[okfn-discuss] Paper: Consequences, risks and side-effects of the license module “non-commercial use only”

Tue Jan 8 15:24:34 UTC 2013

Dear all,

In 2012, a group of German copyright experts [1] released in collaboration
with Wikimedia the German document“Folgen, Risiken und Nebenwirkungen der
Bedingung Nicht-Kommerziell – NC” (Consequences, Risks, and side-effects of
the license module Non-Commercial – NC). In this document, they explain all
consequences of choosing a CC license variant restricted to non- commercial
use only (NC) and make clear why its usage is often not necessary and even
a bad idea for artists and institutions.

Together with the OKFN community, we translated this document into English
and the German authors have edited it. With the help of Wikimedia Germany
[2] we were able to design and publish it.

Read more about this great piece of documentation here:

http://blog.okfn.org/2013/01/08/consequences-risks-and-side-effects-of-the-license-module-non-commercial-use-only-2/

Thanks to all partners who made this possible, a special thanks goes out to
Thomas Hirsch who translated the majority of the document.

All the best,

-- 
Joris Pekel
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org
http://twitter.com/jpekel

[1] http://irights.info/
[2] http://www.wikimedia.de
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