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Home  News Dutch research on the use of Creative Commons licenses in the public sector
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Dutch research on the use of Creative Commons licenses in the public sector |
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1.02.2008. |
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As part of the activities of Creative Commons Netherlands the Institute
for information Law has been undertaking research into a number of
issues connected to the use of the Creative Commons LIcenses.
In 2007,
much of this research has focused on the use of Creative Commons
licenses for the distribution of public sector information by
government bodies. This research has been carried out by Mireille van
Eechoud and Brenda van der Wal.
This research has resulted in a Report titled “Creative commons
licensing for public sector information: Opportunities and pitfalls”.
Paul
Keller from Creative Commons Netherlands says: “Personally I also think
this report is well worth reading because it makes a very well
structured argument (by comparing the license characteristics of the
individual CC licenses to the objectives of both the Public Sector
Information legislation and the Freedom of Information legislation in
the Netherlands) for the use of the least restrictive licenses (CC-BY)
and the Public Domain dedication for public sector information. Given
this the report underlines the need for adopting CC0 (at least the CC0
assert component) to the specificities(database rights, moral rights).
While
the report focuses on the situation in the Netherlands it should be of
interest to Creative Commons projects in other countries as well.
Primarily because the Dutch regulatory framework for public sector information is derived from the European PSI directive and
should thus be fairly similar to the regulatory framework in the rest of the EU countries.
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