Creative Commons Expands to the Middle East with AGIP
20 Mar 2004PALO ALTO - Creative Commons, the non-profit corporation dedicated to building a body of creative works free for copying and re-use, announced its intention to expand its International Commons (iCommons) project in Jordan and the Middle East in cooperation with Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP).
Chairman of Creative Commons and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School Lawrence Lessig said, “We are very excited to have AGIP leading iCommons project in Jordan,” he continued to say that “AGIP’s participation is crucial to our growing effort in promoting the international cultural commons."
Meanwhile, Executive Director of AGIP’s Regional Office Charles Shaban expressed his deep contentment over AGIP’s involvement with Creative Commons.
“We are very pleased to be the first Arab country to bring the International Commons to this region. We hope that this project will be a step forward towards building the digital commons in cyberspace,” he reiterated.
Announced in March 2003, iCommons is Creative Commons’ project to make its machine-readable copyright licenses useful worldwide.
As a leading institution for their respective jurisdiction, AGIP, the regional intellectual property provider, will coordinate public efforts literally and legally to translate the Creative Commons licenses into Arabic to be used in Jordan.
Consequently, Jordan will be joining Brazil, Catalonia, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Ireland, Japan, Spain, Taiwan and the United Kingdom in this effort.
“The international Creative Commons project is unique in the sense that it offers new concepts to the current copyright legal system,” said Rami Olwan, an e-commerce legal consultant and project lead for iCommons in Jordan.
He added that iCommons seeks to adapt itself to the developments taking place in cyberspace and the difficulties posed by the digital revolution.
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