There are a lot of very attractive free upload services for authors in the Internet, like Forums, Wikis, Videosites, SocialSoftware, etc. This may attract authors to invest their time in producing and uploading their work freely to those services.
However some critical authors ask the question: Is it worth to engage on such free platforms?
Could it be a CashTrap, i.e. an initial free service, later surprisingly turned into a paid service, in the worst case for readers and authors?
And to make the worst really the worst: depriving the authors of their own Copyright in form of a CopyrightTrap.
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FridemarPache: I wrote this introduction in the context of building the ConceptMaps community, where we have a lot of initial lurker-only "members" in the CmapsForum, who hesitate to contribute.
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