March 22, 2006
Posted by Bill Herman
Dutch court upholds Creative Commons license
Adam Curry, the MTV VJ, sued a Dutch gossip magazine for running CC-licensed photos of his daughter. (Apparently including this one.) The judge ruled that, despite the CC license, the rag could be held liable for using the photos without Curry’s permission.
Specifically, Curry licensed his personal photos on Flickr via an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share-alike license. The commercial magazine was therefore forbidden from using Curry’s photos, subject to penalties of 1000 euros apiece.
I just got the story via CNet. You can also read it via Groklaw and on Curry’s Blog.
1 Comments
March 22, 2006
yeah finally the dutch make the news in a good way ..
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