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  • From: Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Proposed Non-Commercial Guidelines
  • Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:01:39 +0000

On 7 Mar 2006, at 20:22, Jonathon Blake wrote:

Greg wrote:

Tip jars and voluntary payments are allowed.
Interesting. Will read through again and ponder it some more.

IMHO:

Tip jars are not causally involved in you getting the content. You don't have to pay, but you can if you want to. Money is not automatically generated.

In contrast, showing adverts doesn't require that you pay, but you cannot avoid making money when you access the work. Money is automatically generated.

Now it might be the case that a popular NC-using site with a tip jar makes more money from tips than an unpopular SA-using site showing adverts makes from click-through. Or a *really* popular NC site might make more than a dire musician would make from selling their work all rights reserved.

But them's the breaks. Trying to control these scenarios would be too complex. As would making sure iPods could never use NC content (== Apple couldn't profit from NC), and that an NC-distributing Napster doesn't make millions.

The guidelines/documentation that Creative Commons has at
http://oldwiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_use_cases are
somewhat different from those in the PDF.

Those weren't written by CC, they were generated by members of this list (mostly Evan if I remember correctly). Possibly we should deprecate those in some way now the official guidelines are coming up.

I think that the CC NC guidelines are very good, and I'm very glad CC are producing them.

- Rob.




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