Ensi viikolla vietetään jänniä hetkiä kun toimiston osakkaat Herkko Hietanen ja Ville Oksanen kumpikin väittelevät. Herkko ehti ensimmäisenä 9.12. kun Villen väitöstilaisuus on 12.12. Oksanen väittelee filosofian tohtoriksi ja Hietanen kauppatieteen tohtoriksi. Kummallakin väittelijällä on aikaisempi tutkinto oikeustieteestä.
Herkko väittelee Lappeenrannassa otsikolla:”The Pursuit of Efficient Copyright Licensing How Some Rights Reserved Attempts to Solve the Problems of All Rights Reserved“. Väitös järjestetään tiistaina 9.12.2008 klo 12, ylioppilastalon auditorio (Laserkatu 10), Lappeenrannan teknillisessä yliopistossa ja sen kielenä on englanti.
The dissertation analyses the growing pool of copyrighted works, which are offered to the public using Creative Commons licensing. The study consist of analysis of the novel licensing system, the licensors, and the changes of the “all rights reserved” –paradigm of copyright law.
Copyright law reserves all rights to the creator until seventy years have passed since her demise. Many claim that this endangers communal interests. Quite often the creators are willing to release some rights. This, however, is very difficult to do and needs help of specialized lawyers.
The study finds that the innovative Creative Commons licensing scheme is well suited for low value – high volume licensing. It helps to reduce transaction costs on several levels.
However, CC licensing is not a “silver bullet”. Privacy, moral rights, the problems of license interpretation and license compatibility with other open licenses and collecting societies remain unsolved.The study consists of seven chapters. The first chapter introduces the research topic and research questions. The second and third chapters inspect the Creative Commons licensing scheme’s technical, economic and legal aspects. The fourth and fifth chapters examine the incentives of the licensors who use open licenses and describe certain open business models. The sixth chapter studies the role of collecting societies and whether two institutions, Creative Commons and collecting societies can coexist. The final chapter summarizes the findings.
The dissertation contributes to the existing literature in several ways. There is a wide range of prior research on open source licensing. However, there is an urgent need for an extensive study of the Creative Commons licensing and its actual and potential impact on the creative ecosystem.
Hietasen vastaväittäjänä on Professori Brian Fitzgerald (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) ja väitöstilaisuuden valvojana on Professori Jukka Kemppinen (Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto).
Oksasen väitöksen otsikkona on: Five Essays on Copyright in the Digital Era. Villen väitöstilaisuus on siis Perjantai 12.12.2008 klo 12 Teknillinen korkeakoulu, Tietotekniikan talo, sali T1, Konemiehentie 2, Otaniemi, Espoo.
Oksasen vastaväittäjänä on Prof Giovanni B. Ramello (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Italia) ja kustoksena professori Juha Laine (Teknillinen korkeakoulu).
Update: Villen väitöskirja löytyy täältä pdf ja Herkon täältä.
