Development of Creative Commons licenses

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Does the owner of the website have the right to make
> money off the
> content (through ad revenue, for example), or is the
> website itself a
> "user" and subject to the non-commercial portion of the
> license that
> the user contributed the content under?


IANAL. My guess is no. 

That's one reason why NC licenses are so unwieldy,
especially when you are dealing with user submissions (I'm
facing a similar scenario). 

It's better to clear it with the submitter as a condition
of membership. 

Of course, a lot of times wikis  are not exactly
profit-making ventures anyway, but site owners are just
trying to pay for webhosting fees. 

Robert Nagle 
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