History
Creative Commons Canada was founded in Fall 2003 by Project Lead Marcus Bornfreund, with the generous support of the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Program and the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. We are grateful to their faculty and students for helping get the project off the ground - special thanks goes out to cyberlaw guru Michael Geist, copyright law prodigy Daniel Gervais, and public interest dynamo Philippa Lawson.
"Some Rights Reserved": Building a Layer of Reasonable Copyright
Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control — a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which "all rights reserved" (and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy — a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation — once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally — have become endangered species.
Creative Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare "some rights reserved."
Except where otherwise noted, this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada License.
Sauf mention au contraire, le contenu de cette page est sous Contrat Creative Commons Paternite 2.5 Canada.
