Dear Dr. Wayne, I can imagine how humiliating the situation to you. Hope the publishers will come out with an erratum.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Never a dull moment in the free culture world. Ordinarily -- I would not > post public notifications around potential misunderstandings or oversights > by a publisher. However, I find myself facing an ethical dilemma. > Particularly since today I'm been commenting considerably on my personal > ethics and views associated with the non-commercial restriction on our > national New Zealand MLE list. > > I was recently invited to write the forward for a new publication -- a book > of tweets on open text books. Great idea, very cool and appropriate for our > times. In response to the invite, my very first question was was: > > "More than happy to provide a "tweet" -- what license will you be > publishing the book under?" > > Response: > > "We will be doing this under Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike > license- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ > That is the current plan. Any interest in co-authoring?" > > My response: > > "I always check that anything I write is published under a free cultural > works approved license :-) I would love to co-author" > > So I do my bit, read the text, write a short forward and contribute a > tweet. I now see that the book has been published under a CC-BY-NC-SA > license -- which is very unfortunate, because I think its a great text and > it seems that there has been an oversight in attributing my contributions > under a license which meets the free cultural works definition which was a > condition of my contribution. (See: > http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/opentextbooktweet01.php). I've asked > the publishes to print and distribute an erratum indicating that my personal > contributions are licensed under CC-BY-SA on the basis of our original > agreement. I'm confident that they will do the right thing. > > When I submitted my tweet, I wrote: > > "This is licensed under CC-BY which will enable a derivative under > CC-BY-SA." I did this work during official time, and my employers IP policy > requires that I release my work under a default CC-BY license." > > If there were any communications from the publisher in the interim about > changing the license -- I missed these ;-(. Moreover, for the record, I > would not have agreed to having anything I write published under an NC > license. > > It's ironic that while the book carries a NC restriction -- the > international public can purchase the texts, hard copy or ebook for a listed > price of $19.95 or $14,95 and see that currently some discount applies. > > Anway -- this is a public announcement that my forward is licensed under a > CC-BY-SA license and my tweet - No 31 is openly licensed under a free > cultural works approved license (CC-BY) in this case. The publisher was free > to add an NC restriction on the tweet - -but has omitted to attribute the > source :-(. For the record, both versions of the texts I submitted are > licensed under a CC-BY license. You are free to take these texts, reuse > them, adapt them, modify them and if you like sell them :-) > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. > Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org/> > Director, International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Founder and elected Community Council Member, > Wikieducator<http://www.wikieducator.org%20/> > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
