Thanks, Charles.
A lot of scholarship is still available only through subscription or
per-article toll access. I recall considerable discussion a few years ago (in a
prior position focused on licensing electronic resources for many libraries)
about publishers refusing to allow massive
Heather wrote : "An author wishing to pre-authorize translations but only under
particular conditions [...] should [...] grant additional permissions [...]
with a CC+ license."
First, note that CC+ it's not a CC license, but a CC protocol (or tool). The
distinction is important because what's
The statement:
"Copyright is only invoked if you want to actually copy an original table
for inclusion in a publication"
is completely wrong.
The question of whether it is legal to point to another work depends on the
jurisdiction. It is Ancillary Copyright
see
hi Peter,
On 2017-01-24, at 10:10 AM, Peter Murray-Rust
>
wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Heather Morrison
> wrote:
Another critique that may be more relevant to this argument: I
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Heather Morrison <
heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> wrote:
> Another critique that may be more relevant to this argument: I challenge
> PMR's contention that it is necessary to limit this kind of research to
> works that are licensed CC-BY. If you gather data from a
Another critique that may be more relevant to this argument: I challenge PMR's
contention that it is necessary to limit this kind of research to works that
are licensed CC-BY. If you gather data from a great many different tables and
analyze it, what you will be publishing is your own work.
hi Fiona,
It seems we have been thinking along the same lines - I have a similar proposal
that tries to address the same issue.
An author wishing to pre-authorize translations but only under particular
conditions, e.g. that the translation is done by an appropriately qualified
translator and
Hi Heather,
I think there’s too much variation in copyright arrangements and agreements for
me to comment on that but indeed should authors prefer and there’s no other
arrangements in place stating otherwise you could put authors in place of
institution/publisher in my comment.
I think
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Heather Morrison <
heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> wrote:
> hi Peter,
>
> If many knowledge projects are advancing our knowledge through the means
> that you have described, surely there are others than the one you started
> yesterday? Can you provide a list or
hi Peter,
If many knowledge projects are advancing our knowledge through the means that
you have described, surely there are others than the one you started yesterday?
Can you provide a list or literature review of such studies?
My OA APC study uses data from different sources that do not have
There are many activities where CC BY or a more liberal licence (CC 0) is
the only way that modern science can be done.
Many knowledge-based projects in science , technology, medicine, use
thousands of documents a day to extract and publish science. (We started
one yesterday at
With all due respect to the people who created and shared the "how open is it"
spectrum tool, I find some of the underlying assumptions to be problematic.
For example the extreme of closed access assumes that having to pay
subscriptions, membership, pay per view etc. is the far end of closed.
I rather like the ‘How open is it?’ tool that approaches this as a spectrum:
http://sparcopen.org/our-work/howopenisit/
I may be quite ‘hard line’, but I acknowledge that by moving along the spectrum
a paper, monograph, piece of data (or whatever) becomes more open - and more
open is better
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Heather Morrison <
heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> wrote:
> Thanks Marc this is helpful info although these links do not work.
>
> An important related issue is a tendency towards copyright expansion in
> the form of seeking to define linking under copyright. One
Hi Marc,
You say:
"I certainly qualify as an OA advocate, and as such:
I don’t equate OA with CC BY (or any CC license); in fact, I’m a little bit
tired of discussions about what 'being OA' means."
I hear you, but I think the key point here is that OA advocates (perhaps
not you, but OA
Thanks Marc this is helpful info although these links do not work.
An important related issue is a tendency towards copyright expansion in the
form of seeking to define linking under copyright. One manifestation of this
was the EU proposal of a "link tax", as covered by Open Media here:
Hi all,
Éric wonders if Google infringes copyright (or violates the licence) when
displaying CC BY-NC papers in its search results pages.
As these pages only contain basic bibliographical data, very short excerpts and
hyperlinks, I would think that this "use" falls either outside of copyright
Thank you for raising the question of educational use, Marc.
One reason authors and funders may prefer licenses with non-commercial terms is
specifically to avoid giving rights to for-profit firms in the educational
sector, such as for-profit colleges, universities, and vendors of for-profit
To state the obvious: Google searches are not limited to Creative Commons
licensed works.
If people could prevent search engines from searching things simply by not
applying a CC license allowing for commercial terms, that would create a new
set of problems that could not be solved by people
Hi all,
Just to be clear, my position on the basic issue here.
I certainly qualify as an OA advocate, and as such :
- I don't equate OA with CC BY (or any CC license); in fact, I'm a little bit
tired of discussions about what "being OA" means.
- I work to help increase the proportion of
Marc has a good point on the NC character.
Does intermediation counts? For example, Google presents millions of papers on
its search results pages and these papers contribute as fodder to Google's
$2.18 million net after taxes profit per hour (the vast majority of these
profits are from
Stephen Downes wrote :
"From the perspective of a person wishing to access content, a work that is
CC-by, but which requires payment to access, is not free at all"
I find this interpretation a bit extreme, considering that:
- The CC BY work for which payment is required must be attributed, and
> Some open access advocates do equate OA with the CC-BY license, but not all
> of us. My perspective is that pushing for ubiquitous CC-BY is a major
> strategic error for the OA movement.
I also have been arguing that CC-by-NC ought to be considered equally
acceptable. Open access licenses
Personally, yes I do Paul. Indeed, I also agree with Heather Morrison that
insisting on the use of CC BY is a strategic error on the part of the OA
movement, and I hope to publish a somewhat longer piece arguing as much in
the near future.
Richard Poynder
On 23 Jan 2017 12:21, "Paul THIRION"
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Richard Poynder wrote:
> OA advocates maintain that the formative definition of open access agreed
> at the meeting that led to the Budapest Open Access Initiative means that
> only papers with a CC BY licence attached can be
Some open access advocates do equate OA with the CC-BY license, but not all of
us. My perspective is that pushing for ubiquitous CC-BY is a major strategic
error for the OA movement. Key arguments:
Granting blanket downstream commercial re-use rights allows for downstream toll
access whether
OA advocates maintain that the formative definition of open access agreed at
the meeting that led to the Budapest Open Access Initiative means that only
papers with a CC BY licence attached can be described as open access. And
yet millions of papers in open repositories are not available with a CC
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