October 2, 2025Open Access

Is academic work commercial? How does this affect libre licensing?

MEMartin Paul EveUniversity College Dublin

Key Points

Defining academic work as commercial raises critical issues for the use of libre licensing.
The CC-BY-NC license enables non-commercial use while still facilitating redistribution and adaptation.
Open Access journals face complex challenges in adopting Creative Commons licenses while aiming to remove permission barriers.
Discussions around this topic highlight varying interpretations of what constitutes academic work.

Abstract

I've been engaged recently in a discussion on Twitter as to the appropriateness of Creative Commons licensing for Open Access journals wishing to remove permission barriers, ie. become "libre". It seems there is a real problem as to how to define academic work. My original instinct was to go with a CC-BY-NC license as this would allow redistribution, use etc. in a context that was non-commercial.

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Martin Paul Eve (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de70f583cbc991d0a23305 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59348/svb86-dn582

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