Re: Question on Galileo without Elsevier

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

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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