[GOAL] Re: One way to expand the OA movement: be more inclusive

[Andrew A. Adams]

Heather Morrison wrote:
> Challenge: My research blog and data verses are both fully open with
> no CC license at all. They are All Rights Reserved, and yet posted
> on the web, in the case of the dataverse deliberately so that people
> can go ahead and download and manipulate the data.  I challenge
> anyone to go ahead and try some text and data mining. If you think
> there are legalities preventing you from doing this, please explain
> what they are.

> Blog:  sustainingknowledgecommons.org<http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org>
> OA APCs: http://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dvn/dv/oaapc/
 
> There probably are some barriers to text and data mining, however
> these have nothing to do with legalities. For example, this morning
> I was looking for Walt Crawford's comment on one of my posts. This
> didn't come up, but that's likely just because Wordpress is not set
> up to search comments.

Technical access is not the same as the legal right to access. Consider Aaron 
Shwartz' case.


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Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/