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

Thu Jan 10 18:16:35 UTC 2013

First, thanks to everyone who worked on this document (!!), and to OKFN in general for strongly and consistently advocating that NC is not an open format - - that is so, so, so helpful and clarifying. <3

However, is anybody else confused by section 7 in the document, which is about using SA as a way to prevent commercial re-use in certain circumstances?

I think the clarity of this section could be improved regarding the ramifications of incorporating edited, as opposed to un-edited, CC-SA resources into compilation/collection/ derivative works. If I understand correctly, this affects whether the resulting resource is "infected", and needs to be released as CC-SA, or not.

(Also, there are a couple of typo's and grammatical errors in section 7.)

Thanks!

Michael Edson
Director, Web and New Media Strategy
Smithsonian Institution
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Subject: [OpenGLAM] Paper: Consequences, risks and side-effects of the license module “non-commercial use only”

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,

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Joris Pekel
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
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[1] http://irights.info/
[2] http://www.wikimedia.de