September 30, 2025Open Access

A final example to show that misquotation is nothing to do with open licensing

MEMartin Paul EveUniversity College Dublin

Key Points

Misquotation is shown to occur regardless of a work's license status.
Legal redress remains available under a CC BY license, ensuring protection.
Importance of understanding the effects of open licensing on the accuracy of information.
Creative Commons licenses do not influence the truthfulness of statements made about works.

Abstract

In a previous piece(/2015/08/22/researchers-are-altering-their-methods-because-of-uncertainty-over-creative-commons-licenses/), I noted in defence of Creative Commons licenses that "Whether a work is openly licensed or not does not affect whether people can or will write things that are not true". In that piece, I focused on the fact that legal redress seems to remain available under a CC BY license.

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Martin Paul Eve (Sun,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68dc27558a7d58c25ebb3a02 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59348/1xz07-va638

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