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

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Sat May 5 04:55:20 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 23:45 -0700, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> The thing is that nobody really knows what commercial means, so using
> this license is barely more permissive than All Rights Reserved.  With
> an NC license a user is probably safe doing anything which is plainly
> fair use, such as making a copy for your grandmother, and anything
> else is back to the same old game of wondering whether the rights
> holders will exercise their discretion and sue.

Although it contains some truth I think the above exaggerates to the
brink of hyperbole, but permit me to have fun with it: What if you and
your grandmother work for the home-based (to make distinguishing between
business and private use harder) family business?  Answer: 
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2007-May/005689.html

:-)

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