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Spanish Court Recognizes CC-Music
by mia Uncategorized postFollowing on from the recent decision in a Dutch Court, Creative Commons licenses have also been implicated in a decision in Spain. The issue in this case was not whether the CC license was enforceable, but instead whether the major collecting society in Spain could collect royalties from a bar that played CC-licensed music. Unfortunately,…
SPANISH COURT RECOGNIZES FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THERE IS MUSIC THAT IS NOT REPRESENTED BY COLLECTING SOCIETIES
by mia About CC postSpanish bar owner does not have to pay license fees to Spain’s primary collecting society for CC-licensed music Barcelona, Spain & San Francisco, USA — March 23, 2006 Last month, the Lower Court number six of Badajoz, a city in Extremadura, Spain, ruled that a bar owner did not have to pay license fees to…
Creative Commons Licenses Enforced in Dutch Court
by mia Uncategorized postMany 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…
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES UPHELD IN DUTCH COURT
by mia About CC postSan 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…
FILE sharing: Does it have to be a Supreme Court case?
by press-robot Press post… a group of law professors, the National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys, the National Venture Capital Association, Creativefrom Chicago Daily Herald – Chicago,IL,USA
SUPREME Court Asked To Reverse Music Sampling Case
by press-robot Press post… But seriously, wouldn’t it render the new Creative Commons Samplingfrom Slashdot – USA
Supreme Court Audio Classics Enter P2P Zone Thanks to Creative Commons Licenses
by glenn Uncategorized postToday, 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…
Supreme Court Audio Classics Enter P2P Zone Thanks to Creative Commons Licenses
by matt About CC postCreative 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…
Recap & Recording: Maximizing the Value(s) of Open Access in Cultural Heritage Institutions
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara, Connor Benedict Uncategorized postIn February, we hosted a webinar in our Open Culture Live series titled “Maximizing the Value(s) of Open Access in Cultural Heritage Institutions.” In this blog post, we summarize the key points raised in the discussion and share a link to the recording.
CC Responds to the United States Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
by Creative Commons Better Internet, Copyright, Licenses & Tools, Technology postIn August, the United States Copyright Office issued a Notice of Inquiry seeking public responses to 34 questions (and several sub-questions) about the intersection of copyright law and artificial intelligence. The comment period closed on 30 October with over 10,000 individuals and organizations responding, representing a broad spectrum of interests on how copyright should apply in relation to generative AI. CC joined in the conversation to provide our own thoughts on copyright and AI to the copyright office.