Elsevier are still charging THOUSANDS of pounds for CC-BY articles. IMMORAL, UNETHICAL , maybe even ILLEGAL « petermr's blog

"SEVEN MONTHS ago I showed that Elsevier 'open access' CC-BY papers were incompetently labelled (see http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2013/08/12/elsevier-charges-to-read-openaccess-articles/ and following blog posts), and under 'Rights and Permissions' charging huge amounts of money. THEY ARE STILL DOING IT. Here’s an Open Access CC-BY article labeled as 'All rights reserved' and where you ask permissions they charge 8000 GBP for 100 reprints. That’s right EIGHTY QUID for 1 REPRINT. Why doesn’t someone take them to the Trading Standards Office?  They are getting money for something they have no right to. They are IMO breaking the contracts with the authors, who have paid thousands of pounds to have the CC-BY licence added. It’s IMMORAL, UNETHICAL and my guess is ILLEGAL ..."