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  • From: Heather Morrison <hgmorris AT sfu.ca>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [cc-licenses] NC Proposal No. 12: clarifying noncommercial
  • Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 09:46:05 -0700

As a reminder, proposals for NC 4.0 can be found on the wiki. It might be
helpful to move discussion forward to refer to the proposals on the wiki, or
to create new ones for discussion.
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/NonCommercial

My proposal to clarify noncommercial addresses a number of the questions
coming up in discussion in recent days (from my viewpoint). Does anyone have
specific feedback on this proposal?

NC Proposal No. 12 (Heather Morrison): NC Proposal No.12 Define NC to
specifically allow educational uses. "(f) NonCommercial means not intended
for re-sale or re-use of the Licensed Work for private monetary compensation
(for example, as a means to attract advertising revenue). For purposes of
this Public License, the exchange of the Licensed Work by digital
file-sharing or similar means is NonCommercial provided there is no payment
of monetary compensation in connection with the exchange. For the avoidance
of doubt, educational use - teaching and learning - is Noncommercial, and
permitted by this Public License, while including the content in a package
intended for sale to educational institutions for profit is Commercial, and
prohibited by this Public License.

Web-based or other discovery services that rely on advertising revenue, such
as search engines, may use advertising IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR SERVICES in
connecting searchers to this content; this does not constitute commercial use
of the content. Advertising that constitutes exploitation of the content for
commercial purposes, such as advertising inserted into a derivative,
advertising that readers are forced to watch before viewing the content,
creating the impression of sponsorship, or advertising that implies that the
creator endorses the advertised product, constitutes commercial use and is
prohibited by this license."

I would also like to point to NC Proposal No. 9 (Brian Carver), to: "Create a
new CC license, NC-EDU, that prohibits non-commercial uses, but allows
educational uses".

Both 12 and 9 address a desire for NC without impeding educational use. The
main difference between the two approaches is that one creates a new license
(#9), while the other clarifies the NC definition (#12).

best,

Heather Morrison







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