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  • From: "Branko Collin" <collin AT xs4all.nl>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Public Domain dedication
  • Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:35:44 +0200


On 27 Mar 2005, at 7:38, drew Roberts wrote:

> Option one: No one, they are going to keep it.
>
> Option two: To the artists in heavy rotation in the country at the
> time.

Probably two.

In the Netherlands, the collection agencies can be founded by anyone,
(tip: there is no collection agency yet for collecting and
distributing levies to authors and editors of wiki pages) but they
need to be legal persons who report to the minister and whose
regulations have to be approved by the minister. Articles 15 and 16
of the Dutch copyright law specify which forms of copying are not
infringement, and how authors get remunerated for these forms of
copying: <http://www.ivir.nl/legislation/nl/copyrightact.html>.

Interesting: "[remuneration does] not apply insofar as the person who
is required to pay the remuneration can prove the existence of an
agreement between herself and the author or his successor in title
according to which payment of the remuneration shall be made directly
to the latter." (Article 16.l.) Perhaps a public domain dedication
could be seen as such an agreement.

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branko collin
collin AT xs4all.nl




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