<div dir="ltr">Would really be worth calling them out on this. Perhaps they are just Innocent or perhaps trying to pull the wool?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 July 2014 13:01, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:advocacy_advisors-request@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">advocacy_advisors-request@lists.wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:27:18 -0700<br>
From: Luis Villa <<a href="mailto:lvilla@wikimedia.org">lvilla@wikimedia.org</a>><br>
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Hi, all-<br>
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An academic publishing group called STM (The International Association of<br>
Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers) has published some "open"<br>
licenses that, well, aren't really open. In my reading, they fail both the<br>
OKFN's open definition and <a href="http://freedomdefined.org" target="_blank">freedomdefined.org</a>'s definition, so would not be<br>
acceptable on Commons or other WMF projects.<br>
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Andrés Guadamuz has written about this more here:<br>
<a href="http://www.technollama.co.uk/academic-publishers-draft-and-release-their-own-open-access-licences#" target="_blank">http://www.technollama.co.uk/academic-publishers-draft-and-release-their-own-open-access-licences#</a><br>
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I'm considering drafting a WMF blog post on this issue, because of the<br>
potential for confusion and the limitations on reuse[1]. I've also been<br>
made aware of a potential letter on the subject from a variety of related<br>
organizations that we'll consider signing on to.<br>
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This is not advocacy per se, since it is a private group and not a<br>
government, but I wanted to give you all a heads up in case you were asked<br>
about it by publishers or other people in the open access movement.<br>
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Have a great weekend-<br>
Luis<br>
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[1] We have piles of materials from legitimately open-licensed journals,<br>
like PLOS:<br>
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_PLOS_journals" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_PLOS_journals</a><br>
(seriously,<br>
I spent minutes clicking around in there and never got past the letter A,<br>
alphabetically)<br>
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--<br>
Luis Villa<br>
Deputy General Counsel<br>
Wikimedia Foundation<br>
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