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Jimmy Wales' Conference

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By Summer Harlow

Touting free access to articles, books, music and even software, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales spoke to a standing room-only audience at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala City Thursday night.

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"People love to talk about decentralization and the power of ordinary people, so I say, let's do it!" said Wales, who earlier had signed the first release form under the new Creative Commons Guatemala.

Creative Commons, according to Wales' own Wikipedia, is a non-profit organization issuing licenses that allow creators to "communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of other creators" -- a sort of alternative to rigid copyright laws.

"The Creative Commons licenses enable copyright holders to grant some or all of their rights to the public while retaining others through a variety of licensing and contract schemes including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms," according to the Wikipedia entry. "The intention is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information."

Besides Guatemala, Creative Commons licensing also has been implemented in Equador, Puerto Rico, Greece, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, China, Croatia, Denmark, Israel, Korea, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Chile and Sweden.

The premise behind Creative Commons is what Wikipedia was founded on: "Free access to the sum of all knowledge for every single person on the planet," with everyone having the ability to create, modify, distribute and re-redistribute information, Wales said.

"We don't want this to be something rich people in the West made," he said of Wikipedia. "We want it to be a conversation everyone can join in their own language."

Wikipedia, with more than 11 million articles in 250 languages, is now the fifth most visited site on the Web.

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