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Colombian movie uses Creative Commons licence for a soundtrack

Saturday 31 May 2008

Last April a movie, Perro come perro (dog eat dog), premiered in Colombian cinema halls to raving reviews that promised great success. One of the songs in the soundtrack for Perro come perro, Las reglas (The Rules) by Malalma, is available on the website for free downloading and for sharing under a Creative Commons licence byncnd 2.5 Colombia. Yes, it is the most restrictive licence, but this is still a milestone!

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Captain Copyright reappears in Colombia

Friday 28 March 2008

Recently, the Colombian National Planning Department (DNP) will submit for approval to the National Council for Social and Economic Politics (CONPES) a paper on intellectual property that turns around Canada’s Captain Copyright’s idea of protection and enforcement of copyright, completely focusing on the possibilities of Colombian competition and development in that side of the equation without considering all the other issues that influence the maintenance of a balanced system of creativity and development.

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“MP3 music downloads from the Internet, an act that violates intellectual property rights, and it is illegal”: Guillermo Santos, El Tiempo

Tuesday 26 February 2008

Cultural industry prefers to blame on illegal downloads for its crisis, without even considering the impact of the wide possibilities of choice on the internet. Mr Santos, a technology columnist in Colombia’s leading newspaper, endorses that logic, with a “clarification” that is not correct, it is vague and it even seems misplaced.

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