Re: Different kinds of Open Access

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <chief-exec@alpsp.org>]

Open Access isn't religion!  There isn't any particular 'right way';  the
various sets of 'principles beginning with B' don't have any objective
standing...

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@worldnet.att.net>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:15 AM
Subject: Different kinds of Open Access

> >The question I'm trying to answer for myself is whether publishing under
> >the OA model _does_ mean that an author must abdicate her copyright by,
> >in essence, transferring it to the whole world. I didn't think so, but
> >the Bethesda Principles do make such a renunciation explicit; an author
> >who publishes according to those principles retains none of the exclusive
> >rights that are integral to the concept of copyright.  (And make no
> >mistake, it is the exclusiveness of those rights, not just the rights
> >themselves, that makes copyright what it is.  If everyone in the world
> >has the right to copy and distribute my work, then to say that I retain
> >copyright in that work is meaningless.)  Obviously, the Bethesda
> >Principles are not the only OA protocol, though, so I guess the answer to
> >my original question is "it depends."  Maybe we don't need (and shouldn't
> >pursue) a single universal OA definition or model.
>
> JE:  Purists, of course, will settle for nothing less than the elimination
> of all exclusivity, with the important exception of crediting the author.
> In such a world, incentives to do something with all that OA content will
> diminish, if not disappear.  If all (and only) complete articles were OA,
> one could imagine someone creating new products based on compilations,
> distillations, etc. Eliminating capital from the entire scholarly
> publishing enterprise is likely to have unintended consequences that some
> OA advocates will not be thrilled about.
>
> Now, when do we *really* break away from the hardcopy mindset and get rid
> of the idea that authors must be cited?  That's the bugaboo that stands in
> the way of community-based content creation.
>
> Joe Esposito