Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Henri Sivonen <hsivonen AT iki.fi>]

On Mar 26, 2005, at 20:04, drew Roberts wrote:

> On Saturday 26 March 2005 01:01 pm, Branko Collin wrote:
> > IIRC, in the Netherlands the collection agencies (the ones that make
> > some wholesale copying possible and legal) are opposing public domain
> > dedications. That is, I as an author can legally dedicate a work to
> > the public domain, but a radio station that only plays songs that
> > were dedicated to the PD will still have to pay levies.
>
> And who would they give this money to?

In Finland the comparable organization wants a compulsory license fee 
for dispatching satellite TV within an apartment building, even though 
the broadcast is available free and unencrypted off the air. They say 
that TV programs contain music and dispatching foreign channels within 
an apartment building is rebroadcasting the music. For radio play, they 
also collect fees for foreign music.

I think this is a conspiracy to protect local culture. Otherwise 
broadcasting foreign content would be cheaper than broadcasting local 
content.

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Henri Sivonen
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