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CREATIVE COMMONS EXPANDS TO IRELAND WITH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK

University College Cork will lead the license translation and work to 
expand global access to Irish culture.

Palo Alto, USA, and Cork, Ireland — November 17, 2003 — Creative 
Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative works 
free for copying and re-use, announced today the expansion of its 
International Commons (iCommons) project to Ireland.  University 
College Cork (UCC) will lead the effort.

“We’re very excited to have University College Cork lead iCommons in 
Ireland,” said Lawrence Lessig, Chairman of Creative Commons and 
professor of law at Stanford. “Their participation is crucial to our 
growing effort to promote an international cultural commons.”

“We look forward to cooperating with the Creative Commons project,” 
said Dr. Darius Whelan, project lead of iCommons in Ireland and 
Lecturer in Law at University College Cork Law Faculty. “This way we 
will enable creators of original works to disseminate that work widely 
through the Internet for the benefit of everyone,” said Louise Crowly 
co-project lead of iCommons in Ireland and Lecturer in Law at 
University College Cork Law Faculty.

Announced in March 2003, iCommons is Creative Commons’ project to make 
its machine-readable copyright licenses useful worldwide. As the lead 
institution, UCC will coordinate a public effort to adapt the Creative 
Commons licenses for use in Ireland.  UCC will field comments on an 
archived email discussion at the Creative Commons website 
<http://www.creativecommons.org/discuss#ireland>.

Ireland joins Brazil, Japan, Finland, China, and Taiwan in the iCommons 
effort.


More about Creative Commons

A nonprofit 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, the John 
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Hewlett 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 iCommons, see
<http://creativecommons.org/projects/international/>.


More about University College Cork

University College Cork (UCC) was founded in 1845 and is one of the 
constituent universities of the National University of Ireland.  It was 
recently named Irish University of the Year 2003 by The Sunday Times.

UCC Law Faculty has an active research record in all areas of law and 
offers two specialized LL.M. programs — one in e-Law and Commercial Law 
and one in Criminal Justice.  UCC Law Faculty is also actively involved 
in making laws available online, hosting the Irish office of the 
British and Irish Legal Information Institute (www.bailii.org), and 
operating the Irish Legal Information Initiative site (www.irlii.org) 
and Irish Law Site (www.irishlaw.org).

For more information about UCC Law Faculty, please visit 
<http://www.ucc.ie/law/>.


Contact

Christiane Asschenfeldt (Berlin)
iCommons Coordinator, Creative Commons
christiane AT creativecommons.org

Dr. Darius Whelan (Cork)
College Lecturer, UCC Law Faculty
d.whelan AT ucc.ie

Louise Crowley (Cork)
College Lecturer, UCC Law Faculty
l.crowley AT ucc.ie

Glenn Otis Brown (Palo Alto)
Executive Director, Creative Commons
glenn AT creativecommons.org