[cc-community] Copyrights
Andrew Rens
andrewrens at gmail.com
Tue May 6 03:36:07 EDT 2008
2008/5/6 Robert Atwood (lists) <lists at atwood.org.uk>:
> Andrew Rens wrote:
> ...
>
> > Self plagiarism is a deeply incoherent idea born from the deep anxieties
> > generated by Romantic author mythology.
> >
> > On a practical level if you quote your previous academic work in a new
> > academic work then you should
> > provide references as a courtesy to your readers.
>
> I'd put it a bit 'more' that courtesy to readers, in that not providing
> the reference woudl be unacceptable in a way that's beyond mere
> 'discourtesy' .
Robert, perhaps that is a cultural difference. In my culture courtesy is
taken
rather seriously.
I
> Of course if the works in question are not all single-author works, the
> discussion of whter it's 'self-plagarism' doesn't apply, of course you
> could plagarise your prior co-authors and they shoudl be rightly upset
> if you did so!
That assumes that the 'contribution' of each person is somehow a discrete
part
which can be identified as the contribution of that person which can or
should be identified
as that person's contributions. Most works of multiple authorship aren't
like that.
One is after all quoting oneself as well as others.
But of course if one makes out that one is the sole author of a particular
long
string of words that might amount to some kind of academic sin, whether
plagiarism or
not.
>
> But in the context of literary works the idea does seem rather absurd,
> and it is certainly more common for literary works to be single-author
> works.
Agreed
>
>
> But with academic journal artiles, you usually do not have much latitude
> for insisting on different licenses, most journals just require a
> copyright transfer and that's that.
Publish in an open access journal.
>
>
>
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