[cc-community] Open Science Licenses allowing earning money by selling printed copies of works
Garo Garabedyan
garabedyan at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 10:22:58 EDT 2007
Open community and open science is the most interesting and dynamic
phenomenon of our information world. I believe that licenses licensing Open
* (whatever) works have to enable printing establishments to make copies of
the work and sold them. We all know that one paper copy is not free and when
one thing is on paper it is more easily manageable.
I hope that in the Open science licenses is able to be placed a formula
which calculates the maximum cost of one paper copy basing on the
information in the work by establishing some basic printing contracts (like
minimum words on page) . I hope this formula will encourage everyone to make
more copies of the work in order to reach low cost of a single copy and this
way popularize open science (community) and the science in its own. If it is
needed it can be prepared special licenses explaining the exact printing
scheme but still letting the work to be changed and updated in the manner of
open science (community). May be placing some special regulations which
tells where to be placed the name of the author and the license information
will be a good idea because we will know the type of the document, not just
every electronic one, but a paper copy.
I hope that when this happens in the licenses will be added even more
restrictions explaining how to manage the history of changes of the paper in
order it to look as a regular book. I believe that licenses will grow and
become even bigger than a common contract between an author(s) and a
publisher.
Garo Garabedyan
Sofia, Bulgaria
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