Joe Figueiredo, Dutch parliamentarians favour releasing public broadcast images into public domain, DM Europe, October 20, 2004. Excerpt: "Parliamentarians from Dutch ruling and opposition parties unanimously agreed that (most) images currently owned by Dutch public broadcasters should be released into the public domain and allowed to be distributed online. The four politicians - Kees Vendrik (Green Left), Ankie Broekers-Knol (Liberal Democrat), Martijn van Dam (Labour) and Nicolien van Vroonhoven (Christian Democrat) - who were participating in a debate at a symposium on copyright in Amsterdam last Friday also promised to ask the government to take action....However, Ms Van Vroonhoven did concede that rights to such material released into the public domain should be selective and vary according to usage. Her comments dovetailed nicely in with the symposium’s theme, Creative Commons (CC), and with recommendations made by Bernt Hugenholtz - professor in information law who sits on a government advisory panel on copyrights and is a proponent of CC - who told the symposium that this sort of licence is ideally suited for such public-domain material." (Thanks to BNA Internet Law News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/21/2004 01:26:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
