[cc-community] Assocation & advertisement

Olivier Croquette ocroquette at free.fr
Thu Nov 29 02:05:55 EST 2007


Hi all

We are an "official" association in our country, which means that our 
activity must not serve the private interest of the participants. All 
earnings must be invested again with respect to the official goal of the 
assocation.

We want to have a Wiki, and are considering the CC for the content. 
However, on our current site, we have some ads (banners) for partners 
already. Like stated above, all earnings are used for the association 
and its goals, typically paying the servers and the bandwidth.

My question is: is that considered a commercial use, and prohibited by a 
license like http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ ?

On the other hand, we don't want to choose a license which allows 
commercial use, because we want to protect ourselves and our 
contributors from seeing the works used for commercial purposes by a 
third party.

We are considering a double license between the authors and the assocation:
- a normal CC, non commercial
- another one which allows specifically the association to use the work 
in conjunction with ads, with the conditions that the earnings go to the 
association
The works would be published with the CC, but any change would have to 
be published under both.

Is that possible? a good idea?
I can imagine that other people out there have the same kind of 
situation. What solution did they find?

Thanks for your help

Best regards

Olivier


More information about the cc-community mailing list