Educational use, see GSU case and "Open Education" movement
Open Content projects (e.g. Wikimedia projects)
Re-Use of heritage items and scholarly
photographs/illustrations: not possible if CC-NC and publication in commercial journal
More chance for impact if commercial use
Translations
Wiki-re-use of materials
Orphans
Mirroring in repositories - LOCKSS principle
We need more remix experiments
Summary: CC-BY as default license.
Comment. Klaus is right and I've often made my own similar lists. Here's one from my interview with Richard Poynder (October 2007, p. 37-39):
...[T]here are good reasons to exceed fair use [and therefore to remove permission barriers], for example, to quote long excerpts, print full-text copies, email copies to students or colleagues, burn copies on CDs for bandwidth-poor parts of the world, distribute semantically-tagged or otherwise enhanced versions of a text, migrate copies to new formats or media to keep a text readable as technologies change, archive copies for preservation, include the work in a database or mashup, copy the text for indexing, text-mining, or other kinds of processing, make an audio recording of the text, or translate it into another language....
We're already well into the era in which all serious research is mediated by sophisticated software....Over time, we'll rely more and more on tools for crunching or reusing digital texts — for searching, mining, summarising, translating, querying, linking, recommending, alerting, and other kinds of processing. An important purpose of open access is to facilitate this future and give these tools the widest possible scope of operation....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/16/2008 05:04:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
