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> Von: "Eric Steuer" <eric at creativecommons.org>
> Datum: 1. April 2008 23:49:51 GMT+02:00
> An: cc-community at lists.ibiblio.org
> Betreff: [cc-community] PRESS RELEASE: Creative Commons Announces  
> New Leadership, New Funding
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> Creative Commons Announces New Leadership, New Funding
>
> San Francisco, CA, USA — April 1, 2008
>
> Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that works to expand the
> body of creative work available to the public for legal sharing and
> use, today announced both a leadership evolution and a major new grant
> of $4 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to support
> its activities. "Both pieces of news we are announcing today reflect
> Creative Commons' maturation from a startup into crucial
> infrastructure for creativity, education, and research in the digital
> age," said the organization's founder, Stanford law professor Lawrence
> Lessig. Creative Commons celebrated its fifth anniversary last
> December.
>
> Lessig has announced a shift of academic focus from copyright to
> political corruption. He recently launched Change Congress, a movement
> to increase transparency in the US government's legislative branch. In
> order to concentrate on this effort, Lessig is stepping down as CEO of
> Creative Commons. He will be replaced by entrepreneur, venture
> capitalist, and free culture advocate Joi Ito. Lessig will remain on
> the Creative Commons board.
>
> "Although I have changed my focus, I'm still very much committed to
> Creative Commons and the Free Culture cause," Lessig said. "The work I
> intend to do with Change Congress is in many ways complementary to the
> work of Creative Commons. Both projects are about putting people in
> power and enabling them to build a better system. I could not be more
> pleased to hand off the leadership of Creative Commons to the
> extraordinarily passionate and qualified Joi Ito."
>
> "Under Larry's management, Creative Commons has grown from an
> inspirational idea to an essential part of the technical, social, and
> legal landscape involving organizations and people in 80 countries,"
> said Ito. "With it, the organization has grown in size and complexity,
> and I am excited to increase the level of my participation to help
> manage this amazing group of people. The Hewlett Foundation has been a
> major supporter of ours from the beginning and we could not be more
> grateful for their support going forward into the future."
>
> Founding board member and Duke law professor James Boyle will become
> chair of the board, replacing Ito, who remains on the board. "Jamie
> has demonstrated his commitment to Creative Commons from its
> founding," said Lessig. "He led the formation of Science Commons and
> ccLearn, our divisions focused on scientific research and education
> respectively. There is no person better suited to lead the Creative
> Commons board."
>
> Boyle is optimistic about Creative Commons' future. "If one looks at
> all the amazing material that has been placed under our licenses –
> from MIT's Open Courseware and the Public Library of Science to great
> music, from countless photographs and blogs to open textbooks – one
> realizes that, under Larry's leadership, the organization has actually
> helped build a global 'creative commons' in which millions of people
> around the world participate, either as creators or users. My job will
> be to use the skills of the remarkable people on our board –  
> including
> a guy called Larry Lessig, who has promised me he isn't going away any
> time soon – to make sure that mission continues and expands."
>
> The Hewlett Foundation grant consists of $2.5 million to provide
> general support to Creative Commons over five years and $1.5 million
> to support ccLearn, the division of Creative Commons that is focused
> on open educational resources. "The William and Flora Hewlett
> Foundation has been a strong supporter of openness and open
> educational resources in particular," said Catherine Casserly, the
> Director of the Open Educational Resources Initiative at Hewlett.
> "Creative Commons licenses are a critical part of the infrastructure
> of openness on which those efforts depend." The Hewlett grant was a
> vital part of a five-year funding plan which also saw promises of
> support from Omidyar Network, Google, Mozilla, Red Hat, and the
> Creative Commons board.
>
> Creative Commons also announces two other senior staff changes. Diane
> Peters joins the organization as General Counsel. Peters arrives from
> the Mozilla Corporation, serves on the board of the Software Freedom
> Law Center, and was previously General Counsel for Open Source
> Development Labs and the Linux Foundation. She has extensive
> experience collaborating with and advising nonprofit organizations,
> development communities, and high-tech companies on a variety of
> matters.
>
> Vice President and General Counsel Virginia Rutledge, who joined
> Creative Commons last year from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, will take
> on a new role as Vice President and Special Counsel. In her new role,
> Rutledge will focus on development and external relations, while
> continuing to lead special legal projects.
>
>
> About Creative Commons
>
> Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001,
> that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works,
> whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright
> licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and
> educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms
> that build upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional
> copyright to enable a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach.
> Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous
> support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain,
> Omidyar Network, the Rockefeller Foundation, the John D. and Catherine
> T. MacArthur Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
> as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative
> Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.
>
>
> Contact
>
> Eric Steuer
> Creative Director, Creative Commons
> eric at creativecommons.org
>
>
> Press Kit
>
> http://creativecommons.org/presskit 
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