I'm writing a blog post on this statement; thanks to Andrew & Michael
for their comments, which I'll be 'plagarising' for it. I hope others
will chime in.
John
On 12/12/2012 10:36, Andrew Stott wrote:
And in addition
"subject to the author being ‘credited’ (but it is not clear in what way they would
be credited)"
Eh?
CCBY 3.0 clearly says in the non-legalese version "You must attribute the work in
the manner specified by the author or licensor"
Plus of course if they are using CC-BY-NC-ND then the "attribution problem"
would still apply!
Regards
Andrew
On 12 Dec 2012, at 09:56, Michael Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:50:29PM +0000, John Levin wrote:
Dear all,
Quote:
"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).
I can do text mining with only reading - now what?
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
Isn't plagiarism taking someone elses work and claiming it's yours? How is
this "possible" differently than with any other text. CC BY does not allow
claiming it's yours.
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."
Michael
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