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Press release by Dutch CC-team
Buma/Stemra and Creative Commons Netherlands launch a pilot
More opportunities for music authors to promote their own music
Amsterdam, 23 August 2007 - Buma/Stemra and Creative Commons
Netherlands are
launching 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
license, 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
promote their own repertoire.
The Netherlands is the first country to bring about this kind of
collaboration between a music
copyright organisation and Creative Commons. Lawrence Lessig, the
founder and chairman of
Creative Commons International, says “This unique and innovative
collaboration between Buma/
Stemra and Creative Commons is the first step towards more freedom of
choice in the field of
exploiting music works in the digital world.”
Ronald Plasterk, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science
applauds the initiative:
“The pilot is in line with the growing need of creative people to
distribute their own works through
digital networks. Music authors are now entirely free to place their
works before a national as well
as international public. At the same time they still have the benefits
of collective management.
The collaboration between Buma/Stemra and Creative Commons is unique
and without equal in
the field. The collective rights organisation Buma/Stemra shows that it
is open to innovation. With
this collaboration the Netherlands confirm its leading position as a
country for creative
entrepreneurs to settle.”
More individual solutions
Creative Commons Netherlands and Buma/Stemra are pleased about the
pilot, which gives
authors of works more freedom to choose between the commercial and
non-commercial
exploitation of their works. The emergence of internet requires more
flexibility in managing
copyrights. This is why Buma/Stemra launched the Flexco project in
2005* to examine the
opportunities to provide their members with more individual solutions
based on new technological
developments, without harming the collective. Cees Vervoord,
Buma/Stemra’s Chairman, says,
“This initiative reflects our intention to provide the best possible
service to our members. We hope
that this pilot makes it easier for music authors to promote their
works.”
End of all-or-nothing scenario
Until now authors have been unable to make available part of their
repertoire for non-commercial
use on the internet and at the same time have Buma/Stemra collect their
royalties for commercial
use of those works. Paul Keller, Public Project Lead of Creative
Commons Netherlands, says,
“We are pleased that this pilot brings to an end the all-or-nothing
scenario. This way the Creative
Commons Licenses can complement the existing collective management
system.”
The pilot was launched on 23 August 2007 and will continue for a period
of one year, after which
it will be evaluated. The pilot is open to all Dutch composers and
lyricists. For more information
on it, please visit www.bumastemra.nl and www.creativecommons.nl.
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