• guy@piefed.social
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      8 hours ago

      This makes Anna’s archive a bit problematic with that logic since when you pay for a paper you get a PDF copy?

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        3 hours ago

        These companies maintain that even though you possess a PDF, you still do not own it and do not have the rights associated with ownership.

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        7 hours ago

        I would consider it more problematic if the author of the paper got any of that and not the journal the author had to pay to be published

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        6 hours ago

        When you rent something, you can share it. You rent a car, you can have passengers. You rent an apartment, you can have visitors. You rent a tool, you can lend it to your neighbour.