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  • From: melanie dulong de rosnay <melanie.dulong-de-rosnay AT cersa.org>
  • To: "liste cc-fr <cc-fr AT lists.ibiblio.org>" <cc-fr AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [cc-fr] première mention des CC dans une décision de justice en Espagne
  • Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:56:28 +0100

Bonjour,

Ignasi Labastida de CC Espagne nous signale la première mention des licences Creative Commons dans une décision de justice.
La SGAE (principale société d'auteurs en Espagne) a demandé le paiement de près de 5000 euros à un bar qui diffusait de la musique sous CC. Le tribunal l'a déboutée car le bar ne diffusait pas de titres appartenant au répertoire géré par la SGAE.

En France, la SACEM a convenu que la diffusion publique de musique sous CC (ou du domaine public) ne nécessitait ni autorisation préalable ni paiement d'une redevance : http://fr.creativecommons.org/menu3/main_faqgen.htm#7

Je posterai la référence exacte de cette décision de la cour de Badajoz dès qu'elle sera publiée, de même pour l'audition préliminaire qui doit avoir lieu aujourd'hui même à Amsterdam pour cette affaire :

md

News in spanish: 

Automatic english translation:
"The music is free"
A judge of Badajoz fails Metropol, defendant for the General Society of 
Authors, in favor of the owner of the bar
M.M./BADAJOZ

The bar Metropol of Badajoz will not have to pay the General Society of 
Authors and Publishers (SGAE) the 4.816 euros that this claimed from him.

The Lower Court number 6 of Badajoz has dictated a new sentence in which 
it absolves the owner of the bar of that demand because it considers 
that the SGAE has not proved that the music that was listened to in the 
site between November 2002 and August 2005 was property of the authors 
that this society represents.

The matter has a transcendence that goes beyond the almost five thousand 
euros claimed from the Metropol. In fact, until now, every time that the 
SGAE claimed from a bar, the judges proved a store or to a restaurant 
for the music that they reproduce in its stores him, because the SGAE 
represented practically all the authors.

However, that situation has changed, and like this recognizes it the 
judge that accepts the arguments of the owner of the sued bar. A new 
movement of 'free' music or 'free' is extending. It is called 'Creative 
Commons, and it consists in that the authors who adhere to that label 
allow having its music, taking it down, freely, from Internet. It is 
music that 'escapes' to the control of the SGAE. As it explains itself 
in the sentence, the owner of Metropol accessed to music through 
Internet under license of 'Creative Commons, as some witnesses declared 
that they go to the bar. The judge argues that what is relevant in this 
case is not that in Metropol music of 'Creative Commons' was listened 
to, but used music managed by the SGAE.

This society tried to prove that that bar put on music managed by it, 
and for that it made recordings and sent detectives to the site. But 
these did not indicate any work specifically that it was listened to in 
the site.

«So that the demand was successful -it states the judge-, the General 
Society of Authors and Publishers should have proved that in the store 
music of its repertory reproduces». As it has not made it, the sued 
employer is absolved. Besides, it is condemned to the SGAE to pay the 
coasts of the judicial process. The sentence can to be recurred.



  • [cc-fr] première mention des CC dans une décision de justice en Espagne, melanie dulong de rosnay, 02/28/2006

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