The publication of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen under „Creative Commons“

Proposoal: SPD parliamentary group Bremen

Sometimes lasts policy. After the coalition partners has considered eight weeks he is ready – our application SPD on „Creative Commons“ licenses. Having an idea of ​​the Federal Minister of Justice Leutheuser-Schnarrenberger. That would be something for the SPD team of experts.

Bremen Parliament Drs 18 / Diet 13 May 2013 18th Legislature

Request of the factions of the SPD and Alliance 90/The Greens

The copyright is usually very difficult for laymen to understand legal matter. Nowadays, however, the proliferation of digital content such as text, video or photos is common. Often copyright infringement are committed, without users and users guessed it. A consequence of this may be legal ¬ tion warnings, people with claims in some considerable height confront because they actually or allegedly example, use a photo from foreign source on their website or their blog.

As an alternative to fee-based use of copyrighted works were by the same non-profit organization, the „Creative Commons“ license model ¬ le developed, which give by simple texts and symbols users and users with assistance in copyright-compliant release, disclosure or use of digital content to. In many texts and images of Bremen authorities already find relevant information on the use of content, such as press releases.

The use of Creative Commons-sensitized symbols and clear information about applicable copyright and facilitates the use and dissemination of content ¬ tion, as already many websites, it is already the case.

The Citizenship (Parliament) may decide:

The Citizenship (Parliament), calls on the Senate to

  1. as far as possible for the publications of Bremen authorities and companies to use text, images and videos which are under „Creative Commons“ licenses or can be made,
  2. to provide your own content, as well as under „Creative Commons“ and
  3. to provide them on websites and in print ¬ products of Bremen authorities and companies with so-called „Creative Commons-instructions“