I think the professor himself is fed up with the situation, because as a researcher he is forced to publish his articles to for-profit publishers, who are basically the mafia gatekeepers, who profit from information that should be open to everyone. And the university profits from this lucrative business.
This Youtube video will open your eyes to this business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8
As a researcher, I am very happy that recently all the conferences and journals we usually publish to champion open access publishing. Due to this, all my work is currently FOSS and all the papers open access. That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.
That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.
‘Oxford Scholarship Online’ would license different sets of books to different departments; so someone from the philosophy department couldn’t get access to books classified under sociology or history.
Imagine doing something similar at the checkout table in a ‘physical’ library.
The greatest trick capitalists ever pulled is convincing creative individuals that copyright and patents exist to serve and protect their interests.
I think the problem is allowing corporations to own the copyright. We should make it so that only the original creator of something can copyright it for ten years.
I’d go one further and remove a corporation’s status of personhood.
An immortal, amoral, artificial entity should never have been granted parity status with people in our society.
Professor with tenure.
Remember you absolutely must not go to these specific sites.
Do not do it.
See you all tomorrow for class.
