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CREATIVE COMMONS TO PORT LICENSES TO MALTA

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Public discussion of adaptation of Creative Commons licenses to Malta to start in November 2005 San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — November 28, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, announced today that Malta is the latest country to join…

Google Advanced Search Enables CC-Customized Searching

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San Francisco, USA — November 4, 2005 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides a flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, today announced that Google now enables filtering for Creative Commons-licensed content Following the example of Yahoo!’s CC-search that was released in March 2004 and then incorporated into Yahoo!’s Advanced Search page, Google has…

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN SLOVENIA

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Silicon-Valley-based NGO reinforces its activities around the globe and introduces its innovative copyright licenses in Slovenia. San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY, Ljubljana SLOVENIA — October 28, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, will launch the localization of the innovative…

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES LAUNCH IN ARGENTINA

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Silicon-Valley-based NGO reinforces its activities around the globe San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — October 1, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Argentina. Creative Commons copyright licenses are…

CREATIVE COMMONS SUPPORTING WE’RE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY MOVEMENT

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San Francisco, US, & London, UK, 1st August 2005—Creative Commons and www.werennotafraid.com (WNA) today announced a landmark partnership whereby WNA will incorporate Creative Commons licensing into the WNA site, upcoming Proud Gallery exhibit and the ‘We’re Not Afraid’ book. By using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, people around the world will be able to…

CREATIVE COMMONS SUPPORTING WE’RE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY MOVEMENT

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San Francisco, US, & London, UK, 1st August 2005—Creative Commons and www.werennotafraid.com (WNA) today announced a landmark partnership whereby WNA will incorporate Creative Commons licensing into the WNA site, upcoming Proud Gallery exhibit and the ‘We’re Not Afraid’ book. By using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, people around the world will be able to…

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN CHILE

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Silicon-Valley-based NGO reinforces its activities around the globe San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — July 1, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, announced today the launch of the Creative Commons project in Chile. Creative Commons copyright licenses are…

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN ISRAEL

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Silicon-Valley-based NGO reinforces its activities around the globe and introduces its innovative copyright licenses in Israel San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — June 9, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides an alternative to full copyright, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Israel. Creative Commons’ copyright…

Leaders in Intellectual Property and Open Content from All Corners of the Globe Participating in Inaugural International Creative Commons Conference

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA—June 24, 2005 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, is holding a conference at Harvard Law School over the coming weekend of June 25 and 26, 2005, for all of its international collaboration partners, who are responsible for the legal ‘porting’ of the Creative Commons…

'Leaders of the Free World' finally able to sing "Happy Birthday to You" to the Free Culture Movement after rights to song cleared

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San Francisco, USA, June 21, 2005: Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, released today its long- awaited present to the Free Culture Movement, represented primarily by FreeCulture.org, which celebrated its first birthday on April 23, 2005. The present is a recording of “Happy Birthday to You” by…