On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:04 PM, David Prosser <david.pros...@rluk.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Jeroen - CC-BY license > > > > Heather - NO!!! the CC-BY license is a major strategic error of the open > access movement. Allowing downstream commercial use to anyone opens up the > possibility of re-enclosure. ... > > I continue to be unable to grasp Heather’s argument. If, for whatever > reason, I purchase from you a CC-BY article I can, as it is CC-BY, make the > article freely available. I don’t see how CC-BY allows for re-enclosure > when it contains within itself the ultimate enclosure-busting feature of > allowing unlimited distribution provided there is attribution. > > David > > I completely agree with David. If HeatherM can show us that total enclosure has ever actually occurred we need to know. The conditions are almost inconceivable: * a commercial company encloses the *published* CC-BY article. It strips off the licence (thereby breaking the contract). * the world destroys or loses ALL other copies of the manuscript. It then forgets that this manuscript ever existed as CC-BY. Only then does the illegally enclosed object represent monopoly control. In the normal case there are always copies of the un-enclosed article available for free use, re-use, modification and redistribution P. [Far more serious is the following scenario which happens frequently enough to be really serious. A traditional toll-access publisher accepts payment from an author/funder for CC-BY licensing. It then publishes the manuscript without CC-BY and under a more (often completely) restrictive licence. Only the author/funder knows that the m/s should be CC-BY. Unless they publish this information (as Wellcome Trust and some libraries did last year) the m/s will remain closed and will continue to be resold. And early copies , before the discovery, will probably still circulate with "All rights reserved". ] -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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