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CREATIVE COMMONS SUPPORTING WE’RE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY MOVEMENT

San Francisco, US, & London, UK, 1st August 2005—Creative Commons and  
www.werenotafraid.com (WNA) today announced a landmark partnership  
whereby WNA will incorporate Creative Commons licensing into the WNA  
site, upcoming Proud Gallery exhibit and the ‘We’re Not Afraid’ book.  
By using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike  
2.0 license, people around the world will be able to legally copy,  
redistribute and adapt the images that are made available (provided  
that they make any adaptations available under the same license terms).

“By joining with Creative Commons, We’re Not Afraid is able to give  
anyone in the world access to the incredible, ever-growing content  
that makes up the site. So far we have more than 6000 images online  
and more than 25,000 waiting to be added to the site, as well as  
numerous songs, poems, movies, and statements that have been  
submitted by our visitors sharing their own artistic representations  
on terrorism in the world,” said Alfie Dennen, WNA founder. “With a  
Creative Commons license, we can give the world this amazing resource  
without risking the rights of its creators.”

WNA developed as an offshoot of MoblogUK, Europe’s most successful  
moblogging site and the site responsible for posting the first ever  
images of the devastating effects of the 7th July London train bombings.

To date, www.werenotafraid.com has received more than 25,000 image  
submissions as well as countless multimedia submissions including  
music, video, and written pieces all of which are licensed under  
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharelike 2.0 license.

The world community has been contributing a diverse range of content  
to the site; images showing personal views of the events such as:

http://www.werenotafraid.com/images/bronxelfak/sagee.jpg

As well as original and quality recordings such as this track, by  
Chris and John Mendelsohn:

http://www.werenotafraid.com/dynamic/wp-content/media/music/ 
werenotafraid.rm

Since its inception, the site has had over 20 million hits.

Based on the web site, the WNA Exhibition at Proud Central will  
launch on the 8th of September 2005 and will present a complete  
picture of terrorism and its effects. From stark images of terror- 
ravaged areas ranging from New York to Bali, to the fearless,  
inspired creations of WNA’s visitors, the exhibit will promote the  
unity of a global community that defies religion, colour, creed, or  
country. Through the use of Creative Commons licensing on many of the  
images included in the Exhibition, visitors will be able to request  
images from the exhibition to be delivered digitally free of charge.

Currently in the planning stages, the ‘We’re Not Afraid’ book will be  
a collection of the most representative images submitted to  
www.werenotafraid.com interspersed with texts taken from the world’s  
religious and philosophical works. With its book, WNA intends to show  
that no matter our beliefs or backgrounds, we are all one people who  
need only be given a voice to be united. All images and original  
works used in the book will be made available using Creative Commons  
licensing.

About We’re Not Afraid
We’re Not Afraid is a UK not-for-profit organisation through which a  
global community can speak out against the acts of terror that have  
struck London, Madrid, New York, Baghdad, Bazra, Tikrit, Gaza, Tel- 
Aviv, Egypt, Afghanistan, Bali, and against terrorist activity  
occurring in cities around the world each and every day.

About Creative Commons
A US 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

Wendy Brierley
Account Director
Idea Generation
wendy AT ideageneration.co.uk
Tel: 020.7428.4949

Neeru Paharia
Executive Director
Creative Commons
neeru AT creativecommons.org
Tel: 415.946.3068

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