[Commons-l] Creative Commons -NC Considered Harmful

Mon Sep 12 17:16:44 UTC 2005

For quite a long time, I've been meaning to write a summary of the key 
reasons not to use "non-commercial uses only" licenses. It is now online at:

http://intelligentdesigns.net/Licenses/NC

I posted it to Kuro5hin as well, where it is now being discussed:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/11/16331/0655

The version on the wiki is slightly more comprehensive and will 
hopefully evolve over time.

This is not specific to Wikimedia, but I hope that those Wikimedians 
lobbying individuals, governments, and educational or scientific 
institutions to put their content under truly free licenses or into the 
public domain will find this collection of arguments useful.

Best,

Erik