Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:22 am, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> 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.

Please note, that if this is so, and I lean that way, if yopu paint an oil 
painting that is a derivative of an NC work, it could never hang in a museaum 
that charges an entrance fee. Right?
>
> 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.

Would it perhaps be useful to search for some other form of NC that somehow 
prevents direct compensation without being so strict with respect to indirect 
money?
>
> > 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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