User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/JATS-Con Impromptu 2013/Licensing

Truly open
Means free to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute, as laid out in the Budapest Open Access Initiative ("NC" and "ND" are not acceptable).

Examples

 * Good license tagging (example from the Tag Library documentation):
 * Everything inside the   wrapper
 * Has an unambiguous canonical Creative Commons URI in the @xlink:href attribute of the   element.
 *  is used for human-readable text.

...      This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


 * Problems in the wild:
 * Contradictions between human- and machine-readable (examples)
 * Human- and machine-readable version agree but contradict the journal's license statement (example)
 * License information outside the element (examples)
 * Contradictory URIs: mostly fixed by PMC (examples)
 * Missing license information altogether (examples)

Impact

 * PMC's search-by-license feature is crippled.
 * Makes re-use very difficult (OAMI is a good case-study)

Other license-related issues

 * How to tag articles that have different licenses for different parts, such as the article text vs. data? (F1000 Research example)
 * How to tag incremental licenses? (example, not machine readable)