[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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