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0 pointsres0nat0r13y ago0 comments

aXriv is funded by Cornell.

How will JSTO be a "good faith steward" if they give all of their content away and make it available for free? They have to pay their bills to maintain the infrastructure to support all of this and pay their employees to do so. Charging for article access is how this is accomplished and how the company behind this allows the service to continue. There is a lot more money behind the operation that just copying pdf's to an s3 bucket.

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politician13y ago· 2 in thread

There is a difference between public domain works, non-public-domain works, and value-added services. I've made this distinction clear in my arguments.

res0nat0rOP13y ago

My point: They have to charge what they do to continue doing what they do.

politician13y ago

We agree that to operate a business one needs revenues. We agree that sales of non-public-domain works and value-added services are appropriate avenues for improving revenues.

Where we differ in opinion seems to be that I do not believe that a company can take a public domain work, wave a magic terms of service, and then sell it back to the public.

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