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  • From: "Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] NonDerivative NonCommercial Licenses
  • Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:58:04 -0500 (EST)

> Nonderivative clauses work well for commercial works, but are
> incompatible with noncommercial works because noncommercial
> fanfiction is fair use;

CC-NC-ND would be a license you might use if you wanted fans to
be able to pass around your work as long as they didn't charge
money and didn't modify the work. So, CC-NC-ND has it's uses.
Yes, the licenses generally become more restrictive as they combine,
but that's the side effect being tinkertoys.

Greg
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Bounty Hunters: Metaphors for Fair IP laws
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