Berkman Center Executive Director John Palfrey certainly sounds enthusiastic when he writes: Right this very minute, Creative Commons Mexico is launching in Mexico City. Congratulations, Larry Lessig, Leon Felipe Sanchez, and all the CC International team on yet another landmark on your road to world domination. For atmospherics, Larry has “My Life” playing in the background… (This launch is coinciding with the end of Day 1 of iLaw-Mexico here.) Eduardo Arcos, a native of Ecuador who now resides in Mexico City, is at iLaw live-blogging each seminar. Regarding spam in Mexico, he summarizes the main points (ES) of Clara Luz Álvarez González de Castilla (pictured) from the Federal Telecommunications Commission (ES) as follows: Last week, León Felipe Sánchez interviewed Luis Alberto Bolaños and Emilio Saldaña of the Presidential Internet System (SIP) which recently decided to license all of its content using Creative Commons. When asked why the presidency decided to adopt CC licenses, they responded: One of the principal interest of the Presidency of the Republic is that, once content is published, it reach the largest quantity of people possible. The content is used by researchers, academics, students, the press, and general public. By using Creative Commons licences, we have the possibility to permit the content's copy, reproduction, diffusion and everything which lets it get shared with more people. All without any charge or commercial cost, which is exactly what the licensing scheme of Creative Commons protects against. All of this, and the fact that it's based in Mexican copyright legislation. iLaw Mexico continues throughout the day and you are sure to find more coverage on the weblogs of Ariel Vercelli (ES) and Eduardo Arcos (ES). Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS