[Open-access] Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy

[Michelle Brook]

Even with comment/outrage from the community, it would still be useful for Creative Commons to make a statement in some of these cases along the lines of:

"This appears to be a misunderstanding of the license".

Even just as a tweet it would be valuable - after all they are the experts. People on this mailing list and others can then have something to use to push harder against publishers.

I think it would mean a lot in a world where lots of academics still don't know much about licensing.

M

> On 22 Mar 2014, at 10:00, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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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