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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
More sharing would allow more research--but potentially discourage publication; why should a researcher publish widely when he could publish just in his university for the same amount of pay?
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Academic scientists are almost never paid significant amounts for publication. Instead, their renumeration is based essentially on their reputation, and reputation is built up by publishing papers that other members of the community find useful.
IMO, copyright is completely irrelevant to academic publishing. For example, I used to be an academic physicist and in physics all papers are published in an open access to all electronic repository before being published in an actual journal.
I'm sure there are probably a few fields of academic endeavor where this is not true, most probably those that have been heavily influenced by corporations, like biology/medicine.