From: Jan Velterop <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:25:44 +0000 Well, if the author retains commercial rights, the 'open access' in question is not BOAI-compliant, and it is about time to stop calling anything Open Access that is not covered by CC-BY, CC-zero, or equivalent. Open Access is well-defined in the Budapest Open Access Initiative and stretching the notion to include all manner of pseudo-OA causes the problems and anxieties Sandy Thatcher points to. Jan Velterop From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:20:32 -0500 There may be an "orphan" problem with OA articles whose authors retain commercial rights and who become difficult to locate later on. (Also, if they are deceased, their heirs will have inherited such rights and they may well be unaware that they even own such rights.) Indeed, the problem will likely be greater than for traditional publishing, where such rights are typically owned by the publisher, which (unless it goes out of business) is easy to locate. Sandy Thatcher