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DEVELOPING NATIONS COPYRIGHT LICENSE FREES CREATIVITY ACROSS THE 
DIGITAL DIVIDE

The law-and-technology nonprofit Creative Commons offers a tool for 
authors and publishers to encourage innovation in developing nations 
while protecting their rights in the developed world.

Geneva, Switzerland, and San Francisco, USA - Sept. 13, 2004 - Creative 
Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative and 
educational materials free to share and re-use, unveiled today its 
Developing Nations copyright license. Creative Commons chairman 
Lawrence Lessig and Developing Nations license architect Jamie Love 
announced the new license at the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue's 
workshop on "The Future of WIPO," in Geneva.

Like all of Creative Commons' legal tools, the Developing Nations 
license is free of charge and allows authors and artists to invite 
certain uses of their work, upon certain conditions -- to declare "some 
rights reserved" as opposed to the "all rights reserved" of traditional 
copyright.

Specifically, the Developing Nations license allows copyright holders 
to invite a wide range of royalty-free uses of their work in developing 
nations while retaining their full copyright in the developed world.

"The Developing Nations license allows, for the first time, any 
copyright holder in the world to participate first-hand in reforming 
global information policy," said Lessig. "The fact is that most of the 
world's population is simply priced out of developed nations' 
publishing output. To authors, that means an untapped readership. To 
economists, it means 'deadweight loss.' To human rights advocates and 
educators, it is a tragedy. The Developing Nations license is designed 
to address all three concerns."

The license was designed by Jamie Love, an expert on intellectual 
property and development, in cooperation with attorneys at Wilson 
Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, in Silicon Valley, and other experts on 
intellectual property and development.

"The new license makes it easier to expand access to knowledge and 
support development. It is a tool to make the resource-poor 
information-rich," said Jamie Love.

About Creative Commons

A nonprofit corporation founded in 2001, Creative Commons promotes the 
creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works-whether owned or in 
the public domain-by empowering authors and audiences. It is sustained 
by the generous support of the Center for the Public Domain, the John 
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar Network Fund, and 
the Hewlett Foundation.

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

To learn more about the Developing Nations license,
see <http://creativecommons.org/license/devnations>.


Contact

Glenn Otis Brown (San Francisco)
Executive Director
Creative Commons
glenn AT creativecommons.org
1-415-336-1433

Jamie Love (Washington, D.C.)
The Consumer Project on Technology
james.love AT cptech.org

Christiane Asschenfeldt (Berlin)
International Commons Director
Creative Commons
christiane AT creativecommons.org

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Glenn Otis Brown
Executive Director
Creative Commons
glenn AT creativecommons.org
+1.415.946.3065 (telephone)
+1.415.336.1433 (mobile)
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