Amsterdam, 5 July 2004 - RISQ, an independent foreign policy think tank based in the Netherlands, has joined the Creative Commons, a global alternative to conventional copyrights.
A number of articles at RISQ.ORG are already released under a Creative Commons (CC) License and, as such, generally free for non-commercial use, provided that users accredit the original author. RISQ is the first Dutch web magazine to adopt a CC Licence.
RISQ’s decision to join the Creative Commons, a branchild of web rights guru Lawrence Lessig, has been prompted by the introduction last month of a Dutch version of the CC licence system. Ms Nynke Hendriks, a member of RISQ and a regular contributor to the magazine, has been closely involved in the project. In co-operation with professor Bernt Hugenholtz of the Institute of Information Law at the University of Amsterdam, she translated and adapted the American legal code to Dutch law.
Ms Hendriks confirms that all CC licences are now fully compatible with Dutch copyright law. What is more, as she explains, “anyone who releases a work under a CC licence, retains all his/her copyrights and, thus, may appeal to all applicable provisions in Dutch law to prosecute those who infringe upon his/her copyright.”
According to Ms Hendriks, the Creative Commons project “brings back the essence of copyrights, as it puts authors in full control over the conditions under which they wish to share their work with others.”
Since not all authors who have published with RISQ in the past have been contacted, not all articles are as yet available under a CC licence. For more information as to which conditions apply to articles published at RISQ.ORG, please refer to our ‘Terms of Use’ (in English). On the occasion of the launch of RISQ’s Creative Commons licence, RISQ Editor in Chief Maarten H.J. van den Berg has interviewed Ms Hendriks (in Dutch, pending translation into English).
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