[cc-community] PRESS RELEASE: Philippines introduces locally ported Creative Commons licenses
Michelle Thorne
michelle at creativecommons.org
Fri Dec 14 08:29:28 EST 2007
PDF attached; text below
PHILIPPINES INTRODUCES LOCALLY PORTED CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES
December 15, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA and Pasay City, Metro Manila,
Philippines
Today in Pasay City, the 42nd locally ported Creative Commons licensing
suite will be launched for the Philippines. The Creative Commons licenses,
now legally adapted to Philippine law, enable authors, artists, scientists,
and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms in
efforts to promote a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach to copyright.
The Creative Commons team members in the Philippines, lead by Atty. Jaime N.
Soriano, have worked under the auspices of the e-Law Center at the Arellano
University School of Law and in collaboration with Creative Commons to port
the licenses to their national jurisdiction.
In a prelude to a larger celebration planned in January 2008, CC
Philippineswill unveil the licenses today at 2pm PST at an event held
in Arellano
University's School of Law. Atty. Michael Vernon M. Guerrero, jurisdiction
deputy project lead of CC Philippines, will introduce the licenses, followed
by the inauguration of the Philippine Commons, a collaboration fostering
alternative licensing, free and open source software, open education, and
free culture in the region.
Dr. Catharina Maracke, Director of Creative Commons International, thanks
the CC Philippines Team for all their efforts, and she remarks, "The
licensing project in the Philippines is a strong step towards strengthening
and cultivating the global commons. The Philippines joins neighboring
Malaysia, launched two years ago, in offering completed localized CC
licenses. With upcoming jurisdictions in Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and
Indonesia, this region within Asia will continue to thrive and enjoy its
vibrant remix-reuse community."
The launch event in Pasay City will continue later in the evening as a
birthday party for Creative Commons, as part of a series of synchronized
celebrations worldwide to commemorate Creative Commons' fifth year.
About AUSL
The law school Cayetano S. Arellano, a non-stock non-profit institution, is
named after the First Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court and
established in 1938. Today it boasts more than six decades of providing
quality legal education. The foremost objective of the school is to create
global lawyers: practitioners who are deeply educated in the law,
practice-ready, and devoted to service not only in the local but also the
international community. Arellano Law prides itself for being one of the
most populous law schools in the Philippines with faculty members who have
distinguished themselves in law practice, the judiciary, government service,
and the academe. The law school furthermore is one of the few schools in the
Philippines that produces the most number of lawyers in the annual bar
examinations administered by the Supreme Court.
For more information, please visit http://www.arellanolaw.edu/.
About the e-Law Center at Arellano University School of Law
The e-Law Center was founded in November 2002 under the auspices of the
Arellano University School of Law, following the launching of the school's
LAWPHiL Project, which is considered one of the most popular on-line and
electronic databases of Philippine law and jurisprudence that is accessible
for free to the general public. The Center is pursuing projects in research,
publication, policy initiatives and advocacy, capability building, academic
support, and linkages in the field of information and communication
technology as it affects the Philippine legal system.
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 is sustained by the generous
support of organizations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller
Foundation, as well as members of the public.
For more information about Creative Commons, visit
http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Dr. Catharina Maracke
Director
Creative Commons International, Creative Commons
catharina at creativecommons.org
+49.30.280.93.909
Press Kit
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
http://creativecommons.org/international/ph/
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Michelle Thorne
Creative Commons International
Gipsstrasse 12
10119 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49.30.28 09 69 41
Fax: +49.30.28 09 39 10
Email: michelle at creativecommons.org
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