[Open-access] How to Block Readcube and Why

Sun Mar 22 16:58:38 UTC 2015

Bjoern Brembs wrote:

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One may, of course, sell open access articles that are covered by CC-BY. (Not the CC-BY-NC ones, obviously).
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It’s true that, in general, “one” can’t sell a CC BY-NC article, but I think it’s worth noting that an article with the -NC condition can nevertheless be sold. The -NC condition just means that you need to be the copyright owner, or have been authorized by the author, to sell it. Some (many?) publishers, including Elsevier as I mentioned in a previous post, do just that: they require that authors choosing an option with the -NC condition grant a licence allowing the publisher to sell the article.

This explains why these business practices (e.g. selling articles even when they are available elsewhere for free) can only be efficient if they are based upon delusion, for instance, not displaying prominently (if at all) the CC license, which must in principle contain a link to the (gratis) original version, as required to comply with the BY condition.

Marc Couture

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