Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Branko Collin" <collin AT xs4all.nl>]

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