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

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Thu Feb 7 09:43:07 EST 2008


Fred Beneson wrote:
> See the 76 ball case or the virgin case (where a NC license would have  
> saved everyone a lot of trouble) or the Dutch tabloid case involving  
> Adam Curry.

IMHO, those last two would be abuses of NC licensing (I don't know what
the "76 ball case" is). The problem wasn't "commercial use", it was use
of someone's likeness without permission. The CC licenses expressly do
not confer rights to likenesses, and so the users should've known they
didn't have those kinds of rights.

What would've "saved everyone a lot of trouble" would be standardized
publicity rights forms and (more visible) standard disclaimers for works
which have no such permissions (the Flickr CC search engine really ought
to have a tick box for "publicity rights granted (or unnecessary)" along
with "commercial use" and "copying").

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com



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