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unjapanologist) wrote2011-06-17 08:49 pm
unjapanologist) wrote2011-06-17 08:49 pm
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[research] Public service announcement: license changed to allow commercial use of journal content
Quick public service announcement: the license for all content on this journal has changed to from CC-BY-NC to CC-BY. This is the same Creative Commons license as before, except that anything I post here can now be used for commercial purposes, so long as it's properly attributed to me. This license only affects things I say here, not any comments posted by people who are not me.
I decided to ditch the old no-commercial-use license because I've come to believe that throwing up roadblocks to any sort of re-use of my content, including commercial use, only prevents that content from being as free (in all meanings of the word) as scholarly content should be. Bethany Nowviskie has explained the reasoning behind this idea in more detail. Please have a look at her post, because I'm too tired and too busy to write my own long and thoughtful entry :)
I decided to ditch the old no-commercial-use license because I've come to believe that throwing up roadblocks to any sort of re-use of my content, including commercial use, only prevents that content from being as free (in all meanings of the word) as scholarly content should be. Bethany Nowviskie has explained the reasoning behind this idea in more detail. Please have a look at her post, because I'm too tired and too busy to write my own long and thoughtful entry :)