Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>]

drew Roberts wrote:
>  Fine, but by choosing the NC option you are pretty much removing an
>  relationship to Free or Open Source Software.
>
>  You can always put in trademarks / logos and not allow them to be
>  used without payment. (I am personally going to be exploring some of
>  the possibilities in this area.)

An interesting idea is to put the *cover art* under a restrictive license.
I've been considering that option for myself.

In general, particularly for non-fiction works, you'll get more mileage for
making *part* of the book *completely open*, rather than making *all*
of the book *partly open*, in my opinion.  That way, parts of the material
are open for collaboration. This is essentially a "value-add" business
model, where the remainder of your material is only available in your
version (and, of course, the smart thing is to make the part of the work
that requires the most work to update and edit the free-licensed part).

That would be quite effective if you build a brand around the way the
books look, as O'Reilly has done, for example.

Cheers,
Terry

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