[Open-access] [open-science] Open Science Anthology published

[Mike Taylor]

All right, folks. I do believe we've crossed over into troll-feeding now.

I for one will now try to resist SIWOTI syndrome on this thread. Let's
just agree to let Heather have the last word, then it can all be over.

-- Mike.




On 28 January 2014 17:08, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 28, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Heather Morrison <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>
> wrote:
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> I guess my summary was premature...(sigh)
>
> On 2014-01-28, at 11:11 AM, "Mr. Puneet Kishor" <punk.kish at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
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> On Jan 28, 2014, at 7:59 AM, Klaus Graf <klausgraf at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> 1.      The resemblance between CC-BY and the BOAI definition is
>> superficial in nature. It is particularly important for open access
>> advocates to be aware that CC licenses, including CC-BY, do not mean that
>> works must be made available free of charge. CC-BY policy has a huge,
>> potentially systemic loophole: the possibility of re-enclosure. What is
>> given freely today with a CC-BY license could easily be available solely
>> through sale from Elsevier or services like RightsLink down the road.
>>
>
> No evidence for this. Nearly all CC-BY works are available free of cost. CC
> could clarify that re-enclosure in the digital context isn't allowed.
>
>
> Indeed. The license very clearly states that you, the licensee, "may not
> apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others
> from doing anything the license permits."
> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_US)
>
>
> Two comments:
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> CC would have to have the agreement of the Creative Commons community to
> change the licenses to prevent re-enclosure. From time to time I participate
> in the CC community list and have raised the question about CC and free of
> charge. The short answer is that there are many people in the Creative
> Commons community for whom freedom means freedom to put up a paywall and
> charge for works. Consider the difference between open source software,
> where the code is free for anyone to manipulate, but software creators are
> free to charge for the software, and open access with its "free of charge".
> Klaus, I very much encourage you to sign up for the CC community discussion
> and check in with them about this question:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-community
>
> The licensee "may not apply legal terms or technological measures..." refers
> to applying legal terms or adding TPMs to the work per se. There is nothing
> to stop a downstream user from putting up a paywall before you get to the
> work. Indeed, it would not be possible to do this, as most of us need to go
> through a paywall to connect to the internet (whether we or someone else is
> paying).  We are already seeing that people are using articles to compile
> books for sale - people have to pay to get the book.
>
>
>
> Perhaps it was another case of premature summary, but you completely missed
> the subsequent para in my email where I wrote, "Unless all copies of the
> work vanish from the face of the earth except for the ones remaining in the
> vault of an evil publisher who then decides to charge for access to the
> vault, what Heather states above is not possible. And, even in the unlikely
> scenario I describe, once someone pays for access to the vault and then
> downloads the work, that work is once again free like the original."
>
> Indeed, if I download your CC BY work, I have all the right in the world (no
> matter how misplaced one may think it is) to charge for that work. On the
> other hand, others have all the right in the world to ignore my offering and
> get your work directly from you or from other sources completely free if it
> is still available. The only reason a sane person would pay me for an
> otherwise freely available work is if I add something of value to that work.
>
>
> Puneet.
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