[open-humanities] Statement on Open Access from History Journal editors

[Andrea Zanni]

The plagiarism is a very odd critic, people don't get that a CC license
protects their moral rights as well as (if not better) than copyright.
Another concept that is difficult to grasp is that scholars don't write for
money, but for "reputation":
it is a completely different system, that should be managed as a commons.
They are just scared about the remote eventuality that someone will get
rich selling their articles,
when they in the first place cannot....
(I find this "proprietary mindset" very human and very sad)

Aubrey



On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:24 AM, John Levin <john at anterotesis.com> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> The editors of a number of history journals have issued a statement on
> open access:
> http://www.history.ac.uk/news/**2012-12-10/statement-position-**
> relation-open-access<http://www.history.ac.uk/news/2012-12-10/statement-position-relation-open-access>
> It's very disappointing, and very odd as well. The kicker is the fourth
> point:
>
> 4. The licence that we will offer for publication in EITHER green OR gold
> will be a CCBY NC ND (creative commons non-commercial non-derivative)
> licence only; that is, it will not allow commercial reuse, or tweaking or
> reuse of parts of an article (text mining). The government has specified
> that ‘gold’ access is to be given on a CCBY licence, the most permissive
> form of creative commons licence that there is. This however means that
> commercial re-use, plagiarism, and republication of an author’s work will
> be possible, subject to the author being ‘credited’ (but it is not clear in
> what way they would be credited). We believe that this is a serious
> infringement of intellectual property rights and we do not want our authors
> to have to sign away their rights in order to publish with us.
>
> John
>
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