Friends and Members of the LIS Forum, In an interview given to *SciDevNet* in 2009, Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram said, "I argue that we should be permitted to put in the repository the full text article as it appears in a journal. For this, countries such as India should have a law specifying that the copyright for articles published with publicly-funded research always vests with the authors and their institutions. [See https://www.scidev.net/global/features/q-a-open-archives-the-alternative-to-... ]. Prof. Peter Suber of Harvard University has argued that journals DO NOT NEED exclusive rights to publish papers. Please see https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/1869/?s=03. Here is Suber's Abstract: "Journal publishers don’t need exclusive rights. Or, they don’t need them for publishing. They don’t need them to make a work public or to add value in the form of peer review, copy editing, metadata, formatting, discoverability, or preservation. Nor do they need them to make enough money to pay their bills and grow. Publishers only need exclusive rights for monopoly control over the published work and any revenue it might yield. Publishers who say they need exclusive rights are saying they need this monopoly control. The best evidence that journal publishers don’t need exclusive rights is that so many peer-reviewed journals do without them, for example, open access journals using CC-BY." Thirteen years have passed since Prof. Balaram wrote about the need for retention of rights. Have the Current Science Association, IASc, INSA, NASI and government agencies such as DST, DBT, CSIR, ICAR, IICMR, DAE and UGC written to the Government of India about this issue? Probably not. I suggest that librarians of all Higer Educational Institutions (HEIs) and other research performing institutions (RPIs) in the country write to the Members of the Lok Sabha from their constituencies requestig them to enact such a law. You may also talk to your Vice Chancellors/ Directors to adopt a Rights Retention policy at your institution. Regards. Arun