[Open-access] CC Non-Commercial not suitable for teaching - Was: [open-science] Elsevier: some facts, by Tim Gowers

Fri May 2 14:47:43 UTC 2014

On 2 May 2014 16:40, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:48 PM, ANDREW Theo <Theo.Andrew at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>  > I would think that copyright law always includes fair use policy
>> which applies especially to use for educational purposes?
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>> Not so – organisations (universities, hospitals) pay millions of pounds a
>> year for the privilege of photocopying published material.
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> Agreed.
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>>  In the UK this activity is coordinated by the CLA (
>> https://www.cla.co.uk/) – who intimidate organisations to buy licenses
>> from them by offering substantial rewards to whistleblowers to dob in their
>> employers (
>> http://www.scotsman.com/news/163-100k-for-nhs-copyright-whistleblowers-1-1795580
>> ).
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>> Of course, if all the scholarly literature were available on an open
>> access basis you wouldn’t need a CLA license…
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> Note also that only CC-BY, CC-BY-SA and CC0 allow automatic right of
> re-use. CC-NC is highly problematics and may forbid use for teaching in
> some countries.
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Could you or anyone please elaborate on this? I'm aware that it's
problematic because far from all teaching is non-commercial these days, but
are there specific examples of countries and/or case studies where teachers
could not use materials published under a CC-NC licence?

Sander

> Publishers such as Taylor and Francis have flawed "research" that shows
> that academics "prefer" NC. If they had a asked the question "do you want
> other universities to have to pay to re-use you OpenAccess for teaching"
> they would have got a different answer. That's a major reason why we have
> to fight against CC-NC.
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