Creative Commons Polska

[Alek Tarkowski <alek AT creativecommons.pl>]

Witajcie,

PRzesylam Wam kopie informacji prasowej rozsylanej przez holenderskie 
CC, ktoremu udalo sie rozpoczac pilotazowy projekt, w ramach ktorego 
org. zbiorowego zarzadzania BUMA/STEMRA zgodzila sie na stosowanie 
niekomercyjnych licencji CC przez muzykow, ktorych reprezentuje.

>alek tarkowski.

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Creative Commons Polska / Poland
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• From: Martijn Arnoldus <marnoldus AT kennisland.nl>
• To: cc-community AT lists.ibiblio.org
• Subject: [cc-community] Dutch breakthrough CC and collecting societies
• Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:23:14 +0200

Press release by Dutch CC-team

Buma/Stemra and Creative Commons Netherlands launch a pilot
More opportunities for music authors to promote their own music

Amsterdam, 23 August 2007 - Buma/Stemra and Creative Commons Netherlands are
launching a pilot that will give members of Buma/Stemra the opportunity to publish their
music works under a non-commercial Creative Commons licence. Composers and
lyricists, who to date have only been able to publish their work under a Creative Commons
license, may now opt to join Buma/Stemra and have this organisation collect their
royalties for commercial use of their work. With this pilot Buma/Stemra and Creative
Commons Netherlands seek to provide Dutch musicians with more opportunities to
promote their own repertoire.

The Netherlands is the first country to bring about this kind of collaboration between a music
copyright organisation and Creative Commons. Lawrence Lessig, the founder and chairman of
Creative Commons International, says “This unique and innovative collaboration between Buma/
Stemra and Creative Commons is the first step towards more freedom of choice in the field of
exploiting music works in the digital world.”

Ronald Plasterk, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science applauds the initiative:
“The pilot is in line with the growing need of creative people to distribute their own works through
digital networks. Music authors are now entirely free to place their works before a national as well
as international public. At the same time they still have the benefits of collective management.
The collaboration between Buma/Stemra and Creative Commons is unique and without equal in
the field. The collective rights organisation Buma/Stemra shows that it is open to innovation. With
this collaboration the Netherlands confirm its leading position as a country for creative
entrepreneurs to settle.”

More individual solutions
Creative Commons Netherlands and Buma/Stemra are pleased about the pilot, which gives
authors of works more freedom to choose between the commercial and non-commercial
exploitation of their works. The emergence of internet requires more flexibility in managing
copyrights. This is why Buma/Stemra launched the Flexco project in 2005* to examine the
opportunities to provide their members with more individual solutions based on new technological
developments, without harming the collective. Cees Vervoord, Buma/Stemra’s Chairman, says,
“This initiative reflects our intention to provide the best possible service to our members. We hope
that this pilot makes it easier for music authors to promote their works.”

End of all-or-nothing scenario
Until now authors have been unable to make available part of their repertoire for non-commercial
use on the internet and at the same time have Buma/Stemra collect their royalties for commercial
use of those works. Paul Keller, Public Project Lead of Creative Commons Netherlands, says,
“We are pleased that this pilot brings to an end the all-or-nothing scenario. This way the Creative
Commons Licenses can complement the existing collective management system.”
The pilot was launched on 23 August 2007 and will continue for a period of one year, after which
it will be evaluated. The pilot is open to all Dutch composers and lyricists. For more information
on it, please visit www.bumastemra.nl and www.creativecommons.nl.

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