Creative Commons Hungary (2008-2017) has been a non-profit organization placed in
Budapest
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,
Hungary
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The self-organized society established in 2008. The founders were gathered together from an online mailing-list, which was created for discussing about copyrights of artists, opportunity of
copyleft
Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works. In this sense, ''freedoms'' refers to the use of the work for any purpose, ...
and other
Libre culture themes.
When most of the original leaders have left Hungary or became non active the association slowly eroded. It has been deleted from the official registry on 6 February 2017.
Foundation
In 2008 the founders were:
* Bodó Balázs (first chairman)
* Dankaházi Lóránt
* Fehér János
* Kelényi Attila
* Maróy Ákos
* Máté Norbert
* Molnár Rita
* Szervác Attila
* Szemes Balázs
* Tóth Márton
* Zrínyi Dániel
The main goal of the Creative Commons Hungary was support non-profit culture sector and the provide to spread of
Creative Commons Licenses
A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and bui ...
in Hungary.
The Board
In 2013 the Board of Creative Commons consisted of:
*
Attila Szervác (chairman)
* Dankaházi Lóránt
* Hollós Roland
* Horváth Zsuzsanna
* Molnár Attila
Activity
There were declared programs for partnering and co-operation to support goals of Creative Commons Hungary:
*
Libre culture program (2013), founding the Libre art movement, 2014–2015
* Public domain program (2013)
References
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External links
Creative Commons Hungary homepage
Charter of Creative Commons Hungary
Creative commons mailing listCC Hungary on Commons
Creative Commons
Organisations based in Hungary
Libre art
Libre culture