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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52792
title: Meeting the Commons
uri: Meeting-the-Commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/18/meeting-the-commons/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52793" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52793" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/18/meeting-the-commons/34217216461_38846de7ed_z/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34217216461_38846de7ed_z.jpg" data-orig-size="640,427" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="34217216461_38846de7ed_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34217216461_38846de7ed_z-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34217216461_38846de7ed_z.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-52793" src="media/e7ad0500.34217216461_38846de7ed_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34217216461_38846de7ed_z.jpg" alt="listening" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34217216461_38846de7ed_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34217216461_38846de7ed_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34217216461_38846de7ed_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34217216461_38846de7ed_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34217216461_38846de7ed_z-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/34217216461/in/album-72157681355091380/">Listening at the CC Global Summit.</a> Photo by Sebastian Ter Burg, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p>As a Copyright and Digital Scholarship librarian, I spend a lot of time talking to people about the rights they have to the things they create, and as an active member of the open community, I often find myself encouraging others to apply Creative Commons licenses to their work. For these reasons, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to attend and speak at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Toronto. I was looking forward to meeting a community of individuals committed to openness connected through a tool that facilitates openness in scholarship and art,but I also was new to the idea of the commons, and I was drawn to the summit partially through a deep curiosity. What &#8211; or who &#8211; made up the commons? How did they work? And how could I make my way into the heart of the open movement?</p>
<p>But I was also wary of this environment &#8211; a microcosm of open superheroes that could easily turn into a Batman vs. Superman situation. When you have devoted your career to advocating for a cause, it can be inspiring to see how others achieve similar goals. But it can also be difficult to be open to ways others achieve those goals, especially when they conflict with your own modus operandi. On the other hand, these events can create a self-congratulatory echo-chamber, where people are unable to engage in a meaningful and critical discourse that helps to generate meaningful, future-oriented action. At events that gather smart, hard-working, and dedicated advocates, striking this balance can be tenuous.</p>
<p>The Creative Commons Global Summit has set a gold standard for this balance. From the moment a smiling volunteer handed me a name-tag, I felt warm, welcome, and safe in this space. Even before the opening remarks, I met and connected with brilliant people both within the Western library world that I was familiar with, but also people from outside of libraries and academia, and people from all over the globe. So rarely can an organization succeed at creating an aura of effortless inclusivity. From the Women of the Commons colouring book under every chair, to the unveiling of New Palmyra, every action taken by the organizers was brushed with these undertones. It was unspoken but evident in each action.</p>
<figure style="width: 382px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="52794" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/18/meeting-the-commons/34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z.jpg" data-orig-size="640,427" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z.jpg" class=" wp-image-52794" src="media/c0337c04.34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z.jpg" alt="ashe-dryden" width="382" height="255" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34189876982_e58e2c68c4_z-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 382px) 85vw, 382px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Ashe Dryden at the CC Global Summit, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/34189876982/in/album-72157681355091380/">Photo by Sebastian Ter Burg</a>, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p>This commitment to inclusivity made Ashe Dryden’s keynote all the more powerful. She began with primer on time travel –light and accessible – then she dug a little deeper. As she spoke about the importance of bringing in new voices to open, about giving people an opportunity to express themselves and to shape this space, she not only empowered every person in attendance who did not feel they had a voice in the community to speak, but the also mandated those with a voice to take a breath, step back, and listen. Her talk enabled us all to be individuals, and allowed us to feel like <em>we are the commons.</em> I came to Creative Commons looking for an in, but the door was always open.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52802
title: Everything really is political
uri: Everything-really-is-political
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/19/everything-really-political/
content:
<p><em>Everything is political</em></p>
<p>With these welcoming words, Creative Common’s CEO Ryan Merkley confirmed I was in the right place. It was my first time at the global Creative Commons summit, and though I knew a bit about Creative Commons, this was my first adventure into meeting and learning from the community.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52764" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52764" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/15/cc-summit-2017/image33/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image33.jpg" data-orig-size="640,427" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="image33" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image33-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image33.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-52764" src="media/c06ffa8c.image33.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image33.jpg" alt="ryan" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image33.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image33-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image33-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image33-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image33-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Image by Sebastian Ter Burg, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p>The open data community that I’m part of has a lot of overlap with the Creative Commons space. Not just because we both talk about licenses for data or content, but moreso due to our community’s enthusiasm to use tech and data and information to further our shared values – chief amongst them, a belief that open is better.</p>
<p>In Canada we’ve got great momentum going in terms of applying this belief to how our government works. <a href="http://codefor.ca">Code for Canada</a> has recently launched, we’ve got a new <a href="https://news.ontario.ca/maesd/en/2017/03/ontario-names-first-chief-digital-officer.html">chief digital officer in Ontario</a>, and adoption of the <a href="http://opendatacharter.net">Open Data Charter</a> at the federal and provincial governments. Cities across Canada are showing renewed focus on their open data plans. So how to build on this momentum of openness?</p>
<p>By increasing our political action. Many of us have a handle on how tech and systems work, how they can be open, how they can be applied – and yes, we’ve got lots of opinions on it all too. As a community, we need to show up more to support our governments in their work to do tech right.</p>
<p>When I needed a jolt of inspiration in doing this work a few years back, I watched the <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz">Internet’s Own Boy,</a> a documentary about Aaron Swartz, in <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz/">Lawrence Lessig’s words</a>, “one of the early architects of Creative Commons”. To help share this inspiration and keep the discussion moving along, we’ll be hosting a joint movie night, put on by the Toronto Public Library, Creative Commons Canada, and the Open Data Institute of Toronto – details will be shared as we have them.</p>
<p>Aaron had a fierce political belief in the power of opening up information. It’s on us as a bigger and broader open community to think strategically about what we can do politically to make sure this happens. I’m excited for our communities to continue to converge and collaborate and I’m grateful for the summit experience that confirmed another global community of people keen to do this work.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52808
title: State of the Commons Feature: African Storybook Initiative
uri: State-of-the-Commons-Feature-African-Storybook-Initiative
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/22/african-storybook/
content:
<p><em>This week, we&#8217;ll be featuring stories from this year&#8217;s <a href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org">State of the Commons</a> report, which highlights the impact of our global community by exploring the wide array of creativity and knowledge that is freely available to the world under under CC licenses. Read more about why this report <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/state-of-the-commons-2016/">marks our biggest year yet.</a></em></p>
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<p><a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/#storybook" target="_blank"><img data-attachment-id="52809" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/22/african-storybook/pratham_books/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pratham_books.png" data-orig-size="685,457" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="pratham_books" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pratham_books-300x200.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pratham_books.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-52809 size-full" src="media/600ebdfd.pratham_books.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pratham_books.png" alt="african storybook" width="685" height="457" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pratham_books.png 685w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pratham_books-300x200.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pratham_books-60x40.png 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pratham_books-50x33.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pratham_books-232x155.png 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p>The African Storybook initiative works with organizations and individuals to facilitate access to storybooks and create website tools for users to create, translate, and adapt them. So far, the initiative has created storybooks in 94 African languages with the support of 30 partner organizations across Africa.</p>
<p>Multiple projects in multiple countries use the website and/or storybooks with the intervention of the African Storybook project team: schools or community libraries serve as pilot sites; governments use the content on their platforms to print and distribute; and partners add to and use content in their literacy development programmes. In addition, the project serves educators who integrate the website tools and storybooks into their pre-service training programs, as well as lecturers in higher education institutions stimulating their postgraduate students to experiment with and research use of the African Storybook. The remixable content also inspired the Global African Storybook Project, which translates the stories into other languages with few resources for childhood learning.</p>
<p>As of September 2016 the initiative contained 730 storybooks and 2,754 translations/adaptations. In only two years, 636,803 storybooks were downloaded with an average of 4800 visitors per month, of which 2,800 are new visitors. Further, the <a href="https://global-asp.github.io/">Global African Storybook Project</a> has produced 460 translations in 26 languages. Between 30 and 400 African Storybook titles have been republished on a variety of academic and commercial sites.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52816
title: State of the Commons Feature: Geonet
uri: State-of-the-Commons-Feature-Geonet
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/23/geonet/
content:
<p><em>This week, we’ll be featuring stories from this year’s <a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/">State of the Commons</a> report, which highlights the impact of our global community by exploring the wide array of creativity and knowledge that is freely available to the world under under CC licenses. Read more about why this report <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/state-of-the-commons-2016/">marks our biggest year yet.</a></em></p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="52818" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/23/geonet/geonet-recap/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/geonet-recap.png" data-orig-size="1717,555" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="geonet-recap" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/geonet-recap-300x97.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/geonet-recap-1024x331.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52818" src="media/0d1725b8.geonet-recap-1024x331.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/geonet-recap-1024x331.png" alt="geonet-recap" width="840" height="272" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/geonet-recap-1024x331.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/geonet-recap-300x97.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/geonet-recap-768x248.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/geonet-recap-124x40.png 124w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/geonet-recap-50x16.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/geonet-recap-270x87.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/geonet-recap-1200x388.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>GeoNet adopted a CC BY license in order to provide crucial, open information and quick response to earthquakes, volcanic activity, and tsunamis. Its real-time CC BY-licensed and open format data is now reused every day for emergency management, research, industry use, and by the public. GeoNet has become a core tool for global positioning systems, measuring instruments, geotechnical consultancies, local and central government, as well as for national and international universities and research organizations. In 2016, It recorded over 32,000 earthquakes and has changed the way that the public learns about and understands earthquakes through its open format.</p>
<p>On 14 November 2016, the day of the Kaikoura 7.8 magnitude earthquake, there were 250 million hits to the site by third party apps – people around the world wanted to know the strength of the earthquake and what that meant for them. Geonet sent out 206 million advisories that day through its app, website, and social media sites.</p>
<p>Due to the reach of Geonet, there is increasing information on a variety of safety protocols like where one must move to avoid tsunamis and advice about what size after-shock to expect. Worldwide, new knowledge and research has been developed through legal reuse of this licensed data.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52820
title: Wikipedia Says It’s Time for Fair Use in Australia
uri: Wikipedia-Says-It-s-Time-for-Fair-Use-in-Australia
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/23/wikipedia-says-time-fair-use-australia/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52822" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FairCopyrightOz"><img data-attachment-id="52822" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/23/wikipedia-says-time-fair-use-australia/faircopyrightoz/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/faircopyrightoz.png" data-orig-size="1942,1080" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="faircopyrightoz" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/faircopyrightoz-300x167.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/faircopyrightoz-1024x569.png" class="wp-image-52822 size-large" src="media/938724fb.faircopyrightoz-1024x569.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/faircopyrightoz-1024x569.png" width="840" height="467" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/faircopyrightoz-1024x569.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/faircopyrightoz-300x167.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/faircopyrightoz-768x427.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/faircopyrightoz-72x40.png 72w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/faircopyrightoz-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/faircopyrightoz-270x150.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/faircopyrightoz-1200x667.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Screenshot from Wikipedia&#8217;s #FairCopyrightOz campaign, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA 3.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week Wikipedia is urging users in Australia to tell their government representatives to champion fair use. The </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FairCopyrightOz"><span style="font-weight: 400;">campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, organised alongside Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Australian Digital Alliance, </span><a href="https://www.faircopyright.org.au/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">advocates</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for policy makers to update copyright law to include fair use, thus providing a progressive legal framework to support creators and remixers, educational activities, and new business opportunities.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fair use</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the legal doctrine already adopted in a few countries that permits use of copyrighted works without permission for purposes such as reporting, criticism, and research. For example, news broadcasts oftentimes use snippets of copyrighted videos in their programs to illustrate a story. They are able to do this without permission and without having to pay a license fee because of fair use. This exception to copyright provides a crucial balance between the interests of copyright holders and the public interest. It promotes creativity and transformative remix and protects freedom of expression. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The issue is important to the Wikipedia community because around 10% of the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">English Wikipedia’s 5 million articles incorporate some content under fair use. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the last 20 years, the Australian government has recommended several times that fair use be adopted into its copyright regime. The campaign launched during the country’s most recent push for incorporating fair use. Last year, Australia’s Productivity Commission </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/australian-copyright-laws-have-questionable-benefits-77178?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=facebookbutton"><span style="font-weight: 400;">provided</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a strong recommendation for fair use. Not surprisingly, the big rights holders organisations continue to fight against the adoption of a fair use exception. Just last month it was </span><a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/04/australian-copyright-scandal-points-need-greater-oversight-copyright-collectives/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the Copyright Agency, a copyright collective management group that is supposed to collect and disburse copyright royalty payments to authors, diverted millions of dollars to fund lobbying activities to fight against fair use reforms.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Australians should tell their elected representatives: </span><a href="https://www.faircopyright.org.au/take-action/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s time for fair use</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52827
title: State of the Commons Highlight: An interview with the filmmakers behind Alike Film
uri: State-of-the-Commons-Highlight-An-interview-with-the-filmmakers-behin
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/24/alike/
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<p><img data-attachment-id="52828" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/24/alike/alike-film/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film.png" data-orig-size="1367,436" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="alike-film" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film-300x96.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film-1024x327.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52828" src="media/cb701611.alike-film-1024x327.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film-1024x327.png" alt="alike-film" width="840" height="268" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film-1024x327.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film-300x96.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film-768x245.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film-125x40.png 125w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film-50x16.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film-270x86.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film-1200x383.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/alike-film.png 1367w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>“Alike” was directed by Daniel Martinez Lara and Rafa Cano Mende, and was made in collaboration with ex Pepe-School-Land students. The film was developed using the open source operating system Linux and Blender, a free and open source 3D creation suite. The film has debuted at 120 festivals and won nearly as many awards.</p>
<h2>Watch Alike:</h2>
<p><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/194276412?color=ece6e5&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;badge=0" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/194276412">Alike short film</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user944467">Pepe School Land</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<h2>Interview with the filmmakers: Rafa Cano Mende and Daniel Martinez Lara</h2>
<p><strong>Alike is a successful film licensed under CC BY-ND made with Blender. What made you decide to license it under CC? How did you work with the Blender community to make your film more successful?</strong></p>
<p>From the beginning, we were clear. After touring for festivals we wanted the short film to be available and free on internet so the message reaches as many people as possible. The CC license is perfect for that reason.</p>
<p>Alike has been our first short film made in Blender entirely, and we are really happy with our decision. It is not the &#8220;free&#8221; that matters. We have become part of the &#8220;Blender Community&#8221; due to the strength of users and programmers – they are always willing to solve and come up with ideas.</p>
<p><strong>You chose to license the graphics under ND and the script under BY. Why did you make that decision? Why did you separate the two?</strong></p>
<p>When we were developing the short film, we wanted to protect the script and characters more traditionally because our work was not finished. When we finished it we wanted to share our project with everybody, and its final form was the Alike short film video, which we shared with a more open license.</p>
<p><strong>Alike is a heartwarming story about the special bond between a father and son as well as the perils of being too busy in an overconnected world. How did you come up with the story?</strong></p>
