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OPEN COPYRIGHT LICENSES OFFERED IN CROATIA

Creative Commons introduces its innovative copyright licenses at the 
Free Culture Festival in Zagreb.

San Francisco, USA and Zagreb, CROATIA -- Jan. 19, 2005 -- Creative 
Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides a flexible copyright 
for authors and artists, this week unveiled a localized version of its 
innovative licensing system in Croatia. 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 fourteen country-specific versions. The organization already 
provides copyright licenses specific to Austrian, Belgian, Brazilian, 
Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, 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 leads Tomislav Medak and Diane Kovaeeviae Remenariae of 
the Multimedia Institute (mi2), Zagreb, to adapt the standardized 
licenses for use under Croatian law.

Medak said, “In Croatia there was a powerful grass-roots free culture 
movement even before we started transposing the licenses into Croatian 
law. We hope to be able to build on the festival’s momentum to promote 
rapid license uptake.”

Creative Commons released the new legal tools, which are available free 
of charge from the Creative Commons website, at the Free Culture 
Festival in Zagreb, which featured an exhibition, various lectures, and 
a two-day concert that brought together representatives of the 
burgeoning local music scene and British artists from Loca Records. 
Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford University and chairman 
of Creative Commons, delivered a keynote speech at the festival.

“Many thanks to Diane and Tomislav for their terrific work,” said Glenn 
Otis Brown, Executive Director of Creative Commons. “The organization’s 
tremendous international growth is due entirely to our network of 
top-notch experts and volunteers worldwide. ”

The continued global expansion of Creative Commons is one of the main 
priorities of the San Francisco-based organization for 2005.

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

Glenn Otis Brown (San Francisco), Executive Director, Creative Commons

press AT 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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