Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>]

On Wed, 2005-09-03 at 02:08 +0100, Stefan Schulz wrote:
> But: When I submit it to a screening for a festival or something like
> that, I'm sure, the people there will take a charge for entrance, in
> this case, is my use of the work legal? (I guess, it is...)
I'm neither a lawyer nor a representative of Creative Commons, but as far as I know, charging people for a public display is distributing the work for commercial advantage, and thus not allowed by the NC license.

Another case where the NC license is stupid and short-sighted. Strangely, after 2 years of confused questions like this, the creativecommons.org site still burbles about NC like it's the cure for cancer.
> And when the festival makers will charge me with a small amount of
> money for showing this film there? (I guess, it is not than...)
I'm pretty sure not in this case, either.
> I hope, someone could answer this question. :)
It's a really, really complicated and non-intuitive thing. I suggest that you either a) seek some music that is licensed under a free license like Attribution or Attribution-ShareAlike, or b) contact the upstream author to work out a separate license. At the very least, let them know that their NC license kept their work out of a film festival.
> Greetings from germany,
Greetz from Quebec,

~Evan

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Evan Prodromou
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