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Open-access mandates and the seductively false promise of “free.”
Viswanathan, Bhamati and Mossoff, Adam

PublishedApril 2017
PeriodicalPages 1-13
PublisherCenter for the Protection of Intellectual Property

ABSTRACT
CPIP has published a new policy brief entitled Open-Access Mandates and the Seductively False Promise of “Free.” The brief, written by CPIP Legal Fellow Bhamati Viswanathan and CPIP Director of Academic Programs & Senior Scholar Adam Mossoff, exposes the lack of evidence or justification for the proliferating legal mandates by federal agencies that coerce authors and publishers to make their scholarly articles available for free to the world.

Keywords governmental policy · open access mandates · open access policy · policy brief · regulatory overreach · U.S. copyright law

Published atArlington, VA
URLhttps://cpip.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2014/04/Viswanathan-Mossoff-Open-Access-Mandates-and-the-Seductively-False-Promise-of-Free.pdf
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