Comments on: On choosing a Creative Commons License http://paulcourant.net/2008/04/22/on-choosing-a-creative-commons-license/ Paul Courant's blog about libraries, economics, public policy, and other stuff Sat, 17 May 2008 05:57:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Paul Courant http://paulcourant.net/2008/04/22/on-choosing-a-creative-commons-license/#comment-258 Paul Courant Thu, 01 May 2008 22:52:25 +0000 http://paulcourant.net/2008/04/22/on-choosing-a-creative-commons-license/#comment-258 Nice point, Jeremy. You are almost certainly right. They probably wouldn't see that as anti-commerce. Of course, I would see it as anti-open, which is far worse. My hope is that we will persuade the commercial crowd that dealing with authors who do not sign away exclusive rights is good for them (both the commercial crowd and the authors.) Nice point, Jeremy. You are almost certainly right. They probably wouldn’t see that as anti-commerce. Of course, I would see it as anti-open, which is far worse. My hope is that we will persuade the commercial crowd that dealing with authors who do not sign away exclusive rights is good for them (both the commercial crowd and the authors.)

]]> By: Jeremy Morse http://paulcourant.net/2008/04/22/on-choosing-a-creative-commons-license/#comment-256 Jeremy Morse Thu, 01 May 2008 14:36:02 +0000 http://paulcourant.net/2008/04/22/on-choosing-a-creative-commons-license/#comment-256 "I fear that some people involved in commerce see the “Non Commercial” license as synonymous with “anti-commerce.” If you applied no CC license and defaulted to copyright, do I guess correctly that these same people would not interpret this as "anti-commerce," though the restrictions against commercial use are identical? “I fear that some people involved in commerce see the “Non Commercial” license as synonymous with “anti-commerce.”

If you applied no CC license and defaulted to copyright, do I guess correctly that these same people would not interpret this as “anti-commerce,” though the restrictions against commercial use are identical?

]]> By: Molly Kleinman » Blog Archive » The Psychology of Creative Commons: A response in two parts http://paulcourant.net/2008/04/22/on-choosing-a-creative-commons-license/#comment-251 Molly Kleinman » Blog Archive » The Psychology of Creative Commons: A response in two parts Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:57:29 +0000 http://paulcourant.net/2008/04/22/on-choosing-a-creative-commons-license/#comment-251 [...] Courant recently posted on his blog about changing his Creative Commons license from Attribution-NonCommercial (BY-NC) to Attribution (BY). It has me thinking about the [...] […] Courant recently posted on his blog about changing his Creative Commons license from Attribution-NonCommercial (BY-NC) to Attribution (BY). It has me thinking about the […]

]]> By: nirak.net - Musings of an LIS Student » Too much on my mind, not enough about what I need to write about http://paulcourant.net/2008/04/22/on-choosing-a-creative-commons-license/#comment-246 nirak.net - Musings of an LIS Student » Too much on my mind, not enough about what I need to write about Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:07:18 +0000 http://paulcourant.net/2008/04/22/on-choosing-a-creative-commons-license/#comment-246 [...] Several people have posted about Creative Commons and the murky space it occupies between public domain and copyright protected. Since I started my Free Artwork project, I have been thinking a lot about why I might choose different licenses and what it means to buy into Creative Commons. I also have been looking into what Creative Commons detractors are saying, and thinking about ways it could be better. I have to admit, the number of licenses one can apply to work is confusing. Besides the Creative Commons standard choices, there are several others on the website, like public domain, BSD, and GNU-GPL. [...] […] Several people have posted about Creative Commons and the murky space it occupies between public domain and copyright protected. Since I started my Free Artwork project, I have been thinking a lot about why I might choose different licenses and what it means to buy into Creative Commons. I also have been looking into what Creative Commons detractors are saying, and thinking about ways it could be better. I have to admit, the number of licenses one can apply to work is confusing. Besides the Creative Commons standard choices, there are several others on the website, like public domain, BSD, and GNU-GPL. […]

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