How do #researchers and #scientists here feel about publishing their works under Creative Commons licenses? And if you already do, which #CreativeCommons license do you prefer?
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@academicchatter @minimammoth

In cases where I have control, I always choose to publish under CC BY 4.0

It is the most open #CreativeCommons license that still requires attribution/citation

(Eg. I used this for the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker dataset, when I was writing reports for a global commission on tech headed by Melinda Gates, and for the think tank reports I write on Australian policy)

@toby @academicchatter personally I love CC BY but I’ve seen people worry that because it allows derivatives and commercialisation, their words could be reproduced entirely out of context and/or be exploited commercially by someone else. It’s a legitimate worry, but I don’t think it’s actually a big problem.

@minimammoth @toby @academicchatter I published CC-By 4.0 and got ripped off, but Retraction Watch shows that even people in closed systems get plagiarized so I don't feel it's the licensing that's the issue. https://twitter.com/may_gun/status/1496201940056915981