[cc-community] digital vs. physical distribution rights
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Tue Jan 29 14:38:11 EST 2008
Ocetalo wrote:
> 1st. Choice: Allowing non commercial, free distribution of one's works
> to anybody in any medium, be it tangible or intangible, no author's
> permission required under certain conditions. That's a kind of
> distribution CC comprises as far as I've understood.
Yes that would be the NonCommercial license (NC).
> 2nd. Choice: Allowing non commercial, free distribution as long as one's
> works remain intangible, I mean, in digital formats. Printing,
> publishing, displaying or distributing on paper or any other tangible,
> non digital medium is not allowed without the author's express
> permission. Are there any Creative Commons licenses allowing to pick
> this choice?
The closest to this would be NoDerivatives (ND), but this would still
allow prints.
Both copyright and people's expectations of being able to use a work
they have in digital form don't differentiate between digital copies and
hard copies. Indeed the recording industries are more worried about the
former when they talk about copyright.
I am an artist and I provide digital versions of my work under a
ShareAlike license. I also once signed up to a service that sold prints,
and I think providing that kind of service is probably the best way of
getting paid for hardcopies, rather than trying to prevent anyone else
from making them. Someone who prints out a piece of art on their home
printer is unlikely to do that rather than pay a gallery for an oil
painting...
- Rob.
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