Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>]

Rob Myers wrote:

> > Perhaps the non-Commercial license should have an option to allow  
> > broadcasting on commercial radio/casting as long as it is not used  
> > as part of an advertising message and the track still attributed in  
> > a reasonable way.
> >    
> But this would go against the whole idea of "non-commercial". The  
> commercial station would be making money off the track. It is no  
> different to burning it to CD and selling it.
>  
On the contrary, I'd say it's very different: There's a lot of
difference between "indirect" profit from the free sharing
of a work and "direct" profit by controlling the distribution
of the work.

In fact, I think there's probably a lot of people who wouldn't
care about the indirect profit issue as long as they could
retain a monopoly on selling CDs or whatever medium they
chose (or on per-track download fees).

But clearly this is not the meaning of the current NC clause.

Terry

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