Full Coverage: Freedom of expression

28.04.2006 Copyright means, above all, the right of the author to define the terms and conditions for use of his/her work, while the license is a legal document used by the author to express those terms and conditions in a legally acceptable form. Therefore, each author can, in principle, decide that his/her work can be freely distributed or even used as public domain good. On the other hand, the contemporary practice is such that, unless the author explicitly defines the terms and conditions for use of his/her work, it is assumed that the terms would be: “All unauthorized copying, reproduction and public performance is strictly forbidden. All rights reserved”.

Creative Commons is an all-encompassing solution for licensing of works as publicly accessible and open contents. It simplifies the procedure for the author to legally define greater freedoms for the users, different from those restrictive invoked authomatically if the author doesn’t explicitly declare his will, having in mind taht such expression of will by the author, if done on one’s own, would demand a legally complicated procedure. The website creativecommons.org offers the authors possibility to chose which rights he/she wants to transfer and get a legally valid license that expresses the chosen terms and conditions in legally appropriate manner. It is also possible to enter the work into a registry or store it in a public archive on the internet, which makes it more accessible to users searching for free contents.

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28.04.2006 The Metamorphosis Foundation for Sustainable ICT Solutions signed, on April 26, 2006, a Memorandum of Understanding with Creative Commons Corporation, for legal porting of CC licenses in Macedonia.

19.04.2006 A coalition of press freedom groups, including the World Association of
Newspapers (WAN), has asked the King of Nepal to end the violent crackdown on journalists and others in the recent protest demonstrations that have
jolted the Himalayan nation.

17.04.2006 The debate over the limits of freedom speech and religious dictums has re-ignited among a new demographic--viewers of the irreverent comedy South Park.

17.04.2006 More than 500 publishers and journalists were arrested and jailed for practicing journalism in 2005 and such journalists number several thousand over the past decade. Dozens of them remain in prison today, serving sentences as long as 20 years. The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) is organising the World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2006 to highlight the plight of journalists facing abuse.

06.04.2006 La Fédération Internationale des Journalistes a exprimé aujourd'hui sa vive inquiétude quant au sort du journaliste tunisien Slim Boukhdhir, qui a annoncé aujourd'hui une grève de la faim.

"Les autorités tunisiennes poussent les quelques journalistes indépendants dans leurs derniers retranchements, au prix d'une pression individuelle inconcevable" a déclaré Bertrand Ginet, responsable de Programme à la FIJ.