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Czech Copyright Bill Undercuts Copyleft, Artists

Posted by Soulskill on from the czech-please dept.

Andorin writes "Earlier this month a copy of a draft of the Czech Republic's new Copyright Act [Czech PDF] was leaked to Pirate News. Included among several disturbing provisions are new regulations for 'public licenses' such as Creative Commons licenses and the GPL/BSD licenses. The amendment essentially requires that an artist wishing to use a public license must notify the administrator of a collecting agency, and must prove that they created the work in question. This goes against one of the strengths of Creative Commons and other licenses, namely the ease with which they can be applied. Additionally, collecting agencies will have increased jurisdiction over copylefted and orphaned works. ZeroPaid covers the story, noting that the amendment also reduces the royalties which artists receive from libraries by 40%, with that money instead going directly to publishers."

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  1. Re:Speechless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Face it. The age of the freetard is over. It's time to pay people what their work is worth. Freeloader.

  2. Re:Think of the Artists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I work in Music Publishing and I have to say that this is an extremely fair deal.

    1. Why do you have a license in the first place.

            To protect your work

            Allow people to use it for commercial purposes and be paid for your work.

    People are so damn hypocritical.

    I want free music... I want free this... I want free that

    I want a job! I need a job! .... Oh wait our economy is in the toilet there are no jobs...gee I wonder how everything started falling apart...

    Well you can have a job. You should work for free. Free culture right? Free music right?

    Oh you want to be paid for your work? For the effort you put into something?

    But you don't want to pay for music? Although the recording engineers, artists, instrument makers, etc. all put in effort to make something...

    Quit bitching, stop being hypocritical, all this is doing is making sure that when an artist creates something it is there work, and helps them collect money on it.

    I'm sure everyone would be okay with just "making a copy" of their back accounts and distribute it. Hey free culture right?
    Or your medical records? Free information right?

  3. Re:Copyleft does complicate the system by kyrio · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is English not your first language? You don't have to "he/she" everything. Using "he" works just fine.