[cc-community] fan sites, fair use, and Harry Potter
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Sat Mar 1 13:48:56 EST 2008
drew Roberts wrote:
> This I don't follow. Putting NC on my work indicates that I probably want to
> make money from it. Certainly not that I don't want to.
Yes. NC says "don't you try to make money off this", not "I promise not
to try to make money off this". For proving that your intent is not
commercial, it is worse than just asserting fair use.
It might be argued that a large fan project, such as a wiki, might be
prevented from selling its work by the entanglement of NC into many
different revisions of the site, a wiki version of The Linux Kernel
Relicensing Problem. But this would underestimate fans quite
considerably. ;-)
- Rob.
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