[cc-community] avoiding the CC licensing path by rights users

John Hendrik Weitzmann jhweitzmann at mx.uni-saarland.de
Wed Apr 16 15:46:05 EDT 2008


>> the assumption is accurate for almost all larger business bodies, I used
>> the word "usually", didn't suggest that it's going to stay this way for
>> all eternity and am not being purposely vague here in any way.
>>
> 
> I somehow feel that if someone licenses a BY-SA piece of work that gets 
> incorporated into some advert for megacorp, that megacorp isn't going to 
> be too worried about people redistributing their advert.

they _usually_ can't afford their brand names and logo get mingled up in
some CC-BY licensed adaptation and be changed, remixed with other stuff
a.s.o. beyond their control. only possible usage then is within megacorp
which is pretty useless, might leak etc. pp.


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