[GOAL] Re: Hybrid Open Access

[Heather Morrison]

On 2013-12-18, at 3:42 AM, Graham Triggs <grahamtriggs at gmail.com<mailto:grahamtriggs at gmail.com>> wrote:


To re-iterate a previous discussion, an exclusive publishing license exists between the author and the publisher, and can not limit anyone downstream with what they can do according to the terms of the licence they have been granted. So anything that is CC-BY would allow full derivative and commercial use providing there is appropriate attribution. It's impossible for the exclusive license to limit that.

Comment

An exclusive publishing licensing between an author and a publisher could, depending on the terms, allow the publisher to decide to set and/or change the license terms. For example, if such a license were to say that the publisher would undertake to publish an article as CC-BY but says nothing about continuing to make the article available as CC-BY on an ongoing basis, then the publisher could meet the conditions by publishing the article as CC-BY, then removing the CC-BY version and replacing it with an article with a different license, even All Rights Reserved.

To understand what rights Elsevier is requesting from authors, it is necessary to view the Elsevier license. Earlier on this list I requested a copy of Elsevier's exclusive publishing license used when publishing article CC-BY. I am still waiting to see a copy of the license. If anyone has a sample, please share it on the list, or send to me privately. It would be most helpful if Elsevier would post the license on their website.

best,

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Dr. Heather Morrison
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University of Ottawa
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