Brandon Butler, the director of information policy at the University of Virginia Library, said he approved of the MIT framework. In particular, he cited the emphasis on authors retaining their copyright, which he feels is important. The UVA Library has officially endorsed the framework. “There is no doubt that publishers do important work,” said Butler. “But we should be paying reasonable fees for what they contribute, and we should retain exclusive control of our scholarly work. Sometimes we find ourselves buying back our own work.”