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Developing Nations Copyright License Frees Creativity Across the Digital Divide
The law-and-technology nonprofit Creative Commons offers a tool for authors and publishers to encourage innovation in developing nations while protecting their rights in the developed world.
Geneva, Switzerland, and San Francisco, USA - Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative and educational materials free to share and re-use, unveiled today its Developing Nations copyright license. Creative Commons chairman Lawrence Lessig and Developing Nations license architect Jamie Love announced the new license at the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue's workshop on "The Future of WIPO," in Geneva.
Like all of Creative Commons' legal tools, the Developing Nations license is free of charge and allows authors and artists to invite certain uses of their work, upon certain conditions; to declare "some rights reserved" as opposed to the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright.
Source: Creative Commons
