[Commons-l] Creative Commons -NC Considered Harmful

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Erik Moeller wrote:
> 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 essay is brilliant and should be read widely.  I think it will be
worthwhile to go through the list of counter-arguments in the Kuro5shin
discussion and make sure all of them are well answered in the wiki
version.  The arguments are not insane, but they are (in most cases)
mistaken.

--Jimbo

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