[cc-education] Doubts about noncommercial rights

stefania at softhome.net stefania at softhome.net
Thu Apr 22 05:50:01 EDT 2004


Hi All there, 

I have a few questions related to the creative commons licence when 
associated with noncommercial rights. 

Here, I list some cases related to an ebook with cc licence. I assume I can 
derivate the sample ebook and cannot make commercial use of 
copies/derivates. 

Case 1) I am a webmaster. I link an ebook with cc licence on my site and I 
advertise the newly added link in my newsletter and in some newsgroups. All 
this increases the visitors to my site, of course and, as a consequence, I 
gain more money from my banner advertiser on that page. 

Case 2) I run a typhography. A customer asks me to photocopy a book derived 
from the sample ebook. I let the customer pay a small sum. 

Case 3) I run a typhography. A customer gives me a floppy and asks me to 
print the PDF-ebook. Printing will be charged to the customer. 

Case 4) I run a typhography and I work with schools. A teacher asks me to 
print 50 copies of the ebook for his/her students. Printing will be charged 
to the school. 

Case 4) I run a typhography. I notify several schools (or other target 
groups) about the existance of the ebook whose subject could interest them. 
Some of them are interested and accept me to print the ebook. Printing will 
be charged to the school. 

Do I violate the noncommercial attribute of the cc licence in any of the 
previous cases? 

I have not found the answers to these questions on the site, but I cannot 
exclude that somewhere that page could exist. 

Thanks for your feedback.
Best regards,
Stefania 



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