Apparently it is already in Unicode, as ⓐ (U+24D0) — from anonymous feedback.
No further need for a formal proposal. Jan Velterop On 21 Mar 2014, at 16:06, Asmus Freytag <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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]> >>> An: [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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Unicode mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Unicode mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >
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