 Which is the most accurate representation of the relationship between authors and copyright issues in OA?
OA makes work more useful in both ways, by making it available to more people who can put it to use, and by freeing those people to use and reuse it. In principle, any kind of digital content can be OA, since any digital content can be put online without price or permission barriers. OA is made possible by the internet and copyright-holder consent. Second, scholarly journals generally don’t pay authors for their research articles, which frees this special tribe of authors to consent to OA without losing revenue. OA to research articles doesn’t depend on asking royalty-earning authors to give up their royalties. But OA benefits authors as well as readers.
 Authors do not lose any more rights to their work than they would publishing in more conventional venues
 The authors have less control over what happens with their work  Authors do not want to publish in OA venues because of the constant legal battles  Publicly available content is more likely to be stolen and reproduced without permission  Authors do not lose any more rights to their work than they would publishing in more conventional venues