Following extensive consultation with local and international legal experts and in close collaboration with Creative Commons International, Creative Commons Czech ported the licenses and celebrated their launch at an event during the Multiplace festival in Prague on 16 April 2009..
CC Czech has gathered a lot of supporters since its inception last year. Besides the project institutional hosts, EDRi-member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe), the National Library in the Czech Republic and the Union of Independent Authors, CC Czech has also received endorsement from the Copyright Department of the Ministry of Culture and Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University of Prague.
The team reports: "The joint forces of lawyers, librarians, musicians, teachers, artists, geeks, journalists and other specialists delivered not only what we were aiming for - the localized CC deeds and legal codes - but also proof that the ideas behind CC echo in many areas both professional and amateur. From archiving original Czech web content to educational materials and works from independent music producers and performers, CC opens up a wide spectrum of possibilities. There is no doubt the today's launch is only the beginning of the Czech Creative Commons story."
Marek Tichy from IuRe commented: "Common people are more and more becoming creative. Many of them write and post their works on the Internet. The copyright has been rather constricting with this easy distribution of creative works."
