[cc-community] PRESS RELEASE: Serbia announces ported licenses on Creative Commons' fifth year

Michelle Thorne michelle at creativecommons.org
Sat Dec 15 05:07:36 EST 2007


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SERBIA ANNOUNCES PORTED LICENSES ON CREATIVE COMMONS' FIFTH YEAR

December 15, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA and Belgrade, Serbia

The much-anticipated global celebration of Creative Commons' fifth year is
amplified today with the announcement of the locally ported Creative Commons
licensing suite in Serbia. In close collaboration with slobodnakultura.org,
Wikimedia Serbia, and New Media center Kuda_org, the Creative Commons Team
in Serbia, lead by Nevenka Antic, has successfully adapted the Creative
Commons licenses both linguistically and legally to Serbian national law.

The ported the Serbian licenses, available soon online, will be celebrated
today in Belgrade at Dom omladine at 5:00pm CET. Speakers at the event
include Slobodan Markovic from ICANN, Ivan Jelic & Desiree Miloshevich of
the Free Software Network and the Internet Society, and Marcell Mars from CC
Croatia and MAMA.

The festivities will continue at the Cultural Center Magacin, where guests
will join the CC Serbia Team in greeting the globally synchronized Creative
Commons Birthday Parties via webcast. The international birthday parties are
being coordinated by local chapters around the world to commemorate Creative
Commons' fifth year in a series of celebrations culminating in San Francisco
on December 15th  from 10pm-2am PST.

The party in Belgrade will then head to Club Andergraund at 10pm CET with
live acts from artists MistakeMistake, Crobot, Wolfgang S, Ah, Ahilej, and
Electric Divine.

CC Serbia's Public Project Lead Vladimir Jeric thanks the Serbian community
for their support, and he expresses the team's appreciation for the public's
input during the discussion of the Serbian licenses, which he reports
"assured us that we are on the right way regarding meeting the demands from
the side of both 'content producers' and  'users.'"

The CC Serbia Team hopes to present the first collection of locally-licensed
CC works this spring.



About Slobodnakultura.org

Slobodnakultura.org is an non-formal network based in Belgrade. Acting as a
kind of meta-organization coordinating different initiatives and actions by
different individuals and organizations, it presents a collaborative
platform for discussing and conducting various projects. All of it's
projects are formally being conducted trough one or several of it's member
organizations with the formal status. Creativecommons.org.yu is the part of
slobodnakultura.org, and it helps in building the tools requested from
within the society in order to introduce different social codes. Fundraising
and management for the localization of the Creative Commons licenses is
being carried out by Bureau for Culture and Communication Beograd (
birobeograd.info), a member of slobodnakultura.org network.

For more information, please visit: slobodnakultura.org and
creativecommons.org.yu


About Wikimedia Serbia

Wikimedia Serbia, formed in 2005, is a non-profit independent organization,
based in Belgrade. It is included in the international network of non-profit
and independent organizations sharing the goals of free knowledge issues as
well as improving and participating in the global collection of educational
content under free licenses or in the public domain. Wikimedia Serbia
supports free knowledge Community and free knowledge projects building the
Community in Serbia and providing the projects in Serbian language. The
projects are coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit parent
organization of various multilingual free content projects, such as
Wikipedia, the famous online encyclopedia, and Wikimedia Commons, the
repository for free video, images, music and other media.

More information: rs.vikimedija.org.


About New Media Center_kuda.org

New Media Center_kuda.org is an independent organization which brings
together artists, theoreticians, media activists, researchers and the wider
public in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. In this
respect, kuda.org is dedicated to the research of new cultural relations,
contemporary artistic practice, and social issues. Kuda.org's work focuses
on questions concerning the influence of the electronic media on society, on
the creative use of new communication technologies, and on contemporary
cultural and social policy. Some of the main issues include interpretation
and analysis of the history and significance of the information society, the
potential of information itself, and the diffusion of its influence on
political, economic and cultural relationships in contemporary society. New
Media Center_kuda.org opens space for both cultural dialog and alternative
methods of education and research.

More information: www.kuda.org.


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, please visit
http://creativecommons.org.


Contact
Dr. Catharina Maracke
Director
Creative Commons International
catharina at creativecommons.org
+49.30.280.93.909

Press Kit
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
http://creativecommons.org/international/rs/


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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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