Forum:MagCloud for CC-NC-SA

The Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share alike license, which is used for GuildWiki and probably other wikia wikis, is - I believe, incompatable with the new MagCloud extension. The purpose of a non-commercial license is that nobody can sell the work. However, MagCloud will make a profit out of the sale of content in this way.

Adverts on pages are, it is generally accepted, an exception to this rule, as they help fund the hosting of the content, whilst, I'm sure, part of the deal with Wikia and MagCloud is that Wikia gets some of the profits, this is not sufficient to break the entire license, and indeed the original terms of the licence. At no point before the deal were editors informed that their content would be sold. Whilst the CC-BY-SA license that most wikia wikis use can be sold in this way, as there is no non-commercial clause, NC-SA must not be used in this way.

Please disable this extension for wikis using a CC-NC-SA license Random Time  08:24, October 23, 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi! Thanks for your post.  With MagCloud, users are paying for the printing rather than the content itself.  In that way, it really isn't much different than if a user paid HP for the printer and the ink that he uses to print the content out himself.  The MagCloud user agreement that all users must accept before publishing to MagCloud states that users may only publish material that they have permission to use; while it is true that it is possible for a user to publish a magazine and make it available for a profit, the user is ultimately responsible for ensuring that he uses content in a way that complies with any applicable copyright and licensing restrictions.  We believe that using MagCloud to create a magazine for one's own personal use complies with the non-commercial clause of a CC-NC license. --KyleH (talk) 23:33, October 23, 2009 (UTC)