Browsing Sydney eScholarship. Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand. Licenses/NC - Definition of Free Cultural Works. When the Creative Commons project published its first licenses in December 2002, it finally brought a sense of unity to the free culture movement. Instead of having to choose from many scattered licenses, authors now have the option to pick the right license for their work using a simple tool. They only have to answer basic questions like: “Allow commercial uses? Allow modifications?” The tool then recommends one of the licenses developed by the Creative Commons team. They are legally sane, simple documents, specially adapted for various jurisdictions. One particular licensing option, however, is a growing problem for the free culture community. The key problems with -NC licenses are as follows: They make your work incompatible with a growing body of free content, even if you do want to allow derivative works or combinations.
Incompatibility[edit] Millions of people use free content every day. Allowing commercial use is also fundamental in the free software community. Profit[edit] Creative Commons. Youtube.