Discussione delle licenze Creative Commons

[DAVIDE MERONI <meronidavide AT libero.it>]

<x-tad-bigger>News - November 2004</x-tad-bigger> 

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<x-tad-bigger>Copyleft Radio Day
</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> December 10 - one day for Open Content Radio in Belgium
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<x-tad-bigger>This year's "Golden Nica" at the Ars Electronica in Linz/Austria had been awarded to the "Creative Commons". This principle allows artists to offer some of their rights to any taker, and to select under which conditions this offer is made. Free licenses like the "Creative Commons Licences" are increasingly adopted to distribute music, images, video.

The "Creative Commons Belgian Launch Event" will take place on the 10th of December. There you can find out how to use these licenses and why they are of interest to artists and the public domain. You can also meet the team of lawyers who crafted their adaptation to the Belgian law, and meet local and international practitioners who already use these licenses.

In relation to this event, Belgian independent radios (RUN, RadioCampus, Radio Centraal, ...) will broadcast a large selection of free licensed content on the eve of the launch. On these radio stations that are members of the "www.radioswap.net -Exchange Network", the program on the 9th of December shall be made of 100% free material: licensed under Creative Commons, part of the public domain.

As vividly discussed for a number of years (c.f. the </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>interview with Pit Schulz </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>on Audiohyperspace) many independent radio program makers and artists are convinced that the classic copyright model is not sustainable anymore. As netlabels, independent music portals, free music distributors are flourishing, they consider it necessary and urgent to explore alternative ways of working, distributing and sharing.</x-tad-bigger>