From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:23:43 -0600

Please explain what you mean by querying whether publishers'  IP is
legitimate. I have been a strong advocate of OA for more than two
decades, but i also have been a member of the Copyright Committee of
the Association of American Publishers since 1974. I do not see any
contradiction in being both.

Sandy Thatcher


> From: Marcus A Banks <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 05:00:58 +0000
>
> Agree -- data/text mining requires different understandings. "Normal"
> usage as defined by whom, and for what agenda?
>
> Obviously publishers will seek to protect their IP from entities such
> as SciHub, but of course the entire debate surrounding open access is
> whether that IP is legitimate. Which depends on which side of the
> fence you stand on.
>
> The OA debate is now very stale. And the writing is on the wall for
> immediate OA in the biosciences -- embargos will become a thing of
> history.
>
> I hope that, going forward, the revenue streams for publishers
> transition from licensing and APC schemes into licensing tools for
> data/text mining on top of an open corpus. -- Marcus