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  • From: Paul Keller <pk AT kl.nl>
  • To: "Cox, Ingemar" <i.cox AT ucl.ac.uk>
  • Cc: CC Europe <cc-europe AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [CC-Europe] implementation of the collecting societies directive
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 09:57:23 +0100

no idea, but my guess would be that if they would do something like a
recommendations that would be taken up by the Collecting Socities (and if it
is not taken up then this would certainly help with trying to address this on
the national level) /paul



On 03 Jan 2014, at 09:54, Cox, Ingemar <i.cox AT ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Paul,
>
> do you know how much influence GESAC has on the national collecting
> societies? My concern is that at least in the UK, GESAC may be ignored.
> If GESAC's influence is generally weak, then the first strategy is
> preferred.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ingemar
>
>
> On 3 Jan 2014, at 08:01, Paul Keller <pk AT kl.nl> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> as mentioned earlier [1] the (almost adapted) EU directive on collective
>> rights management contains language that should require all collecting
>> societies to allow their members to license their works for non-commercial
>> purposes. Once this directive is adopted (which is expected to happen
>> later this month) it will need to be implemented in all 28 member states
>> of the EU.
>>
>> Since the directive does not explicitly mentions the creative commons
>> licenses (the relevant section reads: 'Rightholders shall have the right
>> to grant licences for the non-commercial uses of the rights, categories of
>> rights or types of works and other subject matter of their choice.’) it is
>> important that the implementation happens in such a way that CS members
>> can actually use one of our 3 NC licenses.
>>
>> There are two strategies that we can employ to achieve this goal. The
>> first option is that all jurisdiction teams try to work with their
>> national legislators (and possibly the relevant Collecting Societies) to
>> ensure that the directive is implemented in such a way that it allows the
>> use of CC licenses. This will require some amount of work from all
>> jurisdiction teams and an additional coordination effort.
>>
>> The second strategy would be to to see if we can work with the European
>> umbrella organisation of the collecting societies (GESAC) to come up with
>> some kind of implementation advice/strategy, that can then be presented to
>> their members and the national legislators. This would require more work
>> on the Europeana level, but have the advantage that (if we achieve such a
>> thing) there is less work on the level of the jurisdiction teams. Also
>> this would cover countries where we do not have affiliates and it would
>> likely ensure greater harmonisation.
>>
>> While the directive is not adopted yet, it would be great to have some
>> feedback from this list with regards to which of the two strategies has
>> your preference. based on that we can decide on a approach that we can
>> then implement once the directive has been implemented.
>>
>> all the best (and happy new year),
>> Paul
>>
>> [1] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-europe/2013-November/001089.html
>>
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