I could use some clarification about what "commercial" means.
Here's my scenario:
I do software training. I create slide decks. I use images on those slide decks.
I often search Flickr and elsewhere, and find images I'd like to use in my slide decks, images that use the CC non-commercial license.
Clients are either paying my company for training, or have paid to go to a conference.
The slide decks for conference materials, at least in PDF form, are given away, subject only to my employer's copyright.
The PDFs of training materials are not currently made freely available, but could be.
Money exchanges hands ... but indirectly, for my time, and not as payment for the slide decks (which are, in fact, somewhat useless without the accompanying presenter).
So ... is this considered "commercial"?
I suspect the intent of "noncommericial" is to keep second parties from, for example, printing and seeling an artist's photos. Our copyright would prevent anyone from, say, printing and selling my slide decks, or using them as part of an on-line article. But do I have the right to use CC licensed images that have the "noncommerical" clause in my slide decks?
