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CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN HUNGARY

Silicon-Valley-based NGO introduces its innovative copyright licenses  
in Hungary

San Francisco, CA, USA andBerlinand Berlin, GERMANY — October 15,  
2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of  
creative work free to share and build upon, today unveiled a  
localized version of its innovative licensing system in Hungary.

Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from  
the group’s website (http://creativecommons.org). The licenses 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”—thereby enabling  
others to access a growing pool of raw materials without legal friction.

Staff at Creative Commons’ offices in San Francisco and Berlin worked  
with Project Leads Bodó Balázs (Center for Media Research and  
Education – MOKK) and Attila Kelényi (Kiskapu Publishing) and Legal  
Leads Dr. Ágnes Dudás and Dr. Anikó Gyenge (Hungarian Academy of  
Sciences, Infocommunications Law Centre) to adapt the standardized  
licenses to Hungarian law.
Today the licenses will be launched during the closing ceremony of  
the “RE:activism“ conference on new media and activism, in Budapest.  
As part of the event, Lawrence Lessig, Chairman & CEO of Creative  
Commons, Dr. Gábor Faludi, Senior Legal Counsel of the Collecting  
Society of Hungarian Musicians, István Rév, Director of the Open  
Society Archives and György Csepeli, political state secretary of the  
Ministry of Informatics and Communications will discuss their vision  
on how technology, copyright legislation and cultural access and  
preservation interact in a linguistically and culturally secluded  
environment such as Hungary. DJ Shuriken will entertain the audience  
with Hungarian dance singles from the past 40 years.

About The Center for Media Research and Education (MOKK)
The Center for Media Research and Education (MOKK) was founded in  
2002 as a joint effort of the Department of Sociology and  
Communication at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics  
and the leading Hungarian telecommunication company, Hungarian  
Telecom, with the aim of furthering multi-disciplinary research and  
education in the field of new media in Hungary. MOKK is built around  
the conviction that it is impossible to understand the sociocultural  
effects of new technologies without taking into account their  
technical foundations and attributes—and equally, that in order to  
develop successful new media applications one needs to understand the  
sociocultural context of their use.
For more information about MOKK, visit http://mokk.bme.hu/
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. For  
information about the Creative Commons Hungary project, visit http:// 
www.creativecommons.hu/
Contact

Balázs Bodó
Assistant lecturer, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
bodo AT mokk.bme.hu

Attila Kelényi
Managing Director, Kiskapu Publishing
attila AT kiskapu.hu

Christiane Asschenfeldt
Executive Director iCommons, Creative Commons
christiane AT creativecommons.org

Mia Garlick
General Counsel, Creative Commons
mia AT creativecommons.org

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