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Re:Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are... by notatoad on Monday November 07, 2011 @10:45PM (#3209423)
I think you got that backwards. You are allowed to use the images in a non commercial or editorial context. You can't use them in a commercial context. I thought they made that pretty clear.
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Re:Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are... by rmc on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @04:32AM (#3210078)
The images are licenced BY-NC, which means they can't be used commerically. So you probably couldn't include them, at all, in your commerical magazine, say/
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Re:Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are... by notatoad on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @12:21PM (#3211655)
That was my understanding of cc-nc as well, but the linked announcement specifically says they're okay to use in an editorial context in any publication
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Re:Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are... by huskyr on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @06:36AM (#3210338)
Yup. The only three CC-licenses that are allowed are CC-BY, CC-BY-SA and CC-ZERO (public domain).
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