[cc-community] Contradictory meanings of "non-commercial"?
rob at robmyers.org
rob at robmyers.org
Thu Feb 7 09:35:27 EST 2008
Quoting Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com>:
> 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.
NC is the solution, now what's the problem? ;-)
To put the issue in context; if a not-for-profit charity had made the
poster for use non-commercially the issue of personality rights would
still be the same regardless of NC.
- Rob.
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