Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Glenn Otis Brown <glenn AT creativecommons.org>]

nono is exactly right here.

On Feb 14, 2005, at 9:41 PM, nono2sco wrote:

> Hi Mitch,
>
> If you are worried about possible commercial use could
> you not use the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
> 2.0?
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
>
> Which in terms of commercial use says...
>
> "4c You may not exercise any of the rights granted to
> You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily
> intended for or directed toward commercial advantage
> or private monetary compensation. The exchange of the
> Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital
> file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to
> be intended for or directed toward commercial
> advantage or private monetary compensation, provided
> there is no payment of any monetary compensation in
> connection with the exchange of copyrighted works."
>
> If I understand it correctly it would prohbit
> downstram commercial use, but still allow you to
> republish your work at some point for commercial use
> should you chose to.
>
> Otherwise I believe the commercial versions of the CCL
> would allow someone to do basically the inverse of the
> above and distribute your work, with attribution and
> CCL notice for commercial advantage.
>
> nono
>
> p.s. If it hits the p2p networks I would not assume
> that everyone will respect the license, but at least
> you have some recourse if they do not.
>
>
> --- Sigmascape1 AT cs.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just need some fundamental clarification of the
> > Creative Commons Attribution License. Let's say
> > upload some photos that are covered under this
> > license to the various P2P networks. If someone,
> > anyone, downloads these files, can they legally
> > resell these photos as is? Or is the 'commercial
> > use' of the license just in terms of someone making
> > a derivative work for commercial purposes?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mitch
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Glenn Otis Brown
Executive Director
Creative Commons
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