{"id":703,"date":"2006-12-22T01:10:54","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T01:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/703"},"modified":"2006-12-22T01:10:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T01:10:54","slug":"creative-commons-launches-tool-to-reclaim-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/703","title":{"rendered":"Creative Commons launches tool to reclaim rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/weblog\/entry\/7163\">Creative Commons weblog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Creative Commons is excited to launch a beta version of its \u201cReturning Authors Rights: Termination of Transfer\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.creativecommons.org\/termination\/\">tool<\/a>. The tool has been included in <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.creativecommons.org\/\">ccLabs<\/a> \u2014 CC\u2019s platform for demoing new tech tools. It\u2019s a beta demo so it doesn\u2019t produce any useable results at this stage. We have launched it to get your feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/title17\/\">U.S. Copyright Act<\/a> gives creators a mechanism by which they can reclaim rights that they sold or licensed away many years ago. Often artists sign away their rights at the start of their careers when they lack sophisticated negotiating experience, access to good legal advice or any knowledge of the true value of their work so they face an unequal bargaining situation. The \u201ctermination of transfer\u201d provisions are intended to give artists a way to rebalance the bargain, giving them a \u201csecond bite of the apple.\u201d By allowing artists to reclaim their rights, the U.S. Congress hoped that authors could renegotiate old deals or negotiate new deals on stronger footing (and hopefully with greater remuneration too!!). A longer explanation of the purpose of the \u201ctermination of transfer\u201d provisions is set out in this <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.creativecommons.org\/termination\/faq.php#What_are_the_.E2.80.9Ctermination_of_transfer.E2.80.9D_provisions.3F\">FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Basically their tool is designed to help authors and artists navigate the legal waters and reclaim their copyrights. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/003642.shtml\">Lessig&#8217;s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why is this a Creative Commons project? We&#8217;ve seen CC from the start as a tool to help creators manage an insanely complicated copyright system. When we have this running, we&#8217;ll offer any copyright owner who has reclaimed his or her rights the opportunity to distribute the work under a CC license. But that will be optional. Right now, we&#8217;re just offering the tool to make it simpler for authors to get what the copyright system was intended to give them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/weblog\/entry\/7163\">Creative Commons weblog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Creative Commons is excited to launch a beta version of its \u201cReturning Authors Rights: Termination of Transfer\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.creativecommons.org\/termination\/\">tool<\/a>. The tool has been included in <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.creativecommons.org\/\">ccLabs<\/a> \u2014 CC\u2019s platform for demoing new tech tools. It\u2019s a beta demo so it doesn\u2019t produce any useable results at this stage. We have launched it to get your feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/title17\/\">U.S. Copyright Act<\/a> gives creators a mechanism by which they can reclaim rights that they sold or licensed away many years ago. Often artists sign away their rights at the start of their careers when they lack sophisticated negotiating experience, access to good legal advice or any knowledge of the true value of their work so they face an unequal bargaining situation. The \u201ctermination of transfer\u201d provisions are intended to give artists a way to rebalance the bargain, giving them a \u201csecond bite of the apple.\u201d By allowing artists to reclaim their rights, the U.S. Congress hoped that authors could renegotiate old deals or negotiate new deals on stronger footing (and hopefully with greater remuneration too!!). A longer explanation of the purpose of the \u201ctermination of transfer\u201d provisions is set out in this <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.creativecommons.org\/termination\/faq.php#What_are_the_.E2.80.9Ctermination_of_transfer.E2.80.9D_provisions.3F\">FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Basically their tool is designed to help authors and artists navigate the legal waters and reclaim their copyrights. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/003642.shtml\">Lessig&#8217;s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why is this a Creative Commons project? We&#8217;ve seen CC from the start as a tool to help creators manage an insanely complicated copyright system. When we have this running, we&#8217;ll offer any copyright owner who has reclaimed his or her rights the opportunity to distribute the work under a CC license. But that will be optional. Right now, we&#8217;re just offering the tool to make it simpler for authors to get what the copyright system was intended to give them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}