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Legal Protection of Copyright Items Inheritance in the Internet by Means of a Creative Commons License

Authors Marina Vladimirovna Vasiljeva Yelena Anatolyevna Kirillova Yulia Aleksandrovna Krohina

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                                                                       Review of European Studies; Vol. 6, No. 4; 2014
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      Legal Protection of Copyright Items Inheritance in the Internet by
                   Means of a Creative Commons License
          Yelena Anatolyevna Kirillova1, Marina Vladimirovna Vasiljeva2 & Yulia Aleksandrovna Krohina3
1
    South-west state university, 305040, Kursk, st.50 years of October 94, Kursk, Russian Federation
2
    Publishing House “Scientific review”, Moscow, Russian Federation
3
    Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation
Correspondence: Marina Vladimirovna Vasiljeva, Publishing House “Scientific review”, Moscow, Russian
Federation. E-mail: marinavv2010@mail.ru


Received: October 18, 2014        Accepted: November 11, 2014       Online Published: November 15, 2014
doi:10.5539/res.v6n4p232                 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v6n4p232


Abstract
In this paper, we consider legal protection of copyright items in the Internet. The subject of the research is
copyright protection of potential heirs on the Internet with the help of modern computer technologies. The
purpose of the research is development of a system for copyright protection on the Internet in the case of
inheritance. Use of copyright protected intellectual property in computer networks positively differs from any
known types of copyright item use, including over-the-air transmission or a message for universal information
across the wire. This is due to information physical properties change within digital media, new law features and
properties of intellectual product as an object of legal relationship appear, emerges brand new system of public
relations, connected with high technology application suggesting copyright dualism. In spite of this fact, many
researches propose to inherit works of authorship posted in the Internet in a traditional way by means of will or
law. This can be explained by a relatively narrow approach to the understanding of copyright. This understanding
is based on the current beliefs about it solely as about an institution of civil law. We believe it necessary to
abandon the industry isolationism and, instead, use an integrated approach in the scientific search on the
problems of copyright protection on the Internet, and to see the concept of copyright as a complex one at the
intersection of different branches of law. The development of modern, including computer technologies
exacerbates the problem of protecting the rights of creators of literary, artistic, and scientific works. We propose
new approach applicable only to digitized works published in the Internet. For this reason it is necessary to
legalize heirship in international free and constrained licenses of Creative Commons and alike, in case of the
testator’s death, through specifying a potential heir in the will at that (electronic testament). We also propose
legislating the electronic form of work as an objective form of expression in international conventions, contracts,
and agreements in the area of copyright protection, what will make it possible to give equal rights to printed and
electronic copies.
Keywords: heir, testator, digitized work, digital media
1. Introduction
Intellectual property is one of the key concepts of the international community of beginning of the XXI century.
Modern conditions of the world facilitate the growing influence of the intellectual factor on the economic, social,
and political development. In order to create favourable conditions for accumulating the intellectual potential of
society, the law guarantees freedom of literary, artistic, scientific, technical, and other forms of creativity to
every person. This freedom gets specific legal guarantees in the form of copyright. The rapid development of
information technologies and their wide application in all the countries is a social phenomenon called
“information revolution” (Arias & Cameron, 2013). Society has refused material copies of work in connection
with shift towards turnover of works in digital form. Works in digital form are the works allocated in the Internet
and recorded to electronic media (digitized works). Under the new conditions, the traditional system of copyright
is being rapidly displaced by the system of digitized works presented in open access in the Internet (Ficsor,
2002). The developing technologies and the scale of exchange of copyright information in the Internet led to the
situation when efficiency of legal provisions had significantly reduced. As many experts fairly note such
provisions initially were not designed for regulation of relations linked with use of digital media (Balganesh,


