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 As is the license on this book.

Fox Film Corp. v. Doyal (Supreme Court of the United States, 1932), my emphasis.

Stallman also believes that the term ‘intellectual property’ is nonsensical and refuses to use it.

Richard Stallman, ‘Misinterpreting Copyright: A Series of Errors’, in Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard Stallman (Boston, MA: Free Software Foundation, 2010), pp. 111–20 (p. 113).

See Suber, Open Access, pp. 9–15.

There are also a small proportion of academic authors who do make substantial money out of their book sales. These are by no means the majority, though.

Bhaskar, The Content Machine, pp. 103–36.

Suber, Open Access, p. 7.

See Suber, Open Access, pp. 86–90 for a note on why the term ‘mandate’ is problematic, though.

Peter Suber and others, ‘Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing’, 2003 http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4725199 [accessed 4 May 2014].

Helen Small, The Value of the Humanities (Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 30.

Jerome McGann, A New Republic of Letters (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), p. 4.

Just as John Thompson differentiates ﬁelds of publishing on the basis of Bourdieu’s work, I think this kind of deﬁnition works here to separate the sciences from the humanities. They are different ‘structured space[s] of social positions’ each with their own ‘resources and power with [their] own forms of competition and reward’, with some overlaps. John B. Thompson, Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005), p. 6.

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (University of Chicago Press, 1998), p. 155; see also Elizabeth Markovits, The Politics of Sincerity: Plato, Frank Speech, and Democratic Judgment (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008), p. 57, which ﬁrst reminded me of this part of Arendt’s thought.

See, of course, C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures, Canto edn (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Commonly paraphrased and listed in several quotation books as: ‘academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low’.

‘[T]he production of research output fulﬁls two distinct but equally important functions – dissemination and certiﬁcation.’ Thompson, Books in the Digital Age, p. 82.