Creative Commons 'liberates' Argentina

CREATIVE COMMONS the non-profit organization and movement that offers and promotes an alternative to full copyright to content creators.

That is the middle ground between the "all rights reserved" copyright and the "no rights reserved" offered by releasing something to the Public Domain-, announced the completion of the work of "porting" the different Creative Commons (CC) licences to match the legal wording and framework of Argentina, thus adding one more entry to their list of "liberated" countries where there's an alternative to traditional copyright licences.

Lawrence Lessig

Ariel Vercelli

To make the announcement, Stanford law professor -and increasingly cyberspace legend- Lawrence Lessig descended into Buenos Aires once again, to make yet another nice speech about Creative Commons' motives, goals and methods. This time he was joined by Ariel Vercelli, leader of Creative Commons Argentina and who's also a fellow of CONICET, the National Scientific Research body.

The Audience, following the presentation

The "legal ports" of the different Creative Commons licenses, reworded to fit the copyright law of Argentina are now available on the CreativeCommons.org's licence selection page. You can see an example of the wording of one of such licences -spanish language- here.

Lessig and this INQ hack. Yes I'm shaved bald. Now you know me.

On a side note, there's also plenty of activity lately in the software development side related to CC. There are tools to help with tagging, embedding, publishing and reading Creative Commons' licences. For instance, there's "MozCC", an extension for all Mozilla-based browsers: the Mozilla Suite, Firefox, and Netscape. MozCC provides "a convenient way to examine Creative Commons licenses embedded in web pages". Find it here. The CC organization promises the next country to enjoy CC licences will be Mexico. µ

See Also
RealVideo stream of the event recorded Oct. 1 (to be made available starting Monday, Oct. 3)
The day 'Creative Commonists' Rocked Argentina
Interview: Lawrence Lessig on Microsoft, Telecom Argentina´s "metered ADSL", and Life