To learn about open access copyright and rights of authors and readers specifically relating to Libertas journals refer here. 

There are two key aspects to how copyright relates to OA publishing.

The copyright holders (the authors) consent to unrestricted reading, downloading, copyrighting, sharing, storing, printing, searching and linking to the full text of the work. LA’s licence prevents misattribution and selective reuse to prevent plagiarism, misrepresentation and questionable scholarship.

Where an author has re-used content not in the public domain in an OA work, the consent of the copyright holder must be given.

Therefore, we can say that OA publishing is not comparable to peer-to-peer file sharing for science, and OA publishing is always voluntary.

In its conventional form OA publishing is also royalty-free. Authors effectively give their work to the world without expectation of payment. We believe that in the future it may be possible to publish text books in a manner resembling OA but with royalty payments made to the authors.