[cc-community] by-nc-sa 3.0 on a wiki with ads

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Fri Apr 4 14:21:06 EDT 2008


On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Andrew Ziem <ahz001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://howto.wired.com is a wiki with ads.  They use by-nc-sa 3.0.  I
> understand that they can display their own original content on such a site
> with ads without a problem, but when a third party, such as myself, makes an
> edit, does that not create a violation between the third-party contribution
> and Wired's ads?
>
> Here's another way to put it: this license does not require an extra clause
> that says, "We can commercialize your third-party contributions, but no one
> else can."
>
> I assume someone's legal department figured this out.  I am not claiming a
> violation, but I am curious how this works out.  :)

I suspect you are contributing under terms of
http://www.wired.com/services/useragreement/

They are then offering everything on the wiki under BY-NC-SA.

However, IANAL...

Mike


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