Creative Commons aims at promoting affluent information distribution and the development of culture and scientific technologies by advocating new copyright rules. Under the new license rules being advocated, content authors will clearly indicate their consent for the free use of their content with certain conditions, while maintaining the copyright of the content itself. At iSummit2006, staff members of Creative Commons' worldwide bureaus will gather with various participants from around the world, including those from Japan. They will exchange and share information on their activities in each country and jointly seek solutions for the problems facing each country. Opportunities will also be provided for creators from each country to make presentations about their experiences using the Creative Commons licenses.

DG decided to offer support for the Summit, in assent to Creative Commons' aim to formulate new copyright rules somewhere in the middle of total enforcement of copyrights and complete abandonment thereof, in order to promote smooth information distribution.

On June 23, the opening day of the Summit, Joichi Ito, DG's co-founder and advisor who is chairing the Summit, will be lecturing in the "Towards a Global Commons Community" session, along with musician and politician Gilberto Gil, the Brazilian Minister of Culture.

As a company that is proud in having played an important role in popularizing the Internet in Japan, DG considers the linkage between communications and broadcasting an unavoidable issue that must be dealt with for further development of the Internet.

From an advocate's point of view, DG considers new copyright rules to be indispensable in bridging communications and broadcasting. DG will continue to support the activities of Creative Commons in various forms.

Related URLs
Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons Japan: http://www.creativecommons.jp/
iCommons: http://icommons.org/