<p><strong>Darn copyright on research and educational publications! Darn it to heck!</strong></p>

<p>To the extent that we are not threatened by legal sanctions by specific links, CV's policy should prefer links that undermine copyright on scientific publications where possible:</p>

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<li><p>Copyright generally does not belong to the authors of peer-reviewed literature, but to rent-seeking parasites like Elsevier (perhaps the most egregious) who exploit almost entirely unremunerated author, reviewer, and assistant editor labor.</p></li>
<li><p>Rent-seeking parasites perpetuate the corrupting tendencies in academic science by exploiting "publish or perish" of structural economic precarity of academic labor which has resulted from decades of public divestment in education. Whereas predatory journals and publishers of low quality predate upon individual academics, the rent-seekers predate upon the academic institution.</p></li>
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<p>We have a moral and ethical obligation to destroy rent-seeking publishers of scientific research.</p>

<p><strong><em>Viva Sci-Hub!</em></strong> (Which, I grant, does not so much address textbooks, but still: we are frequently citing and linking to papers here.)</p>
