This article is an eye-opening piece on the rights of authors who publish articles in scholarly journals. Who owns your
copyright? Is it your university, the
journal, or you? Should you patent your words? The rights' dilemmas of the publish-or-perish world are explored in this excellent article.
The introduction discusses online scholarly publishing from the perspective of two economic models - commercial and open access, including a court case about whether research results are copyrightable and also, contracts.
The spirit of the law section elaborates on a relevant clause of the Constition thwarts the spirit of copyright law by allowing the transfer of ownership of rights to the academic publisher "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" -- intellectually property laws notwithstanding!