[cc-community] confusing use of CC licenses?

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Tue Mar 10 11:10:52 EDT 2009


On Tuesday 10 March 2009 09:15:38 jonathon wrote:
> (The NC
> part was added, because the intent is for gratis distribution to the
> recipient.)

This thinking never quite works for me. What the NC says to me is that the 
person applying the license wants to profit from the work and so I generally 
don't touch it. I certainly will not be giving copies of it to anyone.

If I want people to get gratis copies of my work, I put on a BY-SA license and 
offer gratis copies.

If someone else manages to sell copies of that work to someone when their 
customer could have obtained it from me gratis, I will live with that. And I 
am not against artists/musicians making a living based in part on using my 
Free works. I want them to in fact.

How many of us go to kompoz.com, ccmixter.org, jamendo.com etc. and make CDs 
of the BY and BY-SA music there and sell copies? If is such a good business 
model, why are we not all raking in the dough?

That said, to each his own. There are people who are not going to promote NC 
works who will promote BY and BY-SA works though so using NC is a tradeoff 
that people doing so should be aware of.

all the best,

drew


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