[cc-community] selling CC-BY-NC-ND

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Sat Apr 26 14:51:01 EDT 2008


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Fred Benenson <fred.benenson at gmail.com> wrote:
[jonathan wrote]
> > However, if you are copyright owner, what rights do you think that
> > CC-BY-NC-ND protects?  Or rather, why not use _All Rights Reserved_,
> > since that allows users to do more with your work than BY-NC-ND does?
>
> What makes you say this?

Indeed. The statement is absolutely wrong. No CC license adds
restrictions to the default of "all rights reserved".

One might argume that BY-NC-ND doesn't allow users to do much more
than the default (and I personally am pretty unexcited when a work is
released under BY-NC-ND), but in a world where people are getting sued
for noncommercial verbatim distribution it is hard to argue that users
don't get anything out of it.  And as above, they don't lose anything
vs. the default.

Mike


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