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OPEN COPYRIGHT LICENSE DISCUSSION TO START IN BELGIUM

Creative Commons begins work with the University of Namur’s cyberlaw 
research center to offer Belgian versions of its “some rights reserved” 
copyright licenses




San Francisco, USA and Brussels, BELGIUM  Oct. 19, 2004  Creative 
Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free 
to share and build upon, announced today its plans to create localized 
Belgian versions of its free tools.

Creative Commons copyright licenses, which are available at no charge 
from the group’s website (http://creativecommons.org), allow authors 
and artists to mark their works as free to copy or transform under 
certain conditions -- to declare “some rights reserved,” in contrast to 
the traditional “all rights reserved” -- thus eliminating undue legal 
friction.

Belgium joins thirteen other nations in the draft and comment phase of 
adapting the Creative Commons licenses. Nine nations today offer 
localized Creative Commons licenses, and several dozen more are in the 
preliminary draft phase.

In cooperation with the Centre for Research on Computer Law (CRID) at 
the University of Namur, Creative Commons has worked to adapt the 
copyright licenses for use under Belgian law. CRID intellectual 
property experts Séverine Dusollier, Philippe Laurent, and Loïc Bodson 
have produced the French language draft, and Mélanie Carly, a 
researcher at the University of Leuven’s Center for Intellectual Rights 
(CIR), will publish a Dutch language draft later this month.

“We are honored to work with these two great institutions,“ said 
Lawrence Lessig, Professor at Stanford Law School and Chairman of 
Creative Commons.

The Belgian drafts are available for review and public comment at 
<http://creativecommons.org/projects/international/be>.

“We are thrilled to be join the International Commons and to contribute 
in bringing it to Belgium,” said Dusollier.

About Creative Commons

A nonprofit founded in early 2002, 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>.

About the Centre for Research on Computer Law (CRID) at the University 
of Namur

Founded in 1979 by Prof. Yves Poullet, the CRID, linked to the 
University of Namur, is a research centre dedicated to computer law and 
information law. The Objective of the CRID is to foster the legal 
thinking in the field of cyberlaw and to create awareness of the legal 
and social issues engendered by the use of new technologies. 35 
researchers are currently working on a broad range of issues, from IPR, 
privacy, fundamental rights to e-commerce, telecommunications law, use 
of technologies in the medical sector, computer crime and contract law. 
The IPR Department is headed by Severine Dusollier.

For more information about CRID, visit <http://www.crid.be>.

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

Dr. Severine Dusollier (Namur)
Project Lead Belgium, CRID
severine.dusollier AT fundp.ac.be

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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