An English retranslation (pdf) of the Vietnamese license is available, including an explanation of its substantive legal changes. The team has also provided supplemental documents about the jurisdiction’s civil code and corresponding copyright law.

CC Vietnam hosted at the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) and led by Dr. Lynne McNamara, Dr. Phuong Nguyen, and Mr. Tu Ngo, and initiated by Mr. Hung V. Tran. The Vietnamese license porting is supported by Ms. Thuy Dang and Ms. Hang Dang of the renown law firm D&N International.

National CC projects rely on content creators and license users worldwide to give feedback to improve local legal tools and build a strong community. Please consider weighing in on CC Vietnam’s drafting efforts by subscribing to their mailing list.

Thank you and congratulations, CC Vietnam!

CCi Russia List

Legal Project Lead: Leyla Neyman (Steiner, Neyman, & Partners LLC)

Project Adviser: Syb Groeneveld

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More about Steiner, Neyman, & Partners LLC

STEINER, NEYMAN & PARTNERS is an adviser for companies entering or already involved in new media business and related intellectual property matters. The firm provides legal services in both English and Russian, which ensures highest quality level of their work and its worldwide recognition.

The firm focuses on New Media business sectors such as telecommunications, multimedia, TV & radio broadcasting, Web media, software development, and IT infrastructure and service providers.

Specializations include Intellectual Property (including copyright) and content clearance, registration and enforcement litigation, arbitration and mediation, as well as legal support for new media projects, and consulting legal opinions on mew media.

First CC Russia Roundtable

Held on Moscow, 9 September 2008 to discuss next steps for license porting in Russia

• Roundtable Minutes (.pdf)
• Announcement on CC weblog: First Roundtable Creative Commons Russia

CCi Canada List

Project Leads:  Marcus Bornfreund, Andy Kaplan-Myrth, and Tina Piper

• License draft (PDF).
• English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF).
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More About the Law & Technology Program at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law

The Law & Technology Program at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law was founded in 1998 and is the leading program of its kind in Canada. Providing specialized courses, practical experience and the opportunity to conduct innovative research, the program covers both the graduate and undergraduate level. From its location in Canada’s technology capital, the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Program acts as a central source of legal information and expertise for policy-making and judicial determination in Canada and has been instrumental in producing technology law practitioners that now occupy all facets of the technology law field.

CCi Belgium List

Legal Project Lead: Séverine Dusollier, Philippe Laurent, and Loïc Bodson, from IPR department and CRID. The Dutch version will be carried out by Mélanie Carly, researcher at CIR (Centrum voor Intellectuele Rechten), University of Leuven.

Public Project Lead: Pascal Callant (netlabelism.net)

• License draft in English (PDF).
• License draft in Dutch (PDF).
• License draft in French (PDF).
• Explanation of substantive legal changes in all three languages (PDF).
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More about CRID

Founded in 1979 by Prof. Yves Poullet, the CRID, linked to the University of Namur, is a research centre dedicated to computer law and information law. The Objective of the CRID is to foster the legal thinking in the field of cyberlaw and to create awareness of the legal and social issues engendered by the use of new technologies.
35 researchers are currently working on a broad range of issues, from IPR, privacy, fundamental rights to e-commerce, telecommunications law, use of technologies in the medical sector, computer crime and contract law.
The IPR Department, headed by Severine Dusollier, has namely worked on copyright on the Internet, domain names, software patentability, databases, IPR rights in research outcome, P2P, DRM, and so one. One of the key issue dealt with the IPR Department is the safeguarding of the balance of copyright between rights of the authors and freedoms of the users. It has resulted in thourough research in the field of the exceptions to copyright (fair use), DRM regulations and copyleft and open source.
The CRID has undertaken numerous research projects and studies commissioned namely by the European Commission, UNESCO, Council of Europe, WIPO, Belgian government, diverse national agencies and private companies. It also hosts a important library specialised in computer and cyberlaw.
The research carried out at CRID nourishes several teaching courses at the University of Namur and namely a post-graduate program in Law and Management of Technologies of Information and Communication.

For more information about CRID, visit http://www.crid.be

Acknowledgements

The project lead of Creative Commons in Belgium would like to thank Prof. Alain Strowel (University of St-Louis, Brussels) for his assistance.

CCi Spain List

Project Lead: Ignasi Labastida i Juan

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Archives

• English explanation of substantive legal changes (v1.0) (PDF).

