On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 21:28 +0900, Andrew A. Adams wrote: > David Prosser wrote: > > Say I wanted to data mine 10,000 articles. I'm at a university, but I am c= > > o-funded by a pharmaceutical company and there is a possibility that the re= > > search that I'm doing may result in a new drug discovery, which that compan= > > y will want to take to market. The 10,000 articles are all 'open access', = > > but they are under CC-BY-NC-SA licenses. What mechanism is there by which = > > I can contact all 10,000 authors and gain permission for my research? > > > The intent of CC-NC is that one cannot take the original material, re-mix it > (or even just as-is) and sell the resulting new work. It does not mean that > the information it contains cannot be used in a commercial setting, but that > the expression it contains cannot be used in a commercial setting. A simple > example is that a CC-NC licensed book cannot be recorded as an audio play > which is then sold. If one makes an audio book it must be available for free. > However, copies of a CC-NC book can be distributed to students who are paying > for a course in English literature as one of the books studied.
I don't understand this concern about 'NC' (non-commercial). I understood that the "give-away open access literature" was given-away by authors precisely because the motivation for publishing publicly funded research is not for direct commercial gain. Instead, authors derive impact from others reading and citing their work. If a company were to create and sell an audio version of a research work then that increases the author's impact. That doesn't preclude someone else creating a "for-free" audio version, nor readers accessing the original self-archived or gold-OA text version. OA is not about anti-capitalism - if someone can take the "resource" (OA research literature), add value and re-sell it (with suitable attribution) then that can only be to the advantage of authors and readers. -- Tim Brody School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom Email: t...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 7698 [ Part 1.2, "This is a digitally signed message part" ] [ Application/PGP-SIGNATURE (Name: "signature.asc") 501 bytes. ] [ Unable to print this part. ] [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal