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The '''''[[Defining Noncommercial]]''''' study published in 2009 looks at how the online population understands "commercial" and "noncommercial" and contains some rules of thumb for licensors and licensees using or thinking about using licenses with the NC term.
 
The '''''[[Defining Noncommercial]]''''' study published in 2009 looks at how the online population understands "commercial" and "noncommercial" and contains some rules of thumb for licensors and licensees using or thinking about using licenses with the NC term.
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'''As of late 2011, Creative Commons is working on version 4.0 of its license suite. Various options for addressing NC are under consideration. Please visit [[4.0/NonCommercial]].'''
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== Links: Arguments for and against ==
 
== Links: Arguments for and against ==
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* [http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License] - on the Freedom Defined wiki.
 
* [http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License] - on the Freedom Defined wiki.
 
* [http://news.cnet.com/8301-13556_3-9823336-61.html Does the Noncommercial Creative Commons license make sense?] (CNet blog post, November 27, 2007). "Especially in today's world of interlocking personal and professional lives, defining where "noncommercial use" begins and ends can get extraordinarily tricky."
 
* [http://news.cnet.com/8301-13556_3-9823336-61.html Does the Noncommercial Creative Commons license make sense?] (CNet blog post, November 27, 2007). "Especially in today's world of interlocking personal and professional lives, defining where "noncommercial use" begins and ends can get extraordinarily tricky."
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* [http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2005-April/002215.html Use cases for NonCommercial license clause], by Evan Prodromou
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* [http://kefletcher.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-not-nc-non-commercial.html Why Not NC  (Non Commercial) ], by Kathi Fletcher — argues rejecting the non-commercial restriction for Open Education Resources.
 
* [http://www.appropedia.org/Non-commercial_licenses_vs_free_licenses Non-commercial licenses vs free licenses] (on Appropedia - the problems of NC licenses in the context of sharing knowledge sustainability and international development.)
 
* [http://www.appropedia.org/Non-commercial_licenses_vs_free_licenses Non-commercial licenses vs free licenses] (on Appropedia - the problems of NC licenses in the context of sharing knowledge sustainability and international development.)
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*[[Global Summit 2011/The definition and future of noncommercial]] presentation on possible paths for addressing NC in version 4.0 of the CC suite of licenses.
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* Carroll MW , 2011 Why Full Open Access Matters. PLoS Biol 9(11): e1001210. [http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001210 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001210], discusses why NC not appropriate for Open Access scientific publication.
 
Blog posts by Rob Myers:
 
Blog posts by Rob Myers:
 
* [http://robmyers.org/weblog/2004/08/the-noncommercial-fallacy.html The NonCommercial Fallacy], August 17, 2004, Fallacy: ''"NC stops anyone who uses the work from making money off of it."''
 
* [http://robmyers.org/weblog/2004/08/the-noncommercial-fallacy.html The NonCommercial Fallacy], August 17, 2004, Fallacy: ''"NC stops anyone who uses the work from making money off of it."''

Latest revision as of 19:25, 19 July 2012

Noncommercial or NC is one of the terms available in the Creative Commons license suite, present in the BY-NC, BY-NC-SA, and BY-NC-ND licenses.

The Defining Noncommercial study published in 2009 looks at how the online population understands "commercial" and "noncommercial" and contains some rules of thumb for licensors and licensees using or thinking about using licenses with the NC term.

As of late 2011, Creative Commons is working on version 4.0 of its license suite. Various options for addressing NC are under consideration. Please visit 4.0/NonCommercial.


Links: Arguments for and against

Blog posts by Rob Myers: