[cc-community] Assocation & advertisement

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Thu Nov 29 07:36:29 EST 2007


On Thursday 29 November 2007 02:32:23 Gavin Baker wrote:
> Olivier,
>
> Content created by your association can be used by the association for
> commercial purposes (advertisements) with a non-commercial license. The
> license involves only the grant of rights to others; the creator holds
> all rights unless he transfers them. CC licenses are not a transfer of
> rights (an exclusive and irrevocable license), but a non-exclusive
> license. So you can use the NC license for your own content with no
> concerns.
>
> However, you can't use content licensed by others as non-commercial in a
> commercial situation. So if users are contributing to your wiki under NC
> terms, they have to grant you the right to make commercial use. For
> instance, the terms for the wiki might say "By contributing, you agree
> to license your contribution under CC BY-NC-SA and to grant a
> non-exclusive, irrevocable right for the association to use your
> contribution commercially."

Plus, they must not submit rheir NC works that make use of NC works by others.
>
> However, once you release any content to the public under BY-NC-SA, any
> derivatives must be similarly licensed. If you, in turn, wish to
> incorporate those derivatives into your work, you will only have the
> rights granted under the license -- you will not be able to make
> commercial use of the derivative.
>
> I am not a lawyer, and I will leave it to the others on the list to tell
> me if I'm wrong :)
>
> Regards,

all the best,

drew



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