[GOAL] Re: Responses to Martin Hall on Finch on "Neither Green Nor Gold"

[Marcin Wojnarski]

On 02/14/2013 11:24 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> MU indicates that he would like modified CC-* licences for humanities, 
> etc. 

What's the reasoning behind this? Why do humanities need special kinds 
of licenses?

> I am on the Science Board of Creative Commons and we are in the midst 
> of reviewing for CC-* licences so it is a valuable time to make 
> suggestions. It is not, however, easy to use CC licences for limit 
> downstream us. People who argue that CC-NC does this are general mistaken.

The best thing Creative Commons can do is to fix *-NC licences by giving 
a clear and precise definition of "commercial purpose". Ideally, they 
should narrow the NC exclusion to direct *resale* of the work and its 
derivatives, permitting other uses, like providing additional paid 
services on top of -NC works. I believe that resale of copies or 
inclusion in paid products (sale of derivatives) is what majority (99%) 
of authors understand by "commercial use" - they don't realize that the 
limitations imposed by CC-NC licences are much wider and may seriously 
impact dissemination of the work. Fixing this would be a step in the 
right direction.

Best,
Marcin

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