[cc-licenses] Need clarification: What is "commercial"?

Audun Bergwitz bergwitz at gmail.com
Thu May 3 05:08:32 EDT 2007


On 5/3/07, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:
>
> The idea that money is evil.
>
> Some folks use NC because they want to release their
> works under a NC license and they don't want their
> work to get "dirtied" by money, or they don't want
> "the man" to get their work and make money off of it.
> There is no money that is "good" money, so it's all
> forbidden.


Seems to me that this problem has to solved on a case-by-case basis, which
means that a strict interpretation of NC is the best option, and then the
copyright holder could give case-by-case permissions to "good money". Which
is regular practice anyway, at least in my experience.

IMO I think Non-Profits should be excluded too, as there are a lot of
Non-Profits that I'd rather not support, and quite many that operate as
commercial entitites. IMO if they are willing to pay people to collect money
(trough telemarketing etc) I don't see why they shouldn't pay artists for
their work. If they want to use my work for free, it should be up to me
whether I support them or not. In economical terms, I could possibly get a
tax exemption for giving my work to a Non-Profit, but with NC I'd loose
that.

audun mb
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