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Hello, here is a short article on Creative Commons...
Everyone can finally protect their creations!
How to promote the dissemination of digital works while protecting copyright? An American law professor found the solution: Creative Commons, a license that operates similarly to the GPL license.
Since November 19, artists or content creators can define the conditions for reuse and exploitation of their work online, in France as in many countries. Thanks to Creative Commons licenses that apply the principle of free software to the distribution of digital works (texts, photos, videos, music, or even websites).
The project started in 2001 under the impetus of American academic Lawrence Lessig (*); this is why the texts governing these licenses were first written in English, referring to American copyright law. Subsequently, teams of volunteer lawyers dedicated themselves to translating and adapting them into their language and national legislation.
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In France, it was the Centre for Study and Research in Administrative Science (Cersa) that took on this task. “Instead of subjecting any act not covered by legal exceptions to the prior authorization of exclusive rights holders, Creative Commons licenses allow the public to be granted advance permission to make certain uses according to the conditions expressed by the author,” can be read on the French Creative Commons website.
Arteradio.com already under Creative Commons license
“It is not about providing technical protection to works placed under [these] licenses, but about offering the public information on the rights and uses granted free of charge: private copying and legal exceptions are preserved, but also sharing on file exchange networks, reproduction, distribution, public representation, [and] sometimes modification...”.
Some have already been convinced by these new contracts: a group of artists including Brazilian Gilberto Gil (also the Minister of Culture of his country), the American rap group Beastie Boys, and former Talking Heads leader David Byrne created a compilation, distributed with the November issue of the American magazine Wired, on which all the tracks are governed by the Creative Commons license.
In France, the web radio of Arte, Arteradio.com, has already adopted the Creative Commons license. “All reports and sound creations on the site are freely downloadable and shareable for non-commercial use,” can be read in a statement. “Arteradio.com retains ownership of the rights but supports the dissemination of its content outside the commercial sphere.” It is therefore a database containing more than 460 MP3 files that users are free to download, share on "peer-to-peer" networks, or even burn. Arte's reports can also be freely rebroadcast as long as the director and source are mentioned.
People wishing to attach a Creative Commons license to their work can combine four conditions, leading to six different contracts (described here in detail and graphically).
The usage conditions are as follows:
- attribution: the work can be freely used, provided that the authorship is acknowledged and the name is cited (this condition is always present in a Creative Commons license);
- non-commercial use: the work must not be exploited for commercial purposes;
- no modification: the author refuses to allow their work to be modified, transformed, or incorporated into another work;
- share-alike: the author requests that derivative works, meaning those derived from their own creation, be offered under the same Creative Commons conditions as the original work.
And the six possible contracts are as follows:
- attribution;
- attribution and no modification;
- attribution, no modification, and no commercial use;
- attribution and no commercial use;
- attribution and share-alike;
- attribution, no commercial use, and share-alike.
(*) Lawrence Lessig is a law professor in California, at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society.
Source: Estelle Dumout
ZDNet France
http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/internet/0%2C39020774%2C39184091%2C00.htm
Maily :-))))
Boumj'chtattrape
Everyone can finally protect their creations!
How to promote the dissemination of digital works while protecting copyright? An American law professor found the solution: Creative Commons, a license that operates similarly to the GPL license.
Since November 19, artists or content creators can define the conditions for reuse and exploitation of their work online, in France as in many countries. Thanks to Creative Commons licenses that apply the principle of free software to the distribution of digital works (texts, photos, videos, music, or even websites).
The project started in 2001 under the impetus of American academic Lawrence Lessig (*); this is why the texts governing these licenses were first written in English, referring to American copyright law. Subsequently, teams of volunteer lawyers dedicated themselves to translating and adapting them into their language and national legislation.
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In France, it was the Centre for Study and Research in Administrative Science (Cersa) that took on this task. “Instead of subjecting any act not covered by legal exceptions to the prior authorization of exclusive rights holders, Creative Commons licenses allow the public to be granted advance permission to make certain uses according to the conditions expressed by the author,” can be read on the French Creative Commons website.
Arteradio.com already under Creative Commons license
“It is not about providing technical protection to works placed under [these] licenses, but about offering the public information on the rights and uses granted free of charge: private copying and legal exceptions are preserved, but also sharing on file exchange networks, reproduction, distribution, public representation, [and] sometimes modification...”.
Some have already been convinced by these new contracts: a group of artists including Brazilian Gilberto Gil (also the Minister of Culture of his country), the American rap group Beastie Boys, and former Talking Heads leader David Byrne created a compilation, distributed with the November issue of the American magazine Wired, on which all the tracks are governed by the Creative Commons license.
In France, the web radio of Arte, Arteradio.com, has already adopted the Creative Commons license. “All reports and sound creations on the site are freely downloadable and shareable for non-commercial use,” can be read in a statement. “Arteradio.com retains ownership of the rights but supports the dissemination of its content outside the commercial sphere.” It is therefore a database containing more than 460 MP3 files that users are free to download, share on "peer-to-peer" networks, or even burn. Arte's reports can also be freely rebroadcast as long as the director and source are mentioned.
People wishing to attach a Creative Commons license to their work can combine four conditions, leading to six different contracts (described here in detail and graphically).
The usage conditions are as follows:
- attribution: the work can be freely used, provided that the authorship is acknowledged and the name is cited (this condition is always present in a Creative Commons license);
- non-commercial use: the work must not be exploited for commercial purposes;
- no modification: the author refuses to allow their work to be modified, transformed, or incorporated into another work;
- share-alike: the author requests that derivative works, meaning those derived from their own creation, be offered under the same Creative Commons conditions as the original work.
And the six possible contracts are as follows:
- attribution;
- attribution and no modification;
- attribution, no modification, and no commercial use;
- attribution and no commercial use;
- attribution and share-alike;
- attribution, no commercial use, and share-alike.
(*) Lawrence Lessig is a law professor in California, at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society.
Source: Estelle Dumout
ZDNet France
http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/internet/0%2C39020774%2C39184091%2C00.htm
Maily :-))))
Boumj'chtattrape
