Creative Commons - Belgium

[Wouter Vanden hove <wouter.vanden.hove AT pandora.be>]

Hannelore Dekeyser wrote:
> Q6.  Future forms of exploitation

> Art. 3 §1 alinea 6 of the Copyright law states that contracts whereby 
> the author transfers his rights with regard to unknown forms of 
> exploitation are void.

With CC the author doesn't *transfer* his copyright, therefore I don't 
understand why this clause would apply to CC-licenses.


> The original CCPL says "The above rights may be exercised in all media 
> and formats whether now known or hereafter devised."

> The BE-CCPL limits this to media and formats known today.

I asked the same questions on the CC-NL list in July.
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-nl/2004-July/000013.html :

"Wat wordt bedoeld met "bestaande media en formats"?
1) de media die bestaan op het moment dat de originele ateur dit werk
onder CC-licentie plaatst.
2) of het moment waarop een gebruiker de licentie leest. (dit kan 50
jaar later zijn)"


> The BE-CCPL limits this to media and formats known today.
When is "today"?

Since the license is valid for the whole duration of the copyright term,
life +70, I would interpret "today" as *any day* within that duration.


> New formats don't imply new forms of exploitation either.
Exactly.



Wouter Vanden Hove
vrijschrift.org
gutenberg.nl