Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London"<email AT greglondon.com>]

Creative Commons, despite having "commons" in its name, is not entirely devoted to licensing what would be called "Free" phenomenom.  The sooner you integrate this into your thought process, the less aggravating life will be.

non-commercial and no-derivatives are both clauses that do not qualify as "Free".  They are also two of CC's more popular licenses.  They are geared towards individual creators leveraging copyright law and the CC licenses to try and generate advertising about content through free (free as in beer) samples of the work.

I dont have a problem with authors using All Rights Reserved or non-free licenses for their works. But it helps to understand that CC is not exclusively about only Free licenses.


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-----Original message-----

From: jmp <m.pedersen AT lancaster.ac.uk>
To: cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 17:21:22 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] 4.0 NonCommercial

On 13/01/12 02:47, Ben Finney wrote:
> Gregor Hagedorn
> writes:
>
>> A non-profit license would be nice, but a serious question: Can anyone
>> come up with a globally applicable definition of non-profit?
>
> I have another serious question: Why is a non-profit license nice? It's
> not obvious to me, and it doesn't fit with the ideals of free culture as
> I understand them.
>
> Why should it matter whether culture, freely shared to all recipients
> under non-discriminatory terms and permitting further sharing the same
> way, is making a profit? That strikes me as something to be celebrated,
> rather than denied through a license clause.

Because the *particular* nature of profit making in this context (the
world in which we live) is a function of an economic philosophy of
continuous expansion, which treats (natural) resources as inifinite.
Some people have discovered that this is in fact not the case - the
world is finite and the natural resources are running out - and
therefore these people are building movements and trying to find ways to
reverse this destructive economy. Not making profit is seen as one way
of doing this.

m


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