[Infowarrior] - Professor's op-ed on academic copyright issues

[Richard Forno]

“Don’t ask, don’t tell” rights retention for scholarly articles June  
18th, 2009
A strange social contract has arisen in the scholarly publishing  
field, a kind of “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to online  
distribution of articles by authors.  Publishers officially forbid  
online distribution, authors do it anyway without telling the  
publishers, and publishers don’t ask them to stop even though it  
violates contractual obligations. What happens when you refuse to play  
that game? Read on.

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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/06/18/dont-ask-dont-tell-rights-retention-for-scholarly-articles/