Just who should own the copyright?
If these documents are scientific papers published in journals managed by JSTOR should not the copyright be with the authors of said papers? Likewise when a significant proportion have been paid for by public monies, ie R&D funds ex government in one form or another, so consequently the data should be in the public domain.
To reduce accessibility to these papers merely slows up innovation and hence cuts back the potential of novel industries/applications including such serious problems as the failure of the pharmaceutical industry to replace our failing antibiotics or deal with human forced climate changes. My Christmas (Perth wa) was far too hot this year. All this copyright protection does is to restrict the opportunities of the (mostly yours and mine) grandchildren of the 99.5%, and protect the 0.5% from some possible future competition, as well as extort monies for other peoples effort.
