Creative Commons - Belgium

[mark AT markvdb.be]

Hi,

Sorry for my previous incomplete post...

We've touched music, and the current impossibility for SABAM members to create
Creative Commons music. One can always hope that will change.

I wonder if there is more openness in literature/poetry? Are poets and writers
also prohibited from CC'ing their work by a similar organisation? Or by their
publishing contracts?

Could the lawyers amongst you maybe create a list of authoring rights
organisations and their compatibility with Creative Commons?

What about organisations relating to photography? course materials (I seem to
remember something about an organisation called vewa)? video? ...?
If we have a clear overview of this, we can start pushing for CC compatible
authors contracts with all of these monopolies.

At the CC.nl launch, the Dutch equivalent of SABAM stressed the technical
complexity of giving the author the choice of CC'ing on a per work basis. They
promised a solution by april 2007. It would be nice to pry a similar promise
from SABAM and the likes, too...

Maybe it would also be nice to take a fairly standard existing book publishing
contract and look at the inconsistencies with CC licenses?

Mark