Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam AT benfinney.id.au>]

P-M <cc AT phizz.demon.co.uk> writes:

> >> Similarly a band playing a song in a
> >> club from which they get a cut of the door money is not the same as
> >> Toyota using the song in an advertisement.
> >
> > Under CC BY-NC(-SA) it is.
>
> That isn't the point.

For deciding what rights are granted by the license, yes, it is the point.

> Walmart and Toyota know they are 'strictly from commercial' the local
> band, and the community group know that they aren't, and should they
> have any doubts they can fire off an email.

So you're acknowledging that the license terms *don't* make clear who is
allowed to do what. If the recipient is, for any reason, unable to
contact the copyright holder, they can't know what grant of license they
have.

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