Creative Commons France

[melanie dulong de rosnay <melanie.dulong-de-rosnay AT cersa.org>]

Bonjour,

Ignasi Labastida de CC Espagne nous signale la première mention des licences Creative Commons dans une décision de justice.

La SGAE (principale société d'auteurs en Espagne) a demandé le paiement de près de 5000 euros à un bar qui diffusait de la musique sous CC. Le tribunal l'a déboutée car le bar ne diffusait pas de titres appartenant au répertoire géré par la SGAE.

En France, la SACEM a convenu que la diffusion publique de musique sous CC (ou du domaine public) ne nécessitait ni autorisation préalable ni paiement d'une redevance : http://fr.creativecommons.org/menu3/main_faqgen.htm#7

Je posterai la référence exacte de cette décision de la cour de Badajoz dès qu'elle sera publiée, de même pour l'audition préliminaire qui doit avoir lieu aujourd'hui même à Amsterdam pour cette affaire :

http://www.wormus.com/aaron/stories/2006/01/20/adam-curry-to-sue-over-cc-licensed-images.html

md

News in spanish: 

http://www.hoy.es/pg060228/prensa/noticias/Badajoz/200602/28/HOY-BAD-021.html

Automatic english translation:

"The music is free"

A judge of Badajoz fails Metropol, defendant for the General Society of 

Authors, in favor of the owner of the bar

M.M./BADAJOZ

The bar Metropol of Badajoz will not have to pay the General Society of 

Authors and Publishers (SGAE) the 4.816 euros that this claimed from him.

The Lower Court number 6 of Badajoz has dictated a new sentence in which 

it absolves the owner of the bar of that demand because it considers 

that the SGAE has not proved that the music that was listened to in the 

site between November 2002 and August 2005 was property of the authors 

that this society represents.

The matter has a transcendence that goes beyond the almost five thousand 

euros claimed from the Metropol. In fact, until now, every time that the 

SGAE claimed from a bar, the judges proved a store or to a restaurant 

for the music that they reproduce in its stores him, because the SGAE 

represented practically all the authors.

However, that situation has changed, and like this recognizes it the 

judge that accepts the arguments of the owner of the sued bar. A new 

movement of 'free' music or 'free' is extending. It is called 'Creative 

Commons, and it consists in that the authors who adhere to that label 

allow having its music, taking it down, freely, from Internet. It is 

music that 'escapes' to the control of the SGAE. As it explains itself 

in the sentence, the owner of Metropol accessed to music through 

Internet under license of 'Creative Commons, as some witnesses declared 

that they go to the bar. The judge argues that what is relevant in this 

case is not that in Metropol music of 'Creative Commons' was listened 

to, but used music managed by the SGAE.

This society tried to prove that that bar put on music managed by it, 

and for that it made recordings and sent detectives to the site. But 

these did not indicate any work specifically that it was listened to in 

the site.

«So that the demand was successful -it states the judge-, the General 

Society of Authors and Publishers should have proved that in the store 

music of its repertory reproduces». As it has not made it, the sued 

employer is absolved. Besides, it is condemned to the SGAE to pay the 

coasts of the judicial process. The sentence can to be recurred.