<p>When you are a father, you usually wonder which will be the best way to raise your children. Alike tries to be a reflection and tries to help you to be aware about letting you go by stress and routine, and always trying to find an answer from the calm.</p>
<p><strong>How did you bring the graphics and the script together so seamlessly?</strong></p>
<p>This convergence is because of Rafa Cano, co-director, art director, and animation supervisor of the film. Cano has had the sensitivity of understanding Alike´s story and designed a world and an animation customized to the story.</p>
<p><strong>You&#8217;ve won a number of awards with this short! How does the commons play into this? Why is it important to be a part of the global commons?</strong></p>
<p>On the tour festival stage, we don&#8217;t know how the commons license has influenced it. But due to the film&#8217;s success, we feel confident to continue sharing films under Commons licenses on the internet.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52834
title: Colombian Court Acquits Diego Gómez of Criminal Charges for Sharing a Research Paper Online
uri: Colombian-Court-Acquits-Diego-Gómez-of-Criminal-Charges-for-Sharing-a
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/24/colombian-court-acquits-diego-gomez-criminal-charges-sharing-research-paper-online/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diego Gómez, the Colombian student who for the last three years has been prosecuted for sharing an academic paper online, has been </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/news/colombian-biologist-cleared-of-criminal-charges-for-posting-another-scientist-s-thesis-online-1.22057"><span style="font-weight: 400;">cleared of criminal charges</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The decision was delivered today by a judge in the Bogotá Circuit Criminal Court. </span></p>
<p>In 2014 Diego was a student in conservation and wildlife management, with poor access to many of the resources and databases that would help him conduct his research. In conducting his research, Diego found and shared a academic paper online so that others could read and learn from it, just as he did. Gómez was prosecuted for copyright infringement, and faced up to eight years in prison.</p>
<p>The decision to clear Diego of criminal charges is an important move in the interest of the public good. Instead of prosecuting students for sharing knowledge, our societies should be encouraging the free exchange of scientific information by reinforcing positive norms around scholarship and collaboration, promoting open access to research, and toning down out of control copyright remedies that serve no reasonable public interest purpose.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even with today’s verdict, Diego’s situation is not over. The prosecutor has appealed the ruling, so the case will continue. Gomez’s defense team plans to launch a crowdfunding campaign to support the cost of defending the appeal. Those who wish to help Diego can sign the following petition and will be notified when the crowdfunding campaign launches: </span><a href="http://www.sharingisnotacrime.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://www.sharingisnotacrime.org</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diego has been supported by individuals and organisations from around the world, with leadership from the Colombian digital rights group </span><a href="https://karisma.org.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fundación Karisma</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52842
title: Creative Commons 4.0 License now in Turkish
uri: Creative-Commons-4-0-License-now-in-Turkish
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/25/creative-commons-4-0-license-now-turkish/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52843" style="width: 597px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52843" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/25/creative-commons-4-0-license-now-turkish/cc-turkey/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cc-turkey-e1495729882720.png" data-orig-size="597,383" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="cc-turkey" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cc-turkey-e1495729882720-300x192.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cc-turkey-e1495729882720.png" class="wp-image-52843 size-full" src="media/b1acacb4.cc-turkey-e1495729882720.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cc-turkey-e1495729882720.png" width="597" height="383" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cc-turkey-e1495729882720.png 597w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cc-turkey-e1495729882720-300x192.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cc-turkey-e1495729882720-62x40.png 62w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cc-turkey-e1495729882720-50x32.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cc-turkey-e1495729882720-242x155.png 242w" sizes="(max-width: 597px) 85vw, 597px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Creative Commons Turkey Team <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BDETLWmqkQj/?taken-by=cc.turkiye">via Instagram</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>We are so pleased to announce that the official translation of CC 4.0 Licenses into Turkish are now available so Turkish speaking communities can use them in their own language.</p>
<p>Public consultation for the translation took place in March 2017 and was coordinated by the Creative Commons Turkey team. Before and after the consultation, intense work has been put into the process including discussions, meetings, cross checking terminologies, proofreading, fine-tuning. Linguists, lawyers, librarians, IT experts and researchers have been involved in the work.</p>
<p>A few people should be named here to thank for special efforts to make this happen. CC Turkey Public Lead Ilkay Holt, Technical Lead Orcun Madran, Legal Partner Serhat Koc (LL.M IT), Legal Partner Selva Kaynak (LL.M IP) lead this work. We would also like to thank to Sirin Tekinay who initiated CC Turkey movement in Turkey and Gultekin Gurdal, Director of IZTECH Library for their great contribution in finalizing the review process.</p>
<p>Creative Commons 4.0 licenses in Turkish is an entry point to a shared, free, and open society in Turkish. Around the world, people are encouraged to produce, share what they produce, reuse, adopt standards and encourage reuse, and open up innovation.</p>
<p>But even more important than using the tools of Creative Commons, adopting open licenses requires a philosophy. &#8220;Openness&#8221; must be contained every step of the way, from the concept of openness to how we create works, where we keep them, how we allow them to be used, and how we should use the works created by others. In all of these steps, openness, transparency, and openness to sharing and an attitude that supports the re-use of our work is important.</p>
<p>With Creative Commons, we embrace the &#8220;some rights reserved&#8221; approach to copyright instead of &#8220;all rights reserved,&#8221; This approach requires copyright reform, in which the conventional-traditional-stereotyped copyright laws leave its place in a structure that will strengthen the creativity of society.</p>
<p>This is an integral part of the cultural, literary, scientific and artistic field we are trying to define through Creative Commons and open license movements and is why the legal texts of Creative Commons licenses are now crucial in Turkish.</p>
<p>This is a milestone achievement for Turkey in the adoption of open licenses, which is an invaluable component of an open society. This will help significantly to improve open policies and share legally. We now invite Turkish commoners to use the CC licenses in Turkish and start sharing.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52850
title: State of the Commons Highlight: Maya Zankoul
uri: State-of-the-Commons-Highlight-Maya-Zankoul
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/25/maya-zankoul-2/
content:
<p><em>This week, we’ll be featuring stories from this year’s <a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/">State of the Commons</a> report, which highlights the impact of our global community by exploring the wide array of creativity and knowledge that is freely available to the world under under CC licenses. Read more about why this report <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/state-of-the-commons-2016/">marks our biggest year yet.</a> </em></p>
<p>In November 2016, we <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/23/maya-zankoul/">interviewed</a> the Lebanese artist Maya Zankoul about her impact as a CC creator. We were thrilled to feature her work in this year’s State of the Commons.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="52851" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/25/maya-zankoul-2/maya_zankoul/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maya_zankoul.png" data-orig-size="998,720" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="maya_zankoul" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maya_zankoul-300x216.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maya_zankoul.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-52851" src="media/77998f41.maya_zankoul.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maya_zankoul.png" alt="maya-zankoul" width="998" height="720" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maya_zankoul.png 998w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maya_zankoul-300x216.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maya_zankoul-768x554.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maya_zankoul-55x40.png 55w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maya_zankoul-50x36.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maya_zankoul-215x155.png 215w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zankoul’s first book, Amalgam, was published in 2009 under a CC BY-NC license. The book sprung from her popular web comic exploring life, work, and art in Beirut and beyond.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zankoul’s work touches on the connections between cultures with illustrations shaped by her rich, artistic world. Her newest book, Beirut – New York, was published this autumn.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>“I find that my illustrations allow people to see things differently. It allows them to step outside the status quo.” – Maya Zankoul</p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52856
title: State of the Commons Highlight: Dr. Amin Azzam
uri: State-of-the-Commons-Highlight-Dr-Amin-Azzam
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/26/state-commons-highlight-dr-amin-azzam/
content:
<p><em>This week, we’re featuring stories from this year’s <a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/">State of the Commons</a> report, which highlights the impact of our global community by exploring the wide array of creativity and knowledge that is freely available to the world under under CC licenses. Read more about why this report <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/state-of-the-commons-2016/">marks our biggest year yet.</a> </em></p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="52857" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/26/state-commons-highlight-dr-amin-azzam/amin_azzam/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/amin_azzam-e1495833063837.png" data-orig-size="1727,854" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="amin_azzam" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/amin_azzam-e1495833063837-300x148.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/amin_azzam-e1495833063837-1024x506.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-52857 size-large" src="media/0d7822b3.amin_azzam-e1495833063837-1024x506.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/amin_azzam-e1495833063837-1024x506.png" alt="amin-azzam" width="840" height="415" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/amin_azzam-e1495833063837-1024x506.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/amin_azzam-e1495833063837-300x148.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/amin_azzam-e1495833063837-768x380.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/amin_azzam-e1495833063837-81x40.png 81w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/amin_azzam-e1495833063837-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/amin_azzam-e1495833063837-270x134.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/amin_azzam-e1495833063837-1200x593.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>Supported by the Wiki Education Foundation, Azzam created a course for the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program that encourages and supports medical students in their efforts to edit Wikipedia articles on health-related topics. The impact of these students’ work is described in a research article entitled, “<a href="http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Citation/2017/02000/Why_Medical_Schools_Should_Embrace_Wikipedia__.22.aspx" target="_blank">Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia: Final-Year Medical Student Contributions to Wikipedia Articles for Academic Credit at One School</a>,” which was published in Academic Medicine, a top academic medical journal.</p>
<p>Medical and health-related articles on Wikipedia are among the top articles viewed by the general public. The articles edited and improved by the medical students in Dr. Azzam’s course were viewed 1.1 million times during the two months that the students were actively editing the articles. The 42 articles have been collectively viewed over 22 million times over the past year.</p>
<p>Azzam’s work established a course based solely on open educational practice, which resulted in new works being added to the commons and existing works being adapted via Wikipedia.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52875
title: The World Theatre Map: A digital commons for the global theatre community
uri: The-World-Theatre-Map-A-digital-commons-for-the-global-theatre-commun
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/30/world-theater-map/
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<p><em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/10/howlround/">Read our previous interview with the Howlround organizers</a></em></p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="52876" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/30/world-theater-map/world-theatre-map/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/World-Theatre-Map.png" data-orig-size="1055,766" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="World Theatre Map" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/World-Theatre-Map-300x218.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/World-Theatre-Map-1024x743.png" class="aligncenter  wp-image-52876" src="media/77dfb1c2.World-Theatre-Map-1024x743.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/World-Theatre-Map-1024x743.png" alt="" width="789" height="572" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/World-Theatre-Map-1024x743.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/World-Theatre-Map-300x218.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/World-Theatre-Map-768x558.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/World-Theatre-Map-55x40.png 55w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/World-Theatre-Map-50x36.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/World-Theatre-Map-213x155.png 213w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/World-Theatre-Map.png 1055w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.howlround.com/">HowlRound</a> is a non-profit knowledge commons by and for the theatre community based at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. We are a free and open platform that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connection between diverse practitioners. One way we aim to connect the global theatre community is through a new free and open tool called <a href="http://www.worldtheatremap.org/">the World Theatre Map</a>. We created the World Theatre Map to try and solve a consistent and persistent problem in the theatre field— the isolation between theatre-makers and practice, especially across national borders.</p>
<p>Theatre knowledge is often limited to how “connected” one is within the field, or else it’s information diffuse or behind a paywall. We wanted to make something that could connect theatre-makers to each other absent of hierarchy or resource, and that could share information openly about what theatre is happening where and when, as well as information about the creative teams behind the work. The result is the first version of The World Theatre Map, which launched in January and is currently in a public beta period.</p>
<p><strong>Why does it matter? </strong><strong><br />
</strong>What if we could find ways to more efficiently share resources in the theatre field? What if theatre-makers could self-organize around areas of interest or identity, no matter their geography? What impact would that have on the art that is made? Could the theatre become more relevant to our cultural and political discourse? Could we build more empathy in our world? Could we build a better world?</p>
<p><strong><img data-attachment-id="52877" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/30/world-theater-map/mapa-mundial-de-teatro/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro.png" data-orig-size="1034,745" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Mapa Mundial de Teatro" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro-300x216.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro-1024x738.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52877" src="media/5feb82d5.Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro-1024x738.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro-1024x738.png" alt="" width="840" height="605" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro-1024x738.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro-300x216.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro-768x553.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro-56x40.png 56w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro-50x36.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro-215x155.png 215w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mapa-Mundial-de-Teatro.png 1034w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><br />
What is it?</strong></p>
<p>The World Theatre Map is a user-generated directory and real time map of the global theatre community. It’s a digital <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production">commons</a>, free and open to all.</p>
<p><strong>Who is it for?</strong></p>
<p>It’s for all types of theatre-makers, theatre companies, and theatre institutions around the world, and anyone interested in theatre as an art form.</p>
<p><strong>What can I use it for?</strong></p>
<p>Anyone can create a user account to contribute (or edit) information on the World Theatre Map. You can create a profiles for individual theatre-makers and/or organizations. These profiles will immediately become a part of the searchable directory. You can add information about specific theatre events and the show profile will link together these events to display the production history of that piece. You can search the ever-growing directory to discover and connect to organizations, people, shows, and events. You can see what theatre is happening today around the world. You can read and watch HowlRound content related to a person or organization on the World Theatre Map.</p>
<p>For folks who feel compelled to participate more deeply in this global endeavor, we’ve recently issued a call for World Theatre Map Ambassadors to help enhance our outreach efforts and more importantly, to begin shaping the future of this map and its functionality.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52878" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/30/world-theater-map/wtm-gif/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/wtm-gif-e1496165539145.gif" data-orig-size="535,387" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="wtm-gif" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/wtm-gif-e1496165539145-300x217.gif" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/wtm-gif-e1496165539145.gif" class="aligncenter wp-image-52878" src="media/56f9e66e.wtm-gif.gif" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/wtm-gif.gif" alt="wtm-gif" width="716" height="464" /></p>
<p><strong>What’s Next</strong></p>
<p>We are using this public beta period to solicit feedback from the field about what is working, what should be improved, as well as future features that could be useful. This <a href="https://worldtheatremap.useresponse.com/">feedback</a> will shape Version 2 World Theatre Map. This version is in English and Spanish and we hope to expand to more languages in the future.</p>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/30/world-theater-map/">The World Theatre Map: A digital commons for the global theatre community</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


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title: The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra: a new CC cultural resource from the Getty
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<p><em>We&#8217;re excited to share this post from Mikka Gee Conway and Uma Nair of the Getty, which describes the history and curation of the remarkable new online exhibit, <a href="http://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/palmyra/">The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra.</a> The Getty&#8217;s exhibit, the first of its kind, is part of ongoing global efforts to call attention to the continued destruction of one of the world&#8217;s most important heritage sites due to the ongoing Syrian conflict.</em></p>
<p><em>In April, Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/new-palmyra/">unveiled a collaboration</a> with <a href="http://www.newpalmyra.org/">#NEWPALMYRA</a> and <a href="https://re3d.org/">re:3D</a> at the CC Summit, a large scale rendering of one of the <a href="http://primo.getty.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=GRI&amp;afterPDS=true&amp;institution=01GRI&amp;docId=GETTY_ROSETTAIE1521557">destroyed Palmyra tetrapyla.</a></em></p>
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<p>On February 8, 2017, the Getty Research Institute (GRI) in Los Angeles unveiled its first online-only exhibition, <a href="http://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/palmyra/"><em>The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra</em></a>. Featuring over one hundred images primarily drawn from the Special Collections of the GRI, the exhibition explores Palmyra’s early history, its influence on Western art and culture, and the tragic loss of what is left of its ancient ruins amid the devastating ongoing war in Syria. Most of the images, and all of the texts, included in the online presentation are licensed under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License</a> (CC BY).</p>
