[cc-community] Copyright enforcement and CC BY-NC licenses

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Tue Aug 5 19:34:38 EDT 2008


On Tuesday 05 August 2008 19:17:54 Lucas Gonze wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:38 PM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
>  > Sure, but only the NC option lets you collect royalties for
> >
> > usage "unde/withinr" the license, right?
>
> Paying royalties is a way to get a license.  If you need to pay
> royalties it's because you needed a license.  If your usage is within
> the NC terms, you don't need to pay royalties.

Yup, I think I was being a bit dense with that particular thinking.
>
> It's the same for both SA and NC.  Usage under the license doesn't
> require royalties, and usage outside the license does require some
> other kind of license like the webcasting compulsory.
>
> I don't mean to be splitting hairs.

No, please do if it means we get things right.

> I just don't want to let the idea 
> go unchallenged that SA makes royalties go away.

Well, right. Which makes me wonder when someone will step up with a cc+ game 
that takes SA works into account from the break (did I miss one or forget 
about one I saw already?) and when a collection society will figure out how 
to play the SA game or a SA friendly CS will arise. (Are there any now?)

all the best,

drew


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