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CREATIVE COMMONS COPYRIGHT TOOLS NOW AVAILABLE IN FRANCE
The Silicon Valley nonprofit releases French versions of its innovative 
copyright licenses at the National Assembly in Paris

San Francisco, USA and Paris, FRANCE, Nov. 22, 2004 -- Creative 
Commons, a non-profit organization that offers free, flexible copyright 
tools to the general public, today unveiled a localized version of its 
innovative licensing system in France. The Creative Commons licenses 
afford authors and publishers an intermediate degree of protection over 
their photos, music, text, films, and educational materials under 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 eleven country-specific versions. The organization already 
provides copyright licenses specific to Austrian, Brazilian, Dutch, 
Finnish, German, Japanese, U.S., Taiwanese, Canadian, and Spanish law, 
thanks to a global network of artists, lawyers, and technologists.

Staff at Creative Commons’s offices in San Francisco and Berlin worked 
with project lead Melanie Dulong de Rosnay of the Centre d’Etudes et de 
Recherches de Science Administrative (CERSA) and the Université 
Panthéon Paris Assas II to adapt the standardized licenses for use 
under French law. Ms. Dulong de Rosnay, a researcher at CERSA, 
specializes in European technology and information society law.

“Our mission was to bring the great spirit of the Creative Commons 
licenses to France,” said Ms. Dulong de Rosnay. “In doing so, we sought 
to preserve the key elements of the original US licenses while paying 
due regard to the specifis of the French law, such as in the cases of 
contractual law and moral rights. A wide-ranging public discussion has 
enabled us to come up with some great  solutions balancing legal 
requirements and our new approach.”

Creative Commons released the new legal tools, which are now available 
free of charge from the Creative Commons website, at a conference in 
the French National Assembly in Paris on Friday, November 19.  The 
event featured speakers from the media, academia, and the large 
community of volunteers who coordinated the French legal porting 
process.

“The concise translation and the superb legal research at CERSA have 
made possible this important launch in Europe,” said Glenn Otis Brown, 
executive director of Creative Commons. “Many thanks to Ms. Dulong de 
Rosnay for her splendid work.”

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.

“After France, we look forward to adding two more big EU countries to 
the list of available licenses before the end of the year,” said 
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)
Commons Coordinator, Creative Commons
Glenn Otis Brown (San Francisco)
Executive Director, Creative Commons
press AT creativecommons.org

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



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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