[Taxacom] BHL and print on demand publishers

[Curtis Clark]

On 3/31/2012 1:34 AM, Roderic Page wrote:
> If you are reusing or repurposing content then licensing becomes a big deal.

It occurs to me reading your response that nomenclatural works don't 
really fit a lot of existing licensing models. Let's say that I wanted 
to aggregate protologues (I actually proposed, decades ago, an "Index 
Protologorum" for plant descriptions, using photographic techniques). On 
the one hand, a user wants the assurance that the original has not been 
modified; this would argue for a "no derivatives" license. On the other 
hand, I as the aggregator might not want the extra overhead of having to 
maintain entire monographic works just for access to the protologues 
they contain, and the people doing the original digitization can cover 
more ground if they are only digitizing the nomenclatural portions. It 
would be nice to have a license that explicitly allows verbatim 
excerpts--of course any author or publisher could write such a license, 
but one of the biggest advantages of Creative Commons, for example, is 
that someone with the appropriate skills has done the heavy lifting.

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