[Open-access] CC-BY 2.0 compatible with download fees?

Thu May 1 15:51:16 UTC 2014

This seems to me to be an example of payment for a service - that service
being creation and provision of a PDF at the price of $22. If people are
willing to pay that much for the service, so be it. However, there should
be nothing to stop someone else offering the same service at a lower cost.

Mark

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Tom Olijhoek <tom.olijhoek at gmail.com> wrote:

> The following very useful article
>  A Study of Innovative Features in Scholarly Open Access Journals
> by Bo-Christer Björk in J Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e115
> URL: http://www.jmir.org/2011/4/e115/
> doi: 10.2196/jmir.1802 <http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.1802>
> PMID: 22173122<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=22173122>
>
> carries the following text
> This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
> Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/),
> which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any
> medium,
>
> The strange thing is that if you want to download a PDF copy of the
> article you can only do so after payment of $22 !
> i can only see this as a restriction and one which makes re-use a bit more
> difficult.
> In previous discussions on this list we already saw that CC-BY license in
> principle does not forbid anyone to sell an article. However I don't think
> that this has been the intention when the CC-BY licensing was developed.
> Perhaps CC-BY-SA is a more restricted license but in this combination it
> does not allow selling the article or a processed form (for example
> PDF)......This would be a restriction that I can live with
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