Jordan Times
Friday, April 2, 2004
Jordan, through AGIP, joins iCommons project
PALO ALTO, AMMAN — After one year of mutual
deliberations, the International Commons Corporation (iCommons) has approved to
add Jordan to a list of countries assisting in porting the iCommons project to
their regions. Therefore, Jordan is currently considered the first Arab state to
bring the iCommons to the Middle East. After announcing its intention to expand
in the Middle East through Abu Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) last month,
chairman of Creative Commons and professor of law at Stanford Law School,
Lawrence Lessig, expressed his optimism over the Jordanian step to initiate this
project in the Arab region.
"We are very excited to have AGIP leading iCommons project in Jordan,"he said.
"The Jordanian participation, through AGIP, is crucial to our growing effort in
promoting the international cultural commons." The iCommons, which oversees the
internationalisation of the Creative Commons idea seeks to secure the backup of
as many countries as possible to join efforts that increase the sum of raw
source material online and to make access to that material cheaper and easier.