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Creative Commons Begins Work On Finnish Versions Of Copyright Licenses

June 3rd, 2003

The Helsinki Institute for Information Technology Will Drive Public Discussion from the Silicon Valley Nonprofit’s Website
Palo Alto, California, USA - Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a layer of reasonable copyright, announced today that it would begin development of Finnish versions of its copyright licenses as part of its ongoing International Commons (iCommons) project. The [...]

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Creative Commons and Negativland Begin Work on Free Sampling and Collage

May 30th, 2003

The Silicon Valley Nonprofit Also Rolls Out New Model for Community
Participation
Palo Alto, California, USA - May 29, 2003 - Creative Commons, a nonprofit
dedicated to building a layer of reasonable copyright, announced today
that it would begin development of the Sampling License, a copyright tool
designed to let artists encourage the creative transformation of their
work, for profit or [...]

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Creative Commons Welcomes Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim to Board of Directors

May 29th, 2003

Austin and Palo Alto, USA — March 11, 2003 — Davis Guggenheim, a celebrated director and producer of both documentary and dramatic film and television, joined the board of directors of Creative Commons this week.  
“Davis brings a unique and invaluable perspective to our team,” said Lawrence Lessig, Chairman of Creative Commons and Professor of [...]

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Creative Commons Releases Hundreds of Titles Under its Founders Copyright

April 23rd, 2003

Stanford-based nonprofit also opens doors of Founders’ Copyright submission process
Santa Clara, California, USA - April 23, 2003 — Creative Commons announced today the release of several hundred titles under its Founders’ Copyright. The Silicon Valley nonprofit also opened the Founders’ Copyright submission process to the public via its website.
With the Founders’ Copyright, Creative Commons has created [...]

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Creative Commons Unveils Machine-Readable Copyright Licenses

December 16th, 2002

San Francisco, CA – Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the creative reuse of intellectual works, launched its first product today: its machine-readable copyright licenses, available free of charge from creativecommons.org. The licenses allow copyright holders to easily inform others that their works are free for copying and other uses under specific conditions. These [...]

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Creative Commons Announces New Management Team

December 15th, 2002

Sep 18, 2002 — www.creativecommons.org
– Creative Commons today announced its newly formed leadership
team, expanding its efforts to cultivate a vibrant public
domain within the current copyright system.

Founding Executive Director Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
recently completed her long-planned transition from Creative
Commons to become Assistant Professor at the University
of Michigan Law School and member of the Creative Commons
Board of [...]

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Creative Commons Announced

October 16th, 2002

May 16, 2002 SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA -
Representatives from the new nonprofit Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org) today outlined the company’s plans to help lower the legal barriers to creativity through an innovative coupling of law and technology. The Creative Commons will provide a free set of tools to enable creators to share aspects of their copyrighted works with [...]

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