<Apologies for cross posting>
Dear all,
You might be interested in the outcomes of a roundtable discussion held
at Cambridge University earlier this week on the topic of Creative
Commons Attribution licences.
Is CC-BY really a problem or are we boxing shadows?
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=555
A taster:
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Comments from researchers and colleagues have indicated some disquiet
about the Creative Commons (CC-BY) licence in some areas of the academic
community. However, in conversation with some legal people and
contemporaries at other institutions one of the observations was that
generally academics are not necessarily cognizant with what the licences
offer and indeed what protections are available under regular copyright.
To try and determine whether this was aneducation and advocacy problemor
if there arereal issueswe had a roundtable discussion on 29 February at
Cambridge University attended by about 35 people who were a mixture of
academics, administrators, publishers and legal practitioners.
In summary, the discussion indicated that CC-BY licences*do
not*encourage plagiarism, or issues with commercialism within academia
(although there is a broader ethical issue). However in some cases CC-BY
licences*could*pose problems for the moral integrity of the work and
cause issues with translations. CC-BY licenses*do create challenges*for
works containing sensitive information and for works containing third
party copyright.
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Thanks
Danny
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