[cc-community] avoiding the CC licensing path by rights users
jonathon
jonathon.blake at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 00:18:47 EDT 2008
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Barbara Bowen wrote:
> I've read today's emails, but not all those in the archives.
Within six months, everything in the archives will be re-asked on the list.
> it's not for commercial purposes.
Define "for commercial purposes".
The odds are that your institution is precluded from using material
with a CC NonCommercial license, going by the Creative Commons
Guidelines.
> appears the CC License may simply be confusing, rather than facilitative,
Creative Commons offers roughly a dozen licenses. None of them can be
specified as "the CC License".
Assuming you meant CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0, then yes, it can be confusing,
because of the number of edge cases, and the lack of clear, clean
definitions.
> os sharing work via the web, are worth the potential confusion.
MIT released their course material under a NonCommercial CC License.
Several other institutions in America and Europe have since followed
suit.
Do note that Creative Commons and MIT have different interpretations
of what the NC license allows, and what it permits. The Dutch
Collecting Society has yet a third interpretation of what the NC
license permits. If you hunt for them, you can find at least a dozen
other interpretations of the CC-BY-NC license on the Internet.
xan
jonathon
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