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This page is meant to aggregate information, discussions, arguments and opinions around the Porting Principle prevalent withing the CC license ecology.
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This page is meant to aggregate information, discussions, arguments and opinions around CC's porting project, which is unique among all public licenses.
  
Creative Commons as a legal tool started out when the first set of core licenses was released to be used on by the wider internet community, in late 2001. Quite soon after that, in 2002, Creative Commons as an entity took a certain path to disseminate the principles underlying its license suite around the globe. This path was and is absolutely unique amongst the various private order licensing initiatives.
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Creative Commons as a legal standard began with publication of the first suite of licenses in late 2001. In 2002, Creative Commons established a novel approach for disseminating information about its licenses and securing global support.  The "porting project" involves the translation and legal adaptation of CC's licenses to the language and copyright laws of particular jurisdictions.  As a result of the project, CC has ported licenses in more than 55 jurisdictions, and hosts an astonishing 550+ unique licenses.
  
 
Please note that CC’s policy is not to begin any new porting projects as we are currently preparing for version 4.0.  CC encourages the members of its CC Affiliate Network to build a robust, diverse community of users and to undertake community-building activities.
 
Please note that CC’s policy is not to begin any new porting projects as we are currently preparing for version 4.0.  CC encourages the members of its CC Affiliate Network to build a robust, diverse community of users and to undertake community-building activities.
  
 
Contact CC for more information.
 
Contact CC for more information.

Revision as of 15:40, 28 November 2011

This page is meant to aggregate information, discussions, arguments and opinions around CC's porting project, which is unique among all public licenses.

Creative Commons as a legal standard began with publication of the first suite of licenses in late 2001. In 2002, Creative Commons established a novel approach for disseminating information about its licenses and securing global support. The "porting project" involves the translation and legal adaptation of CC's licenses to the language and copyright laws of particular jurisdictions. As a result of the project, CC has ported licenses in more than 55 jurisdictions, and hosts an astonishing 550+ unique licenses.

Please note that CC’s policy is not to begin any new porting projects as we are currently preparing for version 4.0. CC encourages the members of its CC Affiliate Network to build a robust, diverse community of users and to undertake community-building activities.

Contact CC for more information.