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  • From: Anthony <osm AT inbox.org>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>, zotz AT 100jamz.com
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Version 4:0:Rebranding "noncommercial" to "commercial rights reserved": please don't!
  • Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:51:00 -0400

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:49 PM, <zotz AT 100jamz.com> wrote:
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2005-March/001723.html
>
> "I can imagine circumstances where NC has a place for other than
> economic
> reasons. What about the option for a binding pledge on the part of the
> original author to not excercise his right to the commercial option
> when
> releasing BY-NC-SA?"
>
> I still don't recall anyone ever taking me up on the possibility of
> drafting such a license as opposed to the advisability of doing so.

Putting aside the possibility of drafting the license, how would the
work get distributed?

If the original author can't exercise his right to the commercial
option, presumably s/he can't permit anyone else to use the work
commercially either. So this means, for instance, s/he can't put the
work up on a facebook page, since facebook profits off facebook pages,
right?




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