Re: Creative Commons: for authors who want to share

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

It would be very useful for Heather to share with this list the 
quantity and kind of subsidiary rights activity, commercial and 
noncommercial, that has been engendered by her work.

Joe Esposito

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Morrison" <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:36 PM
Subject: Creative Commons: for authors who want to share

> The question of the value of Creative Commons to the author has 
> come up in recent Liblicense discussions.
>
> As an author, I use Creative Commons licenses to let people 
> know that I wish to share my work, and under what Terms.  For 
> example, my scholarly blog, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic 
> Economics, has a Creative Commons license of 
> Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike. This lets people know 
> that I am happy to let others use my work and creative 
> derivatives (for example, translations), as long as I am given 
> credit, and they, too share their derivatives with others. 
> Anyone interested in commercial use of IJPE blogposts, should 
> get in touch with me.
>
> I can also use CC licenses to commit my work to the public 
> domain, or, if I create software, to designate such as open 
> source.
>
> There are a number of CC license options.  Any of these moves 
> us toward the libre (permissions) aspect of OA.  For the 
> definitions of gratis and libre open access (basically free to 
> read, free to re- use), see Peter Suber's article in the August 
> SPARC Open Access Newsletter, at: 
> http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/newsletter/08-02-08.htm#gratis- 
> libre
>
> To learn more about Creative Commons: 
> http://creativecommons.org/
>
> For the academic author for whom the broadest possible 
> dissemination of work is essential, CC-licensing is helpful, as 
> it provides advance permission to readers to further 
> disseminate /reuse the work, with appropriate attribution.
>
> Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author 
> alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC 
> Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library.
>
> Heather Morrison, MLIS
> The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com