[cc-community] Journal using Creative Commons

Jonathan Yapp jonathanyapp at vibrant-software.com
Thu Oct 26 19:54:52 EDT 2006


As far as I know there is no legal onus on the publisher to enforce CC  
licenses unless you made that agreement with your authors separately. 
(i'm NOT a lawyer, but i do publish a lot of CC media)

 > The 'Original Author' retains the copyright, whereas the journal is 
in essence only the first user.

this is correct in my understanding





Sebastian Garde wrote:
> Dear all,
>  
> We are investigating the use of one of the creative commons licenses 
> for our journal (electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI): 
> http://ejhi.net <http://ejhi.net/>)
>  
> A question that arises when choosing the right license is whether authors
> could expect the journal to enforce the license - which may require 
> legal efforts/costs on behalf of the journal in case of any infringements.
> Authors might expect that if it is our policy, we will inforce it to 
> protect their interests.
>  
> From reading the licenses, it is not clear to me if this is a possible 
> scenario from a legal point of view?
> The author of the paper is the 'Original Author', but the journal 
> would be the 'licensor'.
> The 'Original Author' retains the copyright, whereas the journal is in 
> essence only the first user.
>  
> Kind regards
> Sebastian
>  
> Dr Sebastian Garde
> Faculty of Business and Informatics, Central Queensland University
> Austin Centre for Applied Clinical Informatics
> Austin Health
> Heidelberg Vic 3084, Australia
>  
> s.garde at cqu.edu.au <mailto:s.garde at cqu.edu.au> Ph: +61 (0)3 9496 4040
> Fax: +61 (0)3 9496 4224  
> Skype: gardeseb
> http://healthinformatics.cqu.edu.au
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