Many people have asked us over the years whether any court had held that CC licenses were enforceable. I have always found this question to be amusing. In my many years as a lawyer in private practice, if the licenses I had drafted were *not* litigated, then I was considered to have done my job … Read More “Creative Commons Licenses Enforced in Dutch Court”
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 apply to the content licensed under it. The proceedings arose … Read More “CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES UPHELD IN DUTCH COURT”
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Today, the OYEZ Project announced the first-stage, 100-hour release of MP3s from their 2000+ hours of Supreme Court recordings using Creative Commons’ licenses. The release also marks the debut of our new metadata tagging and verification strategy, which explains how to attach and verify license information to MP3s (and soon, other files) for distribution on … Read More “Supreme Court Audio Classics Enter P2P Zone Thanks to Creative Commons Licenses”
Creative Commons Also Rolls Out Strategy for Embedding and Verifying License Information in MP3s and Other Files Palo Alto and Chicago, USA — Creative Commons and the OYEZ Project announced today the first-stage 100-hour release of MP3s from the Project’s 2000+ hours of Supreme Court recordings using Creative Commons’ machine-readable copyright licenses. Creative Commons also … Read More “Supreme Court Audio Classics Enter P2P Zone Thanks to Creative Commons Licenses”
Hello Creative Commoners! This week is Open Education Week, and we are back with a new episode of CC’s podcast, Open Minds … from Creative Commons. In this episode, CC’s Director of Open Knowledge, Dr. Cable Green, sits down for a conversation with Open Education Advocate, Dr. Angela Haydel DeBarger. Angela is a Program Officer … Read More “Open Minds Podcast: Angela DeBarger of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation”
Hi Creative Commoners! We’re back with the first episode of Open Minds … from Creative Commons in 2022. In this episode, CC’s Ony Anukem sits down for a conversation with Hessel van Oorschot, founder and “Chief of Noise” of the online music business Tribe of Noise. Tribe of Noise is a music community that connects … Read More “Open Minds Podcast: Hessel van Oorschot of Tribe of Noise & Free Music Archive”
On January 18, 2012, the web went dark in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), two bills introduced into the United States House and Senate in the last quarter of 2011. Why are we talking about this day ten years later? The fight for a global internet, … Read More “SOPA Plus 10, reflections and continued work”
Creative Commons licenses are copyright licenses, enforceable by law. While we believe that it’s important to respect the terms of CC licenses, enforcement of the licenses should be a way of making sure that creators are treated fairly, not a scheme to trap well-meaning reusers who would be willing to correct errors. If users are … Read More “Statement of Enforcement Principles”
