Presented at CC Summit, Warsaw, September 2011

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Creative Commons
Enforcement Issues
Andrés Guadamuz
CC Costa Rica

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Löki http://www.flickr.com/photos/tyltu/4041895378/ Apologies

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Joi Ito, http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/548050025/
Some background

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Why enforcement?

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International conflicts

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International conflicts

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International conflicts

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3 types of
cases
Authors sue for licence breach /
infringement.
Non-licence related (defamation)
CC is incidental

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Case 09-1684-A (Belgium)
In 2004 Belgian band Lichôdmapwa posts song under BY-NC-
ND 2.5 (Unported?)
Festival de Theatre de Spa used song for radio ad.
Band sued for licence breach of the attribution and non-
commercial clauses.
Judge enforces the licence, band wins 4500€.

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Avi Re'uveni v. Mapa inc.
(Israel)
Plaintiffs uploaded photographs to Flickr and and offered them
under a BY-NC-ND license.
Defendant made a collage from the plaintiffs’ and other
photographs and sold them without attribution.
The court found the defendant guilty of copyright infringement.
Court did not consider the licences.

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German case
Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
Unported
Picture was used by a far-right
party without attribution.
Author sued for licence breach.
Injunction to avoid non-
compliance damages of up to
250.000,00 EUR.
Thilo Sarrazin am 3. Juli 2009 by Nina Gerlach / CC BY-SA

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Community enforcement

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Community enforcement

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Community enforcement

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Community enforcement

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Keep the lawyers away

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Bringing in institutions

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Why I think we need 4.0
We need to improve and tweak language to make it more
international.
Databases, databases, databases.
We need to make our licence more friendly for institutional
adopters.

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Concluding...

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alguadamuz@innovatechnology.net