creative commons licencing

[Brian Simboli <brs4@lehigh.edu>]

Richard Poynder has a nice overview article about copyright issues in 
relation to the Creative Commons at:
_http://poynder.blogspot.com/2005/03/open-wars.html_

A few questions.

Richard mentions that "since publishers routinely acquire the copyright in
papers they publish self-archiving authors will not be able to archive
them using a CC licence. As such, the papers will not be visible to the
new Yahoo service".

Do most or all publisher licensing agreements that permit self-archiving
explicitly or tacitly forbid use of CC licences (or the rights that
normally accompany such licences) by authors doing the self-archiving?

Regardless whether or not they do, it is not clear to me why these
agreements must. Richard mentions that there are 11 CC licences. With so
much variety available, might publishers permit self-archiving that
confers some minimal level of rights to authors?

And this might be a good thing.  I am not a proponent of self-archiving
(see comments at
http://www.lehigh.edu/library/guides/overlayjournals.html)  
"double-publishing", but one can see how a push by authors for maximal
rights within the self-archiving sphere might help to accelerate the
transition to more robust models of open access publishing.

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