CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES UPHELD IN DUTCH COURT
Submitted by Mia Garlick on 2006-03-16.
San Francisco, USA, & Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 15, 2006
The first known court decision involving a Creative Commons license was handed down on March 9, 2006 by the District Court of Amsterdam. The case confirmed that the conditions of a Creative Commons license automatically […]

Yesterday the verdict was published in the Dutch case of Curry vs. Weekend. It is a rather long text, but for those of you who can read Dutch, you’ll find the full text here.
What happened? Weekend (a Dutch tabloid) had taken taken images from Adam Curry’s Flickr.com page and used them to liven up […]

Last Friday, at the Noorderslag Music Festival in Groningen Buma/Stemra (the principal Dutch organization that looks after the interests of composers, song writers and publishers of music in The Netherlands) announced it will start a project to develop more flexible forms of collective rights management. The project will also consider Creative Commons. The great majority […]

In autumn last year, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science granted a subsidy for the promotion and use of Creative Commons licences in The Netherlands. Three organizations (Kennisland | Knowledgeland, Waag Society and IViR) have together developed a work programme for Creative Commons The Netherlands for the next two years. The English translation […]

Walt Disney became a very big company by adapting folk tales and turning them into copyrighted products like films and comics. Folk tales are traditional cultural expressions, expressions that are in the public domain. However, even though there may be a large and growing public domain, we have become used to the idea that all […]

The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science have agreed to financially support Creative Commons The Netherlands (CC-NL) for the coming two-and-a-half years.
CC-NL will use the money to develop the following activities:
* Supporting the use of Creative Commons licenses in The Netherlands.
* Carrying out research about the use of […]

I am a bit late posting this message, but it is still worth putting it on the blog. An interesting new initiative was launched last week in Britain by the Royal Society of Arts: the Adelphi Charter on creativity, innovation and intellectual property.
The Adelphi Charter comes with new principles for copyrights and patents. It also […]

The Manila Bulletin Online today reports about proposals to establish a special court for intellectual property violations in the Philippines. Currently, nearly 1,200 cases of IP violations are pending in court - much more than the system can handle.
See also:
Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines

A survey conducted by British research firm The Leading Question reveals that people who regularly download or share unlicensed music are increasingly enthusiastic buyers of digital music. On average the ‘pirates’ spend four and a half times as much on buying music online as those who are not active in p2p-networks.
Read opinions about the findings:
The […]

Hey! I have been waiting for this, and now, finally it’s here: a licence through which you can declare your work to realm of the gods.
The Libre Society - the radical artistic and cultural movement that is committed to releasing free/libre/open-source art, music and literature - has launched a new project: Libre Commons. The LC […]