I thought Elsevier was already doing all it could to alienate the authors who freely donate their work to shore up the corporation’s obscene profits.
This is not a statement that I would expect to see in a well-balanced post containing sensible discussion about the pressing requirement for more open access.
The full details on author rights are publicly available on Elsevier's site at http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/author-rights-and-re... - and as far as I'm aware, their current round of legal threats doesn't contradict that.
Open access is REALLY, REALLY important to the future of science, but we won't get anywhere by misrepresenting the current state of affairs.