Germanys Intelligentsia is involved in a continuous fight against everything that cuts publishers' revenues, using authors' and human rights as a fig leave. We've seen the "Hamburger Erklärung", and now it is "Lettre International". In its most recent edition, Uwe Jochum tries to make us believe that Open Acces (i.e. the right to freely access research findings) is less strong than the "Grundrecht der Wissenschaftsfreiheit" (the freedom of research) i.e. to publish one's findings with a publisher who effectively limits access to these results.
It gets even worse when Jochum argues that e.g. Creative Commons licences are irrevocable and hence deprive the author of her or his control of a text while these licences actually do exactly the opposite, they give the author more control. Jochum seems to have forgotten that publishing houses typically require a full transfer of all rights form the author. Lettre's own website, however, remains silent, who actually holds the rights to the articles in their complicated web of organisations, websites, publishers and marketing agencies.
Germany’s Intellectuals’ Fight to Revert Publishing History, Next Chapter
By Dr. Peter Troxler
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