[JadeNB]

In math, at least, these transfer-of-copyright forms are increasingly allowing by default posting of (final submitted—see juretriglav (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8194544)'s link for the importance of this modifier) papers to the arXiv, or even just to one's web page. This seems such an elemental freedom now that it can be hard to remember that it wasn't always the case. I remember, but can no longer find—does anyone know the source?—a post a while back from an academic who asked (probably) Elsevier for permission to post an article on his home page, and was denied it, and who then essentially dared them to sue him for posting it anyway.