[GOAL] BLOG: Is CC-BY really a problem or are we boxing shadows?

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting>

Dear all,

You might be interested in the outcomes of a roundtable discussion held 
at Cambridge University earlier this week on the topic of Creative 
Commons Attribution licences.

Is CC-BY really a problem or are we boxing shadows? 
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=555

A taster:
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Comments from researchers and colleagues have indicated some disquiet 
about the Creative Commons (CC-BY) licence in some areas of the academic 
community. However, in conversation with some legal people and 
contemporaries at other institutions one of the observations was that 
generally academics are not necessarily cognizant with what the licences 
offer and indeed what protections are available under regular copyright.

To try and determine whether this was aneducation and advocacy problemor 
if there arereal issueswe had a roundtable discussion on 29 February at 
Cambridge University attended by about 35 people who were a mixture of 
academics, administrators, publishers and legal practitioners.

In summary, the discussion indicated that CC-BY licences*do 
not*encourage plagiarism, or issues with commercialism within academia 
(although there is a broader ethical issue). However in some cases CC-BY 
licences*could*pose problems for the moral integrity of the work and 
cause issues with translations. CC-BY licenses*do create challenges*for 
works containing sensitive information and for works containing third 
party copyright.

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Thanks

Danny

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