[cc-community] Another person misunderstanding CC...

Greg London email at greglondon.com
Wed Feb 28 07:49:02 EST 2007


> *Steve O'Hear:* We retain full copyright. It's not Creative
> Commons. The problem with a CC license, is most people use the
> non-commercial one, which doesn't really help the next
> generation of filmmaker because even recouping costs is commercial.

> Is it me, or is he profoundly misunderstanding the principle of the
> Non-Commercial license here?

Maybe he's trying to say: "Most people use CC-NC, which doesn't
help downstream people  (next generation of filmaker) because
they can't sell derivatives that they create from CC-NC works".

That would at least make sense, linguistically and legally.
The only problem is that while this explains a problem with
CC-NC, it doesn't explain why he didn't use CC-SA or something
that did allow the next generation of filmmaker to sell derivs.

Someone in that interview didn't understand something.

Greg



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