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<div>Hi Bernhardt,</div>
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<div>My understanding is that compliance with the NC restriction is (1) not clearly defined and (2) does more than restrict someone from profiting from sharing a file on a commercial platform.</div>
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<div>From <a href="http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/2013/06/13/cc-by-what-does-it-mean-for-scholarly-articles-3/">http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/2013/06/13/cc-by-what-does-it-mean-for-scholarly-articles-3/</a>:</div>
<div>"<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When choosing a CC BY-NC licence you might think that you only prevent use within the for-profit sector. This is not entirely true: you may actually prevent use within the public and non-profit sectors
as well (Friesen 2013, p. 83). For example, CC BY-NC prohibits someone from using a figure or table from your paper on any website (even a scholarly blog) that carries advertisements. Since the definition of non-commercial is ambiguous, the CC BY-NC licence
can therefore lead to confusion."</span></div>
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<div>Perhaps Elsevier is trying to clear up some of that confusion through a policy that may be more restrictive than what is legally permissible. </div>
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<div>Paige Mann</div>
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<div>University of Redlands</div>
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<div><span>Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 11:24:36 +0000</span><br>
<span>From: "Mittermaier, Bernhard" <<a href="mailto:b.mittermaier@fz-juelich.de">b.mittermaier@fz-juelich.de</a>></span><br>
<span>Subject: [GOAL] Elsevier's interpretation of CC BY-NC-ND</span><br>
<span>To: "<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>></span><br>
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<span>Dear colleagues,</span><br>
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<span>on sharing in file-sharing networks, Creatice Commons explain: </span><br>
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<span>?Can I share CC-licensed material on file-sharing networks?</span><br>
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<span>Yes. All CC licenses allow redistribution of the unmodified material by any</span><br>
<span>means, including distribution via file-sharing networks. Note that</span><br>
<span>file-trading is expressly considered to be noncommercial for purposes of</span><br>
<span>compliance with the NC licenses. Barter of NC-licensed material for other</span><br>
<span>items of value is not permitted.?</span><br>
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<span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-share-cc-licensed-material-on-file-sh">https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-share-cc-licensed-material-on-file-sh</a></span><br>
<span>aring-networks </span><br>
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<span>The ?Elsevier Sharing Rules? say</span><br>
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<span>?CC-BY-NC-ND licensed articles may be shared on non-commercial platforms</span><br>
<span>only.?</span><br>
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<span><a href="http://help.sciencedirect.com/flare/sdhelp_Left.htm#CSHID=password.htm|Start">http://help.sciencedirect.com/flare/sdhelp_Left.htm#CSHID=password.htm|Start</a></span><br>
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<span>and again in the table at the bottom of that webpage: ?Public posting on</span><br>
<span>commercial platforms (e.g., <a href="http://www.researchgate.net">www.researchgate.net</a>,
<a href="http://www.academia.edu">www.academia.edu</a></span><br>
<span><<a href="http://www.academia.edu">http://www.academia.edu</a>> )? :not allowed</span><br>
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<span>I?ve been asking Alicia Wise, on what grounds why Elsevier takes that</span><br>
<span>position. She replied: </span><br>
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<span>?Both ResearchGate & <a href="http://academia.edu">academia.edu</a> use content commercially to sell</span><br>
<span>advertising & services around the content they disseminate? and ?Both</span><br>
<span>ResearchGate & <<a href="https://t.co/IQgdiiCF1s">https://t.co/IQgdiiCF1s</a>>
<a href="http://academia.edu">academia.edu</a> are problems in</span><br>
<span>Germany as they go beyond private use to make NC content publicly available?</span><br>
<span>( <<a href="https://twitter.com/wisealic/status/874284792275140609">https://twitter.com/wisealic/status/874284792275140609</a>></span><br>
<span><a href="https://twitter.com/wisealic/status/874284792275140609">https://twitter.com/wisealic/status/874284792275140609</a> and</span><br>
<span><a href="https://twitter.com/wisealic/status/874284916644696066">https://twitter.com/wisealic/status/874284916644696066</a> )</span><br>
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<span>My interpretation of the CC licence is that sharing of CC BY-NC-ND article</span><br>
<span>by commercial platforms is OK as long as they don?t sell the articles (which</span><br>
<span>they don?t do). </span><br>
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<span>But apart from that - what authors are doing is IMHO definitely not</span><br>
<span>prohibited because they have no commercial gain whatsoever.</span><br>
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<span>What do you think?</span><br>
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<span>Kind regards</span><br>
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<span>Bernhard</span><br>
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