[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price?

[Heather Morrison]

On 2013-01-28, at 12:29 PM, Marcin Wojnarski wrote:

"Commercial use" is a broad and vague term. For example, displaying a paper on a website together with advertisements - is this commercial use or not? I think most people hope for add-on services to flourish on top of CC-BY literature, they rather don't expect the papers to be directly re-sold.

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?

If so, I would suggest that such a use is far more problematic than beneficial to scholarship, and I doubt very much that scholars who prefer to publish their work as open access are keen to permit such uses. Even if this were desirable, such a practice is also questionable with CC-BY, as this grants commercial rights but retains the author's moral rights.

best,

Heather Morrison