Problems in adaptation of Creative Commons licenses to the Ukrainian legal system Maksim Naumko, Creative Commons Ukraine
How we started
2004-2005: Access to Knowledge Project Project leads: Andriy Pazyuk, National Academy of Public Management, and Galina Sovenko, Public Agency for Copyright and Related Rights, a small grant from the International Renaissance Foundation.
2004-2005: Access to Knowledge Project Project leads: Andriy Pazyuk, National Academy of Public Management, and Galina Sovenko, Public Agency for Copyright and Related Rights, a small grant from the International Renaissance Foundation. Results: the Ukrainian text Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, public consultations in February 2005.
2004-2005: Access to Knowledge Project Project leads: Andriy Pazyuk, National Academy of Public Management, and Galina Sovenko, Public Agency for Copyright and Related Rights, a small grant from the International Renaissance Foundation. Results: the Ukrainian text Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, public consultations in February 2005. Outcomes: The concept of open content licenses was new for Ukrainian copyright law and amendments to the existent legal framework were required.
2005-2006 – attempts to amend the copyright law NO RESULT
March 2007 – international round table “Creative Commons: Open Content Licenses in Ukraine” with Alek Tarkowski, CC Poland, and Bardhyl Jashari, CC Macedonia, hosted and funded by the International Renaissance Foundation.
March 2007 – international round table “Creative Commons: Open Content Licenses in Ukraine” with Alek Tarkowski, CC Poland, and Bardhyl Jashari, CC Macedonia, hosted and funded by the International Renaissance Foundation. Outcomes: legal experts discussed wording of Ukrainian versions of CC licenses and possibilities to introduce the licenses in the frames of the current copyright legislation.
2007 – 2008 Dmitriy Kolesnik joined the project as a legal lead (together with Iryna Kuchma as a public lead);
2007 – 2008 Dmitriy Kolesnik joined the project as a legal lead (together with Iryna Kuchma as a public lead); http://creativecommons.org.ua, http://cc-ua.livejournal.com/ and Creative Commons Ukraine Facebook group launched;
2007 – 2008 Dmitriy Kolesnik joined the project as a legal lead (together with Iryna Kuchma as a public lead); http://creativecommons.org.ua, http://cc-ua.livejournal.com/ and Creative Commons Ukraine Facebook group launched; draft Ukrainian text of CC BY 3.0 was released for public consultations, a lot of skepticism from the community.
2009 Institutional support from Non-profit organization "Internet initiatives"
2010 Law company «Jurinnovation» and Law agency «Intelactive» joined the team with Maksym Naumko and Andriy Bichuk (legal leads, Intelactive), and Vitaly Mamchur and Nina Khalaim, Jurinnovation.
2010 Law company ÂŤJurinnovationÂť and Law agency Intelactive joined the team with Maksym Naumko and Andriy Bichuk (legal leads, Intelactive), and Vitaly Mamchur and Nina Khalaim, Jurinnovation. Results: Draft Ukrainian text of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, public consultations
Legal impediments for CC under the current Ukrainian legislation
Contracts concerning the assignment of rights to use works shall be made in writing. Article 33 of the Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights
Article 1107 of the Ukrainian Civil Code, which regulates various types of agreements on the use of intellectual property rights, provides that the failure by the parties to conclude such agreement in written form renders it immaterial (that is, renders it invalid by law meaning that one does not need to take recourse to law to have such agreement recognised as null and void).
Article 1108 of the Ukrainian Civil Code provides for licensor's written consent to the licensee granting a sublicense. This means that the licensee will have to request a separate permission of granting a sublicense each time.
A contract concerning the assignment of rights to use works shall be deemed concluded if the parties agree on all essential terms and conditions (contract term, the method of using a work, the territory covered by the assigned right, the amount and procedure for paying the author's remuneration, as well as other terms and conditions with respect to which an agreement should be reached at the request of one of the parties). Article 33 of the Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights
fixed amount, or otherwise. The author's remuneration rates shall not be lower than the minimum rates established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Contract conditions that worsen an author's (his legal successor's) situation as compared to the situation established by effective legislation shall be invalid. Contract conditions that worsen an author's (his legal successor's) situation as compared to the situation established by effective legislation shall be invalid. Article 33 of the Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights
Successes
discussed at academic conferences (legal experts, librarians and scientific journal publishers contributing to the discussions) Creative Commons licenses are discussed at academic conferences (legal experts, librarians and scientific journal publishers contributing to the discussions) Creative Commons licenses are discussed at academic conferences (legal experts, librarians and scientific journal publishers contributing to the discussions)
Community of users in Ukraine (unported licenses): Wikipedia UA; Open Educational Resources: Video lectures on using FOSS: http://grusha.org.ua and Youth Action Multimedia: http://elekcii.org/; NGOs and grass root initiatives: No boarders: http://noborders.org.ua/;
Academic publishers: Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA) journal published by the Department of Applied Research, Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: http://www.imath.kiev.ua/~sigma/; Commons: A Journal of Social Critic: http://commons.com.ua/; Nauka publishers for Ukrainian translation of Opening up education: the collective advancement of education through open technology, open content, and open knowledge/ edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar.
Other Art journals: Art Journal AZH http://www.azh.com.ua/ Municipal web-pages and news portals: Unofficial municila page of Stryi town: http://stryi.com.ua/; Ivan Frankivsk Briz news: http://www.briz.if.ua/index.php Literature: Maksym Kidruk (book awards winning writer): http://www.kidruk.com/; Literature blog http://translitera.org/ Musicians: Viy, The Telnyk sisters, Singleton, The Sterns, Elevate Heavens and much more can be found on Jamendo
Situation is changing for the better On December 2011 State Service for Intellectual Property of Ukraine issued the document called ÂŤRecomendations regarding using of free public licenses in UkraineÂť. Now they are working on project of new edition of Law on Copyright and Related Rights that will provide legal basis for using Creative Commons licenses in Ukraine.
Plans
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Finalizing Ukrainian text of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license and translating all other licenses into Ukrainian
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Round table with legal experts
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Commons Deed translated into Ukrainian
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Promo campaign: CC Ukraine logo, promotional materials, evidence based promotional campaign using the case studies of early adopters in Ukraine, FAQs, etc
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Public launch event
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Working groups on promoting CC licenses for different types of content: research and educational content, music, video, governmental information, etc
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Partnerships with like-minded organizations
Our affiliate institutions are:
http://jurinnovation.com.ua http://internetinitiativ / es.org/
You can contact us at:
http://creativecommons.org.ua/ http://cc-ua.livejournal.com/ or at our Facebook group ÂŤCreative Commons UkraineÂť