Hi Esther
This is what our licences expert Katarzyna Biernacka said:
Of course it would be an option to include a CC-BY-NC license on that article in order to avoid those kinds of „predatory“ practices, but then you have to be aware of the consequences of it:
- non of your colleagues or a freelancer would be allowed to use your materials (e.g. the article) in a workshop where the participants have to pay for the participation (commercial workshop)
- you would not be allowed to put your material on website that provides advertisements (commercial use of the website)
- your article cannot be printed in a journal that provides advertisements
- e.g. General medical practitioners are therefore not allowed to use NC-licensed medical material without an individual agreement
- it means that a reader must still obtain your specific permission to adapt the work and/or use it for commercial purposes
The CC-BY-NC is a very restrictive license and therefore not used in terms of Open Science / Open Access.
You have the same situation with CC-BY-ND. You allow people to reuse your material but not to change it. This means that your article is not allowed to be translated; that your pictures can’t be scaled or cropped; that your spreadsheet cannot be merged with another spreadsheet to revise an algorithm; there cannot be parts taken out, e.g. just one slide of the whole presentation (as it already is a change). You allow just to use it as it is.
CC-BY-SA is still restrictive as it makes the re-user to use the same license. But this one, in contrast to the two other ones, is still seen as corresponding to the Open Science idealogy as you allow to do anything with your material as long as you’re cited and the re-user uses EXACTLY the same license (CC-BY-SA).
As an author of an article you have to decide what is most important to you. Do you want your research to be available and re-useble all over the world? Do you want to enable other researchers to work on your results and spreading the knowledge? Or do you want to keep your findings to yourself? However you decide, whatever license you choose (maybe except of CC0) you will be always cited as the author and get the credits.