[Open-access] Fwd: My Comments on ICAR's Open Access Policy

Fri May 17 10:47:33 UTC 2013

I would argue that CC-BY has already been shown to be 'safe' by the many
large and successful publishers and institutions (inc the World Bank and
now UNESCO) that already use CC-BY or a similarly permissive license for
most/all their outputs. As far as I know, none of these organisations have
felt to the need to move back to a less permissive license, which suggests
their experience has not been negative. As Peter mentioned, switching
licenses at a later stage is non-trivial and to be avoided.

+1 also for Mike's point.

Jenny

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:

> On 17 May 2013 11:27, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > No - it's a common and very dangerous mistake to assume CC-NC is "good"
> or
> > first step. It has no merits in Open Knowledge. And it is very difficult
> to
> > get rid of once it's established
>
> That's the real danger. Once a change to some form of open has been
> made, appetite for further change can easily dissipate, and then
> you're left hamstrung by NC indefinitely.
>
> -- Mike.
>
> _______________________________________________
> open-access mailing list
> open-access at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access
> Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/open-access
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-access/attachments/20130517/87decdf0/attachment.html>