> The copyleft or "share-alike" principle does not prevent enclosing something 
> in a paywall,

By this fact, it becomes clear that CC-BY-SA is not the "correct" license for 
academic work.

-- Stephen

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Andrew A. Adams
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To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); Danny Kingsley
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Subject: Re: [GOAL] BLOG: Is CC-BY really a problem or are we boxing shadows?


Danny,

My opinion is that CC-BY-SA is the correct license for academic works. All the 
claims I have seen for people wanting to use "NC" terms (NC is a controversial 
element whose meaning is not properly clear) are generally fixed by using SA 
instead. The copyleft or "share-alike" principle does not prevent enclosing 
something in a paywall, but ddoes require that there are no restrictions placed 
on anyone who then does have access, and for anything reasonably deemed a 
derivative work, it means that it must also be a CC-BY-SA licensed work, which 
generally discourages exploitive terms since then any consortium can club 
together, purchase access and then re-distribute.

For a small class of works there is a justification for CC-BY-ND which prevents 
derivatives beyond fair use/fair dealing (which are the basis on which m,ost 
academic quoting works anyway under "all rights reserved" 
licenses) for material which is controversial or sensitive. However, these 
cases are rare and should be used very sparingly.


-- 
Professor Andrew A Adams                      a...@meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and Deputy Director 
of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/


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