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Monday, 2 February 2004
Creative Commons licensing ::
From a thread on kuro5shin.org, discussing the Creative Commons Open Content licenses:
The noncommercial license permits noncommercial distribution in any form. I want to reserve all printed distribution, commercial or otherwise. That is, if you want to copy the file and give it to your friend, fine; but if you print it out, you cannot even give it to anyone else. I realize that’s picking nits considering some people do print it out to give to their non-computer-savvy friends, but the idea is to emphasize that printing a gazillion copies and handing them out on the street corner isn’t okay, even though it’s noncommercial.
I replied:
I was with you at first but then I thought about it.
It’s a big leap from printing one copy for a friend to handing out hundreds on a street corner. Personally I’d be willing to tolerate people printing a few copies for friends (or burning a few music CD’s). Someone can always scan or photocopy your book. As for larger quantities, it’s going to cost someone some money to produce them. It seems pretty unlikely that they’d just give the copies away; they’d want to charge for their trouble—which would make it an unacceptable commercial use. OR—they could be someone with whom the author/artist might want to negotiate a fair commercial license.
Or, as someone else noted, you can always write your own license. I believe the CC license is itself CC-licensed (attribution only?)—so if I’m right, just add a few clauses. (How often do you hear about lawyers giving away their work?!)
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