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Free Software, Creative Commons and Alternative Licenses: Spanish Perspectives

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This contribution provides a general overview of the main legal issues raised by license contracts in the field of free and open source software and other alternative license models, e.g. creative commons, from the perspective of Spanish Law. Particular attention is paid to contract law and intellectual property issues. Formation of contract, formal requirements, validity of certain typical clauses and standard terms, warranties and liability are among the contract law issues considered. Possible constraints resulting from copyright law are also addressed. An analysis of Spanish case law on alternative licenses, in particular, creative commons, is also provided.

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  1. 1.

    Legislation concerning copyright and related rights is contained in a single act, named the Consolidated Law on Intellectual Property [TRLPI]. It regularizes, clarifies, and harmonizes the applicable statutory provisions approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996 of April 12, 1996 (Boletín Oficial del Estado no. 97, April 22, 1996) and revised recently by Law 23/2006 of July 7, 2006 (Boletín Oficial del Estado no. 162, July 8, 2006). This Act is currently under review. English versions of the Act may be found online at the website of the Spanish Ministry of Justice <http://mjusticia.gob.es/cs/Satellite/es/1288774502225/TextoPublicaciones.html> and (not fully updated) at the WIPO Database of Intellectual Property Legislative Texts <http://wipo.int>.

  2. 2.

    Establishing that an author of software cannot oppose the resale of his licenses allowing the use of his programs downloaded from the Internet, see the ECJ Judgment of 3 July 2012 in case C-128/11, UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp.

  3. 3.

    See SAP Madrid (Secc. 28ª) 150/2007, of 5 July 2007, AC 2007, 1768 ; SAP Granada (Secc. 3ª) 409/2008, of 10 October 2008, AC 2008, 2097; SAP La Coruña (Secc. 4ª) 556/2008 of 11 December 2008, JUR 2009, 241020; SAP Madrid (Secc. 28ª) 56/2009 of 13 March 2009, AC 2009, 509; SAP Pontevedra (Secc. 1ª) 329/2009, of 9 July 2009, AC 2009, 1843; SAP Tarragona (Secc. 1ª) núm. 390/2009 of 19 November, JUR 2010, 44100; SAP León (Secc. 1ª) 576/2009, of 26 November 2009, AC 2010, 296; SAP Cáceres (Secc. 1ª) 40/2010, of 5 February 2010, JUR 2010, 112508; SAP La Coruña (Secc. 4ª) 122/2010, of 17 March 2010, JUR 2010, 196063; y SAP Madrid (Secc. 28ª) 76/2010, of 22 March 2010, JUR 2010, 206687.

  4. 4.

    SAP León (Secc. 1ª) núm. 405/2009, 22 July 2009, JUR 2009, 361980.

  5. 5.

    See P.A. De Miguel Asensio, Derecho privado de Internet, 4th ed., Navarra, Thomson Reuters Civitas, 2011, pp. 662–667.

  6. 6.

    SAP Madrid (Secc. 28ª) 45/2011 of 18 February 2011, AC 2011\932; SAP Madrid (Secc. 28ª) 9/2011, of 21 January 2011, AC 2011\368; SAP Madrid (Sección 28ª), 312/2011, of 28 October, AC 2011\2272.

  7. 7.

    http://es.creativecommons.org/blog/licencias/.

  8. 8.

    R. Xalabarder Plantada, “Las licencias Creative Commons: ¿una alternativa al copyright?”, uocpapers, 2006, pp. 4–11.

  9. 9.

    C. Maracke, “Creative Commons International: The International License Porting Project – Origins, Experiences, and Challenges”, 1 (2010) JIPITEC 4, p.10.

  10. 10.

    See J.P. Aparicio Vaquero, Licencias de uso no personalizadas de programas de ordenador, Granada, Comares, 2004, pp. 87 and 90; A. López-Tarruella Martínez, Contratos internacionales de software, Valencia, Titant lo blanch, 2006, pp. 69–95; R. Xalabarder Plantada, “Redes sociales y propiedad intelectual”, Navarra, Thomson Reuters Civitas, 2010, p. 348.

  11. 11.

    See M. Bain, “Spain”, The International Free and Open Source Software Law Book, <http://ifosslawbook.org/spain/>, at p. 7.

  12. 12.

    See J.P. Aparicio Vaquero, Licencias de uso no personalizadas de programas de ordenador, Granada, Comares, 2004, p. 178.

  13. 13.

    M. Bain, “Spain”, The International Free and Open Source Software Law Book, <http://ifosslawbook.org/spain/>, at pp. 8–9.

  14. 14.

    “You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring solely as a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission to receive a copy likewise does not require acceptance. However, nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or propagating a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so”.

  15. 15.

    See, e.g., L. Díez-Picazo and A. Gullón, Sistema de Derecho Civil, 4th ed., 1986, Madrid, p. 72.

  16. 16.

    See M.C. Gete-Alonso y Calera, “Artículo 43”, R. Bercovitz Rodríguez Cano (coord.), Comentarios a la Ley de propiedad intelectual, 3rd ed., 2007, Madrid, Tecnos, p. 767; and R. Xalabarder Plantada, “Las licencias Creative Commons: ¿una alternativa al copyright?”, uocpapers, 2006, p. 9.

  17. 17.

