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Creative commons licenses and polish copyright

Author(s): Julia Olga Wróblewska
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Cultural history, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Creative Commons licenses; free culture; Intellectual Property law; copyright law; license agreements
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to propose a demonstration of the tool that is Creative Commons licenses (CC licenses) as one of the responses to the problem of striking a balance between private and public interest in copyright law and to analyze the level of compatibility of selected aspects of CC licenses with the Polish copyright system. In the copyright system there is a recurrent issue of balancing between the private interest of creators (manifested mainly through the property copyright) and the public interest of society (understood as the right to culture). The article discusses the issue of CC licenses as license agreements, as well as the legal nature of CC licenses, which affects the legal situation of the licensee, since this issue lies closest to the idea of free culture and ensures the widest possible access to culture.

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