[cc-community] Calling all Dutch: Petition to persuade the Dutch music rights collecting society to allow CC licenses

Pieter Roosens pieter at roosensdesign.com
Tue May 8 06:39:41 EDT 2007


Thanks for this information, Bjorn.
This same problem occurs in the rest of the EU as far as I know.
Here in Belgium this discussion is also running anyway.
A discussion conference to be held after summer with interested  
people and organisations, is in the planning stage.
We will see what comes out. Maybe a petition could be a good idea  
here also ... before or after that.

Good luck,
Pieter

Op 8-mei-07, om 10:29 heeft Burobjorn het volgende geschreven:

> Hi everybody,
>
> Last week, Ard Boer of dutch independent music label RaRa Records [1]
> and Lopend Vuur[2] podcast co-host contacted us (Simuze[3]) if we were
> interested in joining his petition to allow for more flexible  
> contracts
> by the Dutch music rights collecting society Buma/Stemra[4].
>
> The current situation in the Netherlands is that by becoming a  
> member of
> the collecting society you'll have to transfer all your exploitation
> rights exclusively to them. Any musician or composer that wants to get
> the money collected in their name has to become a member of this
> (actually on paper 2 organizations) organization or else they'll never
> will get this money. This rights collecting society has been  
> granted the
> monopoly right to collect rights by the government. Basically this
> situation stinks and we want to see it changed:
>
> We want to see more flexible contracts (= non-exclusive) for  
> members of
> the rights collecting society which allows them to choose the  
> conditions
> under which to release their own music and for instance use CC  
> licenses
> for this.
>
> So, off course we joined his effort and thus I'm sending this email to
> this list. Although there might not be so many dutch folks on this  
> list,
> I would like ask the few available to go an sign the petition.
>
> For all non-dutch people, it's a Dutch organization and it would be
> better for this cause to have loads of affected Dutch people sign it
> instead of loads of non-affected non-Dutch people.
>
> Instead we would like to urge you to start your own petitions, in the
> hope that we can see a change in the contracts used by the rights
> collecting societies all over the world and that initiatives like  
> the CC
> licenses can be used in conjuction with a rights collecting society
> membership.



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