[cc-licenses] Does this case falls under CC Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5?
Mia Garlick
mia at creativecommons.org
Thu Sep 7 12:26:38 EDT 2006
On Sep 7, 2006, at 9:22 AM, jblake at eskimo.com wrote:
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> One of the major problems with the CC-NC contract, is that there is no
> precise legal definition that is applicable across the board of "non
> commercial usage".
really? where is the second? i'm only aware of this one: http://
creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5752 (which is the same as that
which appears on the wiki: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/
NonCommercial_Guidelines)
> Compounding the issue is that there are two
> different guidelines of what "non commercial" means on the CC website.
> [One supersedes the other, but the old one does not point to the new
> one.] Scattered around the net, are at least half a dozen
> interpretations/understandings of what that contract means to the
> person
> who is using the licence.
>
> Given the extremely diverse interpretations of the CC-NC licence, it
> appears that nobody is clear on what it permits, and what it
> restricts.
>
> Note: I am not a lawyer.
>
> xan
>
> jonathon
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