RE: Library subs for works licensed under Creative Commons

[Michael Carroll <Carroll@law.villanova.edu>]

Hi Ann,

Can you clarify what activities you would like to see specified 
in a further agreement?  The CC license you mention says that the 
copyright owner has given the general public, including the 
library, the right to make and distribute copies of the work so 
long as this is done for non-commercial purposes and not as part 
of a derivative work, and as long as the author's name is not 
removed or attribution is otherwise given to the author (or to 
whatever other party the licensor may have directed).

So nothing further need be specified with respect to access or 
archiving unless the library or other user wants to make a 
commercial use or a derivative work.  In those cases a further 
agreement concerning those uses would be necessary.  But that's 
because those uses are outside the CC license.

Best,
Mike


Michael W. Carroll
Visiting Professor of Law
American University, Washington College of Law
Washington, D.C. 20016

Research papers: http://law.bepress.com/michael_carroll/
http://ssrn.com/author=330326
blog: http://www.carrollogos.org/
See also www.creativecommons.org