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CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN SCOTLAND

Creative Commons’ innovative copyright licenses now offer in Scotland.

San Francisco, CA, USA; Berlin, GERMANY; and Edinburgh, Scotland —  
December 2, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to  
building a body of creative work free to share and build upon today  
announced the launch of its licenses in Scotland.

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 joint project leads in Scotland to adapt the standard licenses  
to Scottish law. The joint project leads for Creative Commons  
Scotland are Professor Hector MacQueen, who is Director of the  
Governing Board of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Centre  
for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, and Jonathan  
Mitchell QC, who is a practicing Queens Counsel at the Scottish bar  
and a visiting Research Fellow at the Centre.

“With growing interest in the re-use of publicly available material,  
and growing concern at attempts by commercial publishers to restrict  
re-use, Creative Commons licensing has never been more needed than  
now. The creative communities in Scotland now have an opportunity to  
apply ready-made, plain-language licences to their work to aid its  
maximum distribution”, says Jonathan Mitchell.

About AHRC

The Arts and Humanities Research Council Centre for Studies in  
Intellectual Property and Technology Law was established in 2002 in  
the Faculty of Law of Edinburgh University with the assistance of the  
Arts and Humanities Research Council. Its Director—Professor Hector  
MacQueen—and four co-Directors—Ms Lilian Edwards, Mr. Andres  
Guadamuz, Professor Graeme Laurie and Dr. Charlotte Waelde—have  
worked together since the establishment of their earlier research  
centre SCRIPT in 1998. The Centre conducts research into law,  
technology, commerce and society in the widest possible sense; its  
anchor projects are 'Privacy, Property and Personality';  
'Intellectual Property, Cultural Heritage and the Public Domain'; and  
'E- commerce Legislation within the EU', bringing together academics  
and practising lawyers. Among its many publications http:// 
www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/publications/index.asp are a number of reports  
dealing with copyright management and the law.
For more information on the Creative Commons Scotland project visit:  
http://www.jonathanmitchell.info/informationlaw.html


For more information on the Research Centre visit: http:// 
www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/aboutus.asp

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

Jonathan Mitchell QC
The Murray Stable of the Faculty of Advocates
creativecommonsscotland AT jonathanmitchell.info

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

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

Press Kit

http://creativecommons.org/presskit/