<figure id="attachment_52884" style="width: 588px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52884" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/31/legacy-ancient-palmyra-new-cc-cultural-resource-getty/temple-of-baal-shamin/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-baal-shamin.jpg" data-orig-size="3000,2394" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;IQ180&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1444997250&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666673547467&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Temple of baal shamin" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-baal-shamin-300x239.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-baal-shamin-1024x817.jpg" class="wp-image-52884" src="media/6afaf774.Temple-of-baal-shamin-300x239.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-baal-shamin-300x239.jpg" alt="temple-of-baal-shamin" width="588" height="468" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-baal-shamin-300x239.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-baal-shamin-768x613.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-baal-shamin-1024x817.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-baal-shamin-50x40.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-baal-shamin-194x155.jpg 194w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-baal-shamin-1200x958.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 588px) 85vw, 588px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Temple of Baalshamin, Louis Vignes, 1864. Albumen print. 8.8 x 11.4 in. (22.5 x 29 cm). The Getty Research Institute, <a href="http://primo.getty.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=GRI&amp;afterPDS=true&amp;institution=01GRI&amp;docId=GETTY_ROSETTAIE1521557">2015.R.15</a></figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_52883" style="width: 587px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52883" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/31/legacy-ancient-palmyra-new-cc-cultural-resource-getty/temple-of-bel/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-Bel.jpg" data-orig-size="3000,2383" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;IQ180&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1444996036&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666673547467&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Temple of Bel" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-Bel-300x238.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-Bel-1024x813.jpg" class="wp-image-52883" src="media/8c6ff8c2.Temple-of-Bel-300x238.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-Bel-300x238.jpg" alt="temple-of-bel" width="587" height="466" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-Bel-300x238.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-Bel-768x610.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-Bel-1024x813.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-Bel-50x40.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-Bel-195x155.jpg 195w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Temple-of-Bel-1200x953.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 587px) 85vw, 587px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Temple of Bel, Louis Vignes, 1864. Albumen print. 8.8 x 11.4 in. (22.5 x 29 cm). The Getty Research Institute, 2015.R.15</figcaption></figure>
<p>The core of the exhibition comes from two bodies of work in the GRI’s Special Collections by 18th- and 19th-century Frenchmen who visited Palmyra: etchings by artist and architect Louis-François Cassas, made in 1785 as part of a diplomatic mission to the Ottoman Empire; and photographs made in 1864 by sea</p>
<p>captain-turned-photographer Louis Vignes as part of a scientific expedition to the Middle East. These collections include the first photographs of the ancient monuments of Palmyra, illustrating the Temple of Baalshamin, the Temple of Bel, the Monumental Arch, and the Tetrapylon, destroyed in 2015 and 2017 by ISIS.</p>
<p>Curators Frances Terpak and Peter Bonfitto, along with the rest of the exhibition team, wanted not only to give viewers a broader historical perspective on Palmyra, a city with a particularly rich and poignant history, but also to create a free visual resource enabling anyone with an internet connection to have digital access to these rare, unpublished materials and accompanying scholarly discussion.</p>
<p>With a goal of offering the same depth and breadth of material as an on-site gallery exhibition, <em>The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra</em> contains 108 images, including 20 “loan objects” from other institutions, and more than 18,000 words of peer-reviewed scholarly text. The majority of the images can be downloaded and feature a “zoom” tool. Created as an informative experience for the general public and a research tool for scholars, <em>The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra</em> includes a resource page which provides links and further readings on both the history of the site and current events.</p>
<p>In building this exhibition, some of the questions we asked ourselves were: how do we take a visitor’s gallery experience–such as looking closely at an object and then standing back in the middle of the room for a different perspective–and translate this to desktop, tablet, and mobile devices? How do we translate an ancient city plan into an interactive and user-friendly digital platform? To answer these questions, our core working group, each bringing different areas of expertise, brainstormed ideas, did rapid sketching exercises, and tested with our three core audiences: (1) an international scholarly audience; (2) “enthusiasts,” whom we defined as the culturally curious but not subject-matter experts; and (3) teachers and students seeking credible sources of information on the region and on ancient history, political science, cultural heritage, and the arts generally</p>
<p>On the design side, our visual designers worked very closely with the curators to gain a very deep understanding of the intellectual component of the material and what the curators wanted to convey. They also used the original material as inspiration to visually present a connection between the 18th and 19th century materials and bring them into our 21st-century digital environment.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52888" style="width: 826px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52888" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/31/legacy-ancient-palmyra-new-cc-cultural-resource-getty/original-material/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Original-material.png" data-orig-size="826,516" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Original material" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Original-material-300x187.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Original-material.png" class="size-full wp-image-52888" src="media/95e96937.Original-material.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Original-material.png" alt="curator-with-book" width="826" height="516" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Original-material.png 826w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Original-material-300x187.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Original-material-768x480.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Original-material-64x40.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Original-material-50x31.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Original-material-248x155.png 248w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Curators and the visual designers leaf through pages of The ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart (London, 1753) by Robert Wood at the Getty Research Institute’s Special Collections and Reading Room.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Through a Visual Design Workshop, our team and stakeholders developed a common language and a set of visual cues for what we wanted the user experience to be like.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52891" style="width: 871px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52891" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/31/legacy-ancient-palmyra-new-cc-cultural-resource-getty/palmyra-visual-experience/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Palmyra-Visual-Experience.png" data-orig-size="871,566" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Palmyra Visual Experience" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Palmyra-Visual-Experience-300x195.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Palmyra-Visual-Experience.png" class="size-full wp-image-52891" src="media/70e3cf32.Palmyra-Visual-Experience.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Palmyra-Visual-Experience.png" alt="palmyra-visual" width="871" height="566" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Palmyra-Visual-Experience.png 871w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Palmyra-Visual-Experience-300x195.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Palmyra-Visual-Experience-768x499.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Palmyra-Visual-Experience-62x40.png 62w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Palmyra-Visual-Experience-50x32.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Palmyra-Visual-Experience-239x155.png 239w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Snapshot of keywords from the Palmyra Visual Experience Workshop revealed that the team wanted the online experience to be elegant and immersive and not feel commercial or old-<br />timey.</figcaption></figure>
<p>On the rights side, we knew from the outset that we wanted to publish <em>The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra</em> as openly as possible. The J. Paul Getty Trust, of which the GRI is part, was established for “the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge.” The Getty has long been committed to creating and disseminating knowledge in the fields in which it works. More recently we have embraced open access principles, and are committed to providing, wherever possible, free, unrestricted, digital access to the resources we own and produce. For example, our <a href="http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/open-content-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/">Open Content Initiative</a> launched in 2013 and offers free, unrestricted, high-resolution <a href="http://search.getty.edu/gateway/search?cat=highlight&amp;f=%22Open+Content+Images%22&amp;rows=10&amp;srt=a&amp;dir=s&amp;pg=1">images</a> from the collections of the GRI and the J. Paul Getty Museum—at last count, 114,000 images and growing. We publish textual information on the Getty Museum’s <a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/268843/edouard-manet-jeanne-spring-french-1881/">online collections pages</a> and the Getty’s <a href="http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/getty-blog-creative-commons/">blog</a> under CC BY, as we did with two new online catalogues on the Getty Museum’s collections of <a href="http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/">Roman mosaics</a> and <a href="http://www.getty.edu/publications/terracottas/">ancient terracottas</a>. Both the GRI and the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) have developed open-source software projects to serve their audiences, including <a href="http://www.getty.edu/research/scholars/digital_art_history/getty_scholars_workspace/index.html">Getty Scholar’s Workspace</a>®, the GRI’s collaborative research tool, and the GCI’s <a href="http://archesproject.org/open-source/">Arches</a>™ software platform, a geospatially-based information system for inventorying immovable cultural heritage. Research resources maintained by the GRI are also available under open licenses, including datasets from the <a href="https://github.com/gettyopendata/provenance-index-csv">Getty Provenance Index</a>® and the <a href="http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/lod/index.html">Getty Vocabularies</a>, many of which are available as Linked Open Data under Open Data Commons licenses. In addition, the Getty Foundation has just published <a href="https://www.getty.edu/publications/osci-report/">Museum Catalogues in the Digital Age</a>, the final report on its Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative, under CC BY.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52890" style="width: 324px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="52890" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/31/legacy-ancient-palmyra-new-cc-cultural-resource-getty/osci2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OSCI2.png" data-orig-size="1020,1202" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="OSCI2" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OSCI2-255x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OSCI2-869x1024.png" class=" wp-image-52890" src="media/d28014a0.OSCI2.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OSCI2.png" alt="museum-catalogues-digital" width="324" height="382" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OSCI2.png 1020w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OSCI2-255x300.png 255w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OSCI2-768x905.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OSCI2-869x1024.png 869w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OSCI2-34x40.png 34w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OSCI2-42x50.png 42w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OSCI2-132x155.png 132w" sizes="(max-width: 324px) 85vw, 324px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Museum Catalogues in the Digital Age: A Final Report on the Getty Foundation’s Online<br />Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) is licensed, with a few exceptions, under CC-BY.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Given the nature of the vast majority of the source material for <em>Palmyra</em>—public domain artwork owned by the GRI and texts written by GRI staff—we knew it would be possible to apply a CC BY license to most if not all of it. Unfortunately we were not able to secure permissions from the “lenders” to apply CC BY to their objects, with the exception of the <a href="https://images.nga.gov/en/page/openaccess.html">National Gallery of Art in Washington</a>, which like the Getty makes its public domain collections images freely available. But with a clearly written image credits section and targeted use of the Creative Commons machine-readable code, we were able to identify for human and machine readers which parts of the exhibition are not part of the open license.</p>
<p>The exhibition has received much positive coverage and feedback from around the world, including from a teacher who planned to use the exhibition in the classroom for a lesson on Palmyra. We’re pleased to have created another cultural and educational resource that is freely available to all who can access it – please come visit the site and let us know what you think. We hope there will be robust re-use and repurposing of this content, and we will continue to look for ways that the Getty can add to the world’s cultural commons.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52887" style="width: 609px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52887" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/31/legacy-ancient-palmyra-new-cc-cultural-resource-getty/fb-feedback-detail/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FB-feedback-detail.png" data-orig-size="609,700" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="FB feedback detail" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FB-feedback-detail-261x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FB-feedback-detail.png" class="size-full wp-image-52887" src="media/06d08144.FB-feedback-detail.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FB-feedback-detail.png" alt="facebook-feedback" width="609" height="700" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FB-feedback-detail.png 609w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FB-feedback-detail-261x300.png 261w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FB-feedback-detail-35x40.png 35w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FB-feedback-detail-44x50.png 44w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FB-feedback-detail-135x155.png 135w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">A snapshot of one of the many responses received on social media about the relevance of the online exhibition in today’s world.</figcaption></figure>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52899
title: Announcing Paola Villareal as Director of Product Engineering
uri: Announcing-Paola-Villareal-as-Director-of-Product-Engineering
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/01/announcing-paola-villareal-director-product-engineering/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52900" style="width: 270px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="52900" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/01/announcing-paola-villareal-director-product-engineering/paola_selfie/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie.jpg" data-orig-size="640,640" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="paola_selfie" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie-300x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie.jpg" class=" wp-image-52900" src="media/977159d9.paola_selfie.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie.jpg" alt="paola-photo" width="270" height="270" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/paola_selfie-128x128.jpg 128w" sizes="(max-width: 270px) 85vw, 270px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Paola Villareal, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p>I’m thrilled to announce that Paola Villarreal will be joining the Creative Commons team as Director of Product Engineering. She will lead the development of CC’s tools to create a more vibrant, usable commons, beginning with CC Search.</p>
<p>This is an important hire for Creative Commons, and it was important we find someone with the talent, curiosity, and values needed to lead our technical work in a global movement.</p>
<p>Villarreal is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center of Harvard University and a former Mozilla Open Web fellow. A self-taught systems programmer and accomplished open advocate, Paola’s research as a Berkman Fellow focuses on the relationship between data and justice, aiming to strengthen access and reduce inequality by developing data tools that inform the work of advocates, activists, community organizers, lawyers, and journalists and their communities. In her 2015-16 Mozilla Open Web Fellowship, she worked at ACLU of Massachusetts on social justice projects that heavily rely on open technology and data.</p>
<p>Villarreal previously worked at Xamarin Inc as a iOS Developer and was the Director of Technologic Innovation at Mexico City&#8217;s Innovation Lab (Laboratorio para la Ciudad), where she ran the Code for Mexico City Fellowship and designed and implemented the Data Lab, an Open Data portal with an API. While working as the systems administrator for Mexico&#8217;s President&#8217;s Office, she was part of the team that first proposed the usage of CC&#8217;s licenses as best practice for governmental websites. In addition to her professional work, Paola has been involved with the Creative Commons Mexico Community since 2005 and blogs about her work at <a href="http://paw.mx/">Paw.mx</a>.</p>
<p>With over 17 years experience, Villarreal brings a wealth of knowledge to CC as a long-time advocate for public access to information, an open source veteran and community builder, and a talented programmer and data scientist with a history of work for social justice causes ranging from community over-policing to solving local transportation issues. Read a profile of Paola’s work in the <a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/01/sifting-data-seeking-justice/">Harvard Gazette,</a> and learn more about her work in her presentation on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4uPne3o9tc">“Public Interest Data Science”</a> at the Harvard Law School.</p>
<p>Paola is originally from Mexico City and is currently based in Boston, MA. She will join us in June, and we want to give her a warm welcome to the CC Community. Welcome, Paola!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52904
title: Independent cinema for Brazil and beyond: How Canal o Cubo inspires media makers around the world
uri: Independent-cinema-for-Brazil-and-beyond-How-Canal-o-Cubo-inspires-me
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/01/canal-o-cubo/
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<p><img data-attachment-id="52905" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/01/canal-o-cubo/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o.jpg" data-orig-size="1192,1192" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-300x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-1024x1024.jpg" class="aligncenter wp-image-52905 size-large" src="media/932ccd0a.15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-1024x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-1024x1024.jpg" alt="canal-o-cubo-logo" width="840" height="840" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-768x768.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o-128x128.jpg 128w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15003353_920370438095365_1894583564907371461_o.jpg 1192w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><a href="https://www.canalocubo.com/">Canal O Cubo</a> is a popular Brazilian platform for independent Creative Commons licensed films and the promotion of Brazilian multimedia production. In 2014, they produced <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_muHE2BRTbs">“Eu Te Amo Renato,”</a> the first full length Creative Commons film on the Brazilian internet. This year’s spinoff is an LGBT focused web series called <a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/todotempodomundo/214057687">“Todo o Tempo do Mundo,”</a> which won best <span>drama webseries and best directing of a dramatic webseries at the international <a href="http://www.riowebfest.net/index.php/home/riowf16/#winners">Rio Webfest</a> this year.</span> They produce collaborative content through their short movie production program called <a href="https://www.canalocubo.com/faa-um-curta">Make a Short!/Faça um Curta!</a> as well serve as a diverse content aggregator of Documentaries, Originals, Video Art, Animation, and more – all with CC licensing as the backbone. By solving the distribution issue for Brazilian filmmakers, they are able to better support a variety of independent artists around Brazil and contribute to an ecosystem of Brazilian independent media.</p>
<p>In addition to their content collection, the small team runs a <a href="https://www.canalocubo.com/festival-o-cubo--padrao">yearly festival,</a> which just celebrated its fourth anniversary in Rio de Janeiro in May. Director Fabiano Cafure spoke with Creative Commons about this year’s festival and the challenges and success that he faces as an independent media maker in Brazil.</p>
<p><strong>Congratulations on this year&#8217;s Festival o Cubo! What was this year like? What kinds of films did you enjoy screening most? What themes have emerged within the festival?</strong></p>
<p>Each year is a surprise for us in terms of what we will receive from the independent scene. This year we had an increase in fiction movies and we were also able to observe how the medium format is coming back to the scene in internet productions because most of the independent filmmakers do not have the budget to use traditional mainstream movie distribution. Last year we had a greater amount of documentaries.</p>
<p><strong>Why did you begin Canal o Cubo? What is the reason for creating a platform and festival such as this one?</strong></p>
<p>Canal O Cubo came to life after years trying to understand the movement of internet and its advantages for independent distribution using existing platforms such as Youtube and public licenses such as Creative Commons. We understood that we needed to go that way in order to have a wider and bigger voice, but not before establishing a network of Brazilian producer to come together – and we did. The festival came as a result of the channel we created.</p>
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<p><strong>What have been the challenges behind Canal o Cubo? How have you explained the CC licensing to the artists you work with?</strong></p>
<p>The challenges are basic: we have a lack of money to make it grow and invest. We are only three people to make all it work. Until now we were able to unify lots of producers from all over the country in order to have a good amount of titles to play for free. It takes time for people and other companies to see you and your work, which is serious work. We are getting there and Creative Commons is very important in that process. Sergio Branco has been a great mentor to us and a great help to better explain the definition and benefits from CC. The artists are getting more open to the idea but it takes time to break paradigms.</p>
<p><strong>What has it been like to produce a popular web series under CC? What kinds of stories are you looking to tell?</strong></p>
<p>It has helped us to reach out to our public. I usually say that CC is like a domino: you may not profit from a specific work under CC but it sures comes around as it helps to show your work. It has been proven to me by experience. I usually tell stories about people around me and my perspective of life, so in the end it is about life, specially about those who have no voice.</p>
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<p><strong>What&#8217;s next for you, both in terms of content and how you want Canal o Cubo to grow?</strong></p>
<p>I enjoy being a person who facilitates understanding on how to produce with low or no budget at all. I love teaching the process of filmmaking. As far as Canal O Cubo, we are working on it becoming one the best Brazilian independent movie platforms as well as a reference in producing and distributing.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52906" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/01/canal-o-cubo/screen-shot-2017-06-01-at-3-42-12-pm/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM.png" data-orig-size="1263,213" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2017-06-01 at 3.42.12 PM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM-300x51.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM-1024x173.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52906" src="media/4ceecaef.Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM-1024x173.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM-1024x173.png" alt="canal-o-cubo" width="840" height="142" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM-1024x173.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM-300x51.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM-768x130.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM-140x24.png 140w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM-50x8.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM-270x46.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM-1200x202.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-01-at-3.42.12-PM.png 1263w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
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uri: Dozens-of-organizations-call-on-European-Parliament-to-redouble-effort
title:
Dozens of organizations call on European Parliament to redouble efforts for progressive copyright changes

url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/02/dozens-organizations-call-european-parliament-redouble-efforts-progressive-copyright-changes/

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<figure style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52912" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/02/dozens-organizations-call-european-parliament-redouble-efforts-progressive-copyright-changes/mikael-kristenson-242108-small/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mikael-kristenson-242108-small.png" data-orig-size="2044,1360" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="mikael-kristenson-242108-small" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mikael-kristenson-242108-small-300x200.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mikael-kristenson-242108-small-1024x681.png" class="wp-image-52912 size-large" src="media/7a9ffd3e.mikael-kristenson-242108-small-1024x681.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mikael-kristenson-242108-small-1024x681.png" width="840" height="559" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mikael-kristenson-242108-small-1024x681.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mikael-kristenson-242108-small-300x200.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mikael-kristenson-242108-small-768x511.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mikael-kristenson-242108-small-60x40.png 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mikael-kristenson-242108-small-50x33.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mikael-kristenson-242108-small-233x155.png 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mikael-kristenson-242108-small-1200x798.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/6GjHwABuci4">&#8220;Tools in order&#8221;</a> by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@mikael_k"> Mikael Kristenson</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/">Unsplash</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">But one European political party wants to weaponize the worst parts of the copyright plan</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week, Creative Commons and over 60 organisations sent an open </span><a href="media/f7a74285.29May_OpenLetter_Council.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/2/26/29May_OpenLetter_Council.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">letter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> urging European lawmakers to “put the copyright reform back on the right track”. The letter criticizes the Commission’s lackluster proposal for a </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-directive-european-parliament-and-council-copyright-digital-single-market"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and calls on the Parliament and Council to spearhead crucial changes that promote creativity and business opportunities, enable research and education, and protect user rights in the digital market. From the letter:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>The lawfulness of everyday activities depends on being able to count on a clear legal framework allowing companies to do business across the EU, individuals to access and use cultural goods, researchers to collaborate across borders using the latest technologies, and creators to be remunerated and contribute to Europe’s rich cultural heritage. This clear legal framework implies that the limitation of intermediaries’ liability must be upheld in EU law.</p></blockquote>
<p>The letter highlights two aspects of the Commission’s proposal that are wholly detrimental to creativity and access to information in the EU. First, it calls for the removal of the new right that would permit press publishers to extract fees from search engines for incorporating short snippets of—or even linking to—their content (Article 11). This would undermine the intention of authors who wish to share without additional strings attached, including Creative Commons licenses. Second, it urges lawmakers to delete the provision that would require Internet platforms to proactively monitor user uploaded content in order to identify and remove copyright infringing content (Article 13).</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The letter was signed by stakeholders representing publishers, journalists, libraries, scientific and research institutions, consumers, digital rights groups, technology businesses, educational institutions and creator representatives. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While these organisations have been advocating for positive changes to support the public interest and fair rules for creators, a faction of the European Parliament is proposing alternative amendments to the Commission’s plan that would not only retain the harmful ancillary copyright and upload filtering mechanisms, but make them much, much worse. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Days after we sent our open letter, we learned that the European People’s Party (EPP) is considering </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2017/05/31/worst-version-eu-copyright-reform-proposal-yet-thinly-veiled-compromise/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“compromise amendments”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that could be introduced in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. The changes would further extend the ancillary copyright to last for 50 years (instead of the originally-planned 20), and would also apply to offline uses (original proposal only covered digital). Perhaps most strikingly, their “compromise” would grant protection to academic publications (specifically left out in the Commission’s plan). This would mean that users of scientific and scholarly journal articles would be forced to ask permission or pay fees for including short snippets of a research paper in another publication. This type of arrangement is completely antithetical to longstanding norms in scientific research and scholarly communications. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Regarding upload filtering, the EPP’s proposed changes would remove the liability protections granted to online platforms if that services does anything above and beyond simply displaying user-uploaded content. This would mean that platforms would be forced to heavily filter content, or acquire licenses to protect themselves against the copyright infringement liability passed on by its users. </span></p>
<p><b>The vote in the Internal Market Committee is scheduled for 9 June (next week!). If you’re in the EU, </b><a href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/05/alternative-compromise/"><b>now is the time to act</b></a><b>. Tell your MEP to say no to these false compromises. Contact an MEP from your country </b><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/imco/members.html"><b>who sits on the IMCO Committee</b></a><b> and tell them you expect them to support MEP Stihler’s compromise amendments on the copyright file. A phone call takes no more than a few minutes and can prove very effective. Internet rights NGO </b><a href="https://www.bof.nl/"><b><i>Bits of Freedom</i></b></a><b> has created a handy tool that allows you to </b><a href="https://savethememe.net/en"><b>call MEPs for free</b></a><b>.</b></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/02/dozens-organizations-call-european-parliament-redouble-efforts-progressive-copyright-changes/">Dozens of organizations call on European Parliament to redouble efforts for progressive copyright changes</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52915
title: CC is more Awesome than ever
uri: CC-is-more-Awesome-than-ever
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/02/cc-awesome-ever/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC’s community consists of hundreds of individuals and organisations doing awesome stuff worldwide – from spreading the word about licensing to offering specific advice for creators and users, showcasing all aspects of open culture, and influencing policy makers around to globe to encourage them to adopt more open policies. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When we set up the Awesome Fund last year, we wanted to provide microfunding for this wide variety of activities. In the end, we received almost 40 applications &#8211; you can find the full overview of all projects we funded on our </span><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CCisAwesome"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wiki</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Some projects haven’t finished yet, so this page will be regularly updated. On social media, look for #CCisAwesome for updates on ongoing projects.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51706" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="51706" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/29/francocar/screen-shot-2016-11-29-at-11-54-39-am/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM.png" data-orig-size="1090,946" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="screen-shot-2016-11-29-at-11-54-39-am" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-300x260.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-1024x889.png" class="size-large wp-image-51706" src="media/0d43460c.Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-1024x889.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-1024x889.png" alt="francocar-workshop" width="840" height="729" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-1024x889.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-300x260.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-768x667.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-46x40.png 46w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-50x43.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-179x155.png 179w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM.png 1090w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">CC Francocar workshop</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The projects were diverse and exciting, with a number of teams using the funds to strengthen their own team or connect with others. Some highlights:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Belarus and CC Ukraine got together to create </span><a href="https://wiki.falanster.info/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0"><span style="font-weight: 400;">workflows for CC integration</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and to discuss on how to target creative communities to inform them about CC. CC UK and Ireland collaborated for a </span><a href="https://creativecommons-ie.blogspot.be/2017/02/event-creative-commons-for-startups.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">workshop on CC for start-ups</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/29/francocar/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FRANCOCAR supported a range of events in the french speaking West African countries</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. CC Columbia, Chile, Uruguay and El Salvador collaborated on a </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-538674016/se-oye-libre-audiocarta-chile"><span style="font-weight: 400;">series of podcasts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> highlighting Latin-American champions of open culture.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_52916" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52916" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/02/cc-awesome-ever/cc-ireland/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland.jpg" data-orig-size="1600,1066" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Conor McCabe&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Conor McCabe Photography&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="cc-ireland" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland-1024x682.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-52916" src="media/38194886.cc-ireland-1024x682.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland-1024x682.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="559" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-ireland.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">CC Ireland at the CC for Startups event</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some teams used to funds to travel to difficult to reach areas in their own countries: The Mongolian CC team used the funds to travel to the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/07/awesome-fund-workshop-promote-national-culture-language-buryat-republic-russia/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">remote Buryat region to talk</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> about CC as a tool for local empowerment and to promote local culture. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/21/tanzania-awesome-fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Tanzania gave an advocacy training in the Iringa region</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51612" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="51612" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/21/tanzania-awesome-fund/dsc_0667/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667.jpg" data-orig-size="4928,3264" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;14&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1475200243&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="dsc_0667" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-300x199.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-1024x678.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-51612" src="media/2a723790.DSC_0667-1024x678.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-1024x678.jpg" alt="cc-tanzania" width="840" height="556" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-300x199.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-768x509.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-234x155.jpg 234w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-1200x795.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">CC Tanzania Training</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC is committed to supporting the Public Domain and promoting open policies and open culture: CC Argentina and CC Chile created a </span><a href="http://autores.uy/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal"><span style="font-weight: 400;">database of authors in the public domain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. CC Israel </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/10/public-domain-day-israel/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">organised an event to celebrate Public Domain Day and Fair Use Week</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/04/open-mean-nigeria-reflections-nigerian-roundtable/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Nigeria organised a round table session on Creative Commons for policy makers and the copyright commission in Lagos</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Creative Commons Portugal created a live performance and an </span><a href="https://copywrong-cc.tumblr.com/about"><span style="font-weight: 400;">accompanying site</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> about copyright (and copywrongs) in the performing arts, while</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/27/watch-listen-celebration-freedom-sharing-indonesia/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> CC Indonesia showcased CC licensed music on an event promoting Free Culture and the joy of sharing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxhVWVsyl80rT2lBSWM1X2FDME0/view"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Ghana even organised their first ever CC Salon!</span></a></p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JPUwCPlXNfI" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having now left my position as Regional Coordinator for Europe, it is with great pride and joy I look back on the Awesome Fund projects. The amount and quality of applications, and the brilliant display of creativity and dedication that they showcase have been truly inspiring. The Creative Commons community is alive and kicking &#8211; and ready for the next phase with the ongoing network reform process.</span></p>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/02/cc-awesome-ever/">CC is more Awesome than ever</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52925
title: Open Licensing and Open Education Licensing Policy
uri: Open-Licensing-and-Open-Education-Licensing-Policy
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/05/open-education/
content:
<p id="ce17" class="graf graf--h3 graf--leading graf--title">The new book <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science,</em> edited by Rajiv Jhangiani and Robert Biswas-Diener, features the work of open advocates around the world, including Cable Green, Director of Open Education at Creative Commons. This excerpt from his chapter, “Open Licensing and Open Education Licensing Policy,” provides a summary of open licensing for education, as well as delves into the philosophical and technical underpinnings of his work in “open.”</p>
<p id="4c6f" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Read and download the entire book via <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/10.5334/bbc/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-href="http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/10.5334/bbc/">Ubiquity Press</a> and follow Cable on Twitter <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://twitter.com/cgreen" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-href="https://twitter.com/cgreen">@cgreen</a>.</p>
<h3 id="c78f" class="graf graf--h3 graf-after--p">Open Licensing</h3>
<p id="52ed" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3">Long before the internet was conceived, copyright law regulated the very activities the internet, cheap disc space and cloud computing make essentially free (copying, storing, and distributing). Consequently, the internet was born at a severe disadvantage, as preexisting copyright laws discouraged the public from realizing the full potential of the network.</p>
<p id="3592" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Since the invention of the internet, copyright law has been ‘strengthened’ to further restrict the public’s legal rights to copy and share on the internet. For example, in 2012 the US Supreme Court on upheld the US Congress’s right to extend copyright protection to millions of books, films, and musical compositions by foreign artists that once were free for public use. Lawrence Golan, a University of Denver music professor and conductor who challenged the law on behalf of fellow conductors, academics and film historians said ‘they could no long afford to play such works as Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” which once was in the public domain but received copyright protection that significantly increased its cost.’</p>
<p id="4494" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">While existing laws, old business models, and education content procurement practices make it difficult for teachers and learners to leverage the full power of the internet to access high-quality, affordable learning materials, OER can be freely retained (keep a copy), reused (use as is), revised (adapt, adjust, modify), remixed (mashup different content to create something new), and redistributed (share copies with others) without breaking copyright law. OER allow the full technical power of the internet to be brought to bear on education. OER allow exactly what the internet enables: free sharing of educational resources with the world.</p>
<p id="f4ea" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">What makes this legal sharing possible? Open licenses. The importance of open licensing in OER is simple. The key distinguishing characteristic of OER is its intellectual property license and the legal permissions the license grants the public to use, modify, and share it. If an educational resource is not clearly marked as being in the public domain or having an open license, it is not an OER. Some educators think sharing their digital resources online, for free, makes their content OER — it does not. Though it is OER if they go the extra step and add an open license to their work.</p>
<p id="07bd" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">The most common way to openly license copyrighted education materials — making them OER − is to add a Creative Commons license to the educational resource. CC licenses are standardized, free-to-use, open copyright licenses that have already been applied to more than 1.2 billion copyrighted works across 9 million websites.</p>
<p id="c7cb" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Collectively, CC licensed works constitute a class of educational works that are explicitly meant to be legally shared and reused with few restrictions. David Bollier writes:</p>
<blockquote id="e747" class="graf graf--blockquote graf--startsWithSingleQuote graf-after--p"><p>‘Like free software, the CC licenses paradoxically rely upon copyright law to legally protect the commons. The licenses use the rights of ownership granted by copyright law not to exclude others, but to invite them to share. The licenses recognize authors’ interests in owning and controlling their work — but they also recognize that new creativity owes many social and intergenerational debts. Creativity is not something that emanates solely from the mind of the “romantic author,” as copyright mythology has it; it also derives from artistic communities and previous generations of authors and artists. The CC licenses provide a legal means to allow works to circulate so that people can create something new. Share, reuse, and remix, legally, as Creative Commons puts it.’</p></blockquote>
<p id="f015" class="graf graf--p graf-after--blockquote">While custom copyright licenses can be developed to facilitate the development and use of OER, it may be easier to apply free-to-use, global standardized licenses developed specifically for that purpose, such as those developed by Creative Commons.</p>
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<p id="4a5e" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">Fig. 1: Annual Growth of CC licensed works.</p>
<h3 id="85c4" class="graf graf--h3 graf-after--p">Open Education Licensing Policy</h3>
