And in addition "subject to the author being ‘credited’ (but it is not clear in what way they would be credited)"
Eh? CCBY 3.0 clearly says in the non-legalese version "You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor" Plus of course if they are using CC-BY-NC-ND then the "attribution problem" would still apply! Regards Andrew On 12 Dec 2012, at 09:56, Michael Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:50:29PM +0000, John Levin wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> Quote: >> "The licence that we will offer for publication in EITHER green OR >> gold will be a CCBY NC ND (creative commons non-commercial >> non-derivative) licence only; that is, it will not allow commercial >> reuse, or tweaking or reuse of parts of an article (text mining). > > I can do text mining with only reading - now what? > >> The government has specified that ‘gold’ access is to be given on a >> CCBY licence, the most permissive form of creative commons licence >> that there is. This however means that commercial re-use, >> plagiarism, and republication of an author’s work will be possible, >> subject to the author being ‘credited’ (but it is not clear in what > > Isn't plagiarism taking someone elses work and claiming it's yours? How is > this "possible" differently than with any other text. CC BY does not allow > claiming it's yours. > >> way they would be credited). We believe that this is a serious >> infringement of intellectual property rights and we do not want our >> authors to have to sign away their rights in order to publish with >> us." > > Michael > > -- > Data Wrangler with the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN.org) > GPG/PGP key: http://tentacleriot.eu/mihi.asc > Twitter: @mihi_tr Skype: mihi_tr > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
