Portugal to Make CC Licences Illegal?

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

" 'The Socialist Party will present this new proposal for approval in the next Government, no matter if they win the elections or not. In regards to Creative Commons, they support a vision where Creative Commons harm Culture, and in this law proposal they intend to turn them illegal....The equitable compensation of authors, artists, interpreters or executives is inalienable and non-renunciable....' Judging by the interesting discussion around the post quoted above, it's still not entirely clear whether this is really the intent of this new law. It's possible, for example, that this is just very badly drafted, and not actually an attack on the idea that creators should be able to share their work freely if they wish....Unfortunately, this is not some abstract battle between different points of view. For example, if CC licences become illegal in Portugal, this would presumably mean that contributing to Wikipedia would also become illegal. Maybe Wikipedia itself would become illegal - there seems no limit to the absurdity of the knock-on consequences when starting from such a ridiculous premise. Let's hope that enough Portuguese artists protest and the politicians come to their senses before Portugal becomes the laughing-stock of the civilised world...."

Link:

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2011/05/portugal-to-make-cc-licences-illegal.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.licensing oa.legislation oa.negative ru.ps oa.cc oa.portugal oa.libre

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 13:44

Date published:

05/11/2011, 08:45