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FYI, from Authors Alliance.
https://authorsalliance.substack.com/p/read-your-open-access-publishing


> publishing agreements do provide what many authors want in OA
> publishing–free online access and broad reuse rights to users. But, if
> authors select the wrong option, they are also giving away their own
> residual rights while granting Elsevier or Wiley the *exclusive *right to
> commercially exploit their work. That includes the right for those
> publishers to exclude the author herself from making or authorizing even
> the most basic of commercial uses, such as posting the article to a
> for-profit repository like Researchgate or even SSRN. This is not a result
> I think most authors intend, but it’s hard to spot the problem unless you
> read these publication agreements carefully.

-- 
Timothy Vollmer
Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian
University of California, Berkeley
Doe Library, 189 Annex
Berkeley, CA 94720
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