This is quite an unusual practice. Most of the time, the temporal limit
works the other way around: a content under copyright become CC once the
publisher/author thinks the advantage of monetization cannot imbalance
the drawbacks of limited access.
Here is my interpretation:
*Every copy of the work made before June 18th is CC and will remain so.
It can be copied at will, providing the terms of the license are respected.
*The copy published on the website of the editors after June 18th is
copyrighted. This specific copy can no longer be freely republished.
In fact it's easier to think that the work will form two legal objects,
although completely similar by the content.
As there is no way to ascertain if the republication comes from the CC
or the Copyrighted version, this strange arrangement is completely
nullified in practice. So, yes, the published does not understand
anything about open access.
Greetings,
PCL
Le 25/04/14 16:36, John Levin a écrit :
Dear list,
I came across a curious academic publishing gambit I'd like to ask the
list about.
In short, two articles in Society and Space Volume 32 Number 2 have
been made open access.
The cc-by-nc button and the text 'Open Access" mark these 2 articles
on the journal issue page:
http://www.envplan.com/contents.cgi?journal=D&volume=32&issue=2
And the two articles are announced as open access until June 18th
http://societyandspace.com/2014/04/24/discussion-forum-on-henri-lefebvre-dissolving-city-planetary-metamorphosis-paper-and-intro-open-access-and-four-online-commentaries/
However, the PDFs of the articles have (c) Pion and Licensors at the
bottom.
In the comments on the announcement page, I asked what happens after
June 18th. The reply was: "I think Pion will simply revert to the
previous status on that date."
Can this be done? Does this revoke previously granted rights? If I
republished the articles on a blog, would I be obliged to take them
down on June 18th?
Or - as I suspect - does a publisher not understand open access and CC
licenses?
John
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