Authors and
performing artists, particularly in the music sector,
have manifested their strong interest in using the
Creative Commons licences. However, this can conflict
with the contracts which collective rights management
societies normally use. Authors usually transfer the
rights on their existing and future works to the
collective rights management societies. This allows
rights organisations to exploit the rights on the works,
while the authors lose their say, making them unable to
offer their works under a CC-licence. Comparable
situations arise in the relationship between authors and
record labels.
Research
will be done on the way authors and artists can
distribute (some of) their works under a Creative
Commons-licence without undermining the collective
rights management system.
Buma/Stemra
and Creative Commons
On 23 August 2007
Buma/Stemra and Creative Commons Netherlands launched 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 licence, 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 promotie their own repertoire.
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