Philippine Commons

Named after the First Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, Cayetano S. Arellano, the school, a non-stock non-profit institution, was established in 1938 and boasts of more than six decades of providing quality legal education.

Foremost of the school objective is to create global lawyers, practitioners who are deeply educated in the law, practice-ready, and devoted to service not only in the local but also the international community. Arellano Law prides itself for being one of the most populous law schools in the Philippines with faculty members who have distinguished themselves in law practice, the judiciary, government service, and the academe. The law school revels in being one of the few schools in the Philippines that produce the most number of lawyers in the annual bar examinations administered by the Supreme Court. The school has likewise included technology law as part of its curriculum and utilizes cutting-edge technology in law instructions.

For more information about Arellano University School of Law, please visit the University website at http://www.arellanolaw.edu/

The Center was founded in November 2002 under the auspices of the Arellano University School of Law, following the launching of the school’s LAWPHiL Project, considered as one of the most popular on-line and electronic databank of Philippine law and jurisprudence accessible for free to the general public.

The Center is pursuing projects in research, publication, policy initiatives and advocacy, capability building, academic support, and linkages in the field of information and communication technology as it affects the Philippine legal system.

For more information about the LawPHil Project, visit http://www.lawphil.net/.

• Project Lead: Atty. Jaime N. Soriano, CPA, MNSA
• Deputy Project Lead: Atty. Michael Vernon M. Guerrero
• Project Team: IT Law Society of the Arellano University School of Law

Creative Commons is a Massachusetts-chartered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable corporation. For more information, see the corporate charter, by-laws, most recent tax return and most recent audited financial statement.

Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright — all rights reserved — and the public domain — no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work — a “some rights reserved” copyright.

Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control — a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which “all rights reserved” (and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy — a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation — once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally — have become endangered species.

Creative Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare “some rights reserved.”

To learn more about Creative Commons, see the Creative Commons website.

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• Austria: http://www.creativecommons.at/ (2.0)
• Belgium (2.0)
• Brazil (2.5)
• Bulgaria (2.5)
• Canada: http://creativecommons.ca/ (2.5)
• Chile: http://creativecommons.cl/ (2.0)
• China (Mainland): http://cn.creativecommons.org/ (2.5)
• Colombia: http://co.creativecommons.org/ (2.5)
• Croatia (3.0)
• Denmark (2.5)
• Ecuador http://creativecommons.ec/ (3.0)
• Finland: http://creativecommons.fi/ (1.0)
• France: http://fr.creativecommons.org/ (2.0)
• Germany: http://fr.creativecommons.org/ (3.0)
• Greece (3.0)
• Guatemala (-)
• Hong Kong (-)
• Hungary (2.5)
• India: http://cc-india.org/ (2.5)
• Ireland (-)
• Israel: http://creativecommons.org.il/ (2.5)
• Italy: http://www.creativecommons.it/ (2.5)
• Japan: http://www.creativecommons.jp/ (2.1)
• Jordan (-)
• Luxembourg: http://luxcommons.lu/ (3.0)
• Macedonia http://cc.org.mk/ (2.5)
• Malaysia (2.5)
• Malta (2.5)
• Mexico: http://creativecommons.org.mx/ (2.5)
• Netherlands: http://www.creativecommons.nl/ (3.0)
• New Zealand (3.0)
• Norway (3.0)
• Nigeria (-)
• Peru: http://pe.creativecommons.org/ (2.5)
• Poland: http://creativecommons.pl/ (2.5)
• Portugal http://creativecommons.pt/ (2.5)
• Puerto Rico http://www.creativecommonspr.org/ (3.0)
• Romania (-)
• Serbia (3.0)
• Singapore (-)
• Slovenia: http://creativecommons.si/ (2.5)
• South Africa: http://za.creativecommons.org/ (2.5)
• South Korea: http://www.creativecommons.or.kr/ (2.0)
• Spain: http://es.creativecommons.org/ (2.5)
• Sweden http://www.creativecommons.se/ (2.5)
• Switzerland (2.5)
• Taiwan: http://www.creativecommons.org.tw/ (2.5)
• Thailand (-)
• UK: England and Wales: http://www.creativecommons.org.uk/ (2.0)
• UK: Scotland: http://www.creativecommons.org.uk/ (2.5)
• Ukraine (-)
• United States (3.0)

• Bangladesh (-)
• Czech Republic (-)
• Egypt (-)
• Tanzania (-)
• Tunisia (-)
• Turkey (-)
• Venezuela (-)
• Vietnam (-)