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

[Marcin Wojnarski]

On 01/28/2013 10:44 PM, Heather Morrison wrote:
> 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?

I don't know exactly why people are advocating for CC-BY. Maybe they 
realize that every website and every service needs some source of 
funding to survive, so if scholars want new - and free - academic 
services to appear on the web, there must be a way for these services to 
make a living, and allowing them to sell adverts is one of the ways to 
support them and let them survive.

But maybe scholars don't want new services at all. Maybe they are 
perfectly fine with what exists today: Elsevier, Springer and the rest 
of mafia? In such case, -NC doesn't hurt indeed.

Best,
Marcin

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