[cc-community] Exclusive commercial rights for a collaborative book

[Romaine Wiki]

Hi,

To start with getting a better understanding of this subject you can start
reading this booklet:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMBE-Free_Knowledge_thanks_to_Creative_Commons_Licenses.pdf

Romaine



Op maandag 27 juni 2016 heeft Ahmet Emre Aladağ <aladagemre at gmail.com> het
volgende geschreven:

> Hi,
>
> I've started writing a book on Git/Gitbook. I want to licence it with
> Creative Commons Non-Commercial and offer it for free to the public.
>
> I also want to make it collaborative so that anyone can contribute. But
> when they contribute, they have the copyright so they may not allow me to
> use it for commercial purposes.
>
> What if I wanted to publish the book in printed format? That would require
> me to have commercial rights (so that I can make an agreement with
> publisher), which I don't have for the contributions from others.
>
> So, can I use a dual licensing so that
>
> 1) I have the exclusive rights to publish content (via commercial
> publishers) including contributions from others commercially
> 2) Anyone else can use the content with Creative Commons Non-commercial
> licence
>
> What's the best way to describe this dual licence?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
> Ahmet Emre Aladağ
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