<p id="0bfe" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3">This section explores how public policymakers can leverage open licensing policies, and by extension OER, as a solution to high textbook costs, out-of-date educational resources and disappearing access to expensive, DRM protected e-books. Education policy is about solving education problems for the public. If one of the roles of government is to ensure all of its citizens have access to effective, high-quality educational resources, then governments ought to employ current, proven legal, technical, and policy tools to ensure the most efficient and impactful use of public education funding.</p>
<p id="0006" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Open education policies are laws, rules, and courses of action that facilitate the creation, use or improvement of OER. While this chapter only deals with open education licensing policies, there has also been significant open education resource-based (allocate resources directly to support OER), inducement (call for or incentivize actions to support OER), and framework (create pathways or remove barriers for action to support OER) open education policy work.</p>
<p id="5c74" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Open education licensing policies insert open licensing requirements into existing funding systems (e.g., grants, contracts, or other agreements) that create educational resources, thereby making the content OER, and shifting the default on publicly funded educational resources from ‘closed’ to ‘open.’ This is a particularly strong education policy argument: if the public pays for education resources, the public should have the right to access and use those resources at no additional cost and with the full spectrum of legal rights necessary to engage in 5R activities.</p>
<p id="fa9e" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">My friend David Wiley likes to say ‘if you buy one, you should get one.’ David, like most of us, believes that when you buy something, you should actually get the thing you paid for. Provincial/state and national governments frequently fund the development of education and research resources through grants funded with taxpayer dollars. In other words, when a government gives a grant to a university to produce a water security degree program, you and I have already paid for it. Unfortunately, it is almost always the case that these publicly funded educational resources are commercialized in such a way that access is restricted to those who are willing to pay for them a second time. Why should we be required to pay a second time for the thing we’ve already paid for?</p>
<p id="6b49" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Governments and other funding entities that wish to maximize the impacts of their education investments are moving toward open education licensing policies. National, provincial/state governments, and education systems all play a critical role in setting policies that drive education investments and have an interest in ensuring that public funding of education makes a meaningful, cost-effective contribution to socioeconomic development. Given this role, these policy-making entities are ideally positioned to require recipients of public funding to produce educational resources under an open license.</p>
<p id="4da2" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Let us be specific. Governments, foundations, and education systems/institutions can and should implement open education licensing policies by requiring open licenses on the educational resources produced with their funding. Strong open licensing policies make open licensing mandatory and apply a clear definition for open license, ideally using the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license that grants full reuse rights provided the original author is attributed. The good news is open education policies are happening! In June 2012, UNESCO convened a World OER Congress and released a 2012 Paris OER Declaration, which included a call for governments to ‘encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds.’ UNESCO will be convening a second World OER Congress in Slovenia in 2017 to establish a ‘normative instrument on OER.’ OECD recently released its 2015 report: ‘Open Educational Resources: A Catalyst for Innovation’ provides policy options to governments such as: ‘Regulate that all publicly funded materials should be OER by default. Alternatively, the regulation could state that new educational resources should be based on existing OER, where possible (“reuse first” principle).’</p>
<p id="d08d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">As governments and foundations move to require the products of their grants and/or contracts be openly licensed, the implementation stage of these policies critical; open licensing policies should have systems in place to ensure that grantees comply with the policy, properly apply an open license to their work, and share an editable, accessible version of the OER in a public OER repository.</p>
<p id="221e" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">A good example of an open education licensing policy done well is the US Department of Labor’s 2010 Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program (TAACCCT) which committed US$2 billion in federal grant funding over four years to ‘expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs’ (p.1). The intellectual property section of the grant program description requires that all educational materials created with grant funding be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, and the Department required its grantees to deposit editable copies of the CC BY OER into skillscommons.org — a public open education repository.</p>
<p id="1b69" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">A number of other nations, provinces and states have also adopted or announced open education policies relating to the creation, review, remix and/or adoption of OER. The Open Policy Registry lists over 130 national, state, province, and institutional policies relating to OER, including policies like a national open licensing framework and a policy explicitly permitting public school teachers to share materials they create in the course of their employment under a CC license.</p>
<p id="2fcf" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">New open policy projects like the Open Policy Network and the Institute for Open Leadership are well positioned to foster the creation, adoption, and implementation of open policies and practices that advance the public good by supporting open policy advocates, organizations, and policy makers, connecting open policy opportunities with assistance, and sharing open policy information. Because the bulk of education and research funding comes from taxpayer dollars, it is essential to create, adopt and implement open education licensing policies. The traditional model of academic research publishing borders on scandalous. Every year, hundreds of billions in research and data are funded by the public through government grants, and then acquired at no cost by publishers who do not compensate a single author or peer reviewer, acquire all copyright rights, and then sell access to the publicly funded research back to the University and Colleges. In the US, the combined value of government, non-profit, and university-funded research in 2013 was over US$158 billion — about a third of all the R&amp;D in the United States that year.</p>
<p id="b891" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p graf--trailing">As governments move to require open licensing policies, hundreds of billions of dollars of education and research resources will be freely and legally available to the public that paid for them. Every taxpayer − in every country − has a reasonable expectation of access to educational materials and research products whose creation tax dollars supported.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52930
title: U.S. Department of Education Open Licensing Rule Now in Effect
uri: U-S-Department-of-Education-Open-Licensing-Rule-Now-in-Effect
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/06/us-doe-open-licensing/
content:
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="media/7acbcb5a.ED-Seal.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ED-Seal.png" alt="doe-seal" width="354" height="354" /></p>
<p>The U.S. Department of Education’s <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/19/2017-00910/open-licensing-requirement-for-competitive-grant-programs">new open licensing rule</a> has gone into effect. Starting in FY 2018, education resources created with Department of Education discretionary competitive grants ($4.2 billion in FY 2016) must be openly licensed and shared with the public. Creative Commons (CC) congratulates the U.S. Department of Education for ensuring the public has access to the education resources it funds.</p>
<p>This announcement comes after years of work by Department of Education staff, multiple civil society organizations, and individual open education leaders.</p>
<p>CC’s involvement began in October 2015, when we joined the Department in <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/10/30/us-dept-of-education-proposes-open-licensing-policy-cc-joins-white-house-announcement/">calling for a new rule</a> to require publicly funded education resources be openly licensed by default. A few months later, CC and other open education leaders <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/12/07/tell-the-department-of-education-yes-on-open-licensing/">submitted comments</a> supporting the proposed rule. When the implementation of the rule was delayed, a coalition of open education organizations <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=ED-2015-OS-0105-0185">submitted additional comments</a> in support of implementing the change.</p>
<p>This new Department of Education open licensing rule follows the example set by the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/02/01/u-s-department-labor-adopts-cc-licensing-policy-department-wide/">Department of Labor</a> agency-wide <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a> open licensing policy, the Department of State’s <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/20/state-department-publishes-open-licensing-playbook-federal-agencies/">open licensing playbook</a> for federal agencies, and multiple other <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/OER_Policy_Registry">open education licensing policies</a> from around the world. While the rule does not specify the use of a CC license by name, it provides guidance on what attributes the open license needs to contain (see below).</p>
<p>Here is the text of the final rule <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2017-00910/p-260">published in the Federal Register</a> and in the Government Publishing Office <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=b981e139bf791d65e1c319abf4d5becf&amp;mc=true&amp;node=se2.1.3474_120&amp;rgn=div8">Code of Federal Regulations</a>.</p>
<p>The key points in the new rule (summarized):</p>
<ul>
<li>Grantees must openly license to the public any grant deliverable that is created wholly or in part with Department competitive grant funds.</li>
<li>Grantees must grant to the public a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable license to access, reproduce, prepare derivative works, publicly perform, publicly display, and distribute the copyrightable work provided that attribution is given to the copyright holder.
<ul>
<li>The open license also must contain a symbol or device that readily communicates to users the permissions granted concerning the use of the copyrightable work; machine-readable code for digital resources; readily accessed legal terms; and the statement of attribution.</li>
<li>Grantees may select any open licenses that comply with the requirements of this section, including, at the grantee&#8217;s discretion, a license that limits use to noncommercial purposes.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>A grantee that is awarded competitive grant funds must have a plan to disseminate the openly licensed copyrightable works created with grant funds.</li>
<li>The rule does not apply to:
<ul>
<li>funding for general operating expenses;</li>
<li>support to individuals (<em>e.g.,</em> scholarships, fellowships);</li>
<li>grant deliverables that are jointly funded by the Department and another Federal agency if the other Federal agency does not require open licensing;</li>
<li>copyrightable works not created with Department grant funds;</li>
<li>peer-reviewed scholarly publications funded by the Department;</li>
<li>grantees under the Ready To Learn Television Program; or</li>
<li>a grantee that has received an exception from the Secretary of Education.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>We celebrate this step forward and look forward to helping the Department implement this commitment to openness!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52978
title: Contribuye al Fondo de Defensa Legal de Diego Gómez
uri: Contribuye-al-Fondo-de-Defensa-Legal-de-Diego-Gómez
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/12/contribuye-al-fondo-de-defensa-legal-de-diego-gomez/
content:
<p><a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/compartir-no-es-delito-sharing-is-not-a-crime"><img data-attachment-id="52979" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/12/contribuye-al-fondo-de-defensa-legal-de-diego-gomez/week_01_web_sp/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP.png" data-orig-size="1000,1000" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Week_01_Web_SP" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-300x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-52979" src="media/62a266b7.Week_01_Web_SP.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP.png" width="500" height="500" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP.png 1000w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-768x768.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-32x32.png 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-64x64.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-96x96.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_SP-128x128.png 128w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px" /></a></p>
<p>Hace tres semanas <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/24/colombian-court-acquits-diego-gomez-criminal-charges-sharing-research-paper-online/">reportamos</a> que Diego Gómez, estudiante Colombiano demandado por compartir por internet un paper académico, ha sido absuelto de los cargos penales en su contra.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pero hace algunos días los abogados del denunciante apelaron a la decisión del juez de primera instancia, lo que implica que luego de varios años de procedimientos judiciales innecesarios (y caros), el caso de Diego será revisado por el Tribunal de Bogotá. El juicio a Diego Gómez es un ejemplo flagrante de abuso de derechos de autor, donde titulares de derechos pueden hacer uso de la ley, que ya es excesiva en su alcance, para que una infracción menor tenga un impacto significativo no sólo para el individuo involucrado, sino también para la sociedad en su conjunto. Los estudiantes no debieran ser sujetos de largos y estresantes acciones judiciales por el hecho de compartir conocimiento.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diego necesita tu ayuda. <a href="https://karisma.org.co/">La Fundación Karisma</a>, organización de derechos digitales colombiana que ha estado asistiendo a Diego desde el comienzo, está lanzando una campaña de crowdfunding en IndieGoGo para pagar por los costos legales asociados. La campaña, llamada <a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/compartir-no-es-delito-sharing-is-not-a-crime"><strong>Compartir no es delito: Sharing Is Not A Crime</strong></a> pretende conseguir USD $40,000.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52969
title: Contribute to the Diego Gómez Legal Defense Fund
uri: Contribute-to-the-Diego-Gómez-Legal-Defense-Fund
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/12/contribute-diego-gomez-legal-defense-fund/
content:
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/compartir-no-es-delito-sharing-is-not-a-crime"><img data-attachment-id="52972" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/12/contribute-diego-gomez-legal-defense-fund/week_01_web_en/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN.png" data-orig-size="1000,1000" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Week_01_Web_EN" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-300x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-52972" src="media/944a49cc.Week_01_Web_EN.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN.png" width="500" height="500" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN.png 1000w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-768x768.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-32x32.png 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-64x64.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-96x96.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Week_01_Web_EN-128x128.png 128w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px" /></a><strong><a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/compartir-no-es-delito-sharing-is-not-a-crime">Support Diego by donating today!</a></strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Three weeks ago we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/24/colombian-court-acquits-diego-gomez-criminal-charges-sharing-research-paper-online/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that Diego Gómez, the former Colombian student who’s been prosecuted for sharing a research paper online, had been acquitted of criminal charges. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But within days of the ruling, the author’s lawyer appealed the decision</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, meaning that even after several years of unnecessary (and expensive) criminal proceedings, Diego’s case continues to the appellate court—the Tribunal of Bogotá. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The prosecution of Gómez is an egregious example of copyright overreach where rights holders can unfairly leverage the law so that even a minor violation leads to major negative repercussions for both the individual involved, and society as a whole.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Students shouldn’t be subject to lengthy and stressful lawsuits for sharing knowledge.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diego needs our help. </span><a href="https://karisma.org.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fundación Karisma</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the Colombian digital rights organisation that’s been supporting Diego since the beginning, is launching an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to pay for the ongoing legal expenses. The campaign—titled </span><a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/compartir-no-es-delito-sharing-is-not-a-crime"><b>Compartir no es delito: Sharing Is Not A Crime</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—is now live and aims to raise $40,000.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53006
title: Announcing the Creative Commons Community Activities Fund
uri: Announcing-the-Creative-Commons-Community-Activities-Fund
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/13/community-activities-fund/
content:
<figure id="attachment_51615" style="width: 301px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="51615" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/21/tanzania-awesome-fund/dsc_0674/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0674.jpg" data-orig-size="4928,3264" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1475200384&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;22&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="dsc_0674" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0674-300x199.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0674-1024x678.jpg" class=" wp-image-51615" src="media/885ed992.DSC_0674-1024x678.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0674-1024x678.jpg" alt="" width="301" height="199" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0674-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0674-300x199.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0674-768x509.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0674-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0674-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0674-234x155.jpg 234w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0674-1200x795.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 301px) 85vw, 301px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">CC Tanzania training from the Awesome Fund, Photo by Aris Maro, CC BY-SA</figcaption></figure>
<p>Inspired by the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/02/cc-awesome-ever/">Awesome Fund</a>, we are excited to announce the <strong>Community Activities Fund</strong> as part of our ongoing efforts to support the activities of CC communities and beyond. Through this fund, and in conjunction with the <a href="media/8930030d.CC-Strategy-2016-2020-1.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CC-Strategy-2016-2020-1.pdf">Global Network Strategy</a>, Creative Commons is taking a leap towards a truly open and collaborative community of individuals and organizations committed to building and fostering a vibrant global commons.</p>
<p>The Community Activities Fund is a mini-grant program aimed at supporting individuals and communities pursuing activities aligned with the network values and principles stated on the new <a href="media/8930030d.CC-Strategy-2016-2020-1.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CC-Strategy-2016-2020-1.pdf">Creative Commons Global Network Strategy</a>. These grants are meant to provide quick, practical-level support for activities, projects, and events done by supporters and advocates of Creative Commons &#8211; from kickstarting projects, facilitating travel and mentorships, to supporting the organization of CC-themed events around the globe.</p>
<p>We’re looking to help fund salons, campaigns, translations, e-books, printing, collaborations, and more. Need the funds for something small and impactful? This fund is for you.</p>
<p><strong>Basic information about the Fund:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Anyone can apply</strong>. We’d love to support projects from any individuals, teams, or organizations advancing the mission and work of CC.</li>
<li><strong>There’s a maximum amount, not minimum</strong>. The maximum amount that one can request per project is USD 1000. There is no minimum.</li>
<li><strong>Light and fast procedure</strong>. The applications will be reviewed weekly and feedback relayed within 2 weeks of application.</li>
<li><strong>Language</strong>. Applications can be sent in English, Spanish, French or Arabic.</li>
<li><strong>Criteria</strong>. We support projects that help grow the global commons and foster the benefits of openness around the world at the local level. This fund is aimed to support efforts at country, city or community level to advance into the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/mission-and-vision/">Creative Commons mission</a>, providing support for activities.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Application and reporting process</strong><br />
To apply, please <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/W79QStC5iBiuM3892">fill out this application form.</a> You will receive feedback within 2 weeks of your application.<br />
The reporting process is important, but we are keeping it lightweight &#8211; all we ask for are a brief narrative report and the minimum requirement of making your project outputs available under CC BY.<br />
If you have any questions or clarification requests, please email Simeon Oriko, CC Network Manager, at <a href="mailto:network@creativecommons.org">network@creativecommons.org</a> or do it in our <a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/C2BQ815JR">#general channel at the CC Slack</a>. You can also post on the #creativecommons IRC channel, just connect via Freenode.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53015
title: Is Re-negotiating NAFTA Opening Pandora’s Box?
