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* in our society, there is no way to ''eliminate'' (the right to) commercial usage and profit (or otherwise cancel the power of money): they are granted automatically and cannot be destroyed, | * in our society, there is no way to ''eliminate'' (the right to) commercial usage and profit (or otherwise cancel the power of money): they are granted automatically and cannot be destroyed, so you can only fragment and distribute them as much as possible or needed; | ||
* there are also few legal and technical ways to ensure your work is "owned" forever by its scientific community (i.e. that it stays in the commons), while there are many ways it can become private property of someone to the exclusion of others. | * there are also few legal and technical ways to ensure your work is "owned" forever by its scientific community (i.e. that it stays in the commons), while there are many ways it can become private property of someone to the exclusion of others. | ||
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* If you run a journal, you don't know who could at some point use it commercially. Maybe it's nobody, not even you. Maybe it's a small set of authors. Maybe it's some entity out there. | * If you run a journal, you don't know who could at some point use it commercially. Maybe it's nobody, not even you. Maybe it's a small set of authors. Maybe it's some entity out there. | ||
* As long as no public commercial license exists, somebody can always buy out commercial rights from the authors: maybe some publisher or entity is already doing it secretly or surreptitiously, since [http://wiki.law.miami.edu/commons/ so many copyright contracts are secret]. Or at some point somebody will make an offer which can't be refused and will end up having more rights on the journal than you have. | * As long as no public commercial license exists, somebody can always buy out commercial rights from the authors: maybe some publisher or entity is already doing it secretly or surreptitiously, since [http://wiki.law.miami.edu/commons/ so many copyright contracts are secret]. Or at some point somebody will make an offer which can't be refused and will end up having more rights on the journal than you have. | ||
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Unfree licenses such as NC and ND (non-commercial and no-derivatives) alienate anyone who believes in free knowledge or open content: because they cannot know whether at some point the journal will become somebody's exclusive property, it makes no sense for well-meaning hackers and technologists to provide technical support. You wouldn't drop a gold bar at the front door of a billionaire's office hoping that a good person picks it up, would you? | Unfree licenses such as NC and ND (non-commercial and no-derivatives) alienate anyone who believes in free knowledge or open content: because they cannot know whether at some point the journal will become somebody's exclusive property, it makes no sense for well-meaning hackers and technologists to provide technical support. You wouldn't drop a gold bar at the front door of a billionaire's office hoping that a good person picks it up, would you? | ||
== Trademarks and other == | == Trademarks and other == | ||
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Some suggestions: | Some suggestions: | ||
* Follow the EFF advice on patents: [https://www.eff.org/reclaim-invention/pledge public interest patent pledge]. | * Follow the EFF advice on patents: [https://www.eff.org/reclaim-invention/pledge public interest patent pledge]. | ||
* Keep in mind that most journals have a generic name which cannot be trademarked [citation needed] | * Keep in mind that most journals have a generic name which cannot be trademarked [citation needed] | ||
* Ensure any logo or name is public property, or better nobody's property ([https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Logo#Proposal_and_withdrawal_of_trademark_protection example]). | * Ensure any logo or name is public property, or better nobody's property ([https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Logo#Proposal_and_withdrawal_of_trademark_protection example]). | ||
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* [https://wiki.code4lib.org/OSS_Directory Free/libre software] | * [https://wiki.code4lib.org/OSS_Directory Free/libre software] | ||
* Interoperability (e.g. [https://openarchives.org/ OAI and OAI-PMH standards]). | * Interoperability (e.g. [https://openarchives.org/ OAI and OAI-PMH standards]). | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
* [http://openscience.ens.fr/OPEN_ACCESS_MODELS/DIAMOND_OPEN_ACCESS/ Diamond OA] | * [http://openscience.ens.fr/OPEN_ACCESS_MODELS/DIAMOND_OPEN_ACCESS/ Diamond OA] | ||
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