Editing Creative Commons (section)

===<span class="anchor" id="Criticism of the non-commercial license"></span>Non-commercial use licenses===
[[File:Defining noncommercial Creative Commons 2009.pdf|thumb|"Defining 'Noncommercial{{' "}}, a 2009 report from Creative Commons on the concept of noncommercial media]]
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Various commentators have reported confusion in understanding what "noncommercial" use means. Creative Commons issued a report in 2009, "Defining noncommercial", which presented research and various perspectives. The report claimed that noncommercial to many people means "no exchange of money or any commerce". Beyond that simple statement, many people disagree on whether noncommercial use permits publishing on websites supported with advertising, sharing noncommercial media through nonprofit publishing for a fee, and many other practices in contemporary media distribution. Creative Commons has not sought to resolve the confusion, in part because of high consumer demand for the noncommercial license as is with its ambiguity.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kim|first=Minjeong|date= October 2007 |title=The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses |journal=Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication|volume=13|issue=1|pages=187–209|doi=10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00392.x|issn=1083-6101|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=About The Licenses - Creative Commons|url=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/|access-date=2020-09-06|website=creativecommons.org|archive-date=July 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726003931/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/|url-status=live}}</ref>