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OPEN COPYRIGHT LICENSES OFFERED IN CANADA AND SPAIN

Creative Commons introduces its innovative copyright licenses to Canada 
and Spain; free legal tools available in two languages in each country

San Francisco, USA; Ottawa, Canada; and Barcelona, Spain — Oct. 11, 
2004 — Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that provides an 
alternative to full copyright, recently unveiled localized versions of 
its innovative licensing system in Canada and Spain. The Creative 
Commons licenses afford authors and publishers an intermediate degree 
of protection over their photos, music, text, films, and educational 
materials — a “some rights reserved" copyright in contrast to the 
traditional “all rights reserved.”

With the announcement, Creative Commons now offers free legal tools in 
a total of ten country-specific versions. The organization already 
provides copyright licenses specific to Austrian, Brazilian, Dutch, 
Finnish, German, Japanese, U.S., and Taiwanese law, thanks to a global 
network of artists, lawyers, and technologists.

Staff at Creative Commons’ offices in San Francisco and Berlin worked 
with Ignasi Labastida i Juan, of the University of Barcelona, and 
Marcus Bornfreund, of the University of Ottawa’s law faculty, to adapt 
the standardized licenses for use under Spanish and Canadian law, 
respectively. The Spanish licenses are available in both Castilian 
Spanish and Catalan, and the Canadian licenses in both English and 
French.

Creative Commons released the new legal tools, which are available free 
of charge from the Creative Commons website, at conferences in 
Barcelona and Ottawa last week.

“We are honored to be able to work with these two great institutions,” 
says Glenn Otis Brown, Executive Director of Creative Commons. “Their 
translations and superb legal research have made possible two new sets 
of free legal tools, in four different languages, on two continents —  
in the same week.”

The global expansion of the Creative Commons project — which is chaired 
by Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University Law School — is one of the 
main priorities of the San Francisco-based organization this year.

“We look forward to adding more countries to the list during the 
remainder of the year,” says Christiane Asschenfeldt, the International 
Commons Coordinator, based in Berlin. “Thanks are due to the friends of 
Creative Commons around the world.”


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>.


Contact

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

Glenn Otis Brown (San Francisco)
Executive Director, Creative Commons
glenn AT creativecommons.org


Press Kit

http://creativecommons.org/presskit/





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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