In fact, this problem has always been the public's field of knowledge. You know, there are only a few websites with reliable academic papers. Although the website has a complete collection of papers, you have to pay for membership to use it. Generally speaking, I don't feel good. And the money earned here didn't give the original author a penny and a half at all. It seems to me that there is something wrong!
I think academic papers are public welfare. We should know that it was born to promote human progress, so the public has the right to watch and read and the right to quote resources. However, with the intervention of publishing houses and databases, the whole nature has changed. Although I know that the publication of the paper has a lot to do with them, it doesn't mean that they can seize the copyright of the author. For example, if you write a novel publishing house and then publish it, the website will also pay for it. But when it comes to academic papers, not only the author is not paid, but also it needs to be posted backwards (many well-known foreign journals need paid pages). Moreover, after other people's novels are published, the publishing society sends a set of books to the author, even if there are no academic papers here, you have to pay. Moreover, the benefits brought by the paper during this period are all from the database and publishing house, and the author is directly excluded.
I think this is unfair to the author. Many of his research results are beneficial to human development, but their subsequent treatment is not objective. Personally, if the author's copyright is transferred without clear terms, then the author can use legal weapons to safeguard his copyright. I don't agree that copyright belongs to publishers and databases anyway. I think I only enjoy part of the copyright at most, and the ownership of the tome should still belong to the author.