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Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-SA draft available

Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-SA draft available

Posted Apr 2, 2012 20:12 UTC (Mon) by bawjaws (guest, #56952)
In reply to: Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-SA draft available by tialaramex
Parent article: Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-SA draft available

Creative Commons themselves published some research showing that no-one using NC (or using works licenced by it) really knows what "non-commercial" means, which is unfortunate when they are trying to reduce friction by creating easily understood licences.

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127


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Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-SA draft available

Posted Apr 3, 2012 9:59 UTC (Tue) by gowen (guest, #23914) [Link]

85% said that CC-NC was compatible with their personal definition. No, there wasn't broad agreement on where to draw the line on "monetary gain", but really, to suggest that "no-one really knows" is to misrepresent the findings completely. There are minor disagreements, but almost everyone is more-or-less agrees with what it means. In a large corpus, you'll probably never find closer agreement.

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Posted Apr 3, 2012 22:03 UTC (Tue) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link]

“more-or-less” + legal agreements = recipe for lawsuits.

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