On 15 March 2010 the Institute of the Information Society became a local Russian partner of the Creative Commons (СС) and "Public Project Lead" for the introduction of Creative Commons Licenses in the Russian Federation.

Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach.

Since 2001 the licensing suite has been ported to fifty-four jurisdictions. As of January 2010, there are an estimated 350 million CC-licensed works worldwide, and global license usage continues to grow.

Creative Commons works to port the core CC-licenses to different copyright legislations around the world. The porting process involves both linguistically translating the licenses and legally adapting them to the national law of the particular jurisdiction. CC considers the Russian Federation as one of the major missing links in their international network of jurisdictions where the licenses have been introduced.

Within the framework of collaboration with Creative Commons the objective of IIS is to increase awareness of public organizations, business, scientific, creative, educational and internet communities arrange public events on advantages of introduction of Creative Commons Licenses suite through public outreach (conferences, workshops and meetings).

Joint pre-porting collaboration of IIS and CC is a preliminary stage during which necessary foundation for the porting of the Creative Commons License suite to the Russian Federation jurisdiction will be established.

With a view of implementation of joint activities for the Creative Commons project IIS has established a Directorate of open content development within its structure. Head of the Directorate will be Mr. Syb Groeneveld, the Ambassador for Creative Commons in the Russian Federation.

At this stage of collaboration IIS with active involvement of its Directorate of Legal Programs will prepare a linguistic translation of main Creative Commons License in Russian language, as well as elaborate recommendations on amendments to the Russian Civil Code part IV deemed necessary in order to introduce CC licenses in Russia

IIS will also develop and support Russian web-site of Creative Commons.