Re:Show HN: Adblock to Bitcoin
by kragen on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @10:33AM
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An interesting issue here is that Creative Commons Noncommercial licenses permit use on ad-funded sites, but not on micropayment-funded sites. I'm thinking specifically of this: https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127
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My reading of this* is that if the primary purpose of the use of an NC work is not to make money, you're fine. I don't see any references specifically to advertising or payments, but I don't see why a donation is any less valid than advertising.
* https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_interpre...
I think the idea of micro-payments instead of ads is that it covers costs. In that respect, and in general, if the site isn't turning a profit isn't that still non-commercial?
> if the site isn't turning a profit isn't that still non-commercial?
Wouldn't that mean Twitter and Facebook are non-commercial?
If Facebook is commercial, does that make it legal for you to post a CC-NC-BY document you didn't write as a Facebook Note? If it's legal for you to post it, is it also legal for Facebook to display it, thus drawing people into their site to view advertising? What if I set up a paid-subscription-only Facebook clone called Flone and you post it on Flone, so that you have to pay Flone to see the Note? Does it matter if Flone charges per pageview instead of per month? Does it matter if Flone charges more for certain pageviews? When Verizon sells you a data connection, are they in some way different from our hypothetical Flone?
Good point