[cc-community] [cc-licenses] Simplifying Licenses

jonathon jonathon.blake at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 01:07:02 EST 2009


On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 05:35, Ben Finney  wrote:
>> >        CC-BY-NC-SA is the necessary evil.  We should discourage it but allow
> Putting an NC clause on a work is restricting the freedom of these people, with no real benefit to the copyright holder since they're never going to see money for those uses anyway.

a)  Some people use the NC license, with the hope/expectation that
re-distribution of the work will be gratis to the recipient.    (And
yes, I am aware of how a company can sell NC material to generate a
net profit to that company, and remain within the letter of the
license.)


b) The NC license is the only one that enables as copyright holder to
collect royalty payments made to a collection society on their (the
copyright holder's) behalf. Depending upon jurisdiction, the copyright
holder might not have the right to prohibit the local collection
society from collecting royalties on their behalf;

jonathon


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