Creative Commons France

[melanie dulong <melanie.ddr AT gmail.com>]

Bonjour,

Voici en pièce jointe le texte intégral d'une décision de justice qui a appliqué une licence BY NC ND en Belgique.

Une musique a été adaptée pour faire un message publicitaire sans attribution, aucune des 3 conditions n'était donc respectée, et les dommages obtenus sont supérieurs à ce que le groupe aurait perçu pour les passages radios avec la SABAM (SACEM belge).

Seul regret, la confusion du juge entre appliquer l'option NC et avoir une idéologie non commerciale et demander un prix supérieur aux conditions commerciales.

Melanie

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Dear all,

A Belgian court today has applied the CC license to a copyright infringement suit. I attach the judgment (in French). The facts were simple, a music band had posted on its website some music under a CC license Non commercial - No derivative works. A theater adapted the music to make an advertisement for their theatrical season. The ad was broadcasted on the national radio several times (with no attribution).
The band refused the damages that the theater proposed (1500 €) and decided to sue for copyright infringement.
The court  aknowledge the licensing under the CC license and the fact that the theater did not respect any of the license fetaures:
- no attribution was made
- the music was slightly modified for the ad
- the advertisement, even for a theater was a commercial use prohibited by the license.

The theater defended itself by arguing a mistake (the court said that as a professional of the cultural sector, they should pay more attention to licensing conditions) and its good faith (traditionnally not accepted in Belgian as a defense to copyright infringement).
But the court denied to the band the amount of damages they rclaimed (around 10.000 €- and only granted 4500€ (i.e. 1500€ for each attribute of the license that was not respected), considering that it was paradoxical to license works under a CC license and a non-commercial ideology but demanding a price that would be higher than commercial conditions...

The band first contacted me as the Belgium CC leader but I entrusted hem with one researcher working with me who is also a lawyer and helped them before the courts.

If you need any more information, feel free to ask...

Best regards

Séverine

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