Sie predigen anderen Wasser und trinken Wein. Vorne hui, hinten pfui. Die deutschen Bibliotheken spielen sich auf der Bühne als Anwälte des frei zugänglichen wissenschaftlichen Wissens im Interesse ihrer Benutzer auf, aber hinter den Kulissen agieren sie gegen Open Access (OA), wenn ihre eigenen Interessen tangiert sind, oder sie ignorieren die Bedürfnisse ihrer Kunden.
The public domain is the greatest resource in human history: eventually all knowledge will become part of it. Its riches serve all mankind, but it faces a new threat. Vast libraries of public domain works are being plundered by claims of "copyright". It's called copyfraud - and we'll discover how large corporations like Google, Yahoo, and Amazon have structured their businesses to assist it and profit from it.
Copyfraud is everywhere. These false copyright claims, which are often accompanied by threatened litigation for reproducing a work without the owner's permission, result in users seeking licenses and paying fees to reproduce works that are free for everyone to use.