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["Damian Tambini" <damian.tambini AT socio-legal-studies.oxford.ac.uk>]

Anyone have info for these points/ want to involve these clearly keen students in CC work?

D

 

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From: Catherine bell [mailto:mllxkcsb AT yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: 24 February 2005 11:33
To: damian.tambini AT csls.ox.ac.uk
Cc: flowow AT yahoo.com
Subject: creative commons licences

 

Dear Mr Tambini,

 

We are 4th year Accounting and Law students at the University of Manchester conducting an assessed practical research project on the commercial impact of Internet music piracy and the adequacy of the existing legal framework.

 

We understand that you are leading the legal project to introduce creative licences in the United Kingdom and were wondering if you could answer a few questions.

 

Firstly, do creative licences have a commercial element? We would argue they act as a promotional tool and don't necessarily harm sales, but there is little evidence we can find either way. 

 

Secondly, Are creative licenses compatible with the potential introduction of criminal laws penalising peer-to-peer software providers who fail to take reasonable care to prevent copyright infringement (Senate Bill 96, January 2005)?  

 

Thirdly, How do creative licences interact with copyright law? Creative licences seem to endorse peer-to-peer file-sharing while copyright protection measures supported by the music industry seem to focus on eradicating such software. Is this accurate?

 

Fourthly, is there a risk that creative licences will over complicate the law causing practical difficulties for users?

 

Finally, how can creative licences be enforced? Is this any easy than protecting copyright? What are your views on the EU Intellectual Property Enforcement directive that proposes searching the houses of down-loaders?

 

If you wish to know anything further about our project please contact our course director Dinah Crystal (dinah.crystal AT man.ac.uk).

 

We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Florence Tong and Catherine Bell

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