Non-commercial activity

Short description: Activity that does not involve commerce

A non-commercial (also spelled noncommercial) activity is an activity that is not carried out in the interest of profit.[1] The opposite is commercial, something that primarily serves profit interests and is focused on business.

For example, advertising-free community radio stations are typically nonprofit organizations staffed by individuals volunteering their efforts to air a wide variety of radio programming, and do not run explicit radio advertisements, included in the United States specific grouping of "non-commercial educational" (NCE) public radio stations.

## Copyright and licenses

Some Creative Commons licenses include a "non-commercial" option, which has been controversial in definition.[2] In a 2008 survey conducted in the United States, some respondents interpreted the concept as:[3]

* "If I have nothing to gain from it, then it's non-commercial."
* "If you can afford to pay for it, do it; otherwise it's OK anyway"
* "What we consider to have "genuine" educational purpose"

## References

1. ↑ Netherlands, Statistics. "Non-commercial services" (in en-GB). https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/our-services/methods/definitions/non-commercial-services.
2. ↑ Defining Noncommercial report published", Creative Commons, Retrieved 15 September 2016
3. ↑ Defining "Noncommercial". Creative Commons Corporation. September 2009.

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