The official launch of the Swedish Creative Commons licenses is 30 November, however for the readers of this blog (and of Kalle’s Cyberlaw blog) we are offering a sneak preview!
The CC licenses for Sweden are live already! The first site to ever use a Swedish CC license is the Cyberlaw blog. A place in history for Kalle.
To start using the licenses go to creativecommons.org.
Kalle tipped me off to an interesting license.
The Sony-BMG’s EULA contains some interesting limitations to the users rights.
# If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home. That’s because the EULA says that your rights to any copies terminate as soon as you no longer possess the original CD.
# You can’t keep your music on any computers at work. The EULA only gives you the right to put copies on a “personal home computer system owned by you.”
# If you move out of the country, you have to delete all your music. The EULA specifically forbids “export” outside the country where you reside.
# You must install any and all updates, or else lose the music on your computer. The EULA immediately terminates if you fail to install any update. No more holding out on those hobble-ware downgrades masquerading as updates.
# Sony-BMG can install and use backdoors in the copy protection software or media player to “enforce their rights” against you, at any time, without notice. And Sony-BMG disclaims any liability if this “self help” crashes your computer, exposes you to security risks, or any other harm.
# The EULA says Sony-BMG will never be liable to you for more than $5.00. That’s right, no matter what happens, you can’t even get back what you paid for the CD.
# If you file for bankruptcy, you have to delete all the music on your computer. Seriously.
# You have no right to transfer the music on your computer, even along with the original CD.
# Forget about using the music as a soundtrack for your latest family photo slideshow, or mash-ups, or sampling. The EULA forbids changing, altering, or make derivative works from the music on your computer.
The original text of the EULA can be read here.
Karl Jonsson & Stellan Björnesjö har skrivit uppsatsen “Creative Commons Licenser i Svensk Rätt: En analys av tillämpligheten samt anpassning till svensk rätt”
Uppsatsen är en mycket bra genomgång av Creative Commons licenser och hur de fungerar i Sverige. Dessutom innebär uppsatsen att Kalle & Stellan är färdiga med sin utbildning! GRATTIS!!
SLS Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, September 2005
If you would like to present a paper in the Cyberlaw subject section this year then please contact the section convenor (s.hedley@ucc.ie) by 6 March 2005 or as soon as possible thereafter, providing a provisional title and a brief summary.
WHEN AND WHERE
The inaugural meeting of the Cyberlaw Subject Section will be at the SLS Annual Conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. The full conference runs from 2pm on Tuesday 6 September until midday on Friday 9th. The University of Strathclyde is in central Glasgow. Most attendees will be staying in hotels in Glasgow. The SLS Annual Dinner on the 7th will be held in Stirling Castle. Further details are available on the SLS website.
SUBJECT SECTION
Papers are welcome on any aspect of cyberlaw, Internet law or law-and-computing. The group has no particular theoretical perspective of its own, and welcomes papers from any angle. If you think that your paper might be of interest to the Cyberlaw section as well as to another section, I suggest that you e-mail your proposal to both – joint sessions can certainly be arranged. (List of sections is here.)