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CREATIVE COMMONS EXPANDS TO CROATIA WITH MULTIMEDIA INSTITUTE (mi2)

Multimedia Institute (mi2) will lead the license translation and work 
to expand global access to Croatia's culture

Palo Alto, USA, and Zagreb, CROATIA - February 24, 2004 - 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 Croatia.  Multimedia 
Institute (mi2), in Zagreb, will lead the effort.

"Croatia has already demonstrated an extraordinary range of creative
use of new technology," said Lawrence Lessig, Chairman of Creative 
Commons and professor of law at Stanford. "We're eager to work with 
iCommons
Croatia to support that work."

"It's liberating for Croatia to participate in this global effort to 
create a common space for creativity, especially at a time when 
legislative regimes often overlook this public good," said Diana 
Kovacevic, project lead.

First announced in March 2003, iCommons is Creative Commons' project to 
make its machine-readable copyright licenses useful worldwide. As the 
lead institution, (mi2) will coordinate a public effort literally and 
legally to translate the Creative Commons licenses for use in Croatia.  
(mi2) will field comments on an archived email discussion at the 
Creative Commons website, 
<http://www.creativecommons.org/discuss#croatia>.

Croatia joins Brazil, China, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, 
Taiwan and the United Kingdom in the iCommons effort.


More About Creative Commons

A nonprofit corporation, Creative Commons promotes the creative re-use 
of intellectual works, whether owned or in the 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 Multimedia Institute (mi2)

(mi2) sprang up in 1999 as a spin-off of the Internet program of Open 
Society Institute Croatia.  Entering locally uncharted territory 
between social and cultural action and new technological developments, 
(mi2) brought together an emerging generation of civil activists, media 
practitioners, urban culture actors and social and media theorists who 
set out to pursue two principle tasks:

1)  To promote and educate in media and technological practices 
relevant for the functioning and development of a social and cultural 
sector, and

2)  To promote and develop socially inflected approaches to new 
technologies, especially as investments in the local emerging market 
gradually increased the penetration of new media and introduced the 
domination of commercial standards.

Over the past two years, (mi2) has become increasingly involved in 
cooperative activities at the local, regional and international levels 
to strengthen the cultural scene and advocate on behalf of the public 
domain.  It is working towards initiating structural changes in a wide 
range of areas, including:  non-institutional culture, informal 
education, technology, intellectual property rights, and access to 
public resources.

For more information about (mi2), visit <http://www.mi2.hr/>.


Contact

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

Diana Kovacevic, (Zagreb)
Co-Project Lead, iCommons Croatia
diana AT mi2.hr

Tomislav Medak, (Zagreb)
Co-Project Lead iCommons Croatia
to-me AT mi2.hr

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

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