[Open-access] Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy

Sat Mar 22 10:00:20 UTC 2014

This licence is completely unacceptable and actually does great harm as it
could be taken as a template.

There are at least the issues:
* they shouldn't be trying to restrict re-use anyway. This is a moral
ethical question
* they shouldn't be trying to write their own conditions

The last is very common and almost always a total foulup. CC licences have
years of work and are precise instruments.

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Jan Velterop <velterop at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a misinterpretation of the CC-BY licence of course. All the more
> surprising since OA advocate Iryna Kuchma is one of the authors. I'm cc-ing
> her.
>
> I would like to see these licence statements replaced by a human- and
> machine-readable symbol and phrase like this: ⓐ 2014. Open Access. All
> redistribution and reuse is permitted provided the author(s) is (are)
> acknowledged.
> It may avoid these problems.
>
> Jan Velterop
>
> On 21 Mar 2014, at 16:46, Beall, Jeffrey <Jeffrey.Beall at ucdenver.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Puneet:
> >
> > You will surely want to add Universitätsverlag Göttingen to your "wall
> of shame" for the contradictory use of a CC BY license found on the book
> they published entitled Implementing Open Access Mandates in Europe.
> >
> >
> > <image002.jpg>
> >
> > If the image doesn't come through, it is from: here. It says:
> >
> > "Birgit Schmidt and Iryna Kuchma
> > Implementing Open Access Mandates in Europe
> >
> > This work is licensed under the
> > Creative Commons License CC-BY 3.0,
> > allowing you to download, distribute and print the
> > document in a few copies for private or educational
> > use, given that the document stays unchanged
> > and the creator is mentioned.
> > You are not allowed to sell copies of the free version. [CC BY logo]"
> >
> > --Jeffrey Beall
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Peter Murray-Rust
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