More about The Universitat de Barcelona

The Universitat de Barcelona (UB), founded in 1450, is the oldest and largest of the six universities in Barcelona, and of the ten in Catalonia. It has 76.000 students –more than half of the total student population of Catalonia– and is the second largest in terms of students number in Spain. The UB has four campuses, in different parts of the city. The UB is the main spanish university research centre, and one of the leaders in Europe, in terms of projects and the quality achieved in this field. One of the aims of the University is to create, transmit and expand the cultural, scientific anf technical knowledge and to contribute to society’s development.

The university is particularly interested in fostering international relations, and for many years has been the leader among European universities in numbers of student exchanges organized as part of the Erasmus program. Since 1995, the UB has implemented a quality program aiming fundamentally to design mid and long term strategies in order to evaluate and improve teaching and research in public higher education.

More info: http://www.ub.edu/

CCi Singapore List

Legal Project Lead: Lam Chung Nian

Public Project Lead: Assistant Professor Giorgos Cheliotis; Fellow, CAPTEL

Community Manager: Ivan Chew

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More about the Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law & Policy (CAPTEL)

The Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law & Policy (CAPTEL) is a research center founded to investigate and research issues on how businesses and economies are being affected by the challenges of new technologies on law, regulation and policy. CAPTEL is located at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University.

For more information, please visit http://captel.ntu.edu.sg/.

Acknowledgments

CC Singapore and CCi would like to thank Associate Professor Anil Samtani, Deputy-Director of CAPTEL, for his substantial efforts to adapt and promote the CC licenses in Singapore as part of his former role as the team’s Legal Project Lead.

CCi Germany List

Legal Project Lead: John Hendrik Weitzmann

Public Project Lead: Markus Beckedahl

• License draft.
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More about the European Academy of Law and Computing (EEAR), Merzig and Saarbrücken

The European Academy of Law and Computing was established in the year 2005 as a non-profit corporation situated in Merzig and Saarbrücken, near the borders to France and Luxemburg in south-western Germany. The Academy wants to build bridges between the IT sector and the world of legal professionals. Its mission therefore is threefold, combining research activities, educational courses and development of software and services.

In the area of research the Academy offers various workshops, conducts EU funded studies and hosts the Merzig Legal Database Forum (Merziger Datenbankenforum Recht), to name a few. In regard to education and additional qualification for lawyers a fully equipped test environment is on offer as well as a wide range of courses, covering topics like XML, Digital Data Management and Legal Web Services. The development activities include the German Database of Higher Education Law (KMK Hochschulrecht), the Caveat Registry Service, applications for implementing the XJustiz standard, and other projects.

More about Institute of Law and Informatics (Institut für Rechtsinformatik) at Saarland University, Saarbrücken

The ‘Saarbrücker Rechtsinformatik’ (Law and Informatics in Saarbrücken) was founded in 1988 along with the establishment of the department of law and informatics, which was originally funded by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany) and headed by Prof. Dr. Herberger. Today the Institute of Law and Informatics at Saarland University (Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany) is maintained by the Chair for Civil Law, Legal Theory and Legal Informatics of Prof. Dr. Maximilian Herberger and the Chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Philosophy of Law of Prof. Dr. Helmut Rüßmann.

The Institute of Law and Informatics concerns itself with the question of how legal professionals can improve their ways of working with the aid of new technology. Law and informatics is part of applied information technology just like business information systems and medical informatics are. In this context the Institute of Law and Informatics feels that it is its duty to make legal information electronically available, therefore deviating from the traditional printed format, and to support the electronic exchange of legal documents. Examples include online legal databases as well as the technical maintenance of the decision databases of the Courts, for example the websites of the Federal Constitutional Court, the Social, Labour and Fiscal Courts of the Saarland as well as the Administrative Court in Frankfurt am Main.

Furthermore, the Institute of Law and Informatics deals with Information Law and legal problems of new media, especially Internet Law. The Internet poses many legal questions, which concern current and future legislation of almost all areas of law and numerous regulations. In relation to the named issues the Institute concentrates mainly on questions of civil law.

Acknowledgements

Creative Commons would like to thank the former project leads,
Professor Dr. Thomas Dreier, Ellen Euler, and Oliver Meyer , and Dr. Till Jaeger, who in a shared effort adapted the CC licenses to German copyright law; the

Institute for Information Law at the University of Karlsruhe and the

Institut für Rechtsfragen der Freien und Open Source Software, for the extensive work done so far and their continuing support.

Registration is also now open for the event. While the first Technology Summit was free thanks to Google’s generous support, we do have costs associated with the December Technology Summit. To offset those costs, there is a registration fee: $50 for CC Network members or $75 for non-members. If you’d like to sign up for CC Network membership at the same time as you register, we’ve enabled that as well (no discount, though; $100 total).

It’s been a busy year at CC and I’m looking forward to the Technology Summit as an opportunity to review what we’ve done and look ahead to 2009.