IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST IN OPENACCESS spend 15 Minutes on http://vimeo.com/63123518 “Ed Walters – Who Owns The Law?” It’s worth the time.

In a chillingly precise, researched piece Ed shows how US states have handed over the ownership of their Law to commercial publishing companies. Elsevier and Thmoson-Reuters.

Heard of them? Yes, the same companies that publish Scopus and WebOfScience .

I don’t want to take away the chilling effect of Ed’s presentation – so listen. And be outraged.

And then realise that the same thing is happening in Science and that naïve Open Access is making it worse. Assuming that other people will look after our rights, and meanwhile handing over our freedom. It’s happening right now.

And unless we wake up and challenge, it will be too late.

I’ll blog in more detail after you’ve watched Ed’s video.