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- by IanMilliss April 9, 2008 3:19 AM PDT
- We are on the receiving end of a defamatory harassment campaign from someone whose CC-NC licenced photo we used (briefly) on our blog adaptivereuse.net. We removed it immediately when he requested it (saying our blog was commercial because we have adsense) but he took extreme offence when we suggested that his interpretation of non-commercial was incorrect. We're tough enough to handle the abuse he has posted in every available forum (eg flickr forum) but it really raises the issue that Creative Commons, in its push to maximise its market, so to speak, also has a duty to defend innocent (or perhaps we were naive) users like ourselves. Its a two way transaction, if you want people to CC licence their material you also want others to use it and they shouldn't be subject to abuse from licensees who clearly did not understand what they were doing. I can only agree with you that the non-commercial licence is nonsensical, especially if licensees don't understand it.
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