compatibility. Fully coping with accents and
other characters is only one example of what can be done."

2001: COPYRIGHT, COPYLEFT AND CREATIVE COMMONS

= [Overview]

Creative Commons (CC) was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessing,
a professor at Stanford Law School, California. As explained on
its website, "Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation
dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build
upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of
copyright. We provide free licenses and other legal tools to
mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to
carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any
combination thereof." There were one million Creative Commons
licensed works in 2003, 4.7 million licensed works in 2004, 20
million licensed works in 2005, 50 million licensed works in
2006, 90 million licensed works in 2007, and 130 million
licensed works in 2008. Science Commons was founded in 2005 to
"design strategies and tools for faster, more efficient web-
enabled scientific research." ccLearn was founded in 2007 as "a
division of Creative Commons dedicated to realizing the full
potential of the internet to support open learning and open
educational resources."

= Copyright on the web

What did people think about copyright on the web, when there
were heated debated about print articles and other copyrighted
works being posted and re-posted without the consent of their
authors? Here are some answers.

Based in San Francisco, California, Jacques Gauchey was a
journalist in information technology and a "facilitator"
between the United States and Europe. He wrote in July 1999:
"Copyright in its traditional context doesn't exist any more.
Authors have to get used to a new situation: the total freedom
of the flow of information. The original content is like a
fingerprint: it can't be copied. So it will survive and
flourish."

Guy Antoine is the founder of Windows on Haiti, a reference
website about Haitian culture. He wrote in November 1999: "The
debate will continue forever, as information becomes more
conspicuous than the air that we breathe and more fluid than
water. (...) Authors will have to become a lot more creative in
terms of how to control the dissemination of their work and
profit from it. The best that we can do right now is to promote
basic standards of professionalism, and insist at the very
least that the source and authorship of any work be duly