[cc-community] What does NC means?
Fred Benenson
fred.benenson at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 17:00:30 EDT 2007
Moreover, nothing prevents an artist from re-licensing their work under a
less restrictive license in the future, if they so choose.
F
On 9/20/07, Jon Phillips <jon at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 16:13 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Rob Myers wrote:
> >
> > > Fred Benenson wrote:
> > >>
> > >> c) Thus far, the only scenario that has been presented, to
> justify
> > >> BY-NC-ND is a claim that it allows for legal file sharing.
> > >>
> > >> Is this not a valid justification for this license's existence?
> > >
> > > In a vacuum, yes. Compared to licenses that have even more positive
> > > effects, no.
> >
> > BY-NC-ND allows artists to learn about CC. A number of musicians I know
> > are experimenting with BY-NC-ND now. Sometimes it's best to start
> small.
> >
> > --g
>
> Completely agree. Past metrics research on cc licensing selection shows
> that initial selection of CC licenses is towards more restrictive
> (copyright) and then people start selecting more free/permissive CC
> licenses as experience grows...this is seen in overall distribution of
> license selection...ML can point to the research if needed...
>
> Thus, it makes sense to have a gateway into the larger freedom space...
>
> (Check the bottom of my email for disclaimer IANAL)
>
> Jon
>
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