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Originally Posted by blutorange
ご購入いただいた素材は、購入者に限り、営利、非営利 を問わず、自由に使用できます。またクレジットへ当サ ークル名の記載は必要ありません。禁止事項：この素材 を複製したものを配布、譲渡、販売する事は営利、非営 利を問わず禁止します。
YOU, the buyer, may use this content commercially or non-commercially. Furthermore, it is not necessary to give the name of this club/company/author [probably refering to キュキュキュのQのQ ?] in the credits.
Forbidden: Redistribution, Selling or Duplication of this content, whether commercial or not.
Do not ask me for what other commercial interests one could use a story, though. Perhaps you can take it as an inspiration, or write a prequel/sequel to the story and sell it? I suppose it is questionable whether distributing a translation falls under "distribution of this content..."
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DID SOMEONE CALL FOR A COPYRIGHT LAWYER
Haha, all kidding aside, written works (in the US) receive a bundle of exclusive rights collectively known as "copyright." (Other works—like choreography or architectural works, e.g.—receive different bundles, but they're all called the same thing: "copyright.")
For literary works (i.e., novels, poems, etc.), the exclusive rights reserved to the author are reproduction, preparation of derivative works, distribution, performance, and display.
United States Code: Title 17,106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works | LII / Legal Information Institute
If this license grants all commercial use except redistribution, selling, and duplication, that leaves things like public performance (i.e., you can read the book to the public out on the street corner) and prepare derivative works.
(Explaining derivative works: Technically, a Harry Potter fanfic infringes the author's copyright because it's a derivative work. You need permission to make a Star Wars sequel, too—another type of derivative work.)
Of course, Japanese copyright law is different.