Creative Commons International

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Creative Commons International, or CCi, is a "port" for Creative Commons Licenses to different copyright legislations around the world. Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.^[1] The CCi is led by director Catharina Maracke and volunteer teams work in each CCi jurisdictions (in most cases countries or nation states).

Work

The original non-localized Creative Commons licenses were written with the US legal system in mind, hence the wording of the licenses could be incompatible within different local legislations and render the licenses unenforceable in various jurisdictions. To address this issue, Creative Commons International has started to port the various licenses to accommodate local copyright and private law. As of December 2008, there are 50 jurisdiction-specific licenses, with 8 other jurisdictions in drafting process, and more countries joining the worldwide project.^[2]

Porting process

The porting process involves both linguistically translating the licenses and legally adapting them to particular jurisdictions.

Country teams

Country teams introduce Creative Commons to their country and facilitate extensive consultations and discussion with members of the public and key stakeholders in an effort to adapt the Creative Commons Licenses to local circumstances, i.e. their jurisdiction. Country teams usually have a Project Lead and may have their own website in addition to their Country website on the CCi website. Country teams may be supported by organisations, for example, CCi Ireland is a collaboration between Creative Commons and University College Cork.

Jurisdictions covered

The CCi has developed Creative Commons Licenses for the following jurisdictions:

Countries where licenses are in development

The CCi has started the process of developing Creative Commons Licenses in the following jurisdictions:

• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Georgia
• Ireland
• Jordan
• Nigeria
• Thailand
• Ukraine

See also

• Creative Commons
• Creative Commons Licenses

References

External links

• Creative Commons International
• Canadian Creative Commons site