UVM license for free content
The UVM license for free content is from IfrOSS (ifrOSS) on behalf of the competence network Universitätsverbund Multimedia (UVM) in North Rhine-Westphalia created open content license, specifically to the German and European copyright law and contract law is coordinated. There are also other licenses that allow the use of a work under certain conditions.
background
The "License for Free Content" was developed for the conclusion of license agreements for everyone. The use of the rights from this license is connected with an implied consent .
Overview of rights and obligations:
- Right to reproduce, distribute and modify the work. This gives the user extensive rights to the work.
- Obligation to name the author and owner of the exclusive rights of use if the data is passed on to third parties unchanged.
- Obligation to not name the author and owner of the rights of use of the previous version in the event of a change in use, as these may not be associated with changed content that they are not familiar with.
- Obligation to transfer the copyrights transferred by the contract to the modified version of the work after processing and to make these available to everyone in accordance with the provisions of the license.
This procedure is also known as copyleft . Such a procedure was also used in the successful development of the GNU / Linux operating system .
Furthermore, the license text must be attached to the work in order to give users information about their usage rights. Notes on the works that refer to the scope of the license must remain unchanged.
The UVM licenses are an alternative to the GNU license for free documentation and the various Creative Commons licenses that are based on US copyright law. They were used in German-speaking countries even before the Creative Commons licenses (in 2004), among other things, for free music and free art, whereby the license for free content in the sense of Neppstar comes into effect here.
In contrast to many other free licenses, where this point has simply been forgotten, the license for free content (both in the original version and in the interpretation of Neppstar) allows broadcasting rights on radio and television and the public reproduction of the work.
UVM licenses
With the UVM license for free content, the license model for free or open source software was further developed and extended to other areas such as images, databases and texts. Legal problems, some of which could be criticized when using previous licenses, have been largely eliminated by developing the new license. In addition to the license for free content, ifross offers further licenses for the development and distribution of content.
These licenses were primarily developed for the distribution of content created at universities in North Rhine-Westphalia.
- License for the free use of unchanged content Version 1.0, May 2003
- License for the non-commercial use of content in schools and universities Version 1.0, October 2003
- License for the use of content in certain user groups Version 1.0, May 2003
Web links
- License for free content on ifross.de
- Till Jaeger, Axel Metzger: Open content licenses according to German law (PDF) on mediaculture-online.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Universitätsverbund Multimedia NRW and ifrOSS offer Open Content license. ifross.org, accessed May 13, 2016 .
- ^ License for free content - LFFI v1.0 as defined by Neppstar. neppstar.net, accessed on May 13, 2016 ( 2nd usage rights ).
- ↑ License Center. ifross.org, accessed May 13, 2016 .
- ↑ License for the free use of unchanged content on hypersoil.uni-muenster.de, accessed on May 13, 2016.
- ↑ License for the non-commercial use of content in schools and universities (MuSofT license) on ifross.org, accessed on May 13, 2016.
- ↑ License for the use of content in certain user groups on ifross.org, accessed on May 13, 2016.