Licensing issues

Resources

Creative Commons
FSF

Concerns

• Authors need more guidance (on real and illusory problems), e.g. on licensing
• We need to minimize harm to authors, because there are risks in opening up research, even if it is for the public good

Unintended consequences of “open”:

• Predatory open-access journals

• For-profit republication of open access articles, (at least mostly) legal under CC BY terms (see CC licences).

• Open science needs specific goals like “all articles should be free to read”.