[cc-community] Assocation & advertisement

maiki maiki at interi.org
Thu Nov 29 02:34:23 EST 2007


I asked about licensing a wiki a little while ago, which is found in the 
archive at: 
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2007-October/002283.html

Terry Hancock drew out some good points, found as the reply at: 
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2007-October/002284.html

I ended up licensing the wiki as CC-BY-SA. I don't have a reason to keep 
others from using the content for "commercial purposes". I agree that NC 
is a red flag for contributors, who are essentially turning over their 
content to you, given the medium.

I would like to know more about your association, because I personally 
find it difficult to figure these issues out without context. It could 
be that you have some type of information that requires such 
"protection", but I can't think of anything off the top of my head.

So, I propose you provide some links to your organization's website. I 
would like to know more about what we are discussing.

maiki


Olivier Croquette wrote:
> 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
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