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

[Peter Murray-Rust]

It would be interesting to know whether the PDF carried the same licence.
If it did, then it could be freely distributed. I'm not paying 22 USD to
find out. It would be possible to use a different licence or simply claim
complete rights on the PDF.


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's very peculiar and a little bit silly, (the HTML is free/open and CC
> BY - you can make a PDF of that yourself with free/open technology).
>
> It's not a big deal IMO. I'd be surprised if *anyone* actually pays that
> to get a PDF of the very same content they can get for free as HTML
>
>
> On 1 May 2014 16:44, 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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Peter Murray-Rust
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