What legal matters must be taken care of for a Fair Open Access journal?
Certain legal aspects such as content availability are problematic to guarantee only for closed access journals.
What legal matters still remain for Fair Open Access?
- What if an author disputes having agreed to the publication of an article? (This issue may disappear for an overlay FOA journal, where articles are published to the arXiv and the role of the journal is only peer review.)
- What about a lawsuit for an undetected plagiarism? (Again, the journal might restrict to the peer review function only, and leave dealing with plagiarism to the author or external services.)
Any other matters? Any accounts of past events where legal work was necessary?