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- **It adds huge legal [bloat](bloat.md).** Similarly to e.g. [copyleft](copyleft.md), the NC clause has to either be very vague and unclear or extremely long and complex in explaining what it really means. This of course leads to unclarities, legal bugs, confusion, payments of lawyers etc.
- **It strengthens the idea of [intellectual property](intellectual_property.md).** The basic aim of free culture is to relax "intellectual property" laws, not to strengthen them or continue the ways of [permission culture](permission_culture.md), therefore the strict NC limitation is very unpopular among proponents of free culture. We, [LRS](lrs.md), strongly reject the very idea of being able to own information, so stricter legal conditions are always worse in our view.
- **NC license may be in some cases worse than no license at all.** Even though Creative Commons NC licenses give basic rights such as that for non-commercial sharing, the explicit prohibition of commercial use may in specific cases result in more harm than if there was no license attached to the work, because breaking a rule that's stated explicitly may in court be seen as a bit more serious and intentional than breaking an implicit rule. (Similar reasoning was used to reject [CC0](cc0.md) by [OSI](osi.md).)
- **NC license is [proprietary](proprietary.md), i.e. all arguments against proprietary works apply.**
- **NC license is [proprietary](proprietary.md), i.e. all arguments against proprietary works apply.**
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{ Nice parody is the CC BY-NV license :D https://questioncopyright.org/cc-by-nv/trackback.html ~drummyfish }
## See Also
- [ND](nd.md)
- [CC BY-NV](cc_by_nv.md)