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Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)Posted Aug 28, 2012 10:21 UTC (Tue) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848)In reply to: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org) by dcoutts Parent article: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)
> It'd be taking a paper, making some changes, adding a third author (so keeping attribution to the existing authors) and then republishing. It would be unclear who had done what. By contract with the normal academic approach of quoting and citing it's always very clear.
Academics don't work this way because copyright law forbids alternatives. I think social mores are important to consider. In academia just adding yourself as an author and republishing a modified essay without significant explanation would be frowned upon, regardless of whether it was technically allowed.
I'm sure many 'open access' journals have licenses that would technically allow this kind of practise, but the reason you haven't seen it happening are that they'd *damage* the reputation of the person, not enhance it.
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