Question on license options
Glenn Otis Brown
glenn at creativecommons.org
Tue Sep 17 23:11:31 EDT 2002
> It's not totally clear to me what the situation is if I want to
> license a
> work for free reproduction/distribution provided that the
> person/organisation reproducing the work does not profit from the
> reproduction/distribution, but also want to allow commercial use
> provided
> that I receive royalties from the commercial use. Is there a license
> combination that allows for this?
>
Good question, Mike. I'm cc-ing our public archived email list,
licenses at creativecommons.org, so that there is a record of this
question.
Our noncommercial option prevents licensees from making a profit off of
selling your work -- without first asking and striking a separate deal
with you. Say you put a photograph out under a noncommercial license.
Then say my for-profit magazine wanted to use it as a cover shot. We
would be required to strike a separate one-off deal with you to get
that permission. The structure is basically what you describe:
> In other words, if you aren't making any money out of it, distribute
> it all
> you like, but if you are, I want a share.
Note that exceptions to the noncommercial provision must be negotiated
between you and the would-be moneymaking licensee, ad hoc. It would be
mighty complicated to write a noncommercial provision that somehow made
such "payback when profit" an automatic feature of the CC license.
Hope this helps. Please remember to reply-to-all so this winds up back
on the licenses@ list.
Thanks,
Glenn
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