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ITALY BUILDS OUT THE CREATIVE COMMONS

The Department of Law at the University of Turin will lead the license 
translation, while the CNR Institute of Electronics and Information and 
Telecommunications Engineering (IEIIT-CNR) will take the tech lead.

Palo Alto, USA and Turin, Italy — November 18, 2003 — Creative Commons, 
a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative works free for 
copying and re-use, announced today that it would expand its 
International Commons (iCommons) project to Italy.

“We’re very excited to have Turin’s Department of Law working with us 
to bring iCommons to Italy,” said Lawrence Lessig, Chairman of Creative 
Commons and professor of law at Stanford, at the CSI-Piemonte 
convention on ‘Knowledge as Public Common Property.’ “Our cultural 
commons, needless to say, would not be complete without their 
participation.”

“In a world where the space for creativity is shrinking dangerously, 
Creative Commons is acting to keep this area open. There was a dire 
need for this initiative, and we are proud to participate in the 
project,” explained Professor Marco Ricolfi, project lead and professor 
of intellectual property law at the University of Turin.

Professor Marco Ajmone Marsan, Director of CNR-IEIIT said: "We are glad 
to offer the technical skills of our Institute in the field of 
Information and Communication Technologies to support the activities of 
Creative Commons in Italy."

First announced in March this year, iCommons is Creative Commons’ 
project to make its machine-readable copyright licenses useful 
worldwide. As the affiliate institution for iCommons in Italy, Turin’s 
Department of Law will coordinate public efforts to translate the 
Creative Commons licenses literally and legally — so that they are 
accessible in the Italian language and suit the Italian legal system.

In taking up iCommons, Italy joins Brazil, Japan, Finland, Ireland, 
China, and Taiwan in the international effort.

The Department of Law at the University of Turin will field comments in 
archived email discussions on the Creative Commons website:

<http://www.creativecommons.org/discuss#Italy.>



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 and 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 the Department of Law at the University of Turin

The Department of Law at the University of Turin, headed by Professor
Gianmaria Ajani, coordinates legal research activity at the University 
of Turin.  The Department also deals with fundraising for research 
purposes, the management of all PhD programs and continuing education 
in the area of law.  It is part of the University of Turin, which, 
founded in 1404, is one of the oldest universities in the world.  Today 
the University boasts 65,000 students, 1,300 professors, and nearly 800 
researchers and assistants.

The Department of Law coordinates the research work of more than 130 law
professors in different areas of law.

At present, the main research programs are in the fields of:

- EC Private Law and Harmonization of Contract Law;
- International Human Rights;
- Criminal Jurisdiction;
- Harmonization of Civil Procedure; and
- Intellectual Property Law.

For more information about the Department of Law at the University of
Turin, please visit:

<http://www.dsg.unito.it>.


More about IEIIT-CNR

The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council of 
Italy),
founded in 1923, is a multidisciplinary public research institution. 
The IEIIT is a CNR institute founded in 2002 by merging  the forces of 
several preexisting CNR institutes and centers.

The IEIIT-CNR headquarters are located in Torino, with territorial 
sections
in Genoa, Milan, Bologna and Pisa; the Institute is directed by 
professor Marco Ajmone Marsan. The IEIIT-CNR pursues advanced, 
multidisciplinary research in the field of information and 
communications technology (ICT).

For more information about IEIIT-CNR, please visit:

<http://www.ieiit.cnr.it/>.




Contacts

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

Prof. Marco Ricolfi (Turin)
Project Lead, iCommons Italy
Department of Law, University of Turin
marco.ricolfi AT studiotosetto.it

Marco Ciurcina (Turin)
Project Lead, iCommons Italy
Lawyer, University of Turin
ciurcina AT studiolegale.it

Juan Carlos De Martin (Turin)
Project Lead, iCommons Italy
Principal Research Scientist, IEIIT-CNR
demartin AT polio.it

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