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  • From: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT zmsl.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [cc-licenses] Question about NonCommercial
  • Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:51:30 +0000

Hello all,

Maybe a way to ease the ambiguity of the NC licenses is for the author to explain what he sees as commercial use of his work.

Real-life example:
My company sells a computer certificate program to secondary schools in the UK. We train the teachers and give them a web service that includes teaching resources. We want them to do whatever they like with the resources, except compete with us :) In other words, we're happy for them to make money teaching from those resources, or even print the resources and sell them. We just don't want them to make another computer certificate company using those resources.

Solution:
Use Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. Add a note saying that by NC we mean competting with us and we explicitly allow making money by teaching or by selling that content.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Daniel.
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