Am 13.03.13 18:21, schrieb Heather Morrison: > Try a Google search - for any terms. The results will not be limited to CC-BY > licensed works. Google does not require blanket commercial rights to index > and link. Google indexes a wide variety of works, in many countries, with > many different terms and conditions - even All Rights Reserved. again, muddled representation: I asked whether, legally, a NC-license *when present* would not impede a search engine (strictly seen). And please, let us ask a (team of) lawyer(s)!
> My CC-BY-NC-SA licensed blog is hosted and indexed by Google. Ads do not > appear on my blog, but this is because Google offers me the option of turning > on or leaving off Adsense. Indeed, Google has been accused by many parties not to respect copyright (think Google Books and, again, the German newspapers). It is not alone in this as Peter Murry Rust pointed out recently about the big science publishers (Springer in his case?) putting their copyright notice on his OA material. Google, Elsevier etc. can afford to risk the occasional appearance in court - while most of us, our institutions and small companies cannot. Hans _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
