In 2011, Springer - scientific rentiers extraordinaire - took down two Max Planck papers. They had been published on Naturwissenschaften early in the 1940s; now The Science of Nature. The journal has nothing to do with this; but they seem not to own the rights to their own catalog.
One paper was "Sinn und Grenzen der exakten Wissenschaft". This was an opinion / philosophical piece which Planck was floating to other journals. Naturwissenschaften at the time didn't care. Springer, now, cares.
Didn't stop Springer from charging $40 for the retracted pdf though... the empty pdf. I suggest that Springer is running a scam. Since it's not people like me buying this stuff, the scam is more likely being foisted upon universities and big NGOs that is, on the taxpayer and the student. Oh and on independent researchers on sci-hub who can be sued for "infringing on our intellectual property".
Springer does have an appeal-and-grievance policy: detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors
. Max Planck has so far declined to comment.
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