{"id":120,"date":"2008-05-06T00:18:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T00:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/06\/a_new_paradigm\/"},"modified":"2008-05-06T00:18:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T00:18:31","slug":"a_new_paradigm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/06\/a_new_paradigm\/","title":{"rendered":"A new paradigm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that is bound to put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felixthecat.com\/\">Felix<\/a> among the _&#8221;Columbidae&#8221;:http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/wildlife\/birdguide\/name\/w\/woodpigeon\/index.asp _ the <em>Journal of Cell Biology<\/em> has come up with an interesting way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcb.org\/misc\/terms.shtml\">licensing<\/a> its content.<\/p>\n<p>\nEmma Hill and Mike Rossner take us on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcb.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/181\/3\/405\">journey<\/a> that begins in 1787 and ends with the rather extraordinary statement (from a major scientific journal, at least) that they have <em>now decided to return copyright to our authors<\/em>, in return for the authors (that is, those of us who manage to publish in <em>JCB<\/em>) making the work available to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn other words, article authors \u2014 scientists like you and me \u2014 grant <em>JCB<\/em> a licence to publish their work for six months.<\/p>\n<p>\nThere is a lot to think about in here, and I encourage you to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcb.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/181\/3\/405\">entire statement<\/a> .  There is the thesis that six months is the monetary lifetime of a paper.  There is the possibility that real data-mining will be made possible, a move that should make the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk\/blogs\/murrayrust\/\">Peter Murray-Rust<\/a> very happy (although the matter of format now becomes more pressing). <\/p>\n<p>\nThere is the intriguing thought that what appears to be a reclamation of the original premise of copyright might jump across to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danablankenhorn.com\/2006\/07\/the_purpose_of_.html\">patents<\/a> .  Now that would be exciting, and good for science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that is bound to put Felix among the _&#8221;Columbidae&#8221;:http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/wildlife\/birdguide\/name\/w\/woodpigeon\/index.asp _ the Journal of Cell Biology has come up with an interesting way of licensing its content. Emma Hill and Mike Rossner take us on a journey that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/06\/a_new_paradigm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}