[thelist] User-linked content

[Barney Carroll]

Thanks for the feedback guys. It turns out that nothing quite emulates the original desire, however the client has since clarified the requirement as being utterly pedestrian and of almost no interest to potential viewers or contributors — meanwhile I'm developing a little front-end-centric framework to provide what I imagined the original idea's functionality to be.

BTW Arun, Martin does well to point you to flickr: their documentation on the various forms of creative commons liscenses is the best as far as I know.

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On 15 Nov 2010, at 19:07, Martin Burns <martin at easyweb.co.uk> wrote:

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> On 15 Nov 2010, at 03:25, Mohan Arun wrote:
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>> And further, is there a creative commons license type where I can say
>> "anyone can use this for non commercial and non profit making
>> purposes, but if you are going to make money out of it, you very well
>> can, but then you need to contact me so we can work out how to share
>> the profits..." As far as I have seen, there is no way to specify this
>> kind of clause in the Creative Commons license? It seems to be
>> either-or choice between Commercial and Non-commercial? Am I missing
>> something obvious?
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> cc-licensing something merely says "this is what you can do without further discussion - I grant these permissions to all"
> 
> It does not restrict you from offering it in parallel under a different license.
> 
> Thus you can cc-license as non-commercial, and in parallel note be open to offers for commercial use. If you can neatly specify a mechanism, that's even easier.
> 
> It's what Flickr do very well - example:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinb/4570132139/
> is free for non-commercial usage as long as you credit me, and use as-is (rather than say incorporate within a montage).
> If you want to use it in any other way (eg commercially), then please use Getty Images as an intermediary.
> http://www.flickr.com/help/gettyimages/
> 
> Cheers
> Martin
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