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2011). Thus, the problem of free copying and spreading of copyright items in the Internet produces intractable
collisions—for example, the addressing to work allocated on site is, in fact, the copying of this work to user’s
server, what automatically leads to copyright infringement. Besides, according to statistics, users do not estimate
illegal copying in the Internet as an offense. Such an opinion was given by 78% of Internet users in USA (Dinah,
2009).
At the same time, the Internet has some unique properties—among them, there are transboundary, interactivity
and unity. All these demand complex international approach to elaboration of legal model of author’s rights
inheritance protection in the Internet (Deyneko, 2013). In view of the novelty of the Internet relationship, legal,
logical, and normative analysis shall be used to identify the value of the common law categories in the
implementation of guarantees of the rights fir creators of literary, artistic, and scientific works.
The matter of inheritance of copyright items allocated in the Internet becomes increasingly actual, as with time
heirs of sites, computer programs and digitized works appear (103rd Congress, 2nd session, 1994). Formalizing
the guarantees for creators of literary, scientific, and artistic works, copyright acts as one of the most important
structural elements of the democratic system of the state for the implementation of the rights and freedoms of a
human being and a citizen. However, researchers addressing to the theme of copyright items Internet use
(WiUiam, 2012; Anthony, 2008; Lynne, 1992; Varian, 2000; Samuelson & Wheatland, 2009) hardly touch upon
the subjects of digitized works inheritance and heirs and testators’ rights.
The use of intellectual activity results in the Internet is a rapidly developing part of economy (Internet, 1996).
Our intellect has gradually become one of the most important factors of social production, and the works of
man’s reason or “intellectual capital”—one of the main objects of economic turnover (Knowledge Management,
2001).
2. Legal status of Digitized Works
The constantly growing volume of digitized works on the Internet requires a change in the legal implementation
of the copyright. Based on the study of general methodological, general theoretical works and developments of
leading legalists, and special works on copyright and intellectual property rights, it shall be noted that the
fundamental value is given to the identification of the role of the general legal principles and categories, such as
individual rights, individual freedom, freedom of creativity, the object and the subject of copyright on the
Internet. The constantly growing volume of digitized works in the Internet requires the change of legal model of
copyright realization. As researchers say (Towse, 2013), the necessity for revision of copyright law has become
even more actual in the last several years. In such a respect the following aspects should be recognized: the
genuine work can exist in objective form on machine-readable storage medium; the storage medium is presented
with magnetic or optical disk and used by computer for data recording, storing and reproduction; the work
should be presented in the form of file or set of files what is being an expression of work in objective form;
physically the genuine work can be initially recorded to the computer’s storage media used by the author, or to
generally available public computer (Kobylyatsky, 2010).
The differences are obvious insomuch that many lawyers ask whether the publication of work in the Internet is
being a manifestation, as legislator understands it (Merrill & Smith, 2001). The author’s right to manifest his
work implies the right to perform an action or to give consent to perform an action, which for the first time
makes the work available for general public by means of radio, cable, publishing, public performance, public
view or in any other way. In connection with it, we should develop and legislate the special electronic form of
work manifestation in the Internet. Thus, the fact of availability of access to the work on storage media used by
computer will be estimated as its manifestation.
Many experts considering judicial practice on disputes over copyright in the Internet note that “there is a need of
further development in the frames of DMCA for purposes of increasing of conformity in respect of work of
authorship licensing with due consideration of cyberspace” (Dorrain, 2014).
Many researches aimed at studying of authors’ rights and copyright holders’ protection mechanisms were held in
different countries all over the world (Karla, 2009). Therewith, empirical studies cover three branches: the
protection of copyrights from unauthorized use of work (Jennifer, 2010), the profit from works of authorship
(Copenhagen Economics, 2010) and free (non-commercial) use of copyright items (Dinusha, 2013).
“The copyright in digital media is considered as the process where there is a need of balancing author’s interests
toward profit earning with the interests of consumers who claim for availability of art products” (Juile, 2007).
Thus, a democratic approach will be considered. The approach is based on the modern concept of law, which
develops the essence of copyright of the natural world of human rights and social justice.


