Hot Takes on the First Quarter of 21st Century Scholarly Publishing
Todd Carpenter looks back on the past quarter century of a digital revolution in scholarly publishing.
Revisiting: Years and Years of Creative Commons Confusion
Creative Commons licenses continue to confuse the communications community. Here we collect a decade-plus of articles looking to offer some clarity on their use.
Can a CC License Constrain Fair Use or Other Copyright Limitations or Exemptions?
Creative Commons (CC) licenses expand, not restrict, the permissible uses of copyrighted works.
Guest Post — Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals
In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.
Guest Post — The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train?
It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses significant risks for the research ecosystem.
Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?
The current uproar over artificial intelligence does not show us what the future of AI will look like, but rather how a human population falls into predictable patterns as it contemplates any new development: we are observing not AI but ourselves observing AI.
What Can I Do with This? Indicators of Usage Rights in the User Interface
Inconsistency in location/format of usage rights information and CC badges across formats and platforms makes it challenging to discover if/how articles can be reused. @lisalibrarian
GitHub is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative Commons Licensing
GitHub and Microsoft are being sued for using open source software without creator attribution in alleged violation of open licensing requirements. What implications does this have for the scholarly literature and Creative Commons licenses?
Copyright, Creative Commons, and Confusion
In this article, Robert Harington revisits the history of copyright, steering into Creative Commons Licensing, and weighs the value of protection and reuse in light of an inexorable push towards global openness.
Internal Contradictions with Open Access Books
Consolidation and concentration are inherent properties of media in a networked environment.
Book Review — “World Without Mind,” by Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer’s new book is a bracing account of the current information economy, the monopolies and motivations at its heart, and the weakening of democratized knowledge.
The Illicit Love Affair between Open Access and Traditional Publishing
At the recent PSP conference there was a panel on the cost of complying with the many new open access mandates from funding bodies. The panel explored the cost of compliance and how to reduce those costs. The current regulatory regime is complicated and administratively expensive, but the mandates will continue to be promulgated because the people calling for them are not the ones that have to implement them.
Getting Beyond "Post and Forget" Open Access
Even open access advocates should support the commercialization of materials that are OA, as such commercialization can lead to enhanced discovery of scientific materials.
More Creative Commons Confusion: When Does NC Really Mean "Non-Commercial"?
A recent non-controversy once again shows how much confusion exists around what exactly Creative Commons licenses actually mean.
Going APE — Thoughts and Insights with a European Perspective
The Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) meeting in Europe is 10 years old, but feels as fresh and frisky as some of the meetings in the US used to. This report touches on some of the most interesting threads of two days’ worth of interesting presentations and conversations.