On 3/21/2014 8:22 AM, Jan Velterop wrote:
But are the chances nil?
Essentially you are trying to create a symbol for "this material is
placed in the public domain". If you get that symbol adopted by similar
authorities as those that created ©, then you would see it encoded in
due time. If not, it would have to become massively adopted to become a
"de-facto" convention first, but, without an encoded character, that is
really unlikely. So, if you are serious about his idea, the rout is to
get the convention formally adopted first.
A./
It would be a nice complement to the series of ©, ®, ℗, etcetera and
perform a similar function. A symbol for Creative Commons, presumably
a double c in a circle, would probably indicate the document in
question is covered by one of the CC licences, but it wouldn't be
clear by which one, which may be an impediment for having a symbol.
Similarly, copyleft is also a licensing scheme, and as such is not
quite as unambiguous as ©, ®, and ℗ are. Also, neither a cc or a
copyleft symbol is in the same 'single encircled letter' convention.
For the encircled 'a' symbol for open access it is proposed to use
this definition:
"The symbol for 'open access', if applied to documents and images,
indicates their free availability, on the internet or otherwise,
permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute,
(re)print, search, or link to the full texts of such documents,
crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use
them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or
technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining
access to the internet itself or to printing materials and
facilities. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution,
and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give
authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to
be properly acknowledged and cited.
Jan Velterop
On 21 Mar 2014, at 14:33, Jörg Knappen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Even when this symbol really catches on (what I doubt because it is
too close to the @ sign in the first place) chance are low that it
will be encoded in UNicode. Precedents like the Creative Commons sign
or the Copyleft sign have been discussed on this mailing list (search
the archives for the relevant threads) but were never encoded in UNicode.
When the symbol does not catch on, why should it be encoded in UNicode?
--Jörg Knappen
*Gesendet:* Freitag, 21. März 2014 um 12:14 Uhr
*Von:* "Jan Velterop" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
*An:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Betreff:* New symbol to denote true open access (e.g. to scholarly
literature), analogous to the copyright symbol
May I propose a new Unicode symbol to denote true open access, for
instance applied to scholarly literature, in a similar way that © and
® denote copyright and registered trademarks respectively? The
proposed symbol is an encircled lower case letter a, in particular in
a font where the a has a 'tail', as in a font like Arial, for
instance, and not as in a font like Century Gothic.
A sketch of what I have in mind is here:
http://theparachute.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/proposed-open-access-symbol.html
The intended use would be for documents and images that have been
published with so-called BOAI-compliant open access
(http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read), meaning that all
reuse is permitted, with the only permissible condition that the
author(s) should be acknowledged (CC_BY licence:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This condition would
not be mandatory, and also public domain, CC-0 licences would be
denoted by the proposed symbol
(http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
I am seeking comments and support for this proposal.
Jan Velterop
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