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The problem of heirs of digitized works remains actual and poorly studied—we have found no major researches
dedicated to this subject. Computerization in the field of copyright is a difficult and complex problem that must
be solved, taking into account the variety of legal, social, organizational, and technical factors. The problem of
protecting the rights of creators of literary, artistic, and scientific works faces with such important natural rights
of a human being, as personal integrity, freedom of speech, of thought, the right to enjoy culture, and to have
access to informational resources. Legal science is facing a challenge of the ratio of public and private interest in
the field of intellectual creativity, of the limits of freedom for exercising the rights in the field of culture and
information—the rights of creators of literary, scientific, and artistic works, and every citizen, every personality.
As a rule, researchers dealing with it hold a view that digitized works can be also inherited by will or by law, as
traditional works are inherited (Craig, 2009). Being agreed with this opinion, we nevertheless should state that at
inheritance of works allocated in the Internet there can be definite problems. A brand new system of social
relations emerged. The system is associated with the use of modern technologies and, in most cases, when
disputes of various kinds require broad interpretation of the law, because the law lacks the necessary references
to the specifics of copyright protection on the Internet. If a testator makes his will and inform potential heirs of
access codes to resources where there are his works allocated, the right to inherit in such a case will be protected
at most. In such a situation, heirs will be able to use incomes produced by the work, if it was allocated for the
purpose of commercial profit. In addition, they can proceed the work at testator’s site and finish some other
author’s projects in case he had made such a will. However, there is no way of drawing up a digital electronic
will—researchers do not even consider such a possibility. At the same time, we can suppose if there is an
opportunity of digital signing, electronic document flow, and commercial digitized works’ registration systems,
sooner or later such a matter will arise.
However, if there is no testament, many questions appear: how the rights of heirs of works allocated in the
Internet will be protected; what property and non-property rights the heirs will gain; will the heirs able to use
profit from intellectual property if it was allocated in digital media for the purpose of commercial profit? Another
one important matter is the period of digitized work protection after the author’s death.
3. Copyright protection with help of Creative Commons licenses
With development of the Internet, we have got the opportunity of works’ creation in digital format as well as of
digitization of traditional works of authorship (Dorfman, A., 2010). As a rule, “the copyright items are the works
of science, literature and art” (Dane, 2002) regardless of their advantages, purpose and the way of its expression.
As we can see from this definition, this list does not include sites, software, databases, and electronic books yet
(US Senate, 2008).
Taking into account such circumstances, Creative Commons, the non-commercial organization, has made
free-for-use standard contracts—free and non-free public licenses. With help of these licenses, authors and
copyright holders can express their will and distribute their works in wider and freer way, while consumers gain
opportunity of using these works in legal and quite simple way (Paley, 2010). The legal status of digitized works
should comprise effective mechanism of copyright items transfer and distribution. The copyright holders at that
can determine the onerousness of rights transfer and the ways of intellectual property disposition, i.a. in case of
death (Biyle, n.d.). Since the advent of digital and network technologies, there are new trends and problems
defined with the following circumstances:
- the concept of work’s material copy, which previously was a basis for copyright, has dwindled under the
modern conditions of digital media;
- to regulate relations in the area of copyright protection new concept was introduced: “the public dissemination
of work in such a way, when any person can get access to work…”. Thus, the idea of access becomes more
important concept than copying and distribution in paper medium (CC Affiliate Network);
- existing informational space has become even more transboundary with the advent of cloud computing, at
which resources are performed to user as Internet-service (Mako, 2005).
The aim of Creative Commons is to allow authors of digitized works allocated in the Internet to transfer some of
their rights to users and at the same time “to reserve definite right” (Klass, 2008). Creative Commons tends to
support the formation of richer public domain, offering alternative to automatic copyright on the principle of “all
rights reserved” (Rowlands, M., 2011) by the principle of “some rights reserved” (Broussard, S. L.).
In licenses of Creative Commons the conditions of licenses are prescribed right in their titles (for example, the
license, in accordance with which one can use work for non-commercial purposes under the condition of author
attribution, is called “Attribution—Noncommercial”). The conditions of licenses are prescribed in the form of


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“license elements” combination. At that, each element also possesses its own designation in the form of picture.
We can see it in the following table 1.


Table 1. The conditions of licenses
        Attribution (briefly - BY)                            User must attribute the author of the work.


        Share-alike (briefly - SA)                            Derivative works must be obligatory spread under the
                                                              conditions of this license.
        Non-commercial (briefly - NC)                         It is prohibited to use the work for the purposes of profit
                                                              earning.
        No Derivative Works (briefly - ND)                    It is prohibited to create derivative works on the basis of
                                                              this work.


The following conditions of licenses are informal; they can be easily puzzled out by authors as well as by users.
The creator of Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig (Lessig, 2007), calls them “human readable”. However,
they do not stand good in law, and that is why the correct “lawyer readable” formulations are articulated for each
of them. Thus, the system of licenses is being quite convenient for users and lawyers. Authors can choose a CC
Attribution License in case when it does not matter for them what people will do with their works as long as they
attribute authorship (Stallman, 2012). From the business point of view, the works under CC Attribution present
the perfect opportunity of taking the work made by other people to make some insignificant alterations in it and
produce on its basis a derivative work. Thus, it will be undivided intellectual property of the company and can be
used for the commercial purposes. “The derivative work implies some contribution into original material for the
purpose of its transformation” (Melville, 2013).
CC Attribution—Share Alike (briefly–CC-BY-SA)—the license “with designation of authorship and conditions
reservation” (David, S. V., 2013). This is the most popular license. It allows others to process, improve and
develop work even for the commercial purposes under the conditions of authorship attribution and derivative
works licensing. The present license is being a copyleft license (Shyamkrishna, 2012).
The judicial proceedings concerning licenses of Creative Commons are held rather seldom. Although Creative
Commons has been existing for about ten years and hundreds millions of works of art were published under its
licenses.
Creative Commons considers the absence of judicial proceedings is an evidence of wide recognition and
accessibility of their licenses (SGAE v. Fernandez, n.d.). Nevertheless, Creative Commons appreciates decisions
of courts confirming their licenses function just as they should function. Let us review a legal case. In the end of
2005 the Spanish Society of Collective Rights Management (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores) filed a
lawsuit against a bar owner, insisting he had not paid licensing fee necessary for public execution of music for
three years. The court dismissed complaints of SGAE, as the owner of bar had proved the music played in his
bar was licensed by musicians by means of Creative Commons licenses. Consequently, SGAE had no right to
demand provisions for licensing fees (Curry v. Audax, n.d.). The licenses of Creative Commons reserve author’s
copyrights (Newman, 2013), however, we should note that the rights of heirs as of potential copyright holders
are not accommodated in the present license.
4. The Rights of Heirs of Digitized Works
A copyright is devolved. The protection of works’ integrity after author’s death is performed by his heirs and by
the organizations responsible for copyrights protection. In cases of use of a work without an agreement with
author or subsequent proprietors (heirs), violation of conditions of a work without author’s consent, or in case of
violation of work’s integrity or other personal non-property rights, the author (or his heirs) has a right to demand
for violated right recovery (Cariou & Prince, 2013).
Author’s heirs are represented with a special group of subsequent proprietors, to whom the government provides
the opportunity of protecting rights for the work developed by testator (Nordemann, Czychowski, & Gruter,
1998). The heirs are the subjects of derivative right, who perform authority of property right. The personal
non-property authority, such as right on name, right of authorship, right to reputation protection, is not devolved.



