[open-humanities] Statement on Open Access from History Journaleditors

Tue Dec 11 12:47:20 UTC 2012

How far does non-derivative go? Can they be cited/quoted for example?

Pete

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[mailto:open-humanities-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Sam Leon
Sent: 11 December 2012 11:39
To: A list for people interested in the use of open source tools and
openaccess in humanities teaching and research
Subject: Re: [open-humanities] Statement on Open Access from History
Journaleditors

This is indeed disappointing.

A team of people at the Open Knowledge Foundation are currently drafting
the Open Humanities Principles which I hope to circulate to this list
and organise a call for in the new year. Hopefully that will be an
opportunity to galvanise support for an alternative perspective.

All the best,

Sam

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Andrea Zanni <aubreymcfato at gmail.com>
wrote:

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-ope
n-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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