If I choose the noncommercial licence option, can I still make money from my licensed works?
Yes, absolutely. The ‘noncommercial use’ condition applies only to others who use your work, not to you (the copyright holder). When other people use or trade or copy your work, they cannot do so for ‘monetary compensation or financial gain’, unless they get your permission. One of CC’s central goals is to encourage people to experiment with new ways to promote and market their work. In fact, CC designed the noncommercial licence option to be a tool to help people make money from their work, by allowing them to maximise the distribution of their works while keeping control of the commercial aspects of their copyright. Take this example: You license your photograph with a noncommercial licence and post it on your website. An editor at Spectacle, a for-profit magazine, comes across your photo and wants to use it for the next issue’s cover. Under the noncommercial term, the editor could copy your photograph and show it to her friends and co-workers, but she would have to strike a separate
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