Open Access' main goal is not the subversion of publishers' role as driving actors in an oligopolistic market characterised by reduced competition and higher prices. OA's main function is to be found somewhere else, namely in the ability to subvert the power to control science's governance and...

While scaling interdisciplinary processes, the only ones able to provide lawyers with the tools to play their role within the "cyberspace", this article deals with closed and open digital rights management systems in copyright law. Legal science and Information Technology (IT) have been facing a...