%0 Journal Article
%T Creative Commons licences and design
%A Jasserand
%A Catherine
%J JIPITEC : Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law
%D 2011
%I Digital Peer Publishing
%X This article analyses whether Cre-ative Commons licences are applicable to and com-patible with design. The first part focuses on thepeculiar and complex nature of a design, which canbenefit from a copyright and a design protection.This shows how it can affect the use of CreativeCommons licences. The second and third parts dealwith a specific case study. Some Internet platformshave recently emerged that offer users the possibil-ity to download blueprints of design products in or-der to build them. Designers and creative users areinvited to share their blueprints and creations un-der Creative Commons licences. The second part ofthe article assesses whether digital blueprints can becopyrightable and serve as the subject matter of Cre-ative Commons licences, while the last part assesseswhether the right to reproduce the digital blueprint,as provided by Creative Commons licences, extendsto the right to build the product.
%K Creative Commons licences
%K open content
%K design
%K design law
%K copyright
%K right of reproduction
%K digital blueprints
%K third-dimensional representation
%K right of adaptation
%K derivative works approach
%U https://www.jipitec.eu/issues/jipitec-2-2-2011/3085