Tag Archives: creative commons

Beyond Property Rights: Thinking About Moral Definitions of Openness

Referring to the idea of Sunil Abraham, founder and executive director of the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) in India, David Eaves points out that the spectrum of openness actually extends well beyond the variants typically encountered in the West.
Conversations about open knowledge outside the supposedly settled lands of the 'rich' often stretch beyond permission-based 'fair use' and 'creative commons' approaches. There is a desire to explore potential moral rights to use 'content' in addition to just property rights that may be granted under statutes.

Open Access Subset

The PMC (PubMed Central) Open Access Subset is a relatively small part of the total collection of articles in PMC. Articles in the PMC Open Access Subset are still protected by copyright, but are made available under a Creative Commons or similar license that generally allows more liberal redistribution and reuse than a traditional copyrighted work. Please refer to the license statement in each article for specific terms of use. The license terms are not identical for all articles in this subset

CC Global Summit – Creative Commons – Buenos Aires August 2013

We are pleased to confirm that Professor Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and one of Creative Commons’ founders and current Board members, will be presenting a keynote at this year’s Summit. 
Registration for the Global Summit is officially open. You can find the registration form here. 
 We’d also like to remind you that the call for papers for the Summit closes this week. Have you papers in by 24 May.

Mendeley, Open Access, and the Altmetrics Revolution: Implications for Japanese Research

Keita Bando, Mendeley Advisor, Digital Repository Librarian Coordinator for Scholarly Communication, My Open Archive on open access, Mendeley and Altmetrics.
“With Japanese researchers, there’s a kind of resistance or barrier to using a creative commons license; particularly, people tend to have the attitude that the rights to a paper are the publisher’s concern, so they don’t think to actively go for a creative commons license themselves,” Mr. Bando states.

NPG expands Creative Commons Attribution license options

NPG expands Creative Commons Attribution license options

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today introduces the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license on its 19 NPG-owned academic journals. From December 2012, the CC BY license will be available to authors choosing open access publication options in these journals, in addition to the two non-commercial Creative Commons (CC) licenses currently on offer.

See also Ulrich Herb’s commentry in Telepolis (in German): Geschäftemachen à la Nature.