What the Sci-Hub saga and DNA testing services can teach us about privacy | Privacy Online News

"It all comes down to control. Even though the paper’s authors retain copyright, they are generally required to grant publishers an exclusive license that effectively hands them control – and the power to initiate lawsuits of the kind we are now seeing against Sci-Hub. Had the researchers granted publishers a non-exclusive license, which is all that they require, it would also be possible to give permission to sites like Sci-Hub to help distribute academic work as widely as possible."