Experts at a UNESCO international seminar unanimously noted that Creative Commons licenses "are within the framework of the existing legal framework"

May 31 - June 1, 2011, an international seminar “Open Educational Resources and Intellectual Property Rights” was held in Moscow. It was attended by representatives of Creative Commons Russia . Participants discussed the legal aspects of using open licenses, presented reports and told about the experience of localizing Creative Commons licenses in other countries.

The legal experts participating in the seminar unanimously noted that Creative Commons licenses and similar methods of licensing objects distributed on the Web are civil law contracts and are within the existing legal framework . For their introduction and use in Russia, there is a need to revise approaches to understanding how and in what ways a contract can be concluded. Those rules of law that are in force at the moment allow us to recognize the validity of such licenses . However, a great deal depends on how these rules and licenses will be interpreted by the court in the event of a legal conflict, thus, it is necessary to improve the law-enforcement practice regarding the claims under license agreements concluded in electronic form.

Also, those present noted that the proposed amendments (for those who do not know: [1] , [2] , [3] ) in Part IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation concerning free licenses do not clarify the situation with such licenses, but rather create additional questions
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The first day was entirely devoted to open educational resources. Simply put, this is a very important, cool and fashionable theme lately ! You can read more on Wikipedia and the Creative Commons website ( news and wikis ).

The second day was dedicated to Creative Commons. Presentations were presented:

• Legal aspects of using the Creative Commons license in the Russian Federation
• Russian / CIS legislation and Creative Commons license
• Problems of applying a Creative Commons license to the legal system of Ukraine
• Formation of a new practice on copyright: China's experience in the field of open licenses
• Creative Commons license or intellectual tax in the Russian system of intellectual property rights
• Electronic licenses in Russia, Creative Commons license
• Creative Commons license: problems of use in Russia
• Open licenses for distance learning in Russia
• Open educational resources and information dissemination technologies on the Internet

See the details on the pages:

www.iis.ru/content/view/546/91
ru.iite.unesco.org/news/387945