Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

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• From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>
• To: Patrick Crosby <pcrosbynet AT gmail.com>, Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
• Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Non commercial question...
• Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 23:21:16 -0400

On Sun, 2005-02-10 at 21:50 -0400, Patrick Crosby wrote:

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?

The website itself is a licensee and is subject to the NC part of the license (as well as the other stuff). The website owner may want to put some sort of additional grant of license for themselves into the Terms of Use (or whatever); if the works have already been created, the website owner will have to ask for permission from all the users.

Note that the changes from 2.0 to 2.5 license don't affect this.

My inexpert opinion.

~Evan

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