Comments on: NonCommercial study questionnaire extended to December 14

By: sampablokuper

sampablokuper — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:49:24 +0000

Should “noncommercial” CC licenses be replaced with “nonprofit” ones? “Nonprofit” is a better defined concept in law, I think.

I expect other people have already suggested this, but perhaps not…

By: bituur esztreym

bituur esztreym — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:42:37 +0000

hi,
sure full analysis and publishing results will take a little more,
but is possible any first feedback, on how many answers and so?

i took it, yes it was long but rich.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:07:18 +0000

I’m so glad this questionnaire is still available. I took time to fill it out when boingboing first mentioned it, and have recommended some of my friends do the same. I don’t think I informed them of how long it took me, nor do I recall that being mentioned before taking it. It was important enough to me, though, to take the time – the non-commercial section is indeed a murky point, and getting a consensus would be great.

I felt the questionnaire focused too much on the “Who” of non-comm use, but to me personally, the “What” is the relevant question. Not that I want the nice, easy CC license further split, but I wonder if we won’t be walking away from this with an extra license type or two to separate types of non-commercial. I don’t know what they would be, but the questions left me thinking there might need to be an extra break-out to fully cover this. And then I wonder what happens to stuff already marked just non-commercial, and which subset they would go under (probably just remain in the murk).

By: Dara Adib

Dara Adib — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:53:23 +0000

Just like Silveira, the -NC licenses are my only criticism of Creative Commons, a movement I support. But I took the survey, trying to define what I would think of as non-commercial. Glad to see the full disclosure now; when I took it, I was surprised at the length and the amount of thinking required (but it’s definitely worth it).

By: blueget

blueget — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:29:53 +0000

I find it very irritating that it basically says “Your opinion is shit, go away” if you state to be below 18 years. This leads to angry people and to a distorted survey, as the people who are refused to take the survey will just delete the cookie, and then either submit completely shit results or take the survey stating an false age.

By: Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:42:25 +0000

Thanks Silveira, If that is your only criticism of Creative Commons, that's pretty good news, as yours is a very common and well known criticism. :-) As I mentioned in the previous post about the questionnaire, we want feedback from everyone, including people who don't like or for some other reason don't use NC licenses. See that post for a bit more on that. Thanks for the feedback!

By: Silveira Neto

Silveira Neto — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:12:53 +0000

I don’t use Non Commercial on my works but I really would like to people that use it could reach a agree in a common understatement of this term.

There are a lot, really a lot of visions of what is Non Commercial. That’s bad because I can’t use those works mixed with my work.

Right now, is the only criticism I have about Creative Commons.