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Originally Posted by tompe
I would say that copyright and the current system with journals that are very expensive is hindering scientific innovation.
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Copyright is what protects the raw research notes from being grabbed and published by someone else before the original researcher is done. It also prevents other people from expanding an article into a book without some type of permission.
However, I agree that copyright restrictions cause a lot of problems in academic publishing. Copyright was never designed for open access use of someone else's writings, and it flounders a lot when it's applied to those areas.