[cc-licenses] TPM: please explicitly allow parallel distribution

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Tue Apr 10 09:35:34 EDT 2012


On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:55 PM, <pcreso at pcreso.com> wrote:

> - a book may be released under a CC-BY-NC licence, allowing individuals to
> download, but libraries charging for issuing the book are required to have
> a commercial licence.
>

I don't know about other jurisdictions, but not in the US.  Libraries don't
need permission of the author to lend books.  To put it another way, the
author of a book can't stop libraries from lending out their book (whether
they charge a fee or not).
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