[cc-community] PRESS RELEASE: Philippine Launch Celebration: a Vibrant Member of the Global Commons
Michelle Thorne
michelle at creativecommons.org
Sun Jan 13 07:44:46 EST 2008
PDF attached; text below
PHILIPPINE LAUNCH CELEBRATION: A VIBRANT MEMBER OF THE GLOBAL COMMONS
San Francisco, CA, USA and Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines — January
14, 2008
Following the unveiling of the Philippine localized Creative Commons
licenses in December, citizens of the archipelago will gather today in
Manila to celebrate in full the public launch of its completed licenses and
the country's strides towards fostering the global commons movement.
Attorney Jaime N. Soriano, Creative Commons Philippines Project Lead and
Executive Director of the e-Law Center, announces that the launch activities
are scheduled to take place on January 14, 2008 from 1:00pm to 9:00pm at the
Arellano University School of Law.
The event will consist of three parts: 1) an orientation to projects by
stakeholders in the Philippine Commons, with the aim of developing a local
collaboration promoting alternative licensing, free and open source
software, open education, and free culture; 2) the public presentation of
the CC Philippine Licensing Suite Version 3.0, which has been available
online since its soft launch December 15, 2007; and 3) the CC Philippines
Concert featuring more than six local rock bands.
Atty. Soriano and Atty. Michael Vernon M. Guerrero, Deputy Project Lead of
CC Philippines, are both pleased to also announce the public launching of
the Philippine Commons website, available at www.philippinecommons.org, and
the adaption of a CC license to the LawPhil Project, the most popular and
comprehensive website on Philippine law and jurisprudence.
The localized CC licenses will also be applied to the Arellano Law and
Policy Review; the law school's IT Law Journal, whose first quarter issue
features all articles devoted to Creative Commons; and the original works of
the Arellano Law Singers. These materials will be presented and shared at
ACIA: International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age,
held on January 19-20 in Taipei, Taiwan.
About Arellano University School of Law
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 was built with and is sustained
by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public
Domain, the 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
Dr. Catharina Maracke
Director
Creative Commons International, Creative Commons
catharina at creativecommons.org
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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