Funferal

Lessig stops publishing – in journals with restrictive copyright terms

Lawrence Lessig has decided not to publish in journals that force him to sign over his copyright or that do not allow him to license his article under at least a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. [This is a relatively restricted license that would not allow commercial use – thereby preventing competition with the journal – and would not allow derivative works.]
It is of course easier for Lessig as a tenured and established leading intellectual to do this than it would be for someone like myself. Hopefully, though, his move – and possibly those of people like him – will have knock-on benefits for those of us lower down the chain.