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Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Posted Aug 29, 2012 12:04 UTC (Wed) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022)
In reply to: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org) by dcoutts
Parent article: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

You folks may be talking about web redistribution, and the question whether page ads are commercial use, but I have always understood the NC attribute as a matter of restricting the right to publication—by which I mean real publication. As an academic, I have a need to control the publication of my dissertation in book form, because it will affect my career. And perhaps that says that CC isn't for me, and I should simply know that in advance, if the "non-commercial" restriction is actually useless. But it's not an unreal consideration.

While anecdote isn't the singular of data, here's an example of why:
http://chronicle.com/article/Dissertation-for-Sale-A/132401/


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