Re: Library subs for works licensed under Creative Commons

[Karl Bridges <kbridges@uvm.edu>]

I guess the question I have about it -- and perhaps/probably I'm 
just ignorant about this but...the creative commons license 
allows for non-commercial use.

Since a university is a commercial enterprise -- at least in some 
sense -- it charges students fees in return for services -- could 
use in a university setting be considered "non-commercial"?

That probably accounts for the lack of definition regarding a 
subscription relationship.  It isn't a subscription relationship, 
a business relationship, as libraries commonly understand it, but 
a "use relationship".

A normal subscription establishes a set of relationships between 
TWO parties. Creative commons is a creator ceding his/her rights 
to some other party with whom they have NO relationship saying 
they have a right to USE the material, provided it is for 
non-commercial use, etc.

It's like me making a painting, giving it to you and saying "Do 
what you want with this. I'd prefer you didn't sell it on e-bay."

Probably someone else has a better explanation???

Karl Bridges