[Cc-nl] erosion of copyright in The Netherlands

Joost Helberg joost at snow.nl
Wed Aug 18 03:54:13 EDT 2004


ls,

It used to be possible to enforce free re-distribution of work by
using copyright, this is not the case anymore.
In the Netherlands, companies pay a flat fee (indexed by size and type
of industry) for xerox-copying copyright protected work.
This means that although you may publish something under GPL or other
free-redistribution license, the person copying (with a xerox copier)
still will pay a fee for doing this.

In practice, this means that it is impossible for an author to
exercise copyrights on his own material with regards to free
redistribution. 

How can we do something about this? None of the involved parties seem
to be interested in this issue, as everybody sees copyright as a way
to protect material from being copied.

I've had contact with the `stichting auteursrechtbelangen', but I
don't think they will allow a different view on copyright to be
expressed. 

Anyone any good idea's?

regards,

Joost
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Joost Helberg
Voorzitter VOSN  http://www.vosn.nl Tel 0418-653336 Fax 0418-653666


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