Curatio et Innovatio

TL;DR

This paper proposes a hybrid copyright model combining copyright and copyleft to enhance research dissemination, especially in mathematics and computer science, balancing author rights with open access.

Contribution

It introduces a novel strategy blending copyright and copyleft to improve research dissemination and facilitate scientific progress.

Findings

Potential for improved research dissemination

Facilitates evolution of problem descriptions

Balances author rights with open access

Abstract

The Middle Ages focused obsessively on the old; our era is totally absorbed with the new. In medio stat virtus. In this short note, I advocate a strategy that blends copyright and copyleft for disseminating research results in the sciences. I argue that such a blend may be beneficial in fields such as mathematics and computer science, that it may facilitate the evolution and emergence of improved problem descriptions, whilst at the same time preserving author's rights, and easing researchers' work.