Dear Gunter
Les makes a good point here. It is good that you are making such materials open and considering creative commons licences - the difficulties Charles raises of policing the use of such materials are true indeed - although that apples to the use of any licence.
However what you might be wanting to think about is how the use of such an open publishing model can benefit your institution. Many people and institutions are exploring this area - with mixed results - however if you can develop a strong rationale and ways of getting benefit from this (publicity, goodwill, selling extra services, satisfying political agendas from funding agencies, meeting institutiunional mission targets etc), then you might be more relaxed about publishing and only consider taking action in cases of extremis.
You can find a useful discussion of open business models and risk management in the outputs of the JISC TrusDR project at:
http://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/outputs.php
THis project looked at the legal aspects of digital repositories (especially teachng and learning materials)
In the main 'Development Pack' you check out Section 6 Risk Management where you will find a useful sub section in 6.4 called Linking Business Model to Risk Management this provides a useful 'short taster' although the whole section 6 is useful. After that you could read the following pack readings:
Reading 15 Getting to Grips with Risk management
Reading 16 Managing Risk and Opportunity in Creative Commons Enterprises
The last reading might be particularly useful to you in clarifying your business model. It is important for all of us contemplating open access and publishing models to be very clear about these matters - especially the basics ie what are we trying to do and why - and there is nothing wrong in seeking to benefit from an open model either - which may make it easer to 'sell' to management and funders.
Hope that helps
best wishes
John Casey
>>> Leslie Carr <[log in to unmask]> 11/05/07 6:29 PM >>>
On 5 Nov 2007, at 17:33, Günter Mühlberger wrote:
> Obviously our interest is that the produced images (and PDFs,
> eBooks, etc.) can be used by individual persons for free, but we
> want to avoid that commercial benefit is generated by third parties
> from our images.
> Any thoughts on this?
First of all, can you clarify why you want to avoid anyone trying to
charge for using your images? If the images are freely available from
you then they will have a pretty hard time trying to create a business
based on those free images.
But imagine that they do. Can you explain how that will negatively
affect you/your organisation?
--
Les
> Are there any standard models out there which cover this issue?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Guenter Muehlberger
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> Department for Digitisation and Digital Preservation
> University Innsbruck Library
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