[Open-access] Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy

Fri Mar 21 14:33:33 UTC 2014

I think it would be best coming from CC.

-- Mike.

On 21 March 2014 14:11, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 21, 2014, at 2:22 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> No.
>> See http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_Attribution_2.5
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>> This garble makes it unclear which licence is actually used (for example words may have been omitted). Maybe it can be gleaned from author-facing rubric. I have copied Puneet from CC to alert him to this gross misuse of CC licences.
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>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Michelle Brook <michelle.brook at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Thanks Stuart :-D
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>>> I wanted to get the WIley-Blackwell ones done, but got annoyed with the repeated statement:
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>>> 'Copyright (c) 2013 International Society for Neurochemistry' (this obviously varies across journals), 'Re-use of this article is permitted in accordance with the Creative Commons Deed, Attribution 2.5, which does not permit commercial exploitation.'
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>>> Is there something I'm misunderstanding about cc-by version 2.5?
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> As PMR says, you are not misunderstanding--that statement by Wiley-Blackwell is nonsense. All CC BY licenses allow as much commercial exploitation as your heart may desire.
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> Of course, we could just use the works and commercially exploit it as per CC BY. However, perhaps the better approach is that as members of the global scientific community, we all submit a joint statement to WB (it doesn't need to come from CC; we, the public-at-large can and should speak out). Perhaps we should draft a few boilerplate statements indicating specific errors such as the above, and mail them out to the offenders. What would be the most effective signature (from:) on such an email?
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> --
> Puneet Kishor
> Manager, Science and Data Policy
> Creative Commons
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