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Bradley and href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#karen">Karen
discuss non-commercial-only commons licenses, particularly the CC-By-NC
license, and how they compare to Free Culture and Free Software
licenses, and why some authors pick NC licenses instead of Free
Culture/Software ones.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)

• Listeners seeking a show on how to select a Free Software license,
  differences between copyleft and non-copyleft, and how they interact with
  copyright are encouraged to href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2009/mar/03/0x08/">listen to
  episode 0x08 of the old Software Freedom Law Show which
  covered these topics. Please write in again if that show doesn't
  cover your questions on the issue. (02:10)
• Bradley reminisced about the crass “Brian and O'Brien”
  show on Baltimore's href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZFT#B-104">B-104 href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2002-08-23/news/0208230279_1_huddles-probation-officer-debts/2">Gary
  Huddles who was notorious locally in Baltimore because he was implicated
  in Maryland's version of the 1980s Savings and Loan scandals.
  (03:30)

• Karen mentioned that href="http://freedomdefined.org/Definition">freedomdefined.org is the
  source for the Free Culture definition that href="http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses">defines what licenses are Free
  Culture licenses. (12:54)
• Bradley suggested listening to some of the old versions of href="http://stallman.org">RMS' Copyright vs. Community in the
  Age of Computer Networks. In fact, there is an href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-speech-mit2001.ogg">audio
  recording of the one
  at MIT on 19 April 2001 that Bradley attended, and an href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/1552-01_richard_stallman_copyright_vs_community.ogg">audio
  recording of the one that href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/#2009">Bradley heard at Cardozo Law
  School. There is href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/1552-02_richard_stallman_copyright_vs_community_q&a.ogg">audio
  of the Q&A session, wherein RMS engages in that discussion Bradley
  mentioned with Free Culture activists. (10:10, 14:04)
• Bradley mentioned that href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070210224351/http://hotwired.goo.ne.jp/matrix/9709/5_linus.html">Linus
  Torvalds switched to GPL for Linux because he realized non-commercial restrictions
  weren't appropriate. (Search the string GPL on that link to find Linus'
  answer on that.) (19:00)
• Karen mentioned that Creative Commons did a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Defining_Noncommercial">study
  considering what people understand commercial vs. non-commercial to
  mean. (20:43)
• Karen and Bradley discussed the href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/legalcode">text of
  CC-By-NC. (23:00)
• Karen mentioned various CC-By-SA licensed derivatives that had been
  made from Sita Sings the
  Blues. (38:24)
• Bradley discussed the href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._and_JK_Rowling_vs._RDR_Books">Harry
  Potter Lexicon case and Karen mentioned the so-called href="http://ipcolloquium.com/mobile/2009/09/derivative-work/">IP
  Colloquium discussion on it. (44:30)
• Bradley mentioned href="http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Portal:Main">Memory Alpha, which is a
  CC-By-NC wiki regarding Star
  Trek, which is tolerated by Paramount. (45:20)

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