[cc-community] The case for a stricter (or more honest) CC licence than BY-NC-ND
Dr. Peter Troxler (Waag Society)
peter at waag.org
Sun Jan 11 10:54:05 EST 2009
... there is a lot of quite intelligent discussion out there on the NC
issue, see for instance:
-- http://mollykleinman.com/2008/08/21/cc-howto-2-how-to-use-a-work-with-a-noncommercial-license/
-- http://digitaleccentric.blogspot.com/2008/11/creative-commons-non-commercial-use.html
-- http://www.kuro5hin.org/#
-- http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/12/08/in-defense-of-noncommercial/
-- http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-02-07-n77.html
-- http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/307
and ouf course we're all expecting the results of the CC survey on NC
and to add my 2p to Christoph Schiller's problem: he is essentially
using default copyright.
> Motion Mountain - The Adventure of Physics, 22nd edition, is an
> ebook in pdf format that is copyright © 2009 by Christoph Schiller
> and licensed under a [CC some rights reserved mark] Creative Commons
> Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Germany License,
> with the additional restriction that reproduction, distribution or
> use, in whole or in part, inany [sic!] product or service, be it
> commercial or not, is not allowed without the written consent of the
> copyright owner. On the other hand, this physics ebook in pdf format
> is free for everybody to store, read or print for personal use, and
> to distribute electronically, but only in unmodified form and at no
> charge.
this is not only slightly contradictory and apart from the allowed
electronic distribution I can see little difference to "all rights
reserved".
one could even argue, that Schiller's use of the CC mark and license
could be misleading -- "Modified versions of our licenses, however,
should not be labeled as ‘Creative Commons’ licenses." (http://creativecommons.org/policies
)
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