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CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN BULGARIA

San Francisco, USA, Berlin, GERMANY - March 14, 2006 -

Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides a flexible  
copyright licenses for authors and artists, recently unveiled a  
localized version of its innovative licensing system in Bulgaria.

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 Project Leads Veni Markovski and Dessi Pefeva of the Internet  
Society Bulgaria, to adapt the standarized licenses to Bulgarian law.  
Creative Commons Bulgaria (http://www.cc.isoc.bg) is hosted by the  
Internet Society Bulgaria (ISOC-Bulgaria) and supported by the Open  
Society Institute.
Says Veni Markowski, “We are proud of the achievements of the  
Creative Commons community in Bulgaria. This is a success for  
Bulgaria, and for all authors - an ever increasing number of them use  
Creative Commons’ licenses to publish their works.“

“There are new CC initiatives every day in Bulgaria – see www.open- 
culture.net
or the Bulgarian netlabels - stretching-spaces.net, ouim.net and  
mahorka.cult.bg. There's even a whole audiolab, called VOXXLab, which  
gives young musicians opportunity to record their music free of  
charge, if they license their music under CC", says Dessi Pefeva, CC  
project coordinator.
 About ISOC-Bulgaria Founded in 1995, among its main aims is to  
support free and open development of the Internet in Bulgaria and  
freedom of speech, access to information and basic human rights in  
the Information Society. ISOC-Bulgaria recently has been working on  
changes in the legal framework in Bulgaria. ISOC-Bulgaria has about  
600 members, among them the President of the Republic of Bulgaria  
Georgi Parvanov, the Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, the former  
President, and the former Prime Minister, many distinguisged IT- 
professionals, scientists, and experts. ISOC Bulgaria is working with  
the United Nations Development Program and under the European Union  
6th Framework Program on promoting Free and Open Source Software in  
the administration. For more information about ISOC Bulgaria, visit  
http://isoc.bg

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001,  
that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works— 
whether owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licences  
provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors,  
artists, and educators that build upon the "all rights reserved"  
concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights  
reserved" approach. It is sustained by the generous support of  
various foundations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur  
Foundation, the Omidyar Network Fund, the Hewlett Foundation, and the  
Rockefeller Foundation as well as members of the public. For general  
information, visit http://creativecommons.org

Contact

Christiane Henckel von Donnersmarck
Executive Director, Creative Commons International, Creative Commons
christiane AT creativecommons.org

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