[cc-community] [CCi] PRESS RELEASE: Singapore Announces Ported Creative Commons Licenses

Patricia Escalera patricia at creativecommons.org
Fri Jul 25 18:40:46 EDT 2008


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SINGAPORE ANNOUNCES PORTED CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES

San Francisco, CA, USA and Singapore City, Singapore  — July 27, 2008


Today Creative Commons Singapore announces the completion of the locally
ported Creative Commons licensing suite. In close collaboration with Centre
for Asia Pacific Technology Law & Policy (CAPTEL), the Creative Commons team
in Singapore, led by Associate Professor Samtani Anil and Assistant
Professor Giorgos Cheliotis, adapted the licenses both linguistically and
legally to Singaporean national law. The Creative Commons licenses, now
ported to 47 jurisdictions, 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 Singaporean Creative Commons licenses, available soon online, will be
celebrated today in Singapore City at the International Symposium on
Electronic Art. The event will also feature a panel, organized by CAPTEL and
Creative Commons Singapore, to introduce the audience to key copyright
issues in the digital age and also share tips for creators and users to
avoid common pitfalls in the field of copyright law.

The panel will, in addition, explain the aims and philosophy of the Creative
Commons initiative and the specific nature and uses of the Creative Commons
licensing suite in Singapore. Stanford law professor and Creative Commons
founder Lawrence Lessig will address the audience to commemorate the
completion of the licenses.

Following the event, the CC Singapore team hopes to initiate a series of
educational talks to explain the philosophy of Creative Commons and the
practical ways in which users can implement the licenses.

Project Lead Samtani Anil adds, "We also believe the launch of the Singapore
CC licenses will lead to a better appreciation of the ambit, contours, and
limits of the existing copyright regime in Singapore in relation to the
sharing and dissemination of culture and the advancement of innovation.
This, we believe, will sensitize various stakeholders to the avenues that
are open to them to share their works in accordance with their wishes and
needs."

The CC Singapore team is supported by team members Assistant Professor
Warren Chik, Vinod Sabnani, Tham Kok Leong, Lam Chung Nian, Harish Pillay
and Ankit Guglani.


About Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law & Policy

The Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law & Policy (CAPTEL) is a research
center founded to investigate and research issues on how businesses and
economies are being affected by the challenges of new technologies on law,
regulation and policy. CAPTEL is located at the Nanyang Business School,
Nanyang Technological University.

For more information, please visit http://captel.ntu.edu.sg/.


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/sg/






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Patricia Escalera
Creative Commons International
Gipsstrasse 12
10119 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49.30.28 09 69 41
Fax: +49.30.28 09 39 10
Email: patricia at creativecommons.org
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