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Making Content More Valuable or Stealing Revenue?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hey-kids-get-offa-my-lawn dept.

TechDirt has an interesting look at the short history of complaints over meta content delivery and traffic generation. Looking at everything from complaints over Google's Print program to RSS companies delivering ads on someone else's content the article begs the question, where should the line be drawn? One of the examples, Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc., even chimed in as one of the first few comments.

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  1. BY-NC by Wellington+Grey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How do you define ... non-commercial use in this context?

    This is the question I've always had with creative commons: just what counts as non-commercial? If I take a BY-NC image off flickr, and want to use it in my blog, is that OK? What if I have google ads on my blog? Is that still OK? Does it make any difference if I'm actually making a profit or not? I've gone so far as to email some of the CC lawyers about this issue, and there seems to be no clear answer.

    -Grey

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