“…In 2009, the estimate number of works with a Creative Commons licenses was 350 million [40]. However, this is a legal tool, not a law, and it is not always clear how to apply the licenses to specific situations and some argue it can be manipulated to clash with open access goals [41,42]. Therefore, as the LIS community endeavors to understand the issues, it follows that there would be an increase in the extent of articles about legal framework topics in the literature.…”