Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Matt McGregor <Matt.McGregor AT royalsociety.org.nz>]

Hi all,

 

On the busy CCHQ email list (join here: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-community), CC counsel Kat Walsh has raised the issue of renaming the ‘non-commercial’ licences to ‘commercial rights reserved.’ The reasons for considering this are here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Commercial_Rights_Reserved

 

She asked the same question to the CC Affiliates email list, and I gave one obvious response:

 

“Changing the names of the licences would mean that we'd have to re-design our current resources--some of which are in print and/or were difficult/expensive to produce--and we're simply not going to be in a position to do this. This would mean that most of our resources explaining the licences would conflict with the new licence names. This would continue to be the case for several years... I'll come back with any specific feedback from my neck of the woods as it arises.”

 

So, neck of the woods: Is there any appetite for changing the NC licence name?

 

All the best,

Matt

 

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