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Re: Question on Galileo without Elsevier



Richard,

I may simply be obtuse here, but I would like very much to understand your parable better. Can you spell out its implications?

Joe Esposito

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Feinman" <RFeinman@downstate.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 3:07 PM
Subject: Question on Galileo without Elsevier

If turned down by a scholarly journal, would Galileo have had any
legal recourse to get a paper published?

If his lawyer could demonstrate that the scientific standards of
his work were commensurate in quality with other papers published
in a particular journal, could he argue that only pressure from
the church or even sincere opposition because of contradiction of
church doctrine, was keeping him from being published?

Does anybody know if there is any legal recourse for a privately
owned journal?

Does a journal's editor have a completely free hand?

Richard D. Feinman, Co-editor-in-chief
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