It also gives authors the right to not be falsely attributed with the authorship of a work he or she did not create. Therefore, contrary to some of their statements, publishers have no interest whatsoever in Moral Rights. Moral Rights are extremely important in an electronic environment - it is extremely easy when downloading material to either omit the original author's name or to cut and paste material in a manner that might be considered derogatory. In theory, an ECMS could give a warning every time someone tries to cut or amend a portion of a text, but this is likely to annoy users. This will not be in the interests of publishers, nor ultimately in the interests of the libraries or users.
Publishers provide a means of controlling the information explosion by maintaining quality.
By-passing them will be a serious step with implications for bibliographic control and the quality of research. There is already a delicate and tense relationship between data owners and data users. ECMS Publishers have difficulty in agreeing to any license for the distribution in electronic form material for which they hold the copyright. There are two major reasons stated for their concern. The second concern is that material will be amended and will then be passed off as new material, and it will be difficult to demonstrate that the material had originated from that material that the publisher owned rights to.