Why not using one license (say CC0) as default while offering the option for a second one (say CC-BY-SA)? On 19 August 2017 at 18:51, maxigas <[email protected]> wrote:
Andreas Wittel <[email protected]> writes:
I am not an expert on copyright, but feel strongly about some implications of what we are discussing. To outline briefly my politics: As a Marxist, I am all for open access, but find some of the free culture positions rather problematic, particularly those ones that are rooted in liberal theory (Stallman, Lessig, Benkler etc).
One of these positions is the idea that academic should not only make available their work for free, but also make it available in a format does not respect authors rights in that it does not care about attribution. In a neoliberal climate that massively devalues academic labour it is not a wise strategy to devalue academic labour even further and to do so voluntarily. Therefore I do not support copyright politics, that contribute to new levels of proletaristion of academic labour.
But this is not just about politics, it also about the future orientation of this journal. I would be very hesitant to publish in a journal that invites and encourages the use of my labour without appropriation. And I have a feeling I am not the only academic with such a view. So to go for PD, and for that matter for CC0 has imho the long-term effect that academics will stay away from JOPP and that the reputation of JOPP as a journal with high-quality academic rigour could seriously suffer.
My preference would be CC-BY-SA
Heh, I would argue for CC0 for similar reasons that Andreas argues for CC-BY-SA. I don't think academics today have to (or empirical are) relying on the copyright regime to enforce attribution (BY) or the misrepresentation of their work (SA) -- these are tools that publishers use to extort money from academics and other consumers. Academics have their own culture, ethics and even legal regulations to address problems of non-attribution (e.g. plagiarism) and misrepresentation (for instance straw man arguments), and these should be adequate to address the matter. I would use CC0 simply to ensure that the journal content is available to readers without relying on the copyright regime as little as possible. To summarise: I argue that respect for and enforcement of IP rights contributes to the proletarisation of academic labour much more than defends against it. Therefore, we should dismantle it.
I also agree with Stefan Meretz that our PD/CC0 policy is one of the things that sets JoPP apart from other open access journals, which buy into the more restrictive and more pro-IP regimes offered by Creative Commons. So far I was very happy to explore an alternative path based on trying to have as less restrictions as legally possible. As Zack mentions, there are already plenty of other journals who are working with more restrictive licences.
Parts of my articles have been cut up and published in fanzines, mostly with attribution as a courtesy, but sometimes without. Sometimes fanzines are sold for a price and profits go to the publisher. Do I mind? No, my livelyhood is not dependent on how many people credit me, except citations in academic publications, which are, again, governed by scientific norms and not IP law. What I care about is that the material is available for read and reuse.
I think the subtle shift from an informal PD dedication to the formal application of CC0 would be sufficient to clarify the questions about author rights that are necessary for JoPP to be listed as Open Access. I prefer this solution, rather than imposing more terms for conformity's sake, or in hopes that the IP regime would serve the interest of authors. Sorry to chime in late too, and make the discussion more difficult.
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