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OPEN COPYRIGHT LICENSES OFFERED IN AUSTRALIA

Creative Commons and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) 
introduce innovative copyright licenses to Australia

San Francisco, USA and Brisbane, AUSTRALIA -- Jan. 19, 2005 -- Creative 
Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers a flexible copyright for 
creative work, today unveiled a localized version of its innovative 
licensing system in Australia. 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 fifteen country-specific versions. The organization already 
provides copyright licenses specific to Austrian, Belgian, Brazilian, 
Croatian, 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 lead Professor Brian Fitzgerald of the Queensland 
University of Technology (QUT), Australia, to adapt the standardized 
licenses for use under Australian law.

Professor Fitzgerald, an internationally recognized expert in 
intellectual property and technology law, said, “Normally to use other 
people's copyright you have to go through a time-consuming process to 
negotiate your legal rights. What we aim to do with Creative Commons is 
to be able to license or negotiate those rights through a website with 
the click of a mouse."

Creative Commons released the new legal tools, which are available free 
of charge from the Creative Commons website, at a conference at the QUT 
today. Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford University and 
chairman of Creative Commons, delivered a public lecture on open 
content licencing at the conference.

“It’s wonderful to see this organization become truly global,” said 
Neeru Paharia, Assistant Director of Creative Commons, who is visiting 
Brisbane for the launch. “We hope to localize the Creative Commons 
licences to other countries of the Asia-Pacific region very soon.”

The worldwide expansion of the 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, 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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