About Creative Commons

The project team for Creative Commons Malaysia welcomes you to the Creative Commons Malaysia project. Creative Commons Malaysia is part of the Creative Commons initiative to build the range of creative works that are available for public use by encouraging authors of creative works to license their works to the public under specific terms that retains some of the author’s rights while making a work freely available to the public. Creative Commons licenses, which are available on-line for free, have been vetted by lawyers and are legally-enforceable copyright licenses that allow an author to specify how the work may be used by others.

The Multimedia Development Corporation hosts the Creative Commons Project and is porting the Creative Commons licenses into Malaysian law so that works may be licensed under Malaysian copyright law. Once this process is complete, Malaysian authors, musicians, artistes, photographers and anyone else involved with the production of creative works will be able to choose the terms under which they wish to license their work to the public and attach that license to their works as a public notification for what can and cannot be done with the work.

About the Multimedia Development Corporation

The Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) was established in 1996 to oversee the growth of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project, a strategic project to develop the country’s economy to a developed nation status by the year 2020. MDeC works in partnership with government agencies and the private sector to develop initiatives such as market access assistance, human resource development and training support, financial and non-financial incentives, research and development (R&D)grants, venture capital funding and business incubation centers. One of the initiatives of the MSC is to tap the potential of technology and creativity integration to meet local and global demand for content in education, entertainment and other applications. For this purposes, the MDeC overlooks the Creative Multimedia Cluster that seeks to utilize multimedia and information communication technologies to cultivate creativity in schools, institutes of higher learning, universities as well as in the private sector.

More information about the creative multimedia cluster is available at http://cmc.msc.com.my/