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

[Arthur Sale]

Before this goes too far, let's establish that commercial re-use is possible
and is used. Scholars may not be averse to it.

I have in mind monitoring organisations, which for a subscription, will
survey the literature and provide subscribers with relevant data that they
have culled. Think of newspaper cutting services and current awareness
services which provide politicians and senior scholars with relevant data
that they might have missed. Asking them to click on a download link is poor
service, in this context. Another is Medifocus: attention to current info on
your medical condition. Yes they don't yet seem to provide the full text,
but they might.

Moral rights are not affected, of course. None of these services pretends
that it is their work. What they have done is to bring it to your attention
to read.

Then there is the second echelon of re-using parts of the publication, such
as images, charts, tables, etc, and the whole field of data mining. If one
puts together various studies can one come up with something bigger and new?
For example a longitudinal study of tooth decay rates over centuries?

Arthur Sale

-----Original Message-----
From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Heather Morrison
Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 8:45 AM
To: Marcin Wojnarski
Cc: goal at eprints.org
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits
- or too high a price?

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



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