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["Theodoros G. Karounos" <karounos@mail.ntua.gr>]

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From: Diane Peters <diane@creativecommons.org>
Date: 2008/10/14
Subject: [CCi] CC0 Jurisdiction Survey Results: Next Steps
To: cci@lists.ibiblio.org

Hi everyone,

Thanks to all of you who were able to find time to complete the CC0 Jurisdiction Survey.  In all, some 18 jurisdictions responded, providing valuable information about the enforceability and limitations of CC0 as a legal tool for removing copyright protections in various jurisdictions.  The unedited survey feedback is contained in the attached document.

For those of you who would still like the opportunity to respond to the survey, please feel free to do so.  We hope the response pool continues to grow so that it might serve as a resource for all of us and others long after CC0 is published for adoption this Fall.  We will be posting the survey results to the wiki the first part of November.

Learnings.   The survey results, together with supplemental research we undertook while the survey was underway, proved valuable in several respects.  Importantly, the challenge of placing a work squarely and unquestionably in the public domain in many jurisdictions was made abundantly clear, confirming what many of us knew to be the case in our own jurisdictions and in others.  The challenge is largely due to restrictions on eliminating moral rights, but other difficulties such as form and consideration requirements surfaced as well.

Notwithstanding, the survey results and research lead us to conclude that CC0 can still be a useful, robust tool outside of the US and for more than just data.  Putting users of CC0'd content in the strongest position possible vis-a-vis affirmers will be key, and the survey results and research provide guidance on how that can be accomplished.  For example, moral rights are not always absolute.  Some courts balance the legitimate interests of the parties based on potential uses described in the legal instrument.  This supports inclusion of a more complete statement of the uses to which affirmers intend their works be put.  Other challenges, such as form and consideration issues, can also be managed in part through a few minor revisions.  We also recognize the need for strengthening the fallback license position given that most courts in the EU will bypass the attempt to waive rights and instead interpret CC0 as a license in the first instance.  

These issues and more may be helped (though admittedly not eliminated in their entirety) through some subtle yet important changes to CC0.

Next Steps.  We will be presenting the results of the survey together together with proposed revisions to CC0 next week at the Communia Workshop on Marking the Public Domain (http://www.communia-project.eu/node/109).  The proposed changes to CC0 will be posted to this list for feedback also, please watch for those in the next few days.  In addition, a summary of the CC0 discussion at Communia will be sent to this list by the end of next week so that you may all have the benefit of those conversations.

We encourage everyone to please review the survey responses that so many of the jurisdiction leads took time to prepare.  Comments and feedback should be provided on this list.

If you have questions in the interim about the survey results or our next steps, please feel free to let me know.

Kind regards,

Diane

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