This is dates from April, 2018, and was recently (?) released (via Digital Koans). It is an all-encompassing statement of author and institutional rights that draws a clear line between current predatory practices and what ought to be the academic publishing regime in the future. I strongly support this declaration. It opposes copyright transfers, opposes waivers on open access clauses, and states (among many other things) that "licenses shall not restrict, and should instead expressly protect, the rights of authors, institutions, and the public to reuse excerpts of published work consistent with legal exceptions and limitations on copyright such as fair use." Yeah! No double payments. No hidden profits. And no NDA clauses - " shall be transparent and shall not contain terms that prevent the sharing of their contents."
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