[cc-community] What does NC means?
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Fri Sep 21 04:11:40 EDT 2007
drew Roberts wrote:
> On Thursday 20 September 2007 04:13 pm, 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.
>
> Yes. A recommendation I usually is that the also pick one song and try BY-Sa
> on it to see what happens.
>
> And if they don't want to risk one of their originals to BY-SA, they can
> always cover someone else's BY-SA work.
>
> Perhaps others can make this suggestion to people you know.
Good point. One can even dip their toes in the water by licensing a
single source track or sample. (This is orthogonal to the debate about
which license they ought to be using.)
Mike
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