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Founded
in 2001, Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building
a body of creative work free to share and build upon, recently
unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system
in Malaysia.
Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free
of charge from the group’s website (http://creativecommons.org).
The licenses allow authors and artists to mark their works
as free to copy or transform under certain conditions—to declare
“some rights reserved,” in contrast to the traditional “all
rights reserved”—thereby enabling others to access a growing
pool of raw materials without legal friction.
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Staff
at Creative Commons’ offices in San Francisco and Berlin worked
with Project Leads Alina Ng, Hasnul Hadi Samsudin, and Hasnul
Nadzrin Shah to adapt the standardized licenses to Malaysian
law. Creative Commons Malaysia is being supported by The Multimedia
Development Corporation, Cyberjaya.
Badlisham
Ghazali, Chief Executive Officer of the Multimedia Development
Corporation said “It is timely that Malaysia participates
in the Creative Commons Project. At a point in time when Malaysia
is becoming a rich and vibrant information society, the Creative
Commons project allows Malaysians from all walks of life,
whether they are students, academics, researchers or in the
creative content industry, such as independent musicians and
filmmakers or creative content companies to participate in
content development and distribution around the globe.”
The
Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC) was established in
1996 to oversee the growth of the Multimedia Super Corridor
(MSC) project, a strategic project to develop the country's
economy to a developed nation status by the year 2020. MDC works
in partnership with government agencies and the private sector
to develop initiatives such as market access assistance, human
resource development and training support, financial and non-financial
incentives, research and development (R&D) grants, venture
capital funding and business incubation centers.
 One
of the initiatives of the MSC is to tap the potential of technology
and creativity integration to meet local and global demand
for content in education, entertainment and other applications.
For this purposes, the MDC overlooks the Creative Multimedia
Cluster that seeks to utilize multimedia and information communication
technologies to cultivate creativity in schools, institutes
of higher learning, universities as well as in the private
sector.
A
nonprofit corporation founded in 2001 Creative Commons promotes
the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works—whether
owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licences provide
a flexible range of
protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators
that build upon the "all rights reserved" concept
of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights
reserved" approach. It is sustained by the generous support
of various foundations including the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar Network Fund, the Hewlett
Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation as well as members
of the public.
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