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International Commons: Netherlands
The Netherlands license has now been integrated into the Creative Commons licensing process, so you are able to license your works under this jurisdiction's law.
Many thanks to all who contributed to the license-porting process. This page remains for reference.
Please take a look at the mailing-list archive if you are interested in the academic discussion leading to the Netherlands final license.
Creative Commons is working with the Instititute for Information Law with DISC, an initiative by Nederland Kennisland and Waag Society on porting the Creative Commons licenses to Netherlands.
iCommons Netherlands List
Project Lead: Prof. P. Bernt Hugenholtz and Nynke Hendriks
More about Institute for Information Law (IViR)
The Institute for Information Law (IViR) is part of the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. IViR has been founded in 1987 and is currently one the largest research centres in the field of information law in the world. The Institute employs over 25 researchers who are active in an entire spectrum of information society related legal areas: copyright law, patents, telecommunications and broadcasting regulation, media law, advertising law, domain names, freedom of expression, freedom of information, privacy, etc. IViR also maintains a Documentation Centre containing a unique collection of books, periodicals, reports and other materials on international information law and policy. At the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam, IViR faculty members teach courses on copyright law, media and information law, telecommunciations law, industrial property law, patent law and law of commercial communications. Every first week of July, IViR offers a one-week intensive post-graduate summer course on International Copyright Law, which is taught in English. ViR has undertaken research projects and studies commissioned by the European Commission, the Council of Europe, UNESCO, WIPO, OECD, and various national governments and agencies. Most publications by IViR staff are available online at www.ivir.nl.
More info: http://www.ivir.nl/index-english.html
