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<div>Thanks very much for sharing these notes and the blog post, Danny. A couple of comments:</div>
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<div>1. I think it’s interesting that plagiarism keeps being raised as a CC BY issue, since plagiarism is not a reuse issue but rather an attribution issue — it’s pretending that you wrote something someone else did. Those who raise it in the context of CC
BY probably don’t understand (or aren’t thinking clearly about) the very important difference between plagiarism and piracy.</div>
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<div>2. One issue that (as far as I can see from the notes) doesn’t seem to have gotten the attention it deserves is that of mandates. The pros and cons of CC BY are very important to understand and discuss, but so is the question of the degree to which adopting
CC BY for one’s work ought to be a condition of receiving research funding, or of graduation, or of employment. This latter issue is getting much less discussion, unfortunately, than the implications of CC BY itself. Speaking personally, I think CC BY is wonderful
and I’m very glad that it’s available as an option to authors. I’m much less comfortable with making it mandatory.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org">scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org</a>> on behalf of Danny Kingsley<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Organization: </span>University of Cambridge<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Danny Kingsley<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 5:11 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:lib-list@lists.cam.ac.uk">lib-list@lists.cam.ac.uk</a>", "<a href="mailto:lib-staff@lists.cam.ac.uk">lib-staff@lists.cam.ac.uk</a>", "<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>", "<a href="mailto:UKCORR-DISCUSSION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">UKCORR-DISCUSSION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a>",
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[SCHOLCOMM] BLOG: Is CC-BY really a problem or are we boxing shadows?<br>
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Dear all, <br>
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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.<br>
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Is CC-BY really a problem or are we boxing shadows? <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=555">
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=555</a><br>
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A taster: <br>
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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.</p>
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To try and determine whether this was an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>education and advocacy problem<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or if there are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>real issues<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>we
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.</p>
<span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">In
summary, the discussion indicated that CC-BY licences<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(20,
20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing:
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not</strong><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>encourage
plagiarism, or issues with commercialism within academia (although there is a broader ethical issue). However in some cases CC-BY licences<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(20,
20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing:
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">could</strong><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pose
problems for the moral integrity of the work and cause issues with translations. CC-BY licenses<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(20,
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create challenges</strong><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for
works containing sensitive information and for works containing third party copyright.</span><br>
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