Creative Commons - Belgium

[Hannelore Dekeyser <hannelore.dekeyser AT law.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Wouter Vanden hove wrote:
> 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.

I think transfer also means giving a non-exclusive licence, which the CC is.

> > 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)"
As far as I can tell they didn't answer.
The answer depends on the 'law of the land'.

I don't know the answer, see my other post in this thread.

> > 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.
If it is time of offering (first publishing) then no.
If it is time of accepting by the user, then it can be a different time
for each user.  But for every user one time counts: first use.
See the other post in this thread.

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

Hannelore
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