Development of Creative Commons licenses

[James Grimmelmann <james AT grimmelmann.net>]

Stephen Buel wrote:
> Is publication of a photograph in the news pages of a newspaper a
> commercial or noncommercial use?  My first thought was that it must be
> commercial, but then I read something in the FAQs that suggests that web
> site publication is noncommercial, and that made me wonder.  Let me
> stipulate that the newspaper is a commercial enterprise.

The Noncommercial guidelines would say "it's a commercial use" right at
the first step, because the newspaper is a commercial user:

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/DiscussionDraftNonCommercial_Guidelines

James