On 01/28/2013 10:44 PM, Heather Morrison wrote: > 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?
I don't know exactly why people are advocating for CC-BY. Maybe they realize that every website and every service needs some source of funding to survive, so if scholars want new - and free - academic services to appear on the web, there must be a way for these services to make a living, and allowing them to sell adverts is one of the ways to support them and let them survive. But maybe scholars don't want new services at all. Maybe they are perfectly fine with what exists today: Elsevier, Springer and the rest of mafia? In such case, -NC doesn't hurt indeed. Best, Marcin -- Marcin Wojnarski, Founder and CEO, TunedIT http://tunedit.org http://www.facebook.com/TunedIT http://twitter.com/TunedIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinwojnarski TunedIT - Online Laboratory for Intelligent Algorithms _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
