The First and Foremost PostGutenberg Distinction

2010-11-14 Thread Stevan Harnad 
One can sympathize with Larry Lessig's frustration in An Obvious Distinction:
LL:
In 2010, [for David Wallace-Evans] to suggest [in a
6000-word review in The Nation] that [the Creative
Commons movement] 'exhort[s]… piracy and the plundering
of culture'... betrays not just sloppy thinking [but]
extraordinary ignorance… [and lack of] respect for what
has been written… This terrain has been plowed a hundred
times in the past decade… Reading is the first step to…
respect for what has been written... Reading is what
Wallace-Wells has not done well.

Larry tries to correct Wallace-Evans's 6000 sloppy words with 878 carefully
chosen ones of his own. 

Let me try to atone for my own frequent long-windedness by trying to put it even
more succinctly (20 words):
Creative Commons' goal 
is to protect 
creators' give-away rights -- 
not consumers' 
(or 2nd-party copyright-holders') 
rip-off rights.

(Reader's of the American Scientist Open Access Forum may have a sense of déjà
lu about this since at least as far back as December
2000: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1048.html )


  Harnad, Stevan (2000/2001/2003/2004) For Whom the Gate
  Tolls? Published as: (2003) Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research
  Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving: Maximizing Research
  Impact by Maximizing Online Access. In: Law, Derek  Judith Andrews,
  Eds. Digital Libraries: Policy Planning and Practice. Ashgate
  Publishing 2003. [Shorter version: Harnad S. (2003) Journal of
  Postgraduate Medicine 49: 337-342.] and in: (2004) Historical Social
  Research (HSR) 29:1. [French version: Harnad, S. (2003) Cielographie
  et cielolexie: Anomalie post-gutenbergienne et comment la resoudre.
  In: Origgi, G.  Arikha, N. (eds) Le texte a l'heure de l'Internet.
  Bibliotheque Centre Pompidou: 77-103.



The persistent piracy canard calls to mind others like it, foremost among 
them
being: 
OA ≡ Gold OA (publishing)...


  Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L., Hitchcock, S.,
  Gingras, Y, Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns, H.,  Hilf, E. (2004) The
  green and the gold roads to Open Access. Nature Web Focus

Re: The First and Foremost PostGutenberg Distinction

2010-11-14 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon 
Indeed, Larry!

And Stevan Harnad is quite right is refusing to equate Open Access with the Gold
Road.

In fact, Open Access is made up of two approaches: OA publishing or Gold Road
and self-archiving or Green Road. And both roads are valuable, arguably
equally (although differently) valuable.

As for Wallace-Evans, one only has to see how he characterized Robert K. Merton
(most pusillanimous... ???) to realize that the barbarians are at the gates.
It is a pity to see a priodical like Nation fall this low. I used to like
reading Nation when I was a student.

Jean-Claude Guédon


Le dimanche 14 novembre 2010 à 10:21 -0500, Stevan Harnad a écrit :
  One can sympathize with Larry Lessig's frustration in An Obvious
  Distinction:
  LL:
  In 2010, [for David Wallace-Evans] to
  suggest [in a 6000-word review in The
  Nation] that [the Creative Commons movement]
  'exhort[s]… piracy and the plundering of
  culture'... betrays not just sloppy thinking
  [but] extraordinary ignorance… [and lack of]
  respect for what has been written… This
  terrain has been plowed a hundred times in
  the past decade… Reading is the first step
  to… respect for what has been written...
  Reading is what Wallace-Wells has not done
  well.

  Larry tries to correct Wallace-Evans's 6000 sloppy words with 878
  carefully chosen ones of his own. 



  Let me try to atone for my own frequent long-windedness by trying to
  put it even more succinctly (20 words):
  Creative Commons' goal 
  is to protect 
  creators' give-away rights -- 
  not consumers' 
  (or 2nd-party copyright-holders') 
  rip-off rights.

  (Reader's of the American Scientist Open Access Forum may have a
  sense of déjà lu about this since at least as far back as December
  2000: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1048.html
  )




Harnad, Stevan (2000/2001/2003/2004) For Whom the Gate
Tolls? Published as: (2003) Open Access to Peer-Reviewed
Research Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving:
Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Online Access.
In: Law, Derek  Judith Andrews, Eds. Digital Libraries:
Policy Planning and Practice. Ashgate Publishing 2003.
[Shorter version: Harnad S. (2003) Journal of
Postgraduate Medicine 49: 337-342.] and in:
(2004) Historical Social Research (HSR) 29:1. [French
version: Harnad, S. (2003) Cielographie et cielolexie:
Anomalie post-gutenbergienne et comment la resoudre. In:
Origgi, G.  Arikha, N. (eds) Le texte a l'heure de
l'Internet. Bibliotheque Centre Pompidou: 77-103.



  The persistent piracy canard calls to mind others like it,
  foremost among them being: 
  OA ≡ Gold OA (publishing)...



Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L.,
Hitchcock, S., Gingras, Y, Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns,
H.,  Hilf, E. (2004) The green and the gold roads to
Open Access. Nature Web Focus





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