[cc-community] Non Commercial guidelines

Greg London teloscorbin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 2 20:42:09 EDT 2006


On 6/2/06, Philipp Lenssen <philipp.lenssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg writes
> > But as you explain it, the site is making money by
> > posting CC-NC music and getting hits on its banner ads.
>
>
> I think this is a complicated issue. Practically all sites have some
> sort of ads to cover server costs etc. Let's say I want to copy CC
> "non-commercial" content... do I have to change my template just to do
> that?
> And what if I don't know whether or not the banner ads do more than
> cover my server costs? In other words, what if I don't know in advance
> if I'll make more money than I'll spent? (E.g. I pay EUR 250/ month
> for my server.)

You should look at the site.
The guy is basically pointing out music he likes
and talking about the music or artist a little bit
in a blog format. Then he has a link to an mp3
that's on his site.

If he wanted to avoid potential infringement,
he could just as easily point to, say, a magnatune,
page that has the song, and let people listen to it
there.

Which would seem to be one of the main use
for CC-NC. Give out a free sample, then direct
people to your website to get some traffic and
potentially sell a CD or something.

Magnatune also has an exception to their CC-NC-SA
license in that they also allow commercial use under
some circumstances, as long as the total income for
a year is something like one-thousand dollars.
That would cover magnatune music, anyway.
I guess it qualifies as a dual or second license.
Even if CC-NC might not allow it, Magnatune music
allows you to make some money. Read Magnatune's
page before anyone goes and quotes me on their
rules though. I am not your lawyer.

The artist the guy talks about at the top of the blog
is Jag, an artist on magnatune. The others, I'm not
so sure about.


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