[FC-discuss] Choosing the Best License for a Wiki

[Ryan Prior]

I know nothing about WikiTravel in particular, but if their work is
licensed under BY-SA, then there is no problem in any way for a
company to sell their work without compensating them.

However, that appears to me as a potential problem. If a group builds
up a corpus of knowledge, I see no conflict with the aims of the Free
Culture movement if they decided to require a publisher to pay them in
order to print their material and sell it. One could rely on the
philanthropy of the publisher to, as you say, fund future development
of the original wiki; but if a group decides to attach a NonCommercial
stipulation, I fail to see the problem.

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Crosbie Fitch
<crosbie at cyberspaceengineers.org> wrote:
> Compare with WikiTravel.
>  http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Wikitravel_Press
>
>  What precisely is wrong with a 'commercial entity' selling travel books
>  based upon copies of CC-SA work?
>
>  Do you think they should be forced to pay? Prosecuted perhaps unless they
>  pay for the copies they made?
>
>  I thought all us free culture types were all in support of letting artists
>  be rewarded for their work, despite requiring that they must leave people
>  free to copy it?
>
>  Anyway, you'll probably find that when/if WikiTravel Press starts making
>  mega bucks they will start funding authors to improve upon the WikiTravel
>  web site.
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Ryan Prior [mailto:ryanprior at gmail.com]
>  Sent: Sunday, 2 March 2008 7:21pm
>  To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization inparticular
>  Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] Choosing the Best License for a Wiki
>
>  There may be no doubt that BY-NC-SA is not a copyleft license, but
>  when it comes to wiki development, it makes sense to me that
>  commercial entities should have to pay in order to use the copyrighted
>  content, whereas those who are using it for noncommercial purposes
>  should be able to do so without restriction other than Share Alike.
>
>
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