%0 Report %A Viswanathan, Bhamati %A Mossoff, Adam %C Arlington, VA %D 2017 %I Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property %K U.S. copyright law %K regulatory overreach %K policy brief %K open access policy %K open access mandates %K governmental policy %P 1-13 %T Open-access mandates and the seductively false promise of “free.” %U https://cpip.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2014/04/Viswanathan-Mossoff-Open-Access-Mandates-and-the-Seductively-False-Promise-of-Free.pdf %X CPIP has published a new policy brief entitled Open-Access Mandates and the Seductively False Promise of “Free.” The brief, written by CPIP Legal Fellow Bhamati Viswanathan and CPIP Director of Academic Programs & Senior Scholar Adam Mossoff, exposes the lack of evidence or justification for the proliferating legal mandates by federal agencies that coerce authors and publishers to make their scholarly articles available for free to the world. %8 04/2017 %> http://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/archive/Viswanathan-Mossoff-Open-Access-Mandates-and-the-Seductively-False-Promise-of-Free.pdf