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CIGI Selects Creative Common's License to Freely Share Knowledge on  
International Governance via CIGI's IGLOO™ Research Portal

WATERLOO, ON, November 4, 2005 —The Centre for International  
Governance Innovation (CIGI), a leading Canadian think tank devoted  
exclusively to the study of international affairs, has selected a  
Creative Commons (CC) license for its IGLOO™ initiative  
(International Governance Leaders and Organizations Online). IGLOO  
(www.theigloo.org) is an online research portal for strengthening  
international governance research, a project supported by over 55  
worldwide partners including Ontario's Ministry of Research and  
Innovation.

Creative Commons CEO & Chairman of the Board Lawrence Lessig, said,  
"A free and more immediate attitude in sharing research, as  
exemplified by IGLOO, will place more value on the quality of ideas  
and encourage more rigorous and informed debates. Creative Commons is  
excited that its tools can facilitate the availability and  
accessibility of research and ideas via IGLOO enabling perspectives  
from different parts of the world to be represented in and influenced  
by the open sharing of ideas."

Dan Latendre, CIGI's Chief Information Officer, added, "The CC  
license is bound to change the way researchers distribute their  
findings. This licence lends to the immediacy that is necessary for  
international governance research to have a more profound and  
pressing effect."

CIGI's aim is to heighten access to knowledge for all individuals  
regardless of borders of important works relative to international  
governance via the IGLOO research portal. CIGI selected the Creative  
Commons license because it assures access, both technically and  
legally. The CC license asserts the author's copyright, but signals  
certain uses that the author intends to authorize without the need to  
secure permission first.

The goal of IGLOO is to create global connections between people,  
processes and information to further advance research on many topics  
of global importance. IGLOO will help stimulate innovative solutions  
to the economic, financial and social governance challenges facing  
our world today.

IGLOO users are free to copy, distribute, display and download  
documents from the IGLOO Research Library if they give attribution to  
the author, and do not use the documents for commercial purposes or  
create derivative works. By agreeing to this license, every author in  
the IGLOO library database is making research easier and information  
more accessible for all.

IGLOO was launched on October 21 at the CIGI'05 international  
governance conference (www.cigi05.org). The conference engaged  
accomplished researchers, business leaders and policy makers from  
around the world to discuss and advance issues of critical global  
importance.

About CIGI

The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is a  
Canadian- based international think tank founded in 2002. CIGI  
conducts research and advises on issues of international governance  
and multilateral system reform. CIGI's mission is to become a leading  
global resource on governance for academic researchers, public  
officials, civil society organizations, NGOs (non governmental  
organizations), post-secondary students and the interested public.  
CIGI acknowledges the contribution of the Government of Canada to its  
endowment fund. Visit www.cigionline.org online.

About IGLOO

IGLOO is an online research portal created by CIGI and its partners.  
IGLOO aggregates high quality information, knowledge and ideas from  
around the world related only to international governance issues and  
makes it accessible in one centralized location. Academics,  
practitioners or researchers focusing in specific fields of  
international governance can use IGLOO as a global information and  
collaboration tool for accessing, sharing and disseminating  
governance information, research and knowledge regardless of  
geographic location. Visit www.theigloo.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. Visit  
www.creativecommons.org

Contacts

Colleen Fitzpatrick,
Co-Director of Communications, CIGI
(519) 885-2444 ext 281,
cfitzpatrick AT cigionline.org

Mia Garlick,
COO & General Counsel, Creative Commons
(415) 946-3073
mia AT creativecommons.org