Passage A Most scholarly books earn little after their first years, while long copyright terms restrict teaching and preservation. Authors who receive public research support should grant a broad open license after a short embargo, regardless of whether a press still sells the book. Public funding justifies timely public reuse. Passage B Publicly funded scholarship should become widely accessible, and short embargoes are often reasonable for articles. Requiring an open license for monographs while a press continues to market them, however, can weaken the cross-subsidies that support specialized books. Public access should be achieved through library purchase and author-approved editions, not an automatic license. In evaluating where the authors stand on copyright terms for scholarly monographs, which proposition could not be accepted by both authors?