As part of an international effort to facilitate the availability of open-source licences, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic is translating the popular Creative Commons licence for use under Canadian law. Nice. Once complete, the Canadian Creative Commons licence will enable Canadian digital creators to independently construct and attach copyright licences to their works.  Read: No lawyers required! The CCL has been embraced by creators world-wide and can currently be found in use on over 3,000,000 digital artworks ranging from text to sound to computer graphics as well as the websites through which they are promoted. I just hope other counties follow this lead as the BBC have just done here in England. More here ...