uri: Is-Re-negotiating-NAFTA-Opening-Pandora-s-Box
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/14/re-negotiating-nafta-opening-pandoras-box/
content:
<h3><em><strong>Without a refocus on user rights, transparency, and meaningful public input, the agreement will become a bonanza for copyright maximalists</strong></em></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week Creative Commons</span><a href="media/8ad6a980.Comments_of_Creative_Commons_to_USTR20170006.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/a/a5/Comments_of_Creative_Commons_to_USTR20170006.pdf"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">submitted comments</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) regarding negotiating objectives for the modernization of the</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">North American Free Trade Agreement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (NAFTA).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NAFTA is the controversial trade pact between Canada, Mexico, and the United States that went into effect in 1994. It aims to eliminate barriers to trade and investment in a variety of sectors including goods and textiles, agricultural products, and petrochemicals. NAFTA also attempts to protect intellectual property by including provisions to enforce copyrights, trademarks, patents, and similar rights. The Trump administration has officially notified Congress of its intent to negotiate changes to the agreement. Last month USTR opened a formal</span><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/05/23/2017-10603/request-for-comments-on-negotiating-objectives-regarding-modernization-of-the-north-american-free"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">request for comments</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> regarding the objectives for updating NAFTA.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright is global, and held by nearly every single person in the world, enabled by today’s online services and the ubiquity of technology to create new works. With that in mind, copyright laws rightly belong in international agreements, negotiated and debated in public fora, and should consider everyday citizens’ needs and uses along with those of industry and professional creators. Still, governments never seem to miss an opportunity to add additional terms to individual side agreements, ratcheting up restrictions and making a confusing, secretive mess for users.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We urged USTR to ensure that the copyright provisions in NAFTA should not be expanded to create new (and likely more onerous) rules than those that already exist in the agreement. If the copyright provisions must be reconsidered, a negotiating objective should at a minimum be to advocate for stronger protections for copyright limitations and exceptions; user rights should be granted a mandatory and enforceable standing alongside the rights of authors. In addition, the negotiations should be made through procedures that are transparent to the public and which include all stakeholders, especially the public.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Copyright</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NAFTA uses as its baseline existing and widely agreed upon international copyright treaties, which already contain extensive requirements that ensure the protection and enforcement of copyright and related rights. Therefore, the NAFTA copyright provisions should not be expanded to create new rules than those that already exist in the agreement. The recent negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) showed that when intellectual property is put on the table, there’s a</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/11/16/trans-pacific-partnership-would-harm-user-rights-and-the-commons/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">significant push</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to drastically increase enforcement measures for rights holders, lengthen copyright terms, and demand harsh infringement penalties. Despite the various international agreements that aim to harmonize copyright, individual nations continue to use multilateral trade pacts as an opportunity to add increasingly onerous requirements and further lock up copyrighted works. This kind of venue shopping harms the commons and users by creating a &#8220;ladder effect&#8221;: increased IP protections are negotiated between a few countries, and then used to pressure other nations to adopt, rather than conducting a fair, public, and international discussion. While the demands of rights holders are addressed, there’s little consideration given to the rights of the public. Limitations and exceptions to copyright are downplayed, or not present at all.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s crucial that these rights be recognized and protected, as digital technology and the web has turned everyone with a digital footprint into a copyright user (and content creator) on a daily basis. Protecting and promoting these user rights support not only freedom of speech and access to information, but also educational activities, creative remix, and innovation. Re-negotiating the NAFTA provisions having to do with copyright would do more harm than good if there’s not a significant shift in the balance in favor of the rights for users and the public to reflect the reality of today’s digital users. If the copyright provisions will be reconsidered, a negotiating objective should be to advocate for stronger protections for copyright limitations and exceptions, and to endorse the expansion of a flexible exception such as fair use. User rights should be recognized as a legitimate and productive aspect of the copyright environment, and granted a mandatory and enforceable standing alongside the rights of authors.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Transparency and public participation in negotiations</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s imperative that NAFTA negotiations be transparent and participatory. The secrecy demonstrated in the recent negotiation of the TPP left civil society organizations like Creative Commons and the broader public at an extreme disadvantage, as only a privileged few stakeholders invited into the closed negotiation circle have had their interests fully considered.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The NAFTA negotiations should be made through procedures that are transparent to the public and which include all stakeholders. Increased transparency and meaningful public participation will lead to better outcomes. We agree with the</span><a href="https://www.eff.org/trade"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">specific and actionable recommendations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> put forward by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and OpenTheGovernment.org to improve the transparency of U.S. trade negotiations and their accessibility to a diverse range of stakeholders. These recommendations urge USTR to:</span></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publish U.S. textual proposals on rules in ongoing international trade negotiations</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publish consolidated texts after each round of ongoing negotiations</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Appoint a &#8220;transparency officer&#8221; who does not have structural conflicts of interest in promoting transparency at the agency</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open up textual proposals to a notice and comment and public hearing process</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make Trade Advisory Committees more broadly inclusive</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now USTR will evaluate the extensive feedback on NAFTA negotiating objectives (over</span><a href="https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=USTR-2017-0006-0001"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">12,000 comments</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have been submitted). Canada has already opened a similar</span><a href="http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2017/2017-06-03/html/notice-avis-eng.php#na8"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">public consultation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and it’s expected that Mexico will do the same. It’s a fair question whether these sweeping agreements can actually promote trade and economic activity that is beneficial to a majority of citizens as opposed to a few powerful multinational corporations. But assuming we’re going down this path again, it’s important that negotiators rethink the copyright provisions to protect users and the public good. And it’s absolutely crucial that negotiators lift the un-democratic and counterproductive secrecy that has pervaded most of the recent discussions.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/14/re-negotiating-nafta-opening-pandoras-box/">Is Re-negotiating NAFTA Opening Pandora’s Box?</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53068
title: Network Strategy: What’s next
uri: Network-Strategy-What-s-next
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/network-strategy-whats-next/
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<p><a href="Photo by Sebastian Ter Burg, CC BY"><img data-attachment-id="53069" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/network-strategy-whats-next/34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z.jpg" data-orig-size="640,427" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z.jpg" class="aligncenter wp-image-53069 size-full" src="media/2ebc9ffd.34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z.jpg" alt="writing-summit" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34217153231_ab46cbfbfb_z-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p>For the first time, the CC movement has completed a comprehensive and collaborative effort to renew and grow its network, finalized at the recent Global Summit in Toronto. It’s important to acknowledge the hard work of <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Global_Network_Strategy">all the people involved from the beginning</a>, which included research (the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/faces-commons-research/">Faces of the Commons</a> is a 300 page multi region report with recommendations and insights), an open consultation with the broad CC community including Affiliates, partners, funders, and the CC Board, and 22 online and in-person meetings and more than the eighty percent of the active members of the network involved. This bottom-up process included discussions, proposals and specific edits and changes, reflecting the dynamic global community we have built together around Creative Commons during all this years. We all should be proud of all this process.</p>
<p>This <a href="media/c9cce9f5.GlobalNetworkStrategy-Final.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/GlobalNetworkStrategy-Final.pdf">new Strategy</a> has a lot of benefits:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Global collaboration</strong>. Connected with the work of the Platforms, communities will work together to set priorities, goals, objectives and strategies.</li>
<li><strong>Resilience</strong>. The previous model for Affiliate involvement was focused on institutional relationships. Today, we are focusing on individuals and supporting organizations instead. We are providing a path to create a network of trust and real collaboration for the future.</li>
<li><strong>Growth and inclusion</strong>. The new strategy is meant to include new and diverse global voices in the conversation and to provide more capacity and agency for teams working locally. We are creating a strategy focused on supporting and activating people.</li>
<li><strong>Shared decision-making, goal-setting, structure for collaboration</strong>. The new strategy creates new governance bodies to provide space for the community to identify priorities for the global work. This is a first for CC: the network takes care of the network.</li>
<li><strong>Resource allocation</strong>. The strategy creates two funds specifically focused on the network to support community activities, actual project work and identified movement priorities.</li>
</ol>
<p>It has been a long road, but now the strategy work is complete. For the transition period, we are planning to focus on Country Teams, Platforms and Governance.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53070" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/network-strategy-whats-next/34189731742_232cbc401d_z/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34189731742_232cbc401d_z.jpg" data-orig-size="640,427" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="34189731742_232cbc401d_z" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;Photo by Sebastian Ter Burg, CC BY&lt;/p&gt;
" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34189731742_232cbc401d_z-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34189731742_232cbc401d_z.jpg" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53070" src="media/bce6258e.34189731742_232cbc401d_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34189731742_232cbc401d_z.jpg" alt="writing-summit" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34189731742_232cbc401d_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34189731742_232cbc401d_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34189731742_232cbc401d_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34189731742_232cbc401d_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/34189731742_232cbc401d_z-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p><strong>Chapters (formerly Country teams).</strong> The local work is key for the new Network Strategy. To coordinate this efforts we will trust in Chapters as units for the governance and to coordinate local work. After concerns from several affiliate teams, we’ve decided to use Chapters instead of a reference of a “country” or “nation”. However, it will be those borders that we use to organize each team (with some exceptions, for example in Mainland China and Taiwan). These Chapters are made <em>up of people,</em> with individuals whose work is focused on the place where they live, have accepted the Creative Commons Charter and have been vouched by two actual members. The membership recruiting process is starting in the coming weeks. More details of this process will be published very soon.</p>
<p>We expect Country Teams to have their first team meeting no later than January 2018, primarily to appoint a coordinator (which will be the main point of contact for the movement), elect a representative to send to the Global Network Council, and draft a plan of work for the rest of the year.</p>
<p><strong>Platforms</strong>. Platforms are areas of work, a collaborative space for individuals and institutions to organize and coordinate themselves across the broad network. Platforms will be the way we will create and communicate spaces of strategic collaboration to have worldwide impact. They will be the way our network will work collaboratively.</p>
<p>The conversation on platforms started at the Global Summit. So far, <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Platforms">community members have</a> organized around:</p>
<ul>
<li>Copyright Reform Platform</li>
<li>Open Education Platform</li>
<li>Open GLAM Platform</li>
<li>Community development Platform</li>
</ul>
<p>You can learn more about it and how to get involved and participate <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Platforms">on our wiki</a> and directly on Slack.</p>
<p>There may be more platforms in the future, but during this transition period -before the new Governance structure is set up by the next Global Summit on 2018- the work of the platforms will be oriented to fill a specific need and requirement from the network on each area, being particular activities, documentation or products.</p>
<p>These platforms will set specific priorities and plan of work in the coming months, to develop their plan of work until next Global Summit on 2018.</p>
<p><strong>Governance</strong>. The main governance body for the new Strategy is the Global Network Council, and it’s important to us to focus on establishing the new Country Teams (or Chapters) as soon as we can, and to make that happen we will be opening the membership process in the coming weeks for anyone to join. For the transition period, during the coming days there will be an open call to constitute an Advisory Committee, to advise on this transition and provide support to the Country Teams, with global and diverse representation.</p>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/network-strategy-whats-next/">Network Strategy: What’s next</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53055
title: Toward a Better Internet: Building Prosocial Behavior into the Commons
uri: Toward-a-Better-Internet-Building-Prosocial-Behavior-into-the-Commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/toward-better-internet-building-prosocial-behavior-commons/
content:
<p>What does it mean to exhibit prosocial behavior? For our purposes, we mean behavior that leads to healthy collaboration and meaningful interactions online. Specifically, we are interested in prosocial behavior around online content sharing. How can we help people make the human connections that make sharing meaningful?</p>
<p>In this post, we distill learnings from the “<a href="http://sched.co/AEVt">How to encourage prosocial behavior</a>” session at the recent CC Global Summit in Toronto, and outline the next steps for CC in this space. Specifically, Creative Commons will launch an investigative series into the values and behaviors that make online collaboration thrive, in order to embed them more deeply into the experience of sharing with CC.</p>
<p><em>Read on for all of the glorious details, or skip to the end for next steps.</em></p>
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<p><a class="markup--anchor markup--figure-anchor" href="https://vimeo.com/151666798" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-href="https://vimeo.com/151666798">C<em>reative Commons: Remix</em></a><em> by Creative Commons / <a class="markup--anchor markup--figure-anchor" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA</a></em></p>
<p>When we launched our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/ideas/">new strategy</a> in 2016, we focused our work with <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/platform/">user-generated content platforms</a> on increasing <a href="https://creativecommons.org/platform/toolkit/">discovery</a> and <a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org">reporting</a> of CC-licensed works. Since the majority of the 1.2 billion CC-licensed works on the web are hosted by third parties, re-establishing relationships with them (e.g. Flickr, Wikipedia) was important, as was establishing relationships with newer platforms like Medium.</p>
<p>In year 2 of our strategy, we are broadening our focus to look more holistically at sharing and collaboration online. We are investigating the values and behaviors associated with successful collaboration, in the hopes that we might apply them to content platforms where CC licensing is taking place.</p>
<figure id="attachment_53073" style="width: 333px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="53073" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/toward-better-internet-building-prosocial-behavior-commons/medium-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/medium-2.jpeg" data-orig-size="1200,799" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="medium-2" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/medium-2-300x200.jpeg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/medium-2-1024x682.jpeg" class=" wp-image-53073" src="media/45937d2e.medium-2-1024x682.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/medium-2-1024x682.jpeg" alt="cc-summit" width="333" height="222" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/medium-2-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/medium-2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/medium-2-768x511.jpeg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/medium-2-60x40.jpeg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/medium-2-50x33.jpeg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/medium-2-233x155.jpeg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/medium-2.jpeg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 333px) 85vw, 333px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Creative Commons Global Summit 2017 in Toronto by Sebastiaan ter Burg / CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p>As a first step, we asked the question &#8212; <em>How can we help people make the human connections that make sharing meaningful?</em> &#8212; at this year’s CC Global Summit in Toronto. (This question is also central to our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/ideas/">2016-2020 Organizational Strategy</a>, where we refocused our work to build a vibrant, usable commons, powered by collaboration and gratitude.) In a session entitled, “<a href="http://sched.co/AEVt">How to encourage prosocial behavior</a>,” our peers at Medium, Wikimedia, Thingiverse, Música Libre Uruguay, and Unsplash shared the design factors they use to incentivize prosocial behavior around CC content, particularly behavior that helps people give credit for works they use and make connections with others. Programming diversity expert Ashe Dryden shared additional insights into how current platforms often approach design from a position of privilege, unwittingly excluding marginalized groups and potential new members.</p>
<p>We structured the discussion into three parts:</p>
<p>Part 1 &#8211; The Dark Side, or defining the problem. We asked our peers to detail examples of negative behaviors around content sharing and reuse.</p>
<p>Part 2 &#8211; What Works, or identifying solutions. We asked for technical and social design nudges that platforms have implemented that work to increase sharing and remix. We also discussed community-driven norms and behavior “in the wild.”</p>
<p>Part 3 &#8211; What can we do? We wrapped by discussing what we might do together to design and cultivate online environments conducive to healthy and vibrant collaboration.</p>
<h3><strong>Part 1 &#8211; The Dark Side</strong></h3>
<p>In part 1, we heard the standard issues one might expect around CC licensing, and also negative behaviors that occur with online content sharing more generally, regardless of the © status of such content. Specific to CC were issues such as: users claiming CC0 public domain works as their own and monetizing them; misunderstanding what it means to share under a CC license vs. just posting it online; and lack of clarity on when or how a CC license applies. More generally, negative behaviors around online content sharing included harassment based on gender, ethnicity, and other identities, which discourage potential new members from joining a community.</p>
<p>The behavioral tendencies and tensions we surfaced that were most relevant to the question &#8212; <em>How can we help people make the human connections that make sharing meaningful?</em> &#8212; were:</p>
<ol>
<li>Users prefer real people (user identities with a history of credible content contributions) to automated accounts. CC users are smart and can quickly recognize the difference between a real user and a bot.
<ul>
<li>Example: On Thingiverse, a 3D design sharing platform, a bot called Shiv Integer <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/that-time-a-bot-invaded-thingiverse-and-created-weird-new-3d-objects/">crawled the platform and automated bizarre remixes of users 3D designs</a>, which were posted automatically to the site as remixes. Though the bot’s remixes respected the CC license conditions, the community still felt it was an inappropriate use of their content.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<figure id="attachment_53074" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53074" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/toward-better-internet-building-prosocial-behavior-commons/how-to-encourage/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage.png" data-orig-size="1500,843" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="how-to-encourage" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage-300x169.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage-1024x575.png" class="size-large wp-image-53074" src="media/c54ad0b0.how-to-encourage-1024x575.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage-1024x575.png" alt="tony-buser-slide" width="840" height="472" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage-1024x575.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage-1200x674.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-encourage.png 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">“How to encourage prosocial behavior” session slide by Makerbot’s Tony Buser</figcaption></figure>
<ol>
<li>Harassment marginalized groups face is more subtle than one might expect, and often serves to reinforce norms previously set in a space that does not account for diversity of gender, ethnicity, or geography. Overreliance on data or AI may also serve to reinforce these norms (that unintentionally discriminate) because data on which design is based is faulty or not representative of marginalized groups. Ultimately, this prevents the community from obtaining new members, particularly those from more diverse backgrounds, and from evolving into a truly open, inclusive environment inviting to “creators across sectors, disciplines, and geographies, to work together to share open content and create new works.”
<ul>
<li>Example: 80-85% of current Wikipedia editors are males from North America and Western Europe. 38% of Wikimedia users reported some level of harassment, including stalking, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing">doxing</a>, attacking off the wiki on other platforms, such as Facebook, based on gender, ethnicity, and other identities.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>On platforms, users enter into legal contracts and social contracts that are separate and often in direct tension with one another. This plays out specifically in the world of copyright, where people’s desires and expectations about how content will be used are often different from the rules dictated by copyright law (which are therefore, embedded with CC licenses).</li>
</ol>
<figure id="attachment_53077" style="width: 304px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="“How to encourage prosocial behavior” session slide by Makerbot’s Tony Buser"><img data-attachment-id="53077" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/toward-better-internet-building-prosocial-behavior-commons/27911616856_5f33e26077_z/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/27911616856_5f33e26077_z.jpg" data-orig-size="513,640" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="27911616856_5f33e26077_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/27911616856_5f33e26077_z-240x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/27911616856_5f33e26077_z.jpg" class=" wp-image-53077" src="media/dda08b48.27911616856_5f33e26077_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/27911616856_5f33e26077_z.jpg" alt="hobbit-contract" width="304" height="379" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/27911616856_5f33e26077_z.jpg 513w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/27911616856_5f33e26077_z-240x300.jpg 240w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/27911616856_5f33e26077_z-32x40.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/27911616856_5f33e26077_z-40x50.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/27911616856_5f33e26077_z-124x155.jpg 124w" sizes="(max-width: 304px) 85vw, 304px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Hobbit Contract by Henry Burrows / CC BY-SA</figcaption></figure>
<ul>
<li>Example: A user may post discriminatory, harassing, or violent speech on a platform <a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/06/poes-law-troll-cultures-central-rule/">under the guise of parody</a>. As a copyright matter, parody is clearly a fair use. As an ethical matter, whether the parody constitutes harassment may not be so clear, since a parody, as a satirical imitation, essentially mocks or belittles some aspect of the original work, and possibly the author. As a result, parody can often generate confrontation and controversy in a community. With the legal and social contracts in tension, the platform must decide which to uphold for its users, with either decision potentially alienating one segment of its community. This example also raises the issue that many users expect a platform to be the enforcer of ethical norms, a position not all platforms hold.</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>When different values are in tension with each other, it is hard to design community rules that can be applied both consistently and fairly. Some rules may even serve to disproportionately affect one group of people over others.
<ul>
<li>Example: Medium has an “all-party consent” rule with respect to posting screenshots of personal 1:1 exchanges, such as text messages. This policy is designed to protect everyone&#8217;s expectation of privacy related to personal communications. It is also designed to apply to all users equally, with some exceptions for situations involving public figures or newsworthy events. In some cases, however, this policy can mean that a person with less power in an exchange is prevented from fully telling their story, since it is often when a powerful or privileged person behaves badly in private that the other person involved wants to publicly expose that behavior. As a result, this policy may allow some users to keep evidence of their private bad acts out of public exposure or scrutiny, while preventing users from a marginalized group (who may benefit from exposing the interaction or fostering public discussion of it) from being able to show the details of an exchange they think is important to show.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h3><strong>Part 2 &#8211; What Works</strong><strong>, or identifying solutions. </strong></h3>
<p>In part 2, we learned about the different platform approaches to both incentivizing contributions of content to the commons and to incentivizing prosocial behavior around the content that made it personal and meaningful to users.</p>
<p>Platform approaches included:</p>
<ul>
<li>a prosocial frame to license selection, asking creators the kinds of uses they envision for their works, versus what license they might want to adopt</li>
<li>a curated public space for licensed works, such as a radio channel, where the platform facilitates distribution to other users and potential fans</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_53078" style="width: 1002px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53078" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/toward-better-internet-building-prosocial-behavior-commons/uruguay/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/uruguay.jpeg" data-orig-size="1002,256" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="uruguay" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/uruguay-300x77.jpeg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/uruguay.jpeg" class="size-full wp-image-53078" src="media/b7021764.uruguay.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/uruguay.jpeg" alt="" width="1002" height="256" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/uruguay.jpeg 1002w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/uruguay-300x77.jpeg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/uruguay-768x196.jpeg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/uruguay-140x36.jpeg 140w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/uruguay-50x13.jpeg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/uruguay-270x69.jpeg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Screenshot of Radio Común by Música Libre Uruguay / CC BY-SA</figcaption></figure>
<ul>
<li>collaborative education projects facilitated by the platform, such as an FAQ about music licensing and distribution built with the community</li>
<li>foregrounding the reuse and remix aspect of CC content in a variety of ways, such as: featuring remixes on the platform’s home page, displaying an attribution ancestry tree on the work’s page, sending alerts when a creator’s content is reused, and reminding users of the license on a work upon download</li>
<li>remix challenges and related competitions, run by the platform to foster reuse</li>
</ul>
<p>We also learned about approaches to disincentivize the negative behaviors and tendencies we discussed in part 1. These included:</p>
<ul>
<li>crowdsourced tracking of misuses and misbehaviors</li>
<li>redirecting license violations to the community to handle (e.g. community forums), utilizing community pressure to behave well</li>
<li>a safe space for new users to practice contributing before moving into the actual project, especially for projects with contribution rules and norms that are difficult for new members to get right the first time, e.g. Teahouse space for Wikipedia</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_53079" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53079" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/toward-better-internet-building-prosocial-behavior-commons/teahouse/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse.png" data-orig-size="1600,1028" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="teahouse" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse-300x193.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse-1024x658.png" class="size-large wp-image-53079" src="media/416a954d.teahouse-1024x658.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse-1024x658.png" alt="teahouse-screenshot" width="840" height="540" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse-1024x658.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse-300x193.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse-768x493.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse-62x40.png 62w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse-50x32.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse-241x155.png 241w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse-1200x771.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teahouse.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Screenshot of Teahouse page by Wikimedia Foundation / CC BY-SA</figcaption></figure>
<ul>
<li>follow-on events or projects to retain new members after initial engagement, such as face-to-face edit-a-thons</li>
<li>allowing for flexibility with regards to many community rules, noting that some rules may disproportionately affect marginalized groups</li>
<li>emphasizing a personal profile or identity for each user, so that other users recognize that these contributions were made by a real human being and not an anonymous internet entity</li>
<li>adding friction into certain workflows, such as at the moment of publication of a post or comment, to discourage negative behaviors and remind the user that there is a real human being at the other end of the exchange</li>
<li>making community rules more visible at the appropriate steps in the sharing process, so users are more likely to respond and adhere to them</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Part 3 &#8211; What can we do?</strong></h3>
<p>In part 3, we discussed the importance of designing for good actors. Despite the examples of negative behaviors, the platforms in the room noted that the majority of CC uses have a positive outcome , and that people in content communities are passionate about Creative Commons as a symbol of certain <a href="http://madewith.cc/">values</a>, and about sharing and remixing each others works. We shared positive examples that were completely community-driven, such as unexpected reuses of a particular 3D design that led to the creation of a prosthetic hand, and a sub-community of teachers that split off to bring 3D design to students in the classroom.</p>
<p>More importantly, we discussed what we could do next, together. Here is the short list of ideas that emerged in the last half hour of our discussion:</p>
<ul>
<li>Prosocial behavior toolkit for platforms, a “prosocial” version of the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/platform/toolkit/">CC platform integration toolkit</a> we created in year 1 of our new strategy</li>
<li>Reinvesting in the tools that make it easier to comply with CC license conditions, e.g. one-click attribution in browsers, WordPress, and other platforms</li>
<li>API partnerships that bring CC media into platforms more easily, e.g. Flickr + Medium or WordPress</li>
<li>Supporting the good actors and amplifying their voices</li>
<li>Explore areas like reputational algorithms, possibly community-driven, to discourage bad behaviors</li>
<li>Explore the role of bots in trolling and antisocial behavior, and how that affects human behavior on a platform</li>
<li>And more!</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>What’s next</strong></h2>
<p>Asking the simple question &#8212; <em>How can we help people make the human connections that make sharing meaningful?</em> &#8212; elicited exciting discussion and surfacing of issues we had not considered before this summit session. Informed by the overwhelming response and interest from our platform partners and community, we will forge ahead with the next phase of our platform work, focusing on <strong>collaboration</strong>, in addition to <strong>discovery</strong>.</p>
<p>As a next step, Creative Commons is launching an investigative series into what really makes online collaboration work. What does it take to build a vibrant sharing community, powered by collaboration and gratitude? What are the design factors (both social and technical) that help people make connections and build relationships? How do we then take these factors and infuse them into communities within the digital commons?</p>
<p>The series will include:</p>
<ol>
<li>A series of face-to-face conversations on how to build prosocial online communities with CC platforms, creators, and researchers. To kick off the series, we are hosting a private event in San Francisco this June; stay tuned for public follow-on events in the series in a city near you!</li>
<li>Research and storytelling of collaboration as it occurs over time through interviews and thought pieces.</li>
<li>A prosocial <a href="https://creativecommons.org/platform/toolkit/">platform toolkit</a> that distills all of the applicable design factors into one comprehensive guide.</li>
<li>Reporting of the most impactful stories in the next <a href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org/">State of the Commons</a>.</li>
</ol>
<p>If any of this of interest to you, <a href="https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org">join the conversation on Slack</a>.</p>
<p>If you would like to be invited to a future event, <a href="http://eepurl.com/ckUg-T">sign up for our events list</a>.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/toward-better-internet-building-prosocial-behavior-commons/">Toward a Better Internet: Building Prosocial Behavior into the Commons</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53092
title: Community update: Unsplash branded license and ToS changes
uri: Community-update-Unsplash-branded-license-and-ToS-changes
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/22/unsplash/
content:
<p>Unsplash, a photo sharing startup, has launched their own branded license and updated their terms to add new restrictions and remove CC0 from their platform. As a result of the changes, Unsplash images are no longer in the public domain. The permissions offered can be revoked at any time, and Unsplash now has the right to pursue infringement on behalf of their users. Also, in some cases, attribution is now required. <a href="https://unsplash.com/terms">The terms of the new Unsplash-branded copyright license</a> may create issues for users who hope to re-use the images, and for those who shared using the service and wanted their works available under unrestricted terms.</p>
<h3><strong>Background</strong></h3>
<p>We feel it’s important to inform the CC community, as many have been supporters of Unsplash and we have been receiving questions from users in the open content and free software movements. We reached out to Unsplash and then also, with their consent, spoke to their legal counsel to understand the new license and terms.</p>
<p>Our intention is to ensure that CC community members understand what has happened to a service they have been using that incorporated CC tools, and to protect the content that was dedicated to the public domain. We don&#8217;t want to oppose a startup’s business and marketing decisions, nor deny them the IP they might now want to claim to protect their business model.</p>
<p>We understand from Unsplash that they felt that copycat services were detracting from their offering and upsetting their users. We are sympathetic to that challenge — the predominant players in photo sharing like Flickr, 500px, and Wikimedia Commons all use CC0 in their platforms, and have faced those issues with their users. But it’s also clear that Unsplash wanted to extend their brand to have their name incorporated into the license. That’s a perfectly valid business and marketing decision.</p>
<p>We’ve outlined some issues for consideration in more detail below for the benefit of contributors to Unsplash, and those who wish to re-use their images:</p>
<h3><strong>Revokability</strong></h3>
<p>The new Unsplash-branded license is revocable. This means that Unsplash or the author could, at any time, change their mind about how people can use the images they have previously downloaded. This is a significant change from CC0.</p>
<p>Irrevocability is a fundamental feature of CC tools, designed to ensure that anyone who uses the image can do so with the confidence that the author can’t withdraw the permissions they’ve previously granted. We believe that is essential to building a commons that people can rely on, and use permissively.</p>
<h3><strong>Attribution</strong></h3>
<p>CC0 does not require attribution, though we encourage users to do so because it gives gratitude to the creator, and can support further re-use by linking to the original work and its license. The new Unsplash-branded license doesn’t require attribution, but the <a href="https://community.unsplash.com/developersblog/unsplash-api-guidelines">Unsplash API guidelines</a> do require attribution. So depending on how a user, a developer, or their app retrieves the image from the Unsplash service, they are subject to different terms.</p>
<h3><strong>Copyright and sub-licensing</strong></h3>
<p>The new Unsplash terms of service require users who share to grant a copyright license to Unsplash, which permits them to sub-license their work. Unsplash also requires users to grant them the authority to enforce copyright on their behalf. Beyond the compilation of photos in a competing service, it is not clear if there are other scenarios under which Unsplash would enforce copyright against reusers.</p>
<h3><strong>CC0 Collection and Archive</strong></h3>
<p>Following the switch to the new Unsplash-branded license, there is no marking of works that were previously shared in the public domain using CC0. The Unsplash API restricts/obscures the full CC0 collection, which we believe to be about 200,000 images, but it isn’t possible to access the complete archive. In order to ensure that the commons is maintained, we hope that Unsplash will either a) properly mark all the works shared using CC0 and/or b) make available a full archive of the CC0 works so they can be shared on a platform that supports open licensing and public domain tools. Previous platforms that have gone under or abandoned open license tools have shared their CC archives for this purpose. We hope Unsplash will follow the same path.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/22/unsplash/">Community update: Unsplash branded license and ToS changes</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53114
title: In conversation with Jessamyn West, famous librarian
uri: In-conversation-with-Jessamyn-West-famous-librarian
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/23/jessamyn-west-2/
content:
<figure id="attachment_53115" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53115" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/23/jessamyn-west-2/jessamyn_west_at_desk_1/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1.jpg" data-orig-size="1600,1200" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot SD400&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1165246611&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;8.462&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Jessamyn_west_at_desk_(1)" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1-1024x768.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-53115" src="media/895d8eab.Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1-1024x768.jpg" alt="jessamyn" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jessamyn_west_at_desk_1.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Jessamyn West at Desk, Public Domain, via <a href="media/17e61be3.FileJessamyn_west_at_desk_1.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jessamyn_west_at_desk_(1).jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessamyn West is </span><a href="https://medium.com/tilty/king-of-the-dipshits-139658a95e0e"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a famous librarian,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a former Metafilter admin, and a Vermont information technologist with a passion for open knowledge.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">West has been blogging about library technology since 1999 at librarian.net and on her blog </span><a href="http://www.jessamyn.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">jessamyn.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> since 1999. She also has a prolific </span><a href="https://medium.com/@jessamyn"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Medium</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> presence and an entertaining and informative newsletter about libraries and information access, called </span><a href="https://medium.com/tilty"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TILT.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In addition to moderating the online Metafilter community, West has worked with Open Library, Harvard University, and the Rutland Free Library. An inspiring library activist, she designed the </span><a href="media/d2023740.Warrant_canary" data-original-source="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary"><span style="font-weight: 400;">library “warrant canary,”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and last year, she spearheaded the </span><a href="http://librarianofprogress.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Librarian of Progress</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> campaign, which encouraged the Library of Congress to modernize for the 21st Century.</span><strong><br />
