(cc'ing open-access list) I recently raised this this with the open-access list, in anticipation of precisely these kinds of criticisms [1]. Might it be worth coming up with a brief rejoinder addressing some of the main misconceptions? Anyone up for pitching in?
J. [1] http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-access/2012-December/000996.html On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:56 AM, 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 > -- Jonathan Gray <http://jonathangray.org/> | @jwyg <http://twitter.com/jwyg> The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> | @okfn<http://twitter.com/okfn> Support our work: okfn.org/support
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