ copyrights. It could also disrupt the $19 billion academic publishing industry.

Oh those sad, sorry publishers. It’ll be so hard on them if they can’t make as many billion dollars per year off publicly funded research. How will they ever survive on less than $19 billion?

FTA:

Although open-access advocates and library groups support the move, opponents argue the new policy will limit researchers’ ability to maintain control of their published work—and cut into the $19 billion academic publishing industry’s profit margins.

  • @NounsAndWords
    16•2 months ago

    opponents argue the new policy will limit researchers’ ability to maintain control of their published work

    From what I understand, researchers already aren’t able to maintain control of their published work because of the publishers.