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Colombian movie uses Creative Commons licence for a soundtrack

Saturday 31 May 2008 10:28

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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Colombian landmark ruling on copyrights: “without profit there is no criminal offence”

Monday 12 May 2008 20:57

The Supreme Court of Colombia, the highest criminal judicial tribunal and Cassation Court (deals with the Cassation procedures also known in other juridical traditions as right of appeal on points of law), determined that in order to establish a criminal violation of copyright, it is necessary to find if the criminal conduct is for profit-making, if it causes effective injury and if the intention is to cause harm on the right holder.

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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 8:00

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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