[HN Gopher] Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation
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       Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation
        
       Author : EvgeniyZh
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2024-09-14 15:00 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | malshe wrote:
       | All these issues are well known for a long time and nothing
       | happened. Can someone with law background weigh in on whether
       | this lawsuit has any chance of winning?
        
         | passwordoops wrote:
         | One thing that changed is the FTC remembering monopolies are a
         | bad thing and enforcing the law again
        
           | generic92034 wrote:
           | Possibly only till November 5th (no matter who wins)?
        
           | malshe wrote:
           | OK, but this is a lawsuit not by FTC and FTC is not a judge
        
       | youainti wrote:
       | The three major claims is that the defendants conspired to
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       | > First, an agreement to fix the price of peer review services at
       | zero that includes an agreement to coerce scholars into providing
       | their labor for nothing by expressly linking their unpaid labor
       | with their ability to get their manuscripts published in the
       | defendants' preeminent journals.
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       | > Second, the publisher defendants agreed not to compete with
       | each other for manuscripts by requiring scholars to submit their
       | manuscripts to only one journal at a time, which substantially
       | reduces competition by removing incentives to review manuscripts
       | promptly and publish meritorious research quickly.
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       | > Third, the publisher defendants agreed to prohibit scholars
       | from freely sharing the scientific advancements described in
       | submitted manuscripts while those manuscripts are under peer
       | review, ...
        
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