(This press release attached as PDF: CC-Luxembourg PR 20071014)
LUXEMBOURG 40th JURISDICTION TO OFFER PORTED CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES
San Francisco, CA, USA and Luxembourg, Luxembourg — October 15, 2007
The launch of the Creative Commons licensing suite today in Luxembourg
marks the 40th jurisdiction worldwide to offer Creative Commons
licenses adapted to national law. Creative Commons worked in
collaboration with Luxcommons ASBL, a local non-profit for researching
and developing Open Content headed by Patrick Peiffer, to
linguistically and legally port the licenses to Luxembourgish law.
An event to commemorate the launch will be held today at the Public
Research Center Henri Tudor (CRP) in Luxembourg, featuring speeches by
John Buckman, founder and CEO of Magnatune.com and Board Member of
Creative Commons, and Paul Keller, Project Lead for Creative Commons
Netherlands.
The ceremony will also include a presentation by Laurent Kratz,
founder Luxembourg’s Jamendo, one of the largest music portals
offering Creative Commons-licensed works, and Lionel Maurel,
scientific coordinator from the National Library of France.
The Creative Commons licenses were “the first instrument of choice” in
Luxcommons’ efforts to lead innovation in intellectual property and
promote Open Content in their region and around the world. The
licenses, available free of charge at http://creativecommons.org,
allow authors and artists to mark their works as free to copy or
transform under certain conditions, and thereby enable others to
access a growing pool of raw materials without legal friction.
About Luxcommons
The non-profit Luxcommons was founded in 2005 with the goals of
promoting, researching, and developing of Open Content. Thanks to
funding from “2007, Luxembourg and Greater Region, Cultural Capital of
Europe,” the National Cultural Fund and with the Support of the
Technoport Incubator (an initiative of the Henri Tudor Research
Center), Luxcommons was able to start transposing the CC 3.0 License
to the Luxembourg jurisdiction. For the future, a stronger linking of
similar initiatives in the Greater Region and stronger tie-ins with
institutional partners is sought to keep the Luxembourgish CC project
on stable footing. For more information about Luxcommons, please visit
their website http://www.luxcommons.lu/.
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. Through its free copyright
licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and
educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms
that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional
copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.
Creative Commons is sustained by the generous support of 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 more information about Creative
Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Dr. Catharina Maracke
International Coordinator
Creative Commons International, Creative Commons
+49.30.280.93.909
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