egonw, 6 months ago

@OtwartaNauka I see regularly that the expensive publishers have a dual-license agreements. Your quote seems to hint at that: "non-exclusive license to publish". That is besides the CC-BY-NC-ND. That second license from the authors to the expensive publisher gives them extra permissions on top of the CC license. (IANAL)

OtwartaNauka, 6 months ago

@egonw Thank you prof. Willighagen! Is it correct understanding that there is a second license/permission for a publisher (i.e. as the © holder for a given journal) which allows adding OA content (restricted to non-commercial use) to its commercial activity? Or you mean sth different?

egonw, 6 months ago

@OtwartaNauka with my very limited legal knowledge, I think that's exactly what it is. There is on one hand the CC-BY license, and a second license specifically for the publishers.

But there is another popular alternative worse than this dual-licensing: you assign the copyright, the ownership for free 100% to the publisher, and they promise to make it available as CC-BY, with them as copyright holders.

OtwartaNauka, 6 months ago

@egonw Thank you for your explanation!