"Crosbie Fitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > People who slap NC on their CC'd work on the other hand have the very sound > understanding that if they didn't do this, nasty, greedy corporations could > make colossal profits by selling access, or performances, copies, and > derivatives of their work (despite it being freely copyable).
There's some confusion (that CC has previously failed to clarify) over whether all of those are actually prohibited by NC, but let's assume the above is correct:- Unfortunately, by doing slapping NC on their CC'd work, they pretty much ensure that nasty, greedy corporations (and similarly rich natural persons) are the only people who can afford to mass-distribute the work, except the copyright holders. [later message] > If a merchant or politician were to incorporate an artist's work in their > advert or as campaign theme song, then this could well risk misrepresenting > the artist as endorsing the product or political viewpoint. This should > preclude doing so without artist approval - far better than NC (which also > prevents the artist receiving a share of commissioned use, among many other > rewards the artist excludes themselves from). Can rich politicians still use NC'd works in their campaign? I think so, but I've not sifted the legal code recently. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