    Ley 34/2002 de servicios de la sociedad de la información y comercio electrónico (Boletín Oficial del Estado no 166, July 12th, 2002).

  18. 18.

    See J.A. Torres Lana, “Artículo 45”, R. Bercovitz Rodríguez Cano (coord.), Comentarios a la Ley de propiedad intelectual, 3rd ed., 2007, Madrid, Tecnos, pp. 790–797; and J.M. Rodríguez Tapia, “Artículo 45”, J.M. Rodríguez Tapia (dir.), Comentarios a la Ley de propiedad intelectual, 2nd ed., 2009, Navarra, Thomson Reuters Civitas, pp. 412–413.

  19. 19.

    On electronic contracts and incorporation of standard terms, see M.E. Clemento Meoro y S. Cavanillas Múgica, Responsabilidad civil y contratos en Internet, Granada, Comares, 2003, pp. 162–170; and P.A. De Miguel Asensio, Derecho privado de Internet, 4th ed, Navarra, Thomson Reuters Civitas, 2011, pp. 845–855.

  20. 20.

    OJ 2011 L 304/64.

  21. 21.

    See S. Cavanillas Múgica, “Artículo 48”, R- Bercovitz Rodríguez Cano (coord.), Comentarios a la Ley de propiedad intelectual, 3rd ed., 2007, Madrid, Tecnos, p. 818.

  22. 22.

    J.P. Aparicio Vaquero, Licencias de uso no personalizadas de programas de ordenador, Granada, Comares, 2004, p. 391.

  23. 23.

    See, e.g., L. Díez-Picazo and A. Gullón, Sistema de Derecho Civil, 4th ed., 1986, Madrid, pp. 332–333.

  24. 24.

    See M.C. Gete-Alonso y Calera, “Artículo 43”, R. Bercovitz Rodríguez Cano (coord.), Comentarios a la Ley de propiedad intelectual, 3rd ed., 2007, Madrid, Tecnos, p. 773.

  25. 25.

    See S. Cavanillas Múgica, “Artículo 50”, R. Bercovitz Rodríguez Cano (coord.), Comentarios a la Ley de propiedad intelectual, 3rd ed., 2007, Madrid, Tecnos, p. 835; and J.M. Rodríguez Tapia, “Artículo 45”, J.M. Rodríguez Tapia (dir.), Comentarios a la Ley de propiedad intelectual, 2nd ed., 2009, Navarra, Thomson Reuters Civitas, p. 50.

  26. 26.

    M. Bain, “Spain”, The International Free and Open Source Software Law Book, <http://ifosslawbook.org/spain/>, at p. 8.

  27. 27.

    See I. Garrote Fernández Díez, El Derecho de autor en Internet (Los tratados de la OMPI de 1996 y la incorporación al Derecho Español de la Directiva 2001/29/CE), 2th ed., Granada, Comnares, 2003, pp. 158–169.

  28. 28.

    P. Martínez Espín, “Artículo 43”, R. Bercovitz Rodríguez Cano (coord.), Comentarios a la Ley de propiedad intelectual, 3rd ed., 2007, Madrid, Tecnos, pp. 231–233.

  29. 29.

    R. Xalabarder Plantada, “Las licencias Creative Commons: ¿una alternativa al copyright?”, uocpapers, 2006, p. 8; M. Bain, “Spain”, The International Free and Open Source Software Law Book, <http://ifosslawbook.org/spain/>, p. 7.

  30. 30.

    See e.g. R. Xalabarder Plantada, “Redes sociales y propiedad intelectual”, Derecho y redes sociales, Navarra, Thomson Reuters Civitas, 2010, p. 350.

  31. 31.

    See A. Vera Palencia, “Guía Creative Commons” <http://www.sideleft.com/guia-creative-commons/>.

  32. 32.

    OJ L 157, 30.4.2004, pp. 45–86.

  33. 33.

    F.A. Huertas Méndez, “El software libre como elemento de desarrollo de la Administración electrónica”, IDP Número 8 (2009), pp. 36–47.

  34. 34.

    Ley 11/2007 de 22 de junio, de Acceso Electrónico de los Ciudadanos a los Servicios Públicos (Boletín Oficial del Estado nq 150, 23th July, 2007).

  35. 35.

    C. González Calderón y O. Ferrán Riera, “El software libre y las administraciones públicas. Una visión actualizada”, IDP. Revista de Internet, Derecho y Política. N.° 8. 2009, pp. 25–35.

  36. 36.

    Propuesta de Recomendaciones a la Administración General del Estado sobre la Utilización de Software Libre y de Fuentes Abiertas, junio 2005 <http://www.csi.map.es/csi/pg5s44.htm>.

  37. 37.

    Centro Nacional de Referencia de Aplicación de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación basadas en Fuentes Abiertas (CENATIC). See, its document CENATIC, “Software de fuentes abiertas en la Administración electrónica Análisis del impacto de la LAESCP en la Administración Pública”, available at <http://www.cenatic.es/>.

  38. 38.

    See, e.g., Decreto 72/2003 de la Junta de Andalucía.

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de Miguel Asensio, P.A. (2016). Free Software, Creative Commons and Alternative Licenses: Spanish Perspectives. In: Metzger, A. (eds) Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and other Alternative License Models. Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21560-0_21

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