[cc-community] The case for a stricter (or more honest) CC licence than BY-NC-ND

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Sun Jan 11 15:09:17 EST 2009


On Sunday 11 January 2009 09:49:47 Rob Myers wrote:
> Christoph Schiller wrote:
> > I think that the BY-NC-ND licence has a problem: it is not
> > what is pretends to be. It has a crossed out dollar or euro sign in its
> > logo, but in fact it allows any amount of money to be made,
> > as long as money is not the "primary" aim.
> >
> > To be blunt, I think that in this specific case, CC is "cheating" on
> > its customers,
> > because most people rely on the crossed out dollar sign, but never
> > read the
> > licence text.
>
> Such a licence would make the work impossible to distibute, as the ISPs
> or copy shops that are used to copy the work for distribution will make
> money indirectly from doing so.
>
> CC aren't "cheating" here, they are being practical. Attempting to
> ensure that no money is made at any stage of distributing an NC-ND work
> is imposible.

Like a student learning from an NC textbook and then getting a job in the 
field... Can't be allowed to make money from the work of others like that 
now...

Nor the electricity company. Can't have that.
>
> IMO it's generally better to concentrate on making money oneself rather
> than concentrating on making sure nobody else makes money.
>
> - Rob.

drew


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