Conclusions from our mini-seminar on Creative Commons in Copenhagen

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Martin von Haller Grønbæk

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Denmark

I'm a partner in our Danish International Tech & Comms Group. I'm widely regarded as one of Denmark's leading IT lawyers, combining solid legal skills, innovative thought leadership and real strategic IT industry expertise.

Earlier this month, Danish partner Martin von Haller hosted a mini seminar on Creative Commons (CC) in Copenhagen. Martin helped form the Danish branch of CC, an organisation dedicated to creating tools for artists, researchers and other creative souls to share their work using an open source mind-set.

The mini seminar addressed the possibility of the use of CC for movie directors, focusing on the legal and business aspects of sharing movies more openly.

Martin was joined by two co-speakers, the Swedish director Martin Klose who made the documentary TPBAFK – The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard and Danish journalist and director Henrik Moltke, the man behind the documentary Good Copy Bad Copy.

After the speakers' presentations, the whole group debated the possibilities of using CC when sharing their work. 

Within the movie field, CC has primarily been used to share documentaries. Amongst other things, the seminar addressed the possibilities of sharing feature films via CC and the legal aspects of this were debated heavily. The many types of IP rights and large financial sums involved in feature films were seen as a constraint by some. However, it was observed that films being distributed more openly reached a significantly higher number of viewers, which could be seen as a distinct advantage, especially for smaller productions. Furthermore the mixing of both ordinary movie distribution and CC-distribution for different parts of a movie production was seen as an upside, e.g. trailers, teasers and soundtracks could be made open-sourced thus allowing the movie to generate hype and reach a larger number of interested viewers.

For more information or legal advice on copyrights, contact Martin Von Haller.

Take a look at CC's English website here >

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