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

[Downes, Stephen]

> The copyleft or "share-alike" principle does not prevent enclosing something in a paywall,

By this fact, it becomes clear that CC-BY-SA is not the "correct" license for academic work.

-- Stephen

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


Danny,

My opinion is that CC-BY-SA is the correct license for academic works. All the claims I have seen for people wanting to use "NC" terms (NC is a controversial element whose meaning is not properly clear) are generally fixed by using SA instead. The copyleft or "share-alike" principle does not prevent enclosing something in a paywall, but ddoes require that there are no restrictions placed on anyone who then does have access, and for anything reasonably deemed a derivative work, it means that it must also be a CC-BY-SA licensed work, which generally discourages exploitive terms since then any consortium can club together, purchase access and then re-distribute.

For a small class of works there is a justification for CC-BY-ND which prevents derivatives beyond fair use/fair dealing (which are the basis on which m,ost academic quoting works anyway under "all rights reserved" 
licenses) for material which is controversial or sensitive. However, these cases are rare and should be used very sparingly.


-- 
Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
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/


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