This is presentation given at the 2014 SPARC Open Access meeting in Kansas City, MO on March 3, 2014. The presentation was given by Timothy Vollmer from Creative Commons as a part of a panel on policy & advocacy.
24. ● clarify legal right to reuse!
● enable customization, remix,
translation
● $$$ savings
● creators retain copyright
● entrepreneurial use
● compatibility with other OER
● standardization
● maximize potential impact of
funds
28. 10 year recommendations for
licensing and reuse:
● OA journals are always in a position to require
open licenses...CC BY is recommended;
● Policy makers in a position to direct deposits
under open licenses, preferably CC BY;
● Strategy!
○ Public access (free) better than toll access.
○ Open access (open licensing) is better than
simply public access.
○ CC BY or equivalent is better than [more]
restrictive open licenses.
41. ● clarify legal right to reuse!
● enable customization, remix,
translation
● $$$ savings
● creators retain copyright
● entrepreneurial use
● compatibility with other OER
● standardization
● maximize potential impact of
funds
50. ● Public access (free) better than toll
access.
● Open access (open licensing) is
better than public access.
● CC BY or equivalent is better than
more restrictive open licenses.
● OA Publishers show the way!
● Keep an eye on OER policy
52. Make connection between reuse rights and progress
● benefits to research and researchers
● how lack of OA impedes research
● increases the return on their investment in research
● amplifies the social and educational value of research
● costs can be recovered without (much) additional
investment
● consistent with copyright law everywhere in the world
● consistent with the highest standards of quality
57. Michael Carroll in PLOS: “...
the license applies only to
uses covered by copyright,
and copyright does not
regulate text mining - at least
in the United States.”
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001210
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.
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