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

Mike Taylor mike at indexdata.com
Thu May 1 17:34:17 UTC 2014


Doesn't the no-reenclosure clause mean that the PDF would have to be
CC By as well? In which case, a single $22 would indeed liberate it
forever.

-- Mike.


On 1 May 2014 17:58, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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
>>> PMID: 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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>>
>>
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