[cc-community] Contradictory meanings of "non-commercial"?

Evan Prodromou evan at prodromou.name
Wed Feb 6 22:22:23 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 22:22 +0100, Christoph Schiller wrote:
> On the summary page
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
> it says:
> "Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes."
> 
> But the full licence says:
> "You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3
> above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward
> commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. "

[...]

> What is the sense of this apparent contradiction?

First, this is a big, big issue for people using CC licenses, and I
don't think it's a decided thing, yet.

Second, I think it's less of a _contradiction_ than a _specification_.
The "license deed" gives a high-level gloss on the license, and the
legal text gives the exact meaning. I think the text you're quoting is
an attempt to render "noncommercial" into legal speak.

-Evan

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