Creative Commons Attribution License Question

Sigmascape1 at cs.com Sigmascape1 at cs.com
Wed Feb 16 13:48:18 EST 2005


Excellent. That is the answer I needed.

Thanks!

Mitch

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>Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:48:56 -0500
>From: Sigmascape1 at cs.com
>Subject: Re: Creative Commons Attribution License Question
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>Hi,
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>I realize now how I have confused my initial question. Basically, I wanted to know if a photo covered under the CC Attribution license could be re-package by anyone, and then sold as is? I don't want to restrict the distribution of the content, I just don't know if I want someone else (other than me) selling verbatim copies. I do want someone to be able to make commercial use of the media.
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>I apologize for my conflicting requests. Currently, I am just attempting to verfiy some important details before I begin distributing some material.
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>Thanks!!!
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>Mitch
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>>Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:15:42 +0100
>>From: "Branko Collin" <collin at xs4all.nl>
>>Subject: Re: Creative Commons Attribution License Question
>>To: Sigmascape1 at cs.com, Discussion on the Creative Commons license
>>    drafts  <cc-licenses at lists.ibiblio.org>
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>>On 15 Feb 2005, at 13:22, Sigmascape1 at cs.com wrote:
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>>> This license seems to provide quite a bit of protection from rampant
>>> commercial re-distribution.
>>
>>What do you mean by that? What is "rampant commercial re-
>>distribution"? What is the difference between "distribution" and "re-
>>distribution"? Who or what are "protected"? And do you want "rampant
>>commercial re-distribution" (previous sentences and e-mail implied
>>you do)?
>>
>>--
>>branko collin
>>collin at xs4all.nl
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>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:29:15 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Greg London" <email at greglondon.com>
>Subject: Re: Creative Commons Attribution License Question
>To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts"
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>Sigmascape1 at cs.com said:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I realize now how I have confused my initial question. Basically, I wanted to
>> know if a photo covered under the CC Attribution license could be re-package
>> by anyone, and then sold as is? I don't want to restrict the distribution of
>> the content, I just don't know if I want someone else (other than me) selling
>> verbatim copies. I do want someone to be able to make commercial use of the
>> media.
>
>Well, see, you have to decide which one you want, because
>"selling verbatim copies" is "commercial use of teh media",
>so you have mutually exclusive requirements.
>
>If you want to allow commercial use EXCEPT for verbatim distribution,
>then you're talking about one of the sampling licenses.
>Sampling allows commercial use of DERIVED works, but not the original.
>
>Sampling-plain does not allow any distibution of the original.
>(folks would have to come to you to get a copy)
>Sampling-Plus would allow NONCOMMERCIAL distribution of the original.
>
>If you want people to be able to share your pictures on a peer to peer
>network as long as they don't charge money, then you want to use sampling-plus.
>
>If you want people to come to you or your website to get the original
>then you're looking at sampling without teh -plus.
>
>Greg
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