> I agree with Marc's comments but would add that authors need to know that > "use" includes commercial use (this includes for-sale and for-profit re-use), > and remix. > > Re-use doesn't mean the kind of re-uses we like, it just means re-use. It > might mean a serious scholar re-using part of our work in their own highly > prestigious work - or it could mean a for-profit company taking a picture of > a research subject and using it in an ad. That's another form of commercial > re-use and re-mix.
Actually, they couldn't _necessarily_ do so. The coyright in a particular picture is separate from the personal rights of the model depicted. There's a good discussion of the US law on this here: http://tinyurl.com/2awd4do (sorry for the tinyurl, but it's a long URL and my mailer would munge it. It's a lawyer's personal blog rising.blackstar.com) -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
