Hi Anil, I'm sure it was an honest oversight -- but it is problematic for me when my name is associated with a text which does not carry a free cultural works approved license and I didn't give permission for this.
I would far rather they didn't use my forward (assuming they wanted to use an NC restriction.) and cleared this with me before the time -- I'm not chasing publications but care passionately about sharing knowledge freely. Unfortunately -- now its like trying to un-ring a bell ;-). I'm confident that we'll get this sorted with the publisher. Appreciate your note -- thanks. W On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:28 PM, aprasad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 < > [email protected]> 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 [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> > > > > -- > 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 [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > -- 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. 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