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CREATIVE COMMONS EXPANDS TO FRANCE WITH CERSA

CERSA (Research Center in Administrative Science) will lead the license 
translation and work to expand global access to French culture.

Palo Alto, USA; Paris, FRANCE; Tokyo, JAPAN — December 3, 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 France. CERSA, a French 
research center dedicated to administrative sciences, will lead the 
effort.

“We’re very excited to have CERSA lead iCommons in France,” said 
Lawrence Lessig, Chairman of Creative Commons and professor of law at 
Stanford, from Tokyo, where he is promoting Creative Commons’ 
international projects this week. “France is the latest country to join 
our most exciting project — to build an international cultural 
commons.”

“We are glad to host iCommons and to propose user-friendly, alternative 
licensing terms to authors. Our research group shares Creative Commons’ 
vision to associate digital code and legal code,” said Melanie Dulong 
de Rosnay, project lead of iCommons in France. Jean-Baptiste Soufron, 
co-project lead of iCommons in France, added: “We are very pleased to 
introduce the French version of the Creative Commons licenses. It was 
interesting not only to translate them, but also to adapt the licenses 
for full compatibility with our legal system.”

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

France joins Brazil, Italy, Ireland, Finland, Japan, 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 CERSA

Founded in 1967, the Research Center in Administrative Science (CERSA) 
is a joint research institute of the University of Paris 2 and the 
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Dedicated to the study 
of administrative phenomena at all levels, CERSA is host to researchers 
in public law, political science, and sociology. The research group in 
Information Technologies, Law and Linguistics (IDL) works on 
Information Technologies regulation, governance, normative process and 
legal modelling. It also develops cognitive interfaces and applications 
within local and European projects and networks.

For more information about CERSA, please visit <http://www.cersa.org/>.



Contact

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

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay (Paris)
Project Lead iCommons, CERSA
melanie.ddr AT wanadoo.fr

Jean-Baptiste Soufron, (Paris)
Co-Project Lead iCommons, CERSA
soufron AT free.fr

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