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A fact from Copyright transfer agreement appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 March 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that academic publishers often ask authors to sign a copyright transfer agreement before printing their work?
The literal title of this article, "Copyright transfer agreement", means this article ought to be about agreements that transfer copyrights, which is fine; but the article has an almost-total focus on academic journals. Copyright transfer agreements are common in all creative fields, for publishers of books, movies, music, video games, websites; and for authors of any of these who utilize subcontractors. I'll try putting all this material within an "Academic journals" section for clarity, for now. On Sober Reflection (talk) 11:34, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've moved over a couple of sections from the open access page, witten by nemo bis since I think it fits here better in a #criticism section here than it did at its previous location (discussion). It probably still needs a bit of editing for tone and consistency with the rest of the page. It is also quite focused on academic journals (re:section above), so may need re-balancing. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk03:40, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
