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On 31 March 2006, Dutch Secretary of State for Education, Culture and Science Medy van der Laan sent the Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives) a letter announcing the proposed budget for Dutch films. The letter expresses the Cabinet’s desire to make a strong gesture towards supporting Dutch independent films. To make these films interesting for an international audience, the Cabinet is prepared to invest an extra EUR 7.5 million in the artistic development of Dutch film makers as per 2007. With this increase, the total budget for Dutch film adds up to EUR 40 million a year. Thus far, the Cabinet...

In June 2005, the Dutch Cabinet announced its point of view regarding the future of the Dutch public broadcasting system, in a provisional draft entitled “ Met het oog op morgen ” (“Focusing on Tomorrow”). The Cabinet wishes to drastically revise the public broadcasting system by 2008 (see IRIS 2005-5: 17 and IRIS 2005-9: 17).The ambitions expressed in the provisional draft have now been converted into a law proposal put forward by the Secretary of State for Education, Culture and Science. In February, the proposal was approved by the council of ministers. It has since been submitted to the Raad...

On 9 March 2006, the District Court of Amsterdam, judging in summary proceedings, rendered a decision involving the validity of a Creative Commons (CC) license, a first in the Netherlands. Local media celebrity, Adam Curry, had published photos of his family on a website (www.flickr.com) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike license. The photos also carried the notice `This photo is public'. The Dutch weekly `Weekend', a gossip magazine, had reproduced four photos in a coverage of the celebrity's children without seeking his prior consent. Curry sued `Weekend' for copyright...

On 31 January 2006, the Minister of Justice ordered the Stichting de Thuiskopie (Private Copy Foundation - STK), to improve its financial administration and transparency if it is to maintain its responsibilities. The Foundation owes its existence to a provision in the Dutch Copyright Act and fulfils the role of collecting the money that must be paid for private copying and distributing it to rightsholders organisations. The latter oversee the final distribution to the individual rightsholders. Because of persistent disagreement between these organisations, relating to financial matters, as well...

On 1 February 2006, the Secretary of State for Culture, Medy van der Laan, announced that in the next three years an amount of EUR 600,000 will be made available for the production of videoclips. This initiative is part of the action programme “Culture and Economy”, which is meant to stimulate the creative industry with direct funding and by reducing existing obstacles. One of these obstacles is the gap between the creative sector and other sectors. Because of this gap the creative sector has almost no access to private funding and there exists a lack of entrepreneurial spirit. As a result, the...