[cc-community] Dutch breakthrough CC and collecting societies

Pieter Roosens pieter at roosensdesign.com
Fri Aug 24 04:15:50 EDT 2007


Congratulations!
Living in your neighbour country Belgium, I hope this will be  
stimulating for our copyrights organisation SABAM and the other ones  
in Europe.
I have sent this right into their mailbox.

Thanks for this infomation,
Pieter

Op 23-aug-07, om 19:23 heeft Martijn Arnoldus het volgende geschreven:

> Press release by Dutch CC-team
>
> Buma/Stemra and Creative Commons Netherlands launch a pilot
> More opportunities for music authors to promote their own music
>
> Amsterdam, 23 August 2007 - Buma/Stemra and Creative Commons  
> Netherlands are
> launching a pilot that will give members of Buma/Stemra the  
> opportunity to publish their
> music works under a non-commercial Creative Commons licence.  
> Composers and
> lyricists, who to date have only been able to publish their work  
> under a Creative Commons
> license, may now opt to join Buma/Stemra and have this organisation  
> collect their
> royalties for commercial use of their work. With this pilot Buma/ 
> Stemra and Creative
> Commons Netherlands seek to provide Dutch musicians with more  
> opportunities to
> promote their own repertoire.
>
> The Netherlands is the first country to bring about this kind of  
> collaboration between a music
> copyright organisation and Creative Commons. Lawrence Lessig, the  
> founder and chairman of
> Creative Commons International, says “This unique and innovative  
> collaboration between Buma/
> Stemra and Creative Commons is the first step towards more freedom  
> of choice in the field of
> exploiting music works in the digital world.”
>
> Ronald Plasterk, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and  
> Science applauds the initiative:
> “The pilot is in line with the growing need of creative people to  
> distribute their own works through
> digital networks. Music authors are now entirely free to place  
> their works before a national as well
> as international public. At the same time they still have the  
> benefits of collective management.
> The collaboration between Buma/Stemra and Creative Commons is  
> unique and without equal in
> the field. The collective rights organisation Buma/Stemra shows  
> that it is open to innovation. With
> this collaboration the Netherlands confirm its leading position as  
> a country for creative
> entrepreneurs to settle.”
>
> More individual solutions
> Creative Commons Netherlands and Buma/Stemra are pleased about the  
> pilot, which gives
> authors of works more freedom to choose between the commercial and  
> non-commercial
> exploitation of their works. The emergence of internet requires  
> more flexibility in managing
> copyrights. This is why Buma/Stemra launched the Flexco project in  
> 2005* to examine the
> opportunities to provide their members with more individual  
> solutions based on new technological
> developments, without harming the collective. Cees Vervoord, Buma/ 
> Stemra’s Chairman, says,
> “This initiative reflects our intention to provide the best  
> possible service to our members. We hope
> that this pilot makes it easier for music authors to promote their  
> works.”
>
> End of all-or-nothing scenario
> Until now authors have been unable to make available part of their  
> repertoire for non-commercial
> use on the internet and at the same time have Buma/Stemra collect  
> their royalties for commercial
> use of those works. Paul Keller, Public Project Lead of Creative  
> Commons Netherlands, says,
> “We are pleased that this pilot brings to an end the all-or-nothing  
> scenario. This way the Creative
> Commons Licenses can complement the existing collective management  
> system.”
> The pilot was launched on 23 August 2007 and will continue for a  
> period of one year, after which
> it will be evaluated. The pilot is open to all Dutch composers and  
> lyricists. For more information
> on it, please visit www.bumastemra.nl and www.creativecommons.nl.
>
>
>
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