[OKFN-IN] [GOAL] Re: Submission to ICAR on its Open Access Policy 2013 Draft

[Sridhar Gutam]

Dear Heather,

I was following your arguments against CC-BY and others for CC-BY.

I am in the CC-BY as its a non exclusive license and everyone would
have equal chances to use the content and make tools and applications.

Now in the larger interest I have included CC-BY in the policy draft
(modified) as proposed by the leaders of the OA movement.

Now this draft would be submitted to the committee headed formed for
formulating the guidelines for open access policy in ICAR.

23rd May is the last date for submission of the comments. See
http://www.icar.org.in/en/node/6056.

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Thanks & Regards
Sridhar
__________________________________________________________
Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotech. (WIPO)
Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) Central Institute for Subtropical
Horticulture
Joint Secretary, Agricultural Research Service Scientists' Forum
Convenor, Open Access India
Country Representative, YPARD
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On 20 May 2013 00:56, Heather Morrison <hgmorris at sfu.ca> wrote:
> Excellent work, Sridhar.
>
> I would strongly recommend, however, removal of reference to the CC-BY
> license. This is NOT in the best interests of Indian scholars or
> Indian research funders. This gives blanket commercial rights to
> anyone, anywhere downstream, with absolutely no obligation for
> reciprocity. That is, if CC-BY becomes the default, it is quite
> possible that a next generation of research tools will be built by the
> commercial sector on a for-pay basis with no obligation to provide
> affordable pricing for countries like India - who could easily end up
> one step ahead (getting the benefits of open access to the kinds of
> publications produced now), but two steps behind (locked out of access
> to the next generation tools).
>
> This is section that I am referring to - I would suggest simply
> removing the whole section.
>
> 12. All the ICAR institute’s website content, print/digital
> publications, meta-data and full-texts in repositories are to be
> licensed for public use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-
> BY 3.0) Unported License
>
> I acknowledge that many of my colleagues in the open access movement
> are strong proponents of CC-BY licensing, and that there are positive
> as well as negative implications of using this license. This is a
> topic that I have explored and continue to explore in some depth -
> links to some of my writings including my submission to the UK BIS
> committee can be found from here:
> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/10/critique-of-cc-by-series.html
>
> best,
>
> Dr. Heather Morrison
> Freedom for scholarship in the internet age
> http://summit.sfu.ca/item/12537
>
>
> On 19-May-13, at 1:14 AM, Sridhar Gutam wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues and Friends,
>>
>> Please see the attachment for the document made modifying the ICAR
>> Open Access Policy Draft and the Original Policy Draft.
>>
>> If any comments/suggestions, please share by today. Tomorrow I would
>> like to submit to the ICAR.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Sridhar
>> __________________________________________________________
>> Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotech. (WIPO)
>> Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) Central Institute for Subtropical
>> Horticulture
>> Joint Secretary, Agricultural Research Service Scientists' Forum
>> Convenor, Open Access India
>> Country Representative, YPARD
>> Rehmankhera, Kakori Post
>> Lucknow 226101, Uttar Pradesh, India
>> Phone: +91-522-2841022/23/24; Fax: +91-522-2841025
>> Mobile:+91-9005760036/8005346136
>> Publications: http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/
>> <Submission to ICAR on its Open Access Policy 2013 Draft Open Access
>> India.pdf><Submission to ICAR on its Open Access Policy 2013 Draft
>> Open  Access India.doc><Draft ICAR Open Access Policy for
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