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["Tsiavos,P (pgr)" <P.Tsiavos AT lse.ac.uk>]

Do you want me to take this forward? I could provide some initial answers for 
all  the respective questions and possibly link them with some of my own 
students at the LSE.

pRo


-----Original Message-----
From:   Damian Tambini 
[mailto:damian.tambini AT socio-legal-studies.oxford.ac.uk]
Sent:   Thu 2/24/2005 11:40 AM
To:     cc-uk AT lists.ibiblio.org
Cc:     
Subject:        [Cc-uk] FW: creative commons licences
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 (
<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=dinah.crystal AT man.ac.uk>
dinah.crystal AT man.ac.uk).

 

We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Florence Tong and Catherine Bell

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