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CREATIVE COMMONS COPYRIGHT LICENSES LAUNCH IN MALTA

San Francisco, USA, and Berlin, Germany – April 7, 2006

Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides a flexible  
copyright licenses for authors and artists, today unveils the  
localized version of its innovative licensing system in Malta. With  
Malta offering Creative Commons licenses tailored for the specifics  
of the local legal system, Creative Commons licenses and tools are  
now available in 30 jurisdictions worldwide.

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 Brian Restall, Daniele Cop and Alex Spiteri  
Gingell to adapt the standardized licenses to Maltese law. Creative  
Commons Malta is being supported by Projects in Motion Ltd.

Today the Maltese versions of the Creative Commons licenses will be  
launched in Malta, at a launch event being held in the Ammon Suite at  
the Dolmen Hotel. The launch will follow the closing ceremony of the  
“Globalisation and Harmonisation in Technology Law” conference held  
by the British & Irish Law, Education Technology Association  
(BILETA). The event will be hosted by the Law & Information  
Technology Research Unit of the University of Malta. Professor  
Lawrence Lessig (Chairman and CEO of Creative Commons) will give the  
keynote address.

Brian Restall, CEO of Projects in Motion Ltd. Said “The intention  
behind porting the Creative Commons licenses to Malta was to  
encourage Maltese artists, students, academics, and researchers to  
share and distribute their work for free; and help relax the current  
copyright all-or-nothing proposition. This will permit the local  
content industry to allow others to copy, distribute, and build on  
their work so that it can be used in other creative and interesting  
ways, while still protecting certain parts of their work. This is a  
very important milestone for the Maltese content industry and  
provides the legal basis for the free exchange of digital content and  
a sharing economy in Malta. “

About Project in Motion Ltd. (PiM)

Projects in Motion Ltd (PiM) was set up to provide the leadership and  
expertise required to boost Malta’s participation in a range of  
European programmes and initiatives. It addresses the need expressed  
by local SMEs for more specific information and assistance  
structures, promoting international cooperation and networking; and  
offering services related to ICTs, management, research, training and  
dissemination activities. PiM’s network of experts covers areas like  
ICT, education, health, law, as well as cultural, scientific,  
environmental, agricultural and socio-economic disciplines. Through  
its association with other multipliers, PiM will strive to overcome  
the existing high fragmentation of resources. It will support the  
clustering of local players to create knowledge-intensive, multi- 
stakeholder partnerships possessing the critical mass needed to  
achieve excellence. PiM therefore aims to facilitate the  
transformation of local SMEs into learning organisations set to reap  
the benefits of the knowledge economy. For general information, visit  
http://www.pim.com.mt
 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
+49.30.280.93.909

Press Kit

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