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CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN SLOVENIA

Silicon-Valley-based NGO reinforces its activities around the globe  
and introduces its innovative copyright licenses in Slovenia.

San Francisco, CA, USA andBerlinand Berlin, GERMANY, Ljubljana  
SLOVENIA — October 28, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit  
dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build  
upon, will launch the localization of the innovative licensing system  
in Slovenia as part of a four day Festival of Creativity and Free  
Culture.

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 Lead Maja Bogataj Jančič, from the Intellectual  
Property Institute, and Špela Kučan of Ljubljana Digital Media Lab  
LJUDMILA, who supervised the technical team, to adapt the  
standardized licenses to Slovenian law.

The licenses will be launched as part of the Festival of Creativity  
and Free Culture in Ljubljana, which is honored to have the support  
of Dr. Janez Drnovšek, the President of the Republic of Slovenia. The  
festival will include an international legal seminar, hosted by Open  
Society Institute, on October 28 during which Lawrence Lessig,  
Chairman & CEO of Creative Commons, will give a lecture titled  
“Should Copyright Include the Exclusive Right to Copy?” The  
lecture coincides with the promotion of the Slovenian translation of  
Lessig’s book “Free Culture.”

The localized version of CC licensing system will be unveiled at the  
CC Launch on Saturday October 29. The launch will consist of  
performances of world renown violinist Maja Cerar and the duet Random  
Logic, who will perform a piece by composer and computer musician  
Douglas Geers. Greers’ pieice “Obsessive Currents”, which is CC  
licensed, was itself inspired by the public domain works of Bach and  
Ysaÿe. During the launch, the CC-licensed work of other local artists  
will also be showcased. Project leads from other Creative Commons  
teams in Brazil, Italy and Croatia will attend the launch together  
with Chairman & CEO Lawrence Lessig.

The program of the Festival is available at www.creativecommons.si

About Intellectual Property Institute

The Intellectual Property Institute (IPI) is a research, academic and  
training institution in the field of intellectual property law. It  
was founded in 2004 and is the first institution of its kind in  
Slovenia. The Institute conducts research, provides education and  
offers training opportunities in the field of intellectual property  
law. The primary focus of its activities is to explore the challenges  
that digitalization has brought to intellectual property law and are  
important for the progress of an information-based society. The  
Institute aims to work in close cooperation with Slovenian  
universities, research institutions, industry, art centers and civil  
society groups. Its objective is to create a strong network of  
partnership with researchers and research institutions at home and  
abroad. Since its recent founding, the Institute has participated in  
many discussions regarding various intellectual property issues, and  
managed to mark the landscape of the debate with its perspective.
For more information visit http://www.ipi.si/ or contact: Maja  
Bogataj Jančič, maja.bogataj AT ipi.si

More about LJUDMILA

LJUDMILA - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, founded by a group of new  
media artists and activists living and working in Ljubljana in 1994,  
has extensive experience connecting new media technologies and  
artistic projects as well as encouraging broader, savvier and more  
creative uses of new technologies. Initially funded by the OSI- 
Slovenia Internet program, Ljudmila has grown into a well-equipped  
digital media lab that focuses on digital production as well as  
education, research and development of open standards software. It  
also provides knowledge, equipment, Internet access, web sites,  
electronic publishing and other affordable networking services to non- 
governmental and non-profit organizations, art collectives, active  
individuals, and others. Ljudmila operates through Culture & Arts  
Centre KUD France Prešeren
For more information visit http://www.ljudmila.org/ or contact: Špela  
Kučan, info AT ljudmila.org

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

Maja Bogataj Jančič
Director
Intellectual Property Institute
maja.bogataj AT ipi.si

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

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

Press Kit

http://creativecommons.org/presskit/
http://creativecommons.si/?q=node/32 (in Slovenian)