OER Knowledge CloudPolicy20172017/04Viswanathan, BhamatiMossoff, AdamU.S. copyright lawregulatory overreachpolicy briefopen access policyopen access mandatesgovernmental policyCenter for the Protection of Intellectual Property1-13CPIP 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.https://cpip.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2014/04/Viswanathan-Mossoff-Open-Access-Mandates-and-the-Seductively-False-Promise-of-Free.pdfhttps://cpip.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2014/04/Viswanathan-Mossoff-Open-Access-Mandates-and-the-Seductively-False-Promise-of-Free.pdfViswanathan-Mossoff-Open-Access-Mandates-and-the-Seductively-False-Promise-of-Free.pdfArlington, VA