[GOAL] Re: Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu

Jan Velterop velterop at gmail.com
Tue Dec 10 13:38:42 GMT 2013


On 10 Dec 2013, at 13:05, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Elsevier are the worst offender that I have investigated, followed by Springer who took all my Open Access images, badged them as (C) SpringerImages and offered them for resale at 60 USD per image. Just because OA is only 5% of your business doesn't mean practice can be substandard.

Peter, what licence did you publish your OA images under? CC-BY? If so, re-labelling them as "© Springer" is a form of copyright breach (actionable?), but selling them isn't, of course.

Jan Velterop
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