[cc-community] by-nc-sa 3.0 on a wiki with ads
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Fri Apr 4 16:12:37 EDT 2008
On Friday 04 April 2008 14:21:06 Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> 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...
I would have guessed that that is they would do. Not knowing about the
agreement. I still don't know what it says, but if they are doing it right,
they will have an out for themselves in there. Of course, I often see people
giving themselves "more of an out" in those agreements than is needed. They
are going beyond doing it right and into the realm of doing it wrong when
they go there in my opinion. (I have no idea what wired is doing. I hate
reading all these agreements that are everywhere.)
>
> Mike
all the best,
drew
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