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FIRST EVER HUNGARIAN CREATIVE COMMONS REMIX CONTEST ANNOUNCED

Budapest, Hungary — February 15, 2006

Creative Commons Hungary, a collaboration between Center for Media  
Research and Education and the nonprofit organization Creative  
Commons, today announced, together with the band Nomada and Tilos  
Radio, the first Creative Commons remix competition in Hungary.

The five-member group Nomada (http://nomada.hu/) was  founded by Roma  
singer-guitarist Balogh Gusztáv in 2003.  Nomada’s music is derived  
from the Hungarian Gypsy tradition in addition to drawing from other  
musical styles such as Spanish, Arabic and Serbian folk elements.

Nomada have released their song Aven le Roma! – Here come the Roma!,  
and its component elements, under a Creative Commons Attribution- 
NonCommercial-ShareAlike license which authorizes members of the  
public to remix it.  To be considered as part of the content, remixes  
must be uploaded to ftp.mokk.bme.hu/Audio/nomada/remixs/ by March 31,  
2006.  Six of the best remixes will be selected by panel of Hungarian  
and international musicians including DJ Vadim, Szakcsi Lakatos Béla,  
Mitsou and Dj Palotai.

Balazs Bodo of the CC Hungary project team said “Nomada has its roots  
in the Roma music tradition where music is ‘free’ as the common  
heritage of Roma people. The band has created something unique out of  
this, and by releasing their remix of this tradition under a CC  
license, they are giving it back to those to whom it belongs: a  
community where it is kept alive. The only difference is that we have  
stepped out from the analogue, manual music tradition into the realm  
of electronic music and digital remixes. Use it, fuse it, diffuse it!”

About The Center for Media Research and Education (MOKK)

The Center for Media Research and Education (MOKK) was founded in  
2002 as a joint effort of the Department of Sociology and  
Communication at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics  
and the leading Hungarian telecommunication company, Hungarian  
Telecom, with the aim of furthering multi-disciplinary research and  
education in the field of new media in Hungary. MOKK is built around  
the conviction that it is impossible to understand the sociocultural  
effects of new technologies without taking into account their  
technical foundations and attributes—and equally, that in order to  
develop successful new media applications one needs to understand the  
sociocultural context of their use.  For more information about MOKK,  
visit: http://mokk.bme.hu/

About Tilos Radio

Tilos Radio is a community, a non-profit radio station in Budapest,  
Hungary, that was established in 1991, to draw the public's attention  
to the fact that there was at that time no legal framework for  
independent and community broadcasters. During the first years of its  
broadcasting, Tilos (which means "forbidden" in Hungarian) enjoyed  
wide public interest and played a key role in the liberalisation of  
the airwaves in Hungary, which happened in 1995. In 1995, Tilos Radio  
secured a frequency license and has since transitioned to become a  
key player in the cultural and lifestyle scene of Budapest.

The services of Tilos are mainly financed by listeners' donations and  
the income from fund-raising events, and partly by support from EU  
programmes, international NGO's and charity institutions. For more  
information about Tilos visit: http://tilos.hu/
 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

Balazs Bodo (Budapest)
CC Hungary
bodo AT mokk.bme.hu

Christiane Asschenfeldt (Berlin)
Creative Commons International
christiane AT creativecommons.org

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