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CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN SWEDEN

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

San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — November 30, 2005 —  
Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of  
creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized  
version of its innovative licensing system in Sweden.

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 with minimal legal  
friction.

Staff at Creative Commons’ offices in San Francisco and Berlin worked  
with Project Lead Mathias Klang and Karl Jonsson of the Creative  
Commons Sweden team to adapt the standardized licenses to Swedish  
law. Creative Commons Sweden is hosted and supported by the IT  
University of the University of Göteborg.
Today the Swedish versions of Creative Commons licenses are being  
launched and will be available at http://creativecommons.org/ 
worldwide/se.

As a first official use of the Swedish Creative Commons licenses, the  
Swedish band Auto-Auto will be releasing their new EP “Totem” on  
December 13, 2005 under a Creative Commons license. “Totem” will  
contain five tracks and will be available for download at http:// 
www.auto-auto.se/. Together with the release, the record company and  
Internet community Substream are making a remix-kit freely available  
and will be announcing a competition for the best remix of “Totem."

About Göteborg University and IT University

IT University is a faculty within Göteborg University. It is a new  
addition to the centre for IT research, education and development in  
the west of Sweden. This venture offers excellent scope for  
cooperation between researchers within different areas of expertise  
and specializations. The programs offered are based on advanced  
research and are in a constant state of development.

Göteborg University offers the most comprehensive range of courses  
and degree programs in Sweden. Göteborg University has about 40 000  
students, a staff of well over four thousand, and almost as many part- 
time teachers spread over approx. 70 departments.

For general information, visit http://www.gu.se/ & http://www.ituniv.se

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

Christiane Asschenfeldt
Executive Director CC International, Creative Commons
christiane AT creativecommons.org
+49.30.280.93.909

Mia Garlick
General Counsel & COO,
Creative Commons
mia AT creativecommons.org
+ 1 415 946 3073

Mathias Klang
Project Lead Sweden
klang AT creativecommons.se
+46705432213

Karl Jonsson
License coordinator Sweden
jonsson AT creativecommons.se
+46707454211

Press Kit

http://creativecommons.org/presskit/