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. -- Professor Andrew A Adams aaa at 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/
