In many markets, a few big publishers own the copyrights to almost everything available, and stores will not want to sell works published by small authors themselves.

So when publishers own large numbers of journals, they can effectively raise the average price, librarians say.

He said that universities and academics were mistaken because they think knowledge is free when in fact the publishers own it.

That's right - he thought publishers owned the knowledge (rather than the presentation of it)!

He added that major publishers have entered negotiations with their authors to buy electronic book rights, again implying that the publisher did not already own the rights.

The publisher would retain exclusive rights to distribute and market the game and would often own the intellectual property rights for the game franchise.

Each publisher will own 25 percent of the company.

Composers and their publishers own certain publication and performance rights, but even these are threatened by new technologies.

So authors making their work available as open access pay publishers a fee to do so, and the publisher does not own the resulting work.

Initially, in the 1930s and '40s, publishers owned the rights and would discard drawings after they were used.