[GOAL] Call for applications - International Open Access Advisory Group

[Peter Murray-Rust]

A few more points about CCC.
* it is totally unregulated by external bodies.
* it takes 15% of income so it has an incentive to generate as much income
as possible
* it is a total monopoly - there is no other org that manages rights
* all the income goes to the publisher (and CCC). None to authors
* the restrictions on re-use are everywhere. Many publishers use CCC to
charge the actual authors for reusing their own work in books, teaching
etc.
* it is massively unjust to the Global South
* CC NC and CC ND licences are treated as effectively controlled by the
publisher. NC does NOT prevent the publisher contracting with the author so
the publisher has the sole right to charge for re-use. This mechanism
prevents competitors charging. NC and ND are a means of enforcing

The process is legal. I have my own views on the morality and ethics of
monopolistic charges which restrict re-use so lecturers and authors and
libraries are frightened to use the scholarly literature. And I remain to
be convinced that the Advisory Board is anything other than marketing.
But if you approve of the Robber-baron model of philanthropy - grow
massively rich by monopolistic rent-seeking and then become philanthropic
you may have a different view.




-- 
"I always retain copyright in my papers, and nothing in any contract I sign
with any publisher will override that fact. You should do the same".

Peter Murray-Rust
Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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