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Re: New License language - what meaning?

Elsevier and its ScienceDirect agreement are the provider 
referred to here.  The change was made for tax reasons.  Believe 
it or not, some tax authorities take the view that a *license* 
implies that the licensee is being given a license to create new 
products or derivative products, and consequently they take the 
view that there are withholding and other taxes that must be 
taken out and paid.  Not sure the issue comes up significantly in 
the US, but it has come up frequently in Europe.

So, nothing malevolent.  Just trying to avoid anyone having to 
pay unnecessary taxes..

Karen Hunter
Senior Vice President
Global Academic and Customer Relations
Elsevier


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu <owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tue Jan 29 17:31:43 2008
Subject: New License language - what meaning?

Dear All:

One of our major providers/publishers for STM products sent me
the 2008 renewal License Agreement and I noticed that they
replaced the terms license, licensees, etc. with Subscription.
Subscribers, etc. Do you have any idea about this change in the
language used in the agreement?

Cheers,

Houeida Charara
Electronic Resources Librarian
Lebanese American University Libraries
P.O.Box 13-5053 - Chouran Beirut 1102 2801 Lebanon
Phone +961 1 786456 ext. 1817