[Open-access] How to Block Readcube and Why

[CHARLES OPPENHEIM]

Interesting question, but I suspect the answer is no.  What CC has in mind is technological protection measures, such as software blocks and requirement to use dongles, but the wording is sufficiently vague to cause a bit of doubt in my mind.  
Charles
Professor Charles Oppenheim
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>From : velterop at gmail.com
Date : 20/03/2015 - 13:23 (GMT)
To : b.brembs at gmail.com
Cc : ross.mounce at gmail.com, open-science at lists.okfn.org, open-access at lists.okfn.org, c.oppenheim at btinternet.com
Subject : Re: [Open-access] How to Block Readcube and Why
One may, of course, sell open access articles that are covered by CC-BY. (Not the CC-BY-NC ones, obviously). 
However, if you do in the manner Elsevier seems to have done, I wonder if you’d fall foul of the stipulation "You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.” (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) – Particularly the technological measures. I wonder if charging online before you can see the article is an unwarranted technological restriction. 
Charles? Your views on this?
Jan Velterop
On 20 Mar 2015, at 12:42, Bjoern Brembs <b.brembs at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, March 19, 2015, 11:34:24 PM, you wrote:
You may have noticed recently that at some, all(?) Wiley
journals, the "get PDF" links have been forcibly,
non-consentingly redirecting readers to the Readcube
version of the article, NOT the PDF file.
Now that's what I'd call predatory publishing: Elsevier selling OA articles and Wiley forcing ReadCube on misled, unsuspecting readers. Let's just wait for Springer to something analogous, and we can declare the top three worst predatory publishers :-)
Bjoern
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Neurogenetics
Universität Regensburg
Germany
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