web theory Mozilla pulls a popular paywall circumvention tool from Firefox add-ons store Cory Doctorow

Science New Scientist calls for the end of the scholarly publishing industry: "more profitable than oil," "indefensible" Cory Doctorow

Business MIT Sloan Management Review suspends its paywall for two days Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Why For-Profit Academic Publishers Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank Jason Schmitt

Science 65 out of the top 100 most-cited scientific papers are behind a paywall, with a weighted average cost of $32.33/each Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Every judicial decision has been liberated from the US court system's paywall Cory Doctorow

eff A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow

Business Chrome is patching a bug that lets sites detect and block private browsing mode, declares war on incognito-blocking Cory Doctorow

dark patterns DoNotPay's latest service will auto-cancel your free trials before the billing period starts Cory Doctorow

Copyfight An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow

Copyfight News organizations have all but abandoned their archives Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years! Cory Doctorow

Business Consortium of the largest science funders in Europe announce that they'll only fund open access research Cory Doctorow

Science Germany's scientific texts were made free during and after WWII; analyzing them today shows the negative effect of paywalls on science Cory Doctorow

media More media paywalls rise–in price, too Rob Beschizza

india Who may swim in the ocean of knowledge? Carl Malamud