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Revision as of 19:28, 3 February 2009
CC has begun a major study focused on understandings of "noncommercial use". The results of this study, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will be made publicly available in 2009. For more information on the study, you can read the announcement.
Please watch the CC blog for opportunities to participate.
Discussion
Relevant Pages
Links: Arguments for and against
- The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License - on the Freedom Defined wiki.
- 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."
- Non-commercial licenses vs free licenses (on Appropedia - the problems of NC licenses in the context of sharing knowledge sustainability and international development.)
Blog posts by Rob Myers:
- The NonCommercial Fallacy, August 17, 2004, Fallacy: "NC stops anyone who uses the work from making money off of it."
- The NonCommercial Fallacy Revisited, October 16, 2005. "How to make money off of CC-NC music..."
- The NonCommercial Fallacy Three, October 23, 2005. Fallacy: "I don't mind other people using my work but if they make money off it I want my cut."
- Why The NC Permission Culture Simply Doesn't Work, November 8, 2006.
- NonCommercial Sharealike Is Not Copyleft, February 24, 2008.
- Persuasion 1, March 14, 2008. (Long post, referencing Richard Stallman's arguments for free software.)
- The Emerging NC Consensus, July 23, 2008.
