Ad-based revenue of website containing cc material

evan at wikitravel.org evan at wikitravel.org
Tue Aug 10 16:36:33 EDT 2004


On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:00:49PM -0400, Haig Shahinian wrote:

> Since my
> income from this corp. would be a direct result of revenues earned
> through hosting and delivery of the cc-licensed content, could this be
> construed as infringement?  My guess is most probably.

The wording of the NonCommercial clause is this:

"You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in
any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial
advantage or private monetary compensation."

It seems pretty clear that ads are not allowed.

~ESP



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