August 17, 2025Open Access

“Rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is no consent needed from authors”

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Authors surrender their rights to publishers upon submission, reinforcing concerns about ownership.
A communication from Elsevier indicates that consent from authors is not necessary for their papers.
This situation raises significant questions about the control authors have over their works in academic publishing.
Highlighting these issues could prompt broader discussions on authorship rights and publisher practices.

Implication

Letters reveal that publishers claim full rights to papers submitted, suggesting authors relinquish their consent.

Abstract

Straight from Elesevier’s own mouth, in a letter sent by a “Customer Experience Champion” in response to Professor Iris Van Rooij’s enquiry: (This is in the context of scholarly papers being fed to their LLM.) Folks, when you send your work to Elsevier journals, you are literally giving them away. Given them rights that explicitly invite them to ride roughshod over your rights. Is that what you want? Huh? Is it?

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Mike Taylor (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68a368920a429f797332e077 https://doi.org/10.59350/svpow.24078

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Letters reveal that publishers claim full rights to papers submitted, suggesting authors relinquish their consent.

“Rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is no consent needed from authors”

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“Rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is no consent needed from authors”

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