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CREATIVE COMMONS TO PORT LICENSES TO MAINLAND CHINA

San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — December 20, 2005 —  
Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of  
creative work free to share and build upon, introduces today a  
revamped draft version of its localized licenses in The People’s  
Republic of China.

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.

Led by Project Lead Chunyan Wang and the Law School of Renmin  
University of China, and helped by Professors Li Chen and Guo He, Ms.  
Gao Si from NCAC, and Mr.Zheng Yi and Miss Chen Jie,  Creative  
Commons Mainland China has worked on a new version of the  
standardized licenses, adapted to Chinese law.
The Creative Commons Mainland China project is supported by IET  
Foundation, the Center for Internet Law at Peking University Law  
School, and China Open Resources for Education (CORE).

CC Mainland China will post their new version on the Creative Commons  
website for public discussion. The license draft will be discussed at  
a new mailing list ccchina AT googlegroups.com and a new URL http:// 
groups.google.com/group/ccchina .

Following a fruitful discussion, CC Mainland China plans to launch a  
localized version of the licenses during a launch event at the  
Intellectual Property and Creative Commons conference taking place at  
Renmin University of China and Peking University in Beijing in March  
2006.

Says Chunyan Wang: “I think it would be extremely important to  
introduce Creative Commons licenses to China. The concept and  
approach of Creative Commons licenses would provide a sensible middle  
ground for China, between western approaches of strict copyright and  
the traditional Chinese approach of having no intellectual property  
rights. Indeed, the very idea of Creative Commons is based on the  
traditional Chinese approach of society sharing its intellectual  
creativity, under a reasonable set of guidelines. Adopting the  
Creative Commons licensing system in China would be a significant  
step  forward in helping China further the development of culturally  
diverse creative works, and improve the ability of the people of  
China to communicate effectively with other societies and cultures  
around the world.“

About Law School of Renmin University of China

Renmin University of China (RUC) is a national leading university  
focusing on humanities, social sciences, economics, law and  
management. RUC was officially established in 1950. As one of the  
major schools and departments, the Law School is the first higher  
legal education institution officially established after the founding  
of the People's Republic of China. Consisting of 12 Teaching and  
Research Sections (TRS) and 15 research centers, the Law School  
boasts two National Key Research Centers—Research Center of Criminal  
Jurisprudence and Research Center of Civil and Commercial  
Jurisprudence—and China Law Information Center, a National 211  
Project program. With one LL.B, nine LL.M and seven LL.D programs,  
RUC Law School has a comprehensive legal education system.

For general information, visit http://english.ruc.edu.cn/
 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

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

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