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Non-commercial license. What a shame. In parts of the European Union, the CC-NC provision essentially amounts to a complete uselessness of the document, becaus
by sentenza 13y ago
Non-commercial license. What a shame.
In parts of the European Union, the CC-NC provision essentially amounts to a complete uselessness of the document, because of the weird definitions of the word "commercial".
For instance, here in Germany, if you have a blog, no advertisements, make no money out of it, but you have thousands of followers, you are acting in "commercial scope" (ie. you are too successful to be non-commercial), thus inviting all the nastyness of being sued for commercial copyright infringement.
The only thing I can do with a CC-NC document without legal risk is to look at it.
The sad thing is, that now nobody will bother to scan these documents and put them online under a different license, since "they are already out there for free!!".
It is quite likely that nobody involved with the project knew this, which goes to show how dangerous the NC-provision is.
- qwerta 13y agoWhat if your blog is hosted in America or other state? Also if license is in English, the English definition of 'commercial' should apply. It should be translated 'for profit' to German.
- femto 13y agoPerhaps the claimed copyright is groundless, on the basis the the scanned documents are well into the public domain [1]? Presumably the libraries are striving for faithful reproduction, which would imply no creative step, and a number of jurisdictions don't recognise "sweat of the brow" as being reason enough for copyright[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
- rmc 13y agoa number of jurisdictions don't recognise "sweat of the brow" A number of juristicions do though. Including (maybe) the UK.