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CreativeCommonsDevelopingNationsLicense

CreativCommons? is a non-profit corproration based in Massachussetts.

In 2004, CreativeCommons launched a license that allows content creators to distribute their content, royalty-free in nations that are not classified by the World Bank as “high income” 1.

The point of the CreativeCommonsDevelopingNationsLicense is to allow any conent producer to simultaneously release content as both requiring royalty, and as royalty-free, depending on the nation it is released in.

This would potentially allow people in “developing” nations to capitalize on, or sell, modify and redistribute the works (or have free access to them). Yet, it would allow the content producer to also sell their works in non-developing nation markets they way they have traditionally.

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Thanks Radomir. After I got all excited about this license, I talked to some people on the #CC IRC channel, and they suggested not using it. You can accomplish the same thing with CC BY license, it looks like they are going in the direction of creating langauge to add similar terms to eh CCDEVNATIONS as an option.

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1. see this page for a list of countries that are listed as “high income”: http://tinyurl.com/3bs2t3

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