Wairagala Wakabi, Highway Africa News Agency, Johannesburg
Creative Commons (cc), the growing global movement that aims to relax restrictions on the fair use of intellectual property, launched its South African chapter at a festive inaugural event in Johannesburg last night.
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by Alistair Otter, Tectonic Magazine
Creative Commons, the growing global movement to relax restrictions on the fair use of intellectual property, launched its South African chapter in Johannesburg this week.
Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig, speaking at the launch event, described Creative Commons as recognising the need for sharing works and cited several examples of how CC […]

The Highway Africa News Agency’s Emrakeb Assefa talks about the African Digital Information Commons primer
http://allafrica.com/stories/200505270997.html
‘The “Digital Information Commons: An African Participant’s Guide” was launched yesterday at LINKS Centre here in Johannesburg in a bid to popularise the Creative Common (cc) movement on the African continent.
Chris Armstrong, LINK Centre Commons-sense Project researcher said that the document […]

San Francisco, USA, and Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, May 27, 2005 - Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that offers free copyright licenses and tools to creators to make their works available on more flexible terms, today unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in South Africa.
With South Africa offering Creative Commons licenses tailored […]

Razina Munshi has written a great piece for the local Business Day on the recent Commons-sense conference and the launch of Creative Commons South Africa.