Hi folks,
Pete Forsyth wrote a new essay on the ambiguities of the NonCommercial ("non-commercial use only") provision in Creative Commons licenses, which I wanted to share in case it's helpful for folks making the case against using NC to cultural institutions or others (or in the occasionally resurgent debate to permit NC within Wikimedia):
https://freedomdefined.org/The_non-commercial_provision_obfuscates_intent
It argues that NC is so ambiguous in its defining restriction that it almost defeats the point of attaching a CC license at all. I feel this complements the longer (dated!) essay at https://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC nicely.
Warmly,
Erik