Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Sunday 20 November 2005 05:51 am, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 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?

Whenever I see efforts like this I think about the part in the license that 
tells the "user" that the license represents the whole agreement that they 
have and that no outside terms matter in relation to the license. (At least, 
that is how I have been reading that pert.)

Therefore, as a "user" I don't get much comfort from assurances that occur 
outside the license. If I am mistaken in this, I would love to learn how.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
all the best,

drew
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