Before this goes too far, let's establish that commercial re-use is possible and is used. Scholars may not be averse to it.
I have in mind monitoring organisations, which for a subscription, will survey the literature and provide subscribers with relevant data that they have culled. Think of newspaper cutting services and current awareness services which provide politicians and senior scholars with relevant data that they might have missed. Asking them to click on a download link is poor service, in this context. Another is Medifocus: attention to current info on your medical condition. Yes they don't yet seem to provide the full text, but they might. Moral rights are not affected, of course. None of these services pretends that it is their work. What they have done is to bring it to your attention to read. Then there is the second echelon of re-using parts of the publication, such as images, charts, tables, etc, and the whole field of data mining. If one puts together various studies can one come up with something bigger and new? For example a longitudinal study of tooth decay rates over centuries? Arthur Sale -----Original Message----- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 8:45 AM To: Marcin Wojnarski Cc: goal@eprints.org Subject: [GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price? On 2013-01-28, at 12:29 PM, Marcin Wojnarski wrote: "Commercial use" is a broad and vague term. For example, displaying a paper on a website together with advertisements - is this commercial use or not? I think most people hope for add-on services to flourish on top of CC-BY literature, they rather don't expect the papers to be directly re-sold. Question: are you saying that allowing any third party to make use of a scholar's work to advertise their own products and/or to sell their advertising services is one of the reasons people are advocating for CC-BY? If so, I would suggest that such a use is far more problematic than beneficial to scholarship, and I doubt very much that scholars who prefer to publish their work as open access are keen to permit such uses. Even if this were desirable, such a practice is also questionable with CC-BY, as this grants commercial rights but retains the author's moral rights. best, Heather Morrison _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
