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Ius Comparatum – Global Studies in Comparative Law Axel Metzger E ditor Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and other Alternative License Models A Comparative Analysis Ius Comparatum – Global Studies in Comparative Law Volume 12 Series Editors Katharina Boele-Woelki , University of Utrecht , The Netherlands Diego P. Fernández Arroyo , Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris , Sciences Po France Founding Series Editors Jürgen Basedow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Germany George Bermann, Columbia University School of Law, USA Editorial Board Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris 2, France Giuseppe Franco Ferrari, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy Toshiyuki Kono, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Marek Safjan, Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg Jorge Sanchez Cordero, Mexican Center of Uniform Law, Mexico Ulrich Sieber, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany More information about this series at h ttp://www.springer.com/series/11943 Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé International Academy of Comparative Law Axel Metzger Editor Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and other Alternative License Models A Comparative Analysis Editor Axel Metzger Faculty of Law Humboldt University of Berlin , Germany Copyright is retained by Lucie Guibault and Olivia Salamanca for Chapter 16 Copyright is retained by Pedro de Miguel Asensio for Chapter 21 ISSN 2214-6881 ISSN 2214-689X (electronic) Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law ISBN 978-3-319-21559-4 ISBN 978-3-319-21560-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21560-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015952853 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 T his work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www. springer.com) Pref ace This volume presents the output of a session held at the 19th International Congress of Comparative Law in Vienna on July 24, 2014. The Congress is organised every four years by the International Academy of Comparative Law. For the preparation of a typical Congress session, the Academy invites a specialist on a given subject to prepare a questionnaire which is then submitted to a group of national reporters appointed by the Academy. It is then the task of the reporters to answer the ques- tionnaire from their national perspective. Ideally, the general reporter receives the national reports early enough to draw preliminary conclusions before the Congress. The general reporter then presents these preliminary conclusions during the session to the national reporters and a broader audience. For the session on “License Contracts, Free Software and Creative Commons/Contrats de Licence, les Logiciels Gratuits et Biens Communs Créatifs”, this process paved the way for very fruitful cooperation between legal scholars from 25 jurisdictions. The questionnaire, which is printed in the Annex to this volume, was sent out to the national reporters in March 2013. The feedback from the national reporters was remarkable. Twenty-fi ve reports were submitted before the Vienna conference. Seven national reporters were present at the Vienna session. Those in attendance discussed the preliminary con- clusions with the audience and highlighted specifi c issues from their jurisdictions. After the conference, the general report and most of the national reports were revised for publication in this volume. The Australian report may be downloaded at “ h ttp://metzger.rewi.hu-berlin.de/doc/publikationen/National_Report_Australia. pdf ” in the form of questions and answers. I am very grateful to Stefan Hennigs, Marvin Bartels, Thomas Dysart, Sylvia Jakob and Sven Vetter who helped me with the editing of the reports and the organisation of the session. Special thanks go to Jürgen Basedow who established contact with the International Academy of Comparative Law. This book is dedicated to my son Rasmus Quentin Höpfner. Berlin, Germany October 15, 2015 v Contents Part I General Report 1 General Report ........................................................................................ 3 Axel Metzger and Stefan Hennigs Part II National Reports 2 License Contracts, Free Software and Creative Commons – An Overview of the State of Play in Belgium .................. 51 Vincent Cassiers , Marie-Christine Janssens , and Esther van Zimmeren 3 Free Open Source Software and Creative Commons in Brazil: Mapping the Legal Framework of Alternative Intellectual Property Licenses ....................................... 77 Fabrício Bertini Pasquot Polido and Mônica Steffen Guise Rosina 4 Alternative Licensing Contracts in Croatian Copyright Legislation ........................................................ 105 Igor Gliha and Romana Matanovac Vučković 5 The Cypriot Law of Contract Applied to Free Software and Creative Commons: A Work in Progress ...................... 129 Tatiana Synodinou and Philippe Jougleux 6 Free Licenses and Recodification of Civil Law in the Czech Republic ............................................................................. 141 Pavel Koukal , Matěj Myška , and Jaromír Šavelka 7 License Contracts, Free Software and Creative Commons in Denmark ............................................................................ 159 Henrik Udsen vii viii Contents 8 Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Licenses and Other Alterative Licenses Under Finnish Law – Hybrid Contracts Including Both Copyright and Contract-Related Elements ............................................................. 171 Anniina Huttunen , Henri Tanskanen , and Martin von Willebrand 9 The French Copyright Law Opens Its Arms to the FOSS .................. 185 Nicolas Binctin 10 License Contracts, Free Software and Creative Commons in Germany ............................................................................ 201 Alexander Peukert and Dominik König 11 License Contracts, Free Software and Creative Commons in Greece ................................................................................ 227 Dionysia K allinikou 12 License Contracts, Free Software and Creative Commons in the Hungarian Law .......................................................... 235 Anikó Grad-Gyenge and Péter Mezei 13 Free Software and Creative Commons Licenses in Italy: A Work Still in Progress ........................................................... 251 Marco Ricolfi 14 Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Other Alternative License Models in Japan .................................. 271 Ryu Kojima 15 Legal Issues on Free Software and License Contracts: A Malaysian Perspective ..................................................... 293 Tay Pek San and Sik Cheng Peng 16 Fitting the Bill: FOSS and Alternative Copyright Licensing in the Netherlands ............................................... 311 Lucie Guibault and Olivia Salamanca 17 Licence Contracts, Free Software and Creative Commons in Poland ......................................................... 339 Beata Giesen 18 License Contracts, Free Software and Creative Commons in Portuguese Law ................................................................ 357 Alexandre L. Dias Pereira 19 Legal Regime of Free Software in Romania ......................................... 371 Răzvan Dincă Contents ix 20 Legal Issues on FOSS and Other Alternative Licenses in Korea ........ 387 Gyooho Lee 21 Free Software, Creative Commons and Alternative Licenses: Spanish Perspectives ................................... 411 Pedro A. de Miguel Asensio 22 Legal Development in an Industrial Context – FOSS in Taiwan ..................................................................... 431 Wei-min Liao 23 Turkish Copyright Law on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Licenses ......................................................... 445 Emre Bayamlıoğlu 24 FOSS and Alternative Licensing in the United Kingdom – Assessing the Dual Importance of Contract Law and Copyright Law .................................................... 461 Luke McDonagh 25 The Uncertain Legal Status of Free and Open Source Software in the United States .................................................... 477 Peter B. Maggs About the Authors ........................................................................................... 495 Questionnaire .................................................................................................. 505
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