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["Glenn Otis Brown" <glenn AT creativecommons.org>]

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CREATIVE COMMONS WELCOMES OPENCONTENT FOUNDER DAVID WILEY AS EDUCATIONAL
LICENSING PROJECT LEAD

The Silicon Valley Nonprofit Also Takes Up Baton of Wiley's Trailblazing
OpenContent.org

Palo Alto, California, USA -- June 19, 2003 -- Creative Commons, a
nonprofit dedicated to building a layer of reasonable copyright,
announced today that OpenContent founder Dr. David Wiley, Assistant
Professor of Instructional Technology at Utah State University, will join
Creative Commons and officially close the OpenContent Project.

"When I saw the Creative Commons team, and all the expertise they had, I
saw that they 'got it,'" said Wiley. "I slowly came to the somewhat
painful realization that the best thing I could do for the community was
to close the OpenContent project and encourage people to adopt the
Creative Commons licenses."

The OpenContent Project launched in 1998, offering the first license
designed specifically to support the free and open sharing of content.
While working to evangelize the idea of "open content," Dr. Wiley next
worked with members of the open source software community and commercial
publishers to develop an open content license that would be acceptable to
publishers. Since its release numerous books have been published under
the terms of the resulting Open Publication License, including titles by
O'Reilly, Prentice Hall, New Riders, and the Association for Educational
Communications and Technology. Copies of the OpenContent License and Open
Publication License will continue to be available from the OpenContent
website (http://opencontent.org/) for archival purposes, but newcomers to
the site will be encouraged to visit Creative Commons
(http://creativecommons.org/) to utilize the licenses available on their
site. Neither of the OpenContent licenses will be developed further in
the future.

Creative Commons Executive Director Glenn Otis Brown commented:  "It is
an honor to welcome a pioneer like Professor Wiley to the Creative
Commons team. His efforts have been a major source of inspiration for our
own, so it is both appropriate and a little humbling for us to be working
alongside him now."

Wiley joins Creative Commons in the capacity of Project Lead for
Educational Licensing. "Because I'm an instructional technologist, and my
primary field of research and inquiry is using technology to better
support learning, my own work in open content has always focused on
reusable educational media. I couldn't be happier than I am to
participate in this manner," said Wiley.

Creative Commons will announce new Project Leads for a special Developing
Nations License shortly, said Brown.

More about Creative Commons

A non-profit corporation, Creative Commons promotes the creative re-use
of intellectual works -- whether owned or public domain.  It is sustained
by the generous support of The Center for the Public Domain and the John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.  Creative Commons is based at
Stanford Law School, where it shares staff, space, and inspiration with
the school's Center for Internet and Society. 

For general information, visit <http://creativecommons.org>.

For more information about the community educational use license, visit
<http://creativecommons.org/discuss#education>.


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Contact

Glenn Otis Brown
Executive Director (Palo Alto)
1.650.723.7572 (tel)
1.415.336.1433 (cell)
glenn AT creativecommons.org

Neeru Paharia
Assistant Director (Palo Alto)
1.650.724.3717 (tel)
neeru AT creativecommons.org

David Wiley
david.wiley AT usu.edu


Press Release
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Glenn Otis Brown
Executive Director
Creative Commons
glenn AT creativecommons.org
+1.650.723.7572 (telephone)
+1.415.336.1433 (mobile)

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