[cc-community] Another person misunderstanding CC...
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Wed Feb 28 14:31:21 EST 2007
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 01:21 -0500, Fred Benenson wrote:
> Is it me, or is he profoundly misunderstanding the principle of the
> Non-Commercial license here? It would seem that the Non-Commercial
> license is exactly what his film makers would want; that is the
> ability to retain the exclusive right to profit from their work. He
> seems to be misinterpreting Non-Commercial to mean the inability to
> profit from one's own work.
He seems to be conflating his inability to incorporate others' NC
content in his film and actually licensing his film.
He's wrong to conflate the two and misleading in that although ~2/3 of
CC licensed content is under a license that includes NC, there's a huge
amount that doesn't.
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