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Re: [cc-licenses] NonCommercial and ads

From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] NonCommercial and ads
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:47:27 -0800

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:17 +0100, Michael Welp wrote:

> I have a question about the meaning of NonCommercial.
>
> If a piece of text is licensed under a NC-license, is one allowed to
> put that text on a web page with ads?

It's not 100% clear, but probably not. It's pretty clear that the text
is being distributed for commercial advantage.

IANAL, TINLA.

~Evan

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Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>

[cc-licenses] NonCommercial and ads, Michael Welp, 02/02/2007
- Re: [cc-licenses] NonCommercial and ads, Evan Prodromou, 02/02/2007
- Re: [cc-licenses] NonCommercial and ads, Andres Guadamuz, 02/02/2007
  - Re: [cc-licenses] NonCommercial and ads, Mia Garlick, 02/02/2007