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CREATIVE COMMONS TO PORT LICENSES TO CHINA

San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — March 29, 2006 —  
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 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.

Staff at Creative Commons’ offices in San Francisco and Berlin worked  
with Project Lead Professor Chunyan Wang to adapt the standardized  
licenses to Chinese law. Creative Commons’ Mainland China project is  
being supported by the Law School of Renmin University of China.

Today the Chinese version of the Creative Commons licenses will be  
launched at the opening ceremony of an international conference on  
Intellectual Property and Creative Commons, being held at Renmin  
University of China and Peking University, in Beijing.  The event is  
sponsored by Law School of Renmin University of China, IET  
Foundation, Peking University Law School, China Open Resources for  
Education, LI-Ning Company Limited, and other four organizations.

Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University, CEO & Chairman of  
Creative Commons, will deliver the keynote speech on the Role of  
Creative Commons in an Information Economy. There will be an array of  
other diverse and preeminent speakers including Professor William  
Fisher of Harvard Law School.

The launch event will also feature the announcement of a new music CD  
titled “Pat Pet” which contains several Chinese songs that are being  
released under a Creative Commons Mainland China license.

Says Chunyan Wang, “We expect that the launch of the Creative Commons  
licenses will help pave a path for protecting intellectual property  
and create a win-win solution for all by allowing for reasonable use  
and sharing of the creative works. The launch will also help build a  
formal model to be used for creative products and provide a solution  
for dealing with the challenge of the new digital, Internet society.  
We believe that the launch will inspire a new “Creative Commons”  
community in a country with a rich cultural history and great  
potential creativity.”

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

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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