Graham, There is still disagreement as to the exact scope of CC-NC license. For example, a University which uses material in a MOOC for which it does not charge any fees isclearly NC. However, what about if they offer certification of completion for a fee (as some do). Does the profit/not-for-profit status of the institution (or the platform) make a difference? There is clear precedent in tax law, for example, of treating some activities of non-profit organisations as commercial activity (though in the US for 501(c)(3) organisations this is usually only applied to activities outside their core purpose). The claim that other scholars can use CC-NC licensed papers without inpinging on the license is not clear to me (my LLM dissertation was on copyright law,to demonstrate that I have some expertise in the area), particularly as it can include students paying fees, either for their course in general or even for a specific short course, plus academics engage in consultancy work as well, for which they may use academic papers.
The functional equivalent in computer software, licensing of e.g. compilers for educational use only - a common arrangement with universities - is clearly interpreted as meaning that students who use thecompiler to develop a project must purchase a commercial license for the compiler if they wish to distribute the resulting binary outside the requirements for their course. -- 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
