Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Tuesday 11 December 2012 12:56:30 Heather Morrison wrote:
> Noncommercial is not optimal either. However, from a language perspective
> it is better than "commercial rights reserved" because it gives the creator
> an opportunity to say that "this is outside of the commercial realm".

It might be nice to have a license which did this, but from what I see, NC is 
not the license that does it.

You would either need a binding promise on the part of the copyright holder 
not to make commercial use of the work or perhaps an additional "license" 
granting others the right to make commercial use of the work as soon as the 
copyright holder does.

The NC license we have does not make the binding promise to keep the work out 
of the commercial realm nor does it put others on anywhere near an equal 
footing with the copyright holder. It instead allows the copyright holder to 
make commercial use of the work whenever he wants to while not allowing 
others to do the same. This situation reminds me of the benevolent dictator 
situation my dad spoke of when I was a child.

all the best,

drew