MLibrary adopts new Creative Commons license

"The [U of Michigan] Library has adopted a new Creative Commons license for its website content. This new license, Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY), allows others to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt MLibrary website content as long as they attribute the library, but not in any way that suggests that MLibrary endorses users or their use of the work. MLibrary’s first Creative Commons license, adopted in 2008, was a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC-BY-NC) license, which barred any commercial use or repurposing of its Web content. Two years later, MLibrary began to reconsider this commercial restriction....Mike Linksvayer, vice president of Creative Commons, believes MLibrary to be the first major research library to adopt the CC-BY license...."