[Eril-l] Question about copyright on Institutional Repository documents

[Harper, Cynthia]

Hi - Maybe this is not the right forum, but maybe some of you will know.

When we started collecting agreements from thesis authors agreeing to put their theses online, I borrowed from various agreements, including Dukespace.  There's this phrase "[we] will make the submission available to the public using a Creative Commons Attribution / Non-commercial / No derivative works license accompanied by a copyright statement indicating the author's continuing rights."  That sounded good to me, but it took me a while to realize that wasn't EITHER a CC license OR a copyright statement.  I had some vague feeling that CC was more modern and supported sharing more than Copyright, but I didn't know how to support that argument to students who asked.  I'm now wondering if the reason to do both is because CC is an interntional license and US Copyright applies only in the US and nations that have agreed to abide by US copyright.

This is what I've been putting in the metadata:
"This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives-4.0 International License, (c) Copyright <author's name>, 2017."

And then there's the question of students who want to subsequently publish their content commercially.  Should I step back and just put simple copyright statements on these?

Cindy Harper
E-services and periodicals librarian
Virginia Theological Seminary
Bishop Payne Library, VTS Box 159
3737 Seminary Road
Alexandria VA 22304
charper at vts.edu<mailto:charper at vts.edu>
703-461-1794

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