Jordan, through AGIP, Joins iCommons Project
27 Mar 2004AMMAN – Jordan has been added to the list of countries assisting the International Commons (iCommons) project, according to e-commerce legal consultant and project lead for iCommons in the Kingdom, Rami Olwan.
“After announcing its intention to expand in the Middle East through Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP), Creative Commons, the non-profit corporation dedicated to building a body of creative works free for copying and re-use, has begun discussion of Jordan’s license,” he said.
He added that AGIP legal experts stressed the significance of taking the initiative in this project since “AGIP fully embraces the new ideas that will shape the future of the Internet and cyberspace.”
Creative Commons' current and future projects aim at building a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules.
“The new ideas related to copyright may be adopted in copyright legislation of tomorrow and this is important to Jordan in the sense that we can amend our copyright laws to be in conformity with the international standards,” Olwan pointed out.
In this regard, Jordan joins Brazil, Catalonia, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Ireland, Japan, Spain, Australia, Italy, Taiwan and the United Kingdom in this effort.
With this move, AGIP, the first to bring the iCommons project to the Middle East joins a list of high reputable organizations assisting on porting the Creative Commons project, such as Oxford University, Research Center in Administrative Science (CERSA) at the University of Paris II and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Universitat de Barcelona, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and others.
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