Comment on Low-Quality Scholarly Publishers Don’t Understand Copyright by Charles Oppenheim

When one owns copyright, one has a “bundle of rights”. These include: the right to be identified as the author; the right to refuse permission to copy the work; the right to refuse permission to adapt the work; and so on. By granting a CC licence, the owner has given up most of those rights, e.g., the right to refuse permission to copy, but has retained one, i.e., the right to be identified as the author. Therefore, “All rights reserved” and a CC licence on the same object are fundamentally incompatible, as Jeffrey rightly pointed out. The correct term to use in conjunction with a CC licence is “Some rights reserved”, or, to be really pedantic in the case of CC BY, “One right reserved”!