Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

>>>>> "NW" == Neil Wehneman <neil AT wehneman.com> writes:

    NW> Greetings All, I recently placed all of my writing (plug:
    NW> www.fallinggrace.com) under a CC license, specifically
    NW> NonCommercial-Attribution.

    NW> What I would like to do is basically offer two licenses: the
    NW> NonCommercial-Attribution license and a license that allows
    NW> Commercial use and derivatives.

    NW> The key that I want is for the NonCommercial rights to flow
    NW> with Commercial uses.  An example is if some recording company
    NW> pays a band to cover a song I wrote, I have no problem with
    NW> them selling that without additional permission from or
    NW> compensation to me (beyond attribution), so long as people who
    NW> buy that recording have the right to do whatever they want
    NW> with it for NonCommercial purposes (even giving it away to a
    NW> few hundred thousand of their closest friends).

    NW> Is there a way to handle this with existing CC Licenses?

I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, I don't speak for Creative
Commons.

Maybe what you want, though, is the Attribution-ShareAlike
license. This means that anyone can use your work for any reason,
commercial or non-commercial. But if they create a derivative work
(like recording a song), they have to release that for anyone to use,
for commercial or non-commercial reasons.

~ESP

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