| Copyright is a central issue for scholarly communication. This is because of its nature. Copyright penetrates the whole scientific knowledge cycle. It can, therefore, directly or indirectly hinder the knowledge creation, recording, organization, publication, access, use, and re-creation. It also gives too much value even to the authors? little originality. It gives authors exclusive moral and economic rights of their scientific works that actually are developed from and contain others? works. In addition, copyright has a double-edged impact on scientific information creators and users as they are often the same persons. This paper elaborates the negative impacts of copyright on scholarly communication, and offers four scenarios for a more effective copyright management. |