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  • From: drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Intended Meaning of "Non-Commercial"
  • Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:05:20 -0400

On Monday 11 April 2005 12:48 pm, wiki_tomos wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
> To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts
> <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:51:29 -0400
> Subject: Re: Intended Meaning of "Non-Commercial"
>
> > These may seem like stupid questions,
> > but I assure you I am serious. I was just informed (and very possibly
> > correctly) that a store could not sell blank CDs to copy the work onto
> > under certain conditions.
>
> This sounds like a question of "Is ISP liable for the contents that their
> users post without the ISP's knowledge?"

> >Yes, but could the copyshop legally make a copy.

Not to sure if this is like the ISP, money is changeing hands and the
copyshop
is making the copy and then handing it over. (I am not talking self service
copyshops.)

Another example, could I hire someone for the day to make copies of NC works
for me? (Would they be breaking the terms of the license?)

> In the U.S., ISP liability issue
> has been handled according to a specific law, with its own set of court
> cases. So I cannot generalize that issue to here. This question also sounds
> a bit like a question of P2P service provider liability. Are Grokster or
> Napster liable for the infringement their users made?

all the best,

drew
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