Open Access Discussion

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Discussion Topic

In the forum, respond to the following:

In the article “Marxism and Open Access in the Humanities: Turning Academic Labor against Itself“, David Golumbia writes:

Open Access (OA) advocacy is the only perspective I know of from which it has been suggested that the laborer should sacrifice that interest (ownership rights) in the name of some putative “greater good,” a good that is too often alleged to be in the laborer’s own interest. This is especially true when we are told that it is not in the laborer’s own interest to be able to decide when and how she expresses those property interests in her work.

(Golumbia, 2016, P. 102)

Reflecting on what you have learned about OA, do you think OA potentially inhibits ownership of intellectual property (IP)? How does the framing of the “greater good” impact the conversation around OA and IP?