[cc-community] What does NC means?

Giorgos Cheliotis giorgos at smu.edu.sg
Tue Sep 18 15:44:54 EDT 2007


Three short answers, as it is very late on my timezone and I also don't want to spam the list too much...
 
1. BY-NC-ND allows for file-sharing, so BY-NC-ND does not equal (C)
2. CC users are supposed to read the deed, not the legal code - the deed should be enough
3. If the legal code and the deed are not 100% consistent this can be improved in future versions
 
Somehow I  feel like I am stating the obvious :) Maybe I am.
 
cheers
Giorgos

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From: cc-community-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of jonathon
Sent: Tue 9/18/2007 4:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [cc-community] What does NC means?



Giorgos wrote:

> If you are referring to the confusion that the definitions of some
> licenses can cause I understand this as a practical matter that one may

The confusion is that somebody says "creative common license".
Which license do they mean?
The one that permits you to do anything at all, or the one that
prohibits you from doing anything at all, or one of the licenses that
falls between those two extremes.

> BY-SA license instead of the BY-NC-ND they may be currently using,

Every time I've imed/talked/emailed somebody who used BY-NC-ND  it did
not accomplish what they thought it would accomplish.

I'm still waiting to find one instance of somebody who selected that
license because it accomplishes what they think it accomplishes.

> As these authors now identify with CC they may be more keen to listen to you and reconsider their sharing practices.

You assume that the people that use CC licenses understand the license
they selected.   If the license is the default selection on a blog,
wiki, or other user-contributed site, then the odds are that the
person not only does not understand the CC license, but has not read
the legal code. If it is not the default license then the odds are the
person has not looked at the legal code. They may have looked at the
human readable code.

>Plus, by adopting a CC license they have already made a small step in
the right direction.

Sorry, but BY-NC-ND is a step in the _wrong_ direction.  There is no
difference between BY-NC-ND, and "Your Rights Removed",

xan

jonathon
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