[GOAL] Re: OASPA Adds Licensing FAQs Page to Information Resources

2013-03-06 Thread Couture Marc
About the display in some journal home pages of both a CC- License and an All rights reserved statement, Alicia Keys wrote: One set of licensing terms applies to their generic web content, and the other to specific articles that are surfaced via that website.  This isn't a conflict in

[GOAL] Re: OASPA Adds Licensing FAQs Page to Information Resources

2013-03-05 Thread Couture Marc
Jeffrey Beall wrote: The two biggest problems I see are 1). Contradictory licensing statements, such as the one shown below I agree with the previous replies that there's no contradiction in the text displayed in the image provided. But I went to the journal's website

[GOAL] Re: OASPA Adds Licensing FAQs Page to Information Resources

2013-03-05 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
I agree with the consensus. I would add that the use of Creative Commons by itself (e.g. this is published under a Creative Commons licence ) is frequent and can be seriously misleading. Licensors should always state the exact variant of the licence. I'd also suggest we point out that CC-* is a