[Open-access] How to Block Readcube and Why -

Sun Mar 22 20:54:46 UTC 2015

Dear all,

I realize there was an misleading statement in my previous post. The second sentence should be reformulated as follows:

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The -NC condition just means that you need to be, or have been authorized by, the owner of the commercial rights to sell it.
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For instance, in the case of Elsevier’s open access articles, because the license granted by the author is exclusive, the publisher becomes the sole owner of the commercial rights. Thus, even if the author remains the copyright owner, he or she loses in great part the control over the article that copyright ownership normally entails.

Marc Couture

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Objet : Re: [Open-access] How to Block Readcube and Why

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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