This session will present and discuss the Creative Commons International licensing system, which was developed as an alternative to increasingly restrictive copyright model for intellectual property, and its applications to archival practice. In keeping with the work of the Free Software Foundation, the Center for Public Domain, and the Open Source movement, Creative Commons seeks "to build a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules... help[ing] people dedicate their creative works to the public domain — or retain their copyright while licensing them as free for certain uses, on certain conditions.” The Creative Commons licenses have been adapted to the legal systems of over forty countries and translated into over thirty languages. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/History