Creative Commons - Belgium

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

mark AT markvdb.be wrote:
> 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 don't think it is *impossible*.  But you can't do both: licence with 
CC and authorise SABAM to manage licencing issues on all your works. 
SABAM uses a restrictive licence.

I think this was discussed in an earlier thread.

> [...]

 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...
That's why this is complicated.

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