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Licensing

 * Open licenses are key to allow interaction between Open Access, Open Science and Open Educational Resources.
 * Here, Open signifies that reuse is allowed beyond mere access.


 * Many researchers, editors, educators and institutions struggle with the choice of the proper license, especially with respect to the non-commercial condition
 * Plagiarism is often discussed in terms of copyright violations. This is wrong. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg's dissertation would still be considered plagiarism if all his unreferenced sources would have been in the public domain. See Session 5 after the coffee break.



The term open access (OA) is defined in the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which essentially states that the most restrictive licensing scheme that would still be considered OA is what is now known as a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). By that definition, Wikimedia's Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC BY-SA) is not OA, and content from Wikimedia projects cannot be reused in BOAI-compliant publications. Reuse in the other direction, though, is possible and actually quite common. One way in which it can be highlighted is the Open Access File of the Day.


 * Licensing issues around the 2008 Olympic Games/ IOC objects to Creative Commons license / In current Signpost
 * Even clearly stated licensing conditions are widely ignored