Similar misgivings have been voiced by the open science community: EU copyright law may allow the making of reproductions of copyright-protected content for research purposes, but not necessarily the making available of the research corpus used to third parties, thus negatively impacting the reproducibility of research results and open access principles. The rationale behind placing more stringent restrictions on the making available of copyright-protected works than on the making of reproductions is the belief that making available entire works to the general public will adversely affect the rights holders’ ability to generate revenue from selling access to the works to a much greater extent than reproductions for a particular purpose will. That can sometimes lead to undesirable societal side-effects.