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In scientific legal literature, the copyright and law of inheritance received much criticism as there was no distinct
regulation of copyright items’ inheritance in digital media.
Taking into account the fact that many works allocated in the Internet produce a good profit for authors and
copyright holders, we MUST talk about heirs’ property rights (Payne, 1999). The main source of wealth today is
not financial resources, but intellectual capital and knowledge/technologies based on it (John & Zipursky, 2010).
Besides, modern license agreements provide an opportunity of commercial use of digitized works (Briat, 1998).
Considering digitization of works allocated in the Internet and major use of Creative Commons licenses, it is
rather reasonably to prescribe in these licenses the rights of potential heirs—the copyright holders.
We should also note that the principle of extraterritoriality in international copyright protection practice during
jurisdiction establishment must be used in respect of works allocated in the Internet. Such an opinion was given
by European researchers (Bern Convention, 1886), and to our mind, the principle of extraterritoriality is applied
to the matters of inheritance.
5. Conclusions
Having studied the matters of digitized works inheritance legal protection trends, we have drown the following
conclusions:
Theoretical:
1) The copyright in digital media is at the intersection of civil, computer, information, constitutional, and labour
law, sociology, political science, and economics; has own set of public relations that differs from the set of
relations formed in traditional copyright, which deals with things as with physical carriers of works and defines
works as production. The right of authorship in digital media possesses its principles, methods, matter,
developing legal framework—and that is why the legal methods of copyrights protection should consider the
specific character of digital media. The expansion of legal framework of copyrights for performance of
possibility to act under the conditions of new digital media leads us to the conclusion about dualism of copyright
in the modern context.
2) Copyright in the digital environment is a complex system of legal norms regulating social relations in the
information and communications environment between the author or the copyright owner, information broker,
and the consumer, which are related to the circulation of information, formation and use of information resources,
establishment and operation of information systems in order to provide safe meeting the information needs of
citizens, organizations, government, and society.
3) A digital testament to the digitized work shall mean a private disposition of the copyright belonging to the
citizen in case of the death, committed within the framework of the license used by the author on the Internet.
Practical:
4) We propose to prescribe the rights of potential heirs in licenses of Creative Commons or some analogous ones.

It can be done using a graphic element, for example, as the following—                        . Thus, considering the
conditions of license and its attitude towards free or non-free access, heirs will be able to administer property
rights on digital work allocated in Internet.
5) It is necessary to give a testator an opportunity of preliminarily administering the rights on digitized work in
contemplation of death by designation in Creative Commons or analogous licenses of potential heir (the
electronic testament), for example, Ivanov V.V. 08.08.2008 and other data. Thus, the heirship will be protected in
suitable way even in case of judicial disputes.


                   Attribution (briefly - BY)                            User must attribute the author of the work.


                   Protection of the rights of heirs (briefly - PH)      Protection of heirs’ rights.


                   Share-alike (briefly - SA)                            Derivative works must be obligatory spread
                                                                         under the conditions of this license.



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                  Non-commercial (briefly - NC)                      It is prohibited to use the work for the
                                                                     purposes of profit earning.
                  No Derivative Works (briefly ND)                   It is prohibited to create derivative works on
                                                                     the basis of this work.


6) It would be reasonable to link the concept of “publication of work” with relations in the Internet, where under
publication we can consider the allocation of one electronic copy performing commercial or free access to it for
users in the Internet. In addition, the legislative protection should cover not only the works fixed in one or
another material form, but also the works in digital form. To do this we should confirm in all the convention,
contracts, and agreements concerning copyright protection the electronic form of work as an objective form of
expression, what will help to give equal rights to printed and electronic copies.
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