B16 final statement

"We strongly support retention of copyright and all rights therein by authors. Open access agreements with publishers should stipulate that authors only grant “limited” or “non-exclusive” licenses to publishers, and liberal Creative Commons (CC) licenses (e.g., CC-BY) should be applied as the default choice. In keeping with the spirit and goals of open access, more restrictive CC licenses (e.g., CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND, and CC-BY-NC-ND) should function as originally intended, in respect of the author’s disciplinary needs; consequently, author “license to publish” agreements should not limit the author’s rights in any way. The author’s choice of license should not affect the price of publication services...."