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The Siscode Anti-Monopoly License was created in response to reading the motivation behind the Decolonial Media License's choice to allow commercial use to prevent the original copyright holder from maintaining a monopoly on commercial use.

We (siscode) decided to create a license wchich we believe more adequately addresses the monopoly concern, while still being as anti-commercial as possible. our solution was to allow commercial use conditionally, allowing it only if the copyright holders have already used the work commercially. This bypasses the possibility of monopoly, while still remaining a noncommercial work provided the copyright holders do not use it commercially. the intent of the license is that the copyright holders should not use the work commercially,and the conditional commercial use clause is never intended to come into play. It exists merely as a fallback to prevent the establishment of an unfair monopoly.

Additionally, we made the controversial choice to not require attribution in the standard versions of the license. (credit-required licenses will be made available, though.) This is because we believe that the extra burden of maintaining credit discourages remixing, especially when creating a work which is a composition of many works, each of which requires attribution. Additionally, we do not believe that being given credit is of any material value to a strictly noncommercial organization. In short, we wish to become the basis of creation, not a part of it. Simply demanding that ones name appear on derivative works is itself a form of monopoly.

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