All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020
Interestingly, papers by US government employees are already in the public domain. Journals have no problem publishing those. I think one direction this could go is that public universities could insist that their researchers put their work in the public domain.<p>Journals don't need copyright to function. There's still value in editing, peer review, and distribution. They're just being greedy by insisting on it.