[cc-community] PRESS RELEASE: Creators Celebrate Local Creative Commons Licenses in the Czech Republic
Michelle Thorne
michelle at creativecommons.org
Wed Apr 15 10:32:28 EDT 2009
PDF attached; text below
*Creators Celebrate Local Creative Commons Licenses in the Czech Republic
*
*April 16, 2009 -- Prague, Czech Republic and Berlin, Germany
Creators in the Czech Republic can now publish and share their creative
works using free Creative Commons (CC) tools adapted to Czech language and
law. *
The Czech Republic will become the fifty-second jurisdiction worldwide to
offer localized Creative Commons licenses. Following extensive consultation
with local and international legal experts and in close collaboration with
Creative Commons International, Creative Commons Czech ported the licenses
and will celebrate their launch on April 16 at an event during the
Multiplace festival in Prague.
Already the Czech project is finding support from diverse content creators
and curators keen to use the local licenses.
"Throughout the year it took to port the licenses, we established a strong
coalition of people and groups from a range of backgrounds," explains CC
Czech Project Lead Marek Tichy. "The joint efforts of lawyers, librarians,
musicians, teachers, artists, geeks, journalists and other specialists
delivered not only what we were aiming for - the localized CC deeds and
legal codes - but also proof that the ideas behind CC echo in many areas
both professional and amateur. From archiving original Czech web content, to
educational materials, to works from independent music producers and
performers, CC opens up a wide spectrum of possibilities. There is no doubt
the today's launch is only the beginning of the Czech Creative Commons
story."
The launch event will be held in Prague's DigiLab AVU on April 16 from
10:00am-4:00pm. It will feature a workshop on CC license usage, followed by
a press conference and launch ceremony. Prominent speakers include Vít
Richter (Deputy Director of the National Library of the Czech Republic), Jan
Pavelka (Association of Independent Artists), Paul Keller (Creative Commons
Netherlands), and Petr Kadlec (Wikimedia ČR).
Creative Commons Czech, led by Marek Tichy (Iuridicum Remedium), Lukáš
Gruber (National Library of the Czech Republic), and Petr Jansa, was
initiated as a part of Iuridicum Remedium's project "Reclaim Your Rights in
the Digital Age", supported by CEE Trust. Creative Commons Czech has also
received endorsement from the Copyright Department of the Ministry of
Culture and Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University of Prague.
*About Iuridicum Remedium*
Iuridicum remedium (IuRe) is a non-governmental non-profit organization
promoting human rights. It focuses on broad infringements of individual
rights as a result of legislative action and also deals with specific cases
of human rights violations. IuRe's activities include current threats to
human rights in the fields of Social Exclusion; Human Rights and
Technologies; and Human Rights and Public Administration. IuRe is active in
the areas of legislation and legal assistance, and disseminates information
to both the professional community and the general public. Iuridicum
Remedium is a member of EDRi, European Digital Rights network. For more
information, visit http://www.iure.org/.
*About the National Library of the Czech Republic*
The National Library of the Czech Republic works on Creative Commons within
its Webarchive. The Webarchive is a project which aims to archive the entire
content of the Czech internet. Webarchive is dedicated to porting the
Creative Commons licenses in order to resolve legal issues in making the
archived content available to public. For more information, visit
http://www.nkp.cz/ & http://www.webarchiv.cz/.
*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*
Dr. Catharina Maracke
Director, Creative Commons International
catharina at creativecommons.org
*Press Kit*
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
http://creativecommons.org/international/cz
--
----------------------------------------------
Michelle Thorne
Eisenacher Strasse 2
10777 Berlin, Germany
+49 302 191 582 66
creativecommons.org/international
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/attachments/20090415/5131db28/attachment.html
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: CZlaunchPR160409.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 129315 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/attachments/20090415/5131db28/attachment.pdf
More information about the cc-community
mailing list