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[Emanuele Quinto]

Immagino che il fatto negli USA viga un sistema di Common Law e in Europa no renda il fatto meno localmente significativo, ma Lessig [1] lo riporta tutto allegro:

So for non-lawgeeks, this won't seem important. But trust me, this is huge.

I am very proud to report today that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (THE "IP" court in the US) has upheld a free (ok, they call them "open source") copyright license, explicitly pointing to the work of Creative Commons and others. (The specific license at issue was the Artistic License.) This is a very important victory, and I am very very happy that the Stanford Center for Internet and Society played a key role in securing it. Congratulations especially to Chris Ridder and Anthony Falzone at the Center.

In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licenses such as the CC licenses set conditions (rather than covenants) on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the license disappears, meaning you're simply a copyright infringer. This is the theory of the GPL and all CC licenses. Put precisely, whether or not they are also contracts, they are copyright licenses which expire if you fail to abide by the terms of the license.

Important clarity and certainty by a critically important US Court.

Anche Ito lo riporta nel suo blog [2]. Commenti interessanti nei blog. Il testo della sentenza in [3].



[1] http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html
[2] http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2008/08/13/lessighuge-and.html
[3] http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf

Emanuele Quinto - www.kronstadt.it
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