More on how commercial publishers use Non-Commercial licensing; Funders, are you really getting your money’s worth? many are not « petermr's blog

"I am going to bore some readers by jabbering on relentlessly about why publishers should not use CC-NC. But every time you switch off it costs the academic community another few hundred million dollars. That will be cut from your research grants. Because CC-NC is simply handing money and goods and control and restriction and monopoly to the commercial publishers...."