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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Alex Bosworth: "Creative Commons Is Broken"
  • Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:41:39 -0800

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 12:16 am, Adam Fields wrote:
What about a license that allows
free NC uses, but also prevents the copyright holder from commercial
use as well? I don't know if it really makes sense, but it seems to me
that releasing something under such a license would be the moral
equivalent of forming a non-profit corp. You're saying - "hey, world,
do what you want, non-commercially, and in exchange for your
contributions, know that no one is ever going to put this to
commercial use, myself included".

IANAL to say the least but I don't see how this could be accomplished for the original work without the copyright holder forfeiting rights to some intermediary.

In any case by-nc[-sa] accomplishes this, abut only for derivative works. If I publish a work and you modify it, both under by-nc[-sa], neither of us can make commercial use of the your or subsequent derivatives.

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Mike Linksvayer
http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21




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