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

Matthew J. Agnello matt.agnello at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 02:28:13 EST 2008


> If one has no qualms about gaming the system, and doing what the
> letter of the license allows, then yes, one can commercially sell
> material with an NC license, usign the guidelines provided on the
> Creative Commons Foundation website as their justification in adhering
> to the terms of the license,  with minimal legal consequences
> whatsoever.

If this could work, I assume it could only work through claiming some  
sort of ignorance, and that would be a failing of general copyright  
law and not CC.

// Matt


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Matt Agnello
http://www.hungryfilmmaker.com
< matt.agnello at gmail.com >



On Feb 8, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Andrew Rens wrote:

> If one has no qualms about gaming the system, and doing what the
> letter of the license allows, then yes, one can commercially sell
> material with an NC license, usign the guidelines provided on the
> Creative Commons Foundation website as their justification in adhering
> to the terms of the license,  with minimal legal consequences
> whatsoever.

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