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CREATIVE COMMONS TO PORT LICENSES TO CHINA

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San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — March 29, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in The People’s Republic of China. Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge…

Spanish Court Recognizes CC-Music

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Following 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,…

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES LAUNCH IN MEXICO

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San Francisco, USA, Berlin, GERMANY, March 16, 2006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Mexico. Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website. The licenses allow authors…

Creative Commons Licenses Enforced in Dutch Court

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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…