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CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN PORTUGAL

San Francisco, CA, USA; Berlin, GERMANY; and Lisbon, Portugal —  
December 13, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to  
building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, is  
proud to announce the celebration of the launch of its licenses in  
Portugal on December 15, 2006.

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 the project leads Pedro Oliveira, José Rui Felizardo and Pedro  
Ferreira in Portugal to adapt the standardized licenses to Portuguese  
law. The team has also been supported by Filipa Salazar Leite from  
the law firm Simmons & Simmons in Lisbon. Creative Commons Portugal  
was hosted by FCEE-Universidade Católica www.fcee.ucp.pt, INTELI -  
Intelligence in Innovation www.inteli.pt and UMIC - Knowledge Society  
Agency www.infosociety.gov.pt.

With the availability of the Creative Commons licenses in Portugal,  
one of the largest and most prestigious daily newspapers in Portugal,  
Público, released articles under a Creative Commons Attribution- 
NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 license, both online and in the paper  
edition.

The launch of the licenses will be celebrated by a series of events  
including a conference on ‘The Future of Intellectual Property’ to be  
held on Dec 15th 2006 at FCEE-Católica in Lisbon. Professor Lawrence  
Lessig, CEO & Chairman of Creative Commons, will be the keynote speaker.

About FCEE-Católica - School of Economics and Management,  
Universidade Católica Portuguesa

The School of Economics and Management of the Universidade Católica  
Portuguesa (FCEE-Católica) is a leading Management and Economics  
school in Portugal. The school offers undergraduate, graduate and  
executive programs in business and economics. FCEE-Católica faculty  
members are also deeply involved in research activities. For more  
information, please see www.fcee.ucp.pt.

About INTELI - Intelligence in Innovation

INTELI is a private non-profit think tank that promotes intelligence  
in innovation in areas such as technology and innovation management  
for the automotive, aerospatiale, energy, biotechnology, regional  
development and "creative industries". The Innovation Centre has been  
supporting public policies and developing strategic consultancy to  
Ministries, public institutes, R&D institutions and companies. INTELI  
is actively involved in several national and EU projects aimed at  
developing "creative cities" or "intelligent cities" across European  
countries in co-operation with an international network of innovation  
organisations. For more information, please see: www.inteli.pt.

About UMIC – Knowledge Society Agency, Ministry for Science,  
Technology and Higher Education

UMIC, Knowledge Society Agency, acts under the tutelage of the  
Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education and oversees  
all aspects related to the development of the information and  
knowledge society in Portugal. Major projects related to the  
inclusive dissemination of information and knowledge include  
connecting all schools with broadband, managing online repositories  
of information and knowledge for education and research, deploying  
wireless networks in all the campus of higher education institutions  
in Portugal and the installation of hundreds of free-of-charge public- 
accessible hotspots countrywide for the dissemination of ICTs and  
training. For more information, see www.infosociety.gov.pt.

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 licenses  
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 organizations including the John D. and Catherine T.  
MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Hewlett Foundation, and  
the Rockefeller Foundation as well as members of the public. For  
general information, visit http://creativecommons.org.

Contacts

Pedro Oliveira
FCEE-Católica
poliveira AT fcee.ucp.pt

Pedro Ferreira
UMIC
pedro.ferreira AT umic.pt

José Rui Felizardo
INTELI
jrf AT inteli.pt

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

Mia Garlick
General Counsel
Creative Commons
mia AT creativecommons.org

Press Kit

http://creativecommons.org/presskit/