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I had this idea for creating a short and opinionated guide to how to choose your creative commons license. As I show in the notes, I've deliberately missed the CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND and CC-BY-NC-SA. The first two because their pointless unless you have specific uses and the third because it's toxic to collaboration.

IANAL, please consult your legal professional for further information on what licenses would be good for your work.
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~0rAX0 Feb 11, 2011   General Artist
Thanks man, things like these get me confused easily, so it's nice to have it explained to you like that :)
Could you please add more? :P

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*doctormo Feb 11, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
What more would you like?

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~0rAX0 Feb 12, 2011   General Artist
I honestly have no idea! :P

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~Ishara Feb 9, 2011
Nice flowchart. I never get tired of seeing these things. :D

Though, I don't understand why you have an issue with the BY-NC-SA license. I've always considered it to be one of the best middle grounds for collaborative artworks, at least when getting folks to transition from full copyrights towards CC. Suboptimal, yes... but "toxic"?

That being said, I agree that BY-NC and BY-ND are better left out, since they do seem to be quite useless in most cases and sometimes a bit confusing.

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*doctormo Feb 9, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Well... for collaborative works, it's really hard to argue that the work is so important that every single collaborator must be barred from making money from the work. Which is what it amounts to.

It locks the work away in legal loops, the reason why NC has never been allowed in Open Source is because it causes legal issues when you have more than one creator.

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~tudza Feb 9, 2011
I think the "to" should be a "the" in the box "Does to artwork..."
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*doctormo Feb 9, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
I agree, but inkscape is being a beyatch and won't open the original svg. anthropologies to all for typo. ;-)

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~Pahul Feb 9, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
Nice job man, it's crystal clear! :thumbsup:
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~DSDFox Feb 9, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I use CC-BY-NC as a business at :iconvulpinedesignsultd: because I don't want other businesses using my ideas for their profit, but others are permitted to make derivatives provided they attribute the original to me.
Take a look at how my business operates and tell me if you can see a better license match.

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*doctormo Feb 9, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Yes, the main difficulty with creating a derivative of your work is that none of them can be used for profit either. So everyone must be a volunteer making their work for the fun of it.

Although your works seem so specialised and specific that they hardly need NC protection. An Share-alike license would stop most commercial exploitation and using a strong attribution requirements is pretty good too. You could release a handful of works and see what happens, I bet nothing will happen.

It depends I guess how you want people to use your work. If you just want them to mess about with the work, play and experiment and parody. Then use all rights reserved, because copyright doesn't apply to those kinds of uses very well anyway.

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