Creative Commons + hollands KODA = sød musik

Det er ikke nogen hemmelighed at forholdet mellem Creative Commons - en organisation der arbejder for friere og mere tidssvarende ophavsretsmodeller - og rettighedsforvalterne i mange år har været anstrengt. Det har betydet at Creative Commons ikke har haft den store mulighed for at slå igennnem hos europæiske kunstnere, da det var enten-eller: Hvis man ville bruge cc-licenser måtte man som konsekvens melde sig ud af sin rettighedsforvaltningsorganisation - og dermed vinke farvel til KODA-checken. På vores breddegrader er det en no-brainer for de fleste musikere, hvor idealistiske de end måtte være. Men nu er isen brudt, og musikere i Holland kan fra nu af og i løbet af en et-årig pilotperiode bruge Creative Commons såkaldte non-commercial licenser, og på den måde høste det bedste af begge verdener.

from Paul Keller - CC Netherlands Project Lead:

On August 23, 2007, Dutch collecting societies Buma and Stemra and Creative Commons Netherlands launched a pilot project that seeks to provide Dutch musicians with more opportunities to promote their own repertoire. This project enables members of Buma/Stemra to use the 3 non-commercial CC licenses for non-commercial distribution of their works. It also allows Dutch composers and lyricists who already use the CC NonCommercial license to join Buma/Stemra and have them collect their royalties for commercial use of their works.

Before now Dutch authors have not been able to make their work available online under the CC NC license while at the same time having Buma/Stemra collect their royalties for commercial use of those works. The Netherlands is the first country to bring such a collaboration between a music copyright organization and Creative Commons, a move applauded by Lawrence Lessig, the founder and chairman of Creative Commons International, as “the first step towards more freedom of choice in the field of exploiting music works in the digital world.”

The press release by Creative Commons Netherlands and Buma Stemra can be found here. And for more information about what’s going on in the Netherlands check out CC Netherlands website.

Det er meget sandsynligt at andre lande nu vil følge trop. KODA i Danmark har allerede udtrykt interesse for en lignende ordning. Spændende, spændende.