Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

cc-licenses - Re: [cc-licenses] Version 4:0:Rebranding "noncommercial" to "commercial rights reserved": please don't!

cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Development of Creative Commons licenses

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Heather Morrison <hgmorris AT sfu.ca>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Version 4:0:Rebranding "noncommercial" to "commercial rights reserved": please don't!
  • Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:20:57 -0700

For Drew:

Allowing noncommercial uses is different from reserving commercial rights.
For example, a creator may have no intention of commercializing a work, but
rather wish to express that a work does not belong to the realm of things to
be commercialized.

From a technical / legal standpoint, this may be difficult if not impossible
to distinguish from "commercial rights reserved". From the perspective of
expressing what a creator wishes to share, however, there can be a world of
difference. From my viewpoint, if CC were to force a choice between
"commercial rights reserved" and no reserving commercial rights, then CC
becomes all about commercialization, which to me is not at all the vision of
the commons. This reinforces an unfortunate tendency in our society to see
everything in commodity terms. For this reason, a CC with no noncommercial
and "commercial rights reserved" would be something to avoid.

It would be good to have a have positive statement than "noncommercial", but
I'm not sure what to suggest. For me, "commons" is what this should be
(someday).

best,

Heather Morrison








Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page