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<p><strong>You made a website during the nomination process of the Librarian of Congress called &#8220;The Librarian of Progress.&#8221; Can you talk about Carla Hayden&#8217;s nomination and then appointment as the Librarian of Congress? What do you think is going to happen with the new LOC and how do you think it&#8217;s going to affect copyright in the future?</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think there&#8217;s a couple things that pile in together, right? Number one, I feel like the Library of Congress has been a little bit of a ghost ship for the last five, maybe even 10 years. James Billington, who&#8217;s this eminent historian, headed the institution as if it were like a history center. But not quite a library and certainly not a public institution that is the world&#8217;s largest library. I think when a lot of us were looking at &#8220;Gosh, he&#8217;s retiring. Thank God. Who&#8217;s going to come in?&#8221; We were just hoping there would be somebody who was from this century, number one, and number two, somebody who was friendly, progressive, and forward-thinking. A lot of people don&#8217;t really know that the copyright office sits within the Library of Congress. The Librarian of Congress is nominally in charge of the copyright office.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">She&#8217;s said copyright reform needs to happen – she&#8217;s definitely a sharing advocate, and a true public librarian who understands that culture is advanced when people are allowed to be creative with things. Hayden believes that libraries can be an institution that can help people do that—safely is maybe not the right word, but fairly. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Librarians don&#8217;t want copyright to go out the window. They just want it to be fair, they want it to be something that people can understand, and they want it to be something that people can use. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope that Dr. Hayden is really going to be the first Librarian of Congress who maybe gets that and can create an institution that can work with that.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><strong>Do you think that library values can be particularly important when it comes to the challenges facing the copyright office in the Library of Congress?</strong><strong><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think so. Libraries work for everyone, they don&#8217;t necessarily just work for their customers, they don&#8217;t necessarily just work for the people with money, and they don&#8217;t necessarily just work for the people in charge. There&#8217;s a democratizing factor with what they do. You realize that certain things about the way copyright works, the way copyright protection extends way, way back into history, some things seems to never enter the public domain, especially lately. Authors write that things can get locked up forever, things could be in an orphan work state where you have no idea who owns it and it&#8217;s just presumed that it&#8217;s not available to be used, unless you can prove it&#8217;s available to be used. I feel like libraries can have a mitigating factor on that because they can accept some of the risk. They can say, &#8220;We feel it&#8217;s probably okay to share this.&#8221;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The MPAA and RIAA work for the rights holders—who maybe be different than the actual creators—but in general the behavior of industry organizations is understandable. It&#8217;s not necessarily in their best interest to be crystal clear about what the law does and doesn&#8217;t allow. It&#8217;s a lot more in their interest to be slightly scary and to make you afraid so that if you&#8217;re making a video in your kid&#8217;s house, and your kids appear in a video, and you know the music in the background is an artist that&#8217;s notoriously litigious, maybe you&#8217;re not going to do that. As far as the RIAA is concerned, that&#8217;s fine with them. Don&#8217;t play Metallica in the background. Don&#8217;t paint Mickey Mouse on the wall of your daycare. All the rights holders want you to worry and second guess your use of their content, and what the library would like you to do is share legally as much as you can. They can help people and I think their values of working for everybody push forward that goal.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</strong><strong>How do you feel about the concept of the commons and knowledge of licensing, like Creative Commons? Do you feel that CC can help in these kinds of situations?</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I feel like it&#8217;s a great tool for cultural heritage organizations. Not just libraries, but museums and archives too, because then they also use it for sharing their own resources—to a certain extent. I use Creative Commons to license the content that I put online. I like it because it essentially says, &#8220;Look, I&#8217;m making this freely available, but I don&#8217;t want other people making money for it.&#8221; I can dial in how I want people to be able to use my work. Maybe someone else just want to give away all the rights and they can dial that in too. I think the only thing really standing in the way of Creative Commons is that some people aren&#8217;t clear what the enforcement mechanisms are.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think we&#8217;ve seen people who share their content as freely as possible, but then other people sell it and they say, &#8220;What? That&#8217;s not in the spirit of it.&#8221; We&#8217;re not talking about the spirit. We&#8217;re talking about an actual license, which means you have to read the fine print and everything else. I think we&#8217;re seeing a ton of libraries using tools like Flickr, for instance, online photo archiving, and it&#8217;s awesome for them to be able to assign Creative Commons licensing to it to expand their options beyond either only public domain or only all rights reserved. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC gives them options that are more true to their values, and I think that act facilitates sharing and reusing, repurposing, remixing, and all that wonderful stuff that helps culture move along. It&#8217;s joyful, honestly. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I really am happy that CC exists, but I&#8217;m always surprised how many people I talk to who either don&#8217;t quite understand it or they don&#8217;t see that it&#8217;s actually a tool of facilitation, not a tool of restriction.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><strong>It sounds like a lot of the different examples we&#8217;ve been talking about have to do with fear and confusion. This culture of fear around people using and sharing material and using and sharing licenses. I&#8217;m wondering if you could talk a little bit about how that has influenced your work, both as a librarian and also as a MetaFilter moderator, and the other work that you&#8217;ve done over your career as an advocate for free and open information.</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I spend a lot of time trying to talk people through some worst case scenarios, because I think one of the problems is chilling effects of unclear rules. People aren&#8217;t sure what the rules are, and so they over-censor themselves or over-restrict, or they try to shame other people into doing that. For 10 years, I ran MetaFilter, which is a big online community. There are lot of people interacting and talking to one another. You would occasionally get someone who would write, &#8220;There&#8217;s this scientific paper that I think is super interesting,&#8221; and they would link to an abstract or a news article about the paper. Then in the comments, someone would tell them, &#8220;Here is a PDF, or contact me to get a PDF of that paper.&#8221; Maybe the PDF is available, but it&#8217;s only in a commercial journal, you have to pay 50 bucks to get it. They&#8217;d share it out. Then other people would say, &#8220;That&#8217;s so illegal,&#8221; and freak out.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a moderator on the site, we have to be a mitigating influence and tell people, &#8220;Look, it&#8217;s up to the rights holder to determine if there&#8217;s a problem. Sharing a PDF among 30 people is maybe technically a copyright infringement, but it&#8217;s probably not going put you in jail.&#8221; I think the MPAA and the RIAA really like to blur that line. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s nice to pirate all music because it’s no good for struggling artists, but I don&#8217;t think sharing a Metallica song is really the same thing as stealing the records from somebody&#8217;s house. I think the entertainment industry tries to obscure that boundary because their revenue stream depends on it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In terms of sharing information in online communities, the risk is so low and the value of people having better information about medicine, for example, is so valuable that it&#8217;s worth approaching the outlines of that envelope and trying to figure out how you can maximize sharing. I think for some libraries, they worry a lot about risk assessment because they&#8217;re government institutions. Not so much &#8220;We&#8217;re the government,&#8221; but if the library gets sued by the MPAA, that&#8217;s a town getting sued by the MPAA, and it’s expensive. I like it when non-profit institutions are willing to go to bat for better interpretations of copyright laws. We saw the Hathi Trust lawsuit and the Google Books lawsuit. The Internet Archive is always willing to stand up for sharing as much as possible. These public interest institutions can really help model appropriate risk assessment.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, the Internet Archive shares thousands of video games from the 1990s that nobody was playing anymore and the original companies have probably abandoned, but if someone comes along and says, &#8220;Hey, that belongs to me and I own the rights, will you take it down?&#8221; they will. In the meantime, the Archive provides access to games that people can play and share and talk about, and it surfaces culture in a way that if they were concerned only about chilling effects and “maybe this isn&#8217;t technically legal,” they never would. I&#8217;m happy that those organizations are out there, and I&#8217;m always advocating for libraries to join in the sharing as much as is possible. And I think for libraries this type of sharing is usually practical because they can shoulder a little bit more risk than one individual patron might be able to.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</strong><strong>You work and live in Vermont, and in your library, the internet and having access to cultural works online can open up the world to a lot of people. I&#8217;m wondering while the culture of commoning can open up new frontiers for students and educators, how are you and your organization branching that digital divide? Are you or how are you using tools such as Creative Commons to help cultural heritage organizations bridge that gap?</strong><strong><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the things I try to do all the time when I&#8217;m educating users about Creative Commons and the other things is just showing people where these deep archives of content are already available to them. One of the aspects of the digital divide is that people only have ideas about content, archives, and information that they read about in the paper. If you ask somebody what they know about Wikipedia when all they have is access to a newspaper and don&#8217;t use the internet that much, they’ll ask me &#8220;That&#8217;s that place where everybody yells at each other and people vandalize it all the time,&#8221; and they have all these weird ideas. I was like, &#8220;Okay, that happens, but did you know that every picture you see on Wikipedia you can have for free?&#8221; A lot of them don&#8217;t know that.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Part of how Wikipedia works is the content that&#8217;s available is freely licensed so that people can have it and use it. Somebody wants to make a YouTube video or maybe they got in trouble because they put up a YouTube video of something and it had a copyrighted song on in the background, and I let them know, &#8220;You know the Creative Commons has a search engine where you can search for music that you can use as a background to your video and it&#8217;s all licensed for you to use, reuse, mix, and share.&#8221; A lot of times they don&#8217;t. A lot of times what I&#8217;m talking to people about is ways to help transplant things maybe they want, but they can&#8217;t have, with things that they can have that are equivalent.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our public library is digitally divided enough that it&#8217;s actually fairly difficult to even have a program about Wikipedia and have people show up, because people say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why that would work.&#8221; If you hang out in a library with a scanner and help people take their photographs and put them online, or even show them other people&#8217;s photographs and then put them on the internet, you have to find what makes this stuff a genuine option for people. You have to figure out what the hook is that&#8217;s going to bring them in and be like, &#8220;That&#8217;s also a problem for me and I’d like to solve it.&#8221; In this region, a lot of it is family history books that are freely searchable via the internet archives. Or music that you can find through the Creative Commons searches that you can use on YouTube videos. Or historical photos on Wikipedia that you might use to illustrate a book report.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">What kinds of random things do people want to go look up? YouTube videos about tractor engines running. Never would&#8217;ve known that&#8217;s a thing, but apparently there&#8217;s a ton of them, and a lot of them are available, shareable, embeddable, because even Youtube licensing strictly, videos can often can at least be shared around. I encourage people when they&#8217;re using the internet to think about the benefits of having that be shareable for everyone, and try to educate them appropriately about the downsides to it as well. I think a lot of people are under the misapprehension that if you share a picture on the internet then everybody just steals it, or takes it and draws a mustache on your baby&#8217;s face, or worse. Realistically, there&#8217;s so much information out there, most of the time people aren&#8217;t going to focus on harassing individual users, but if you do find the right user who can use that tractor engine video, of all the things, that&#8217;s really made a connection, and that&#8217;s, again, helped cultural progress, which is really I think what we&#8217;re all about in a library.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><strong>I think maybe some of this is the about first taste of recognition. I was having a conversation with someone at the bank and they saw who I worked for, and they said, &#8220;You know that my photo is the photo for challah on Wikipedia? It&#8217;s the best. I just love it.&#8221;</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">My mom is a huge sharer of photos using Flickr. She does some of them public domain and some of them not. She has a ton of those stories and she is a 70-ish-year-old lady living in rural Massachusetts, and she&#8217;s connected with a ton of people like that. She takes pictures of cats at the cat shelter to help cats get adopted. It&#8217;s enriched her life just doing her own things that she would basically be doing normally, but she sticks a sharing license on them and I think part of that also, she sticks a sharing license on them, and Flickr has mechanisms where you can search for stuff that&#8217;s shareable. It&#8217;s not just the power of Creative Commons, which I&#8217;m already jazzed about, but the fact that that&#8217;s built in now to search engines.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</strong><strong>Have you seen a significant change in your own community in the last few years with smartphones really becoming a much more viable option for a larger group of people?</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A little bit. I think smartphones are a lot more about instant connectivity, Instagram and Snapchat, and to look stuff up on the internet. We haven&#8217;t seen, at least in my community, too many people using smartphones to be creators of content. I taught an HTML class last fall at the local community college, and we spent a day talking about alternative licensing, we talked about Creative Commons licensing. I got to test and quiz kids on what does BY-NC mean and stuff. They didn&#8217;t quite see it as totally relevant to themselves because they didn&#8217;t see themselves as content creators. The couple kids who were musicians or web designers, they believed that this served them. Out of about 30 kids, I probably had four or five who really viewed themselves as creators. The makerspace communities that have taken root in bigger cities is only slowly getting here. These may be kids who build their own tractors, build their own cars. Literally building physically out of things, but the digital maker way hasn&#8217;t quite hit here yet. </span></p>
<p><strong>Do you think that there&#8217;s anything that apps or that the people who are making apps, particularly people who are making apps for the cultural heritage sphere for libraries could do to make to help people feel more like makers on the web?</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think about Wikipedia, right, and Wikipedia really, really wants people to upload and share images. All sorts of content, but images especially because it&#8217;s easy.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think the missing sharing point is unless you&#8217;re a cultural heritage institution who can bulk upload a bunch of stuff because you&#8217;ve been in touch with the Wikipedia organization and you know how to do it, it’s not going work very well. The average person doesn&#8217;t know they can get free storage for their content on Wikipedia. I feel like we still could have sharing tools that work better than the ones we have now that facilitated accurate licensing, but for people affected by the digital divide, the fact that they don’t have access to computers or the web means they don’t have access to a lot of other tools.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><strong>Can you talk a little bit about how you teach the ethos of sharing within your community, particularly with social networks, like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, when a lot of folks are coming online and that&#8217;s the first world that they&#8217;re encountering?</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A lot of what I do is teach people how to use things. I teach people what some of the normative expectations of the space are, which can be challenging because there&#8217;s a lot of ways to be “normal” on Facebook. You can use it in a million different ways and nothing&#8217;s totally correct, but there are normative ways to use it. If you take a picture of someone else&#8217;s kids, for example, maybe you don&#8217;t make that picture public or maybe you don&#8217;t use that kid&#8217;s name. Maybe you do, depending on your community. That&#8217;s the thing that people need to put some thought into.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">If I&#8217;m looking at Twitter, there are accounts like the History in Pics account, and it posts all these really interesting historical photos, but sometimes with semi-questionable captions. There&#8217;s whole other accounts dedicated to telling them, &#8220;Hey, I don&#8217;t actually think that caption is what that picture is really about. I actually did five minutes of research and realized that that thing that you pulled from that other random site wasn&#8217;t the thing you said it was.&#8221; I show people what the back and forth is that if there&#8217;s questions about where something came from, there are actually ways to figure it out. It&#8217;s not like, &#8220;It&#8217;s the internet. Nobody can figure anything out.&#8221; I teach them about research. I teach them about Google&#8217;s reverse image search. I teach them about how you can ask any librarian anywhere on the internet if you have a question. I think people think they can only talk to their own librarian. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I don&#8217;t think people know that the library system is there for them, and if I have a question about Colorado College, I can go ask the librarian at Colorado College and they will help me. They don&#8217;t do a ton of in depth research for me, but they can definitely help me. I try to teach people how there are humans you can talk to who can help you figure out some of this stuff, even though Facebook themselves doesn&#8217;t really have tech support, but you may have a buddy who understands it. The most powerful thing I teach people is that if you have a problem with a thing that you&#8217;re using, you&#8217;re not the first one.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&#8217;s hard because the meta message is that you&#8217;re not special, but a lot of times if you Google an error message you’re seeing on your computer, you can find people discussing the exact problem that you also have. The thing I hear again and again from people is why doesn&#8217;t ‘X’ have a manual. The thing I have to keep telling people is the collective group of people on the internet </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">are your manual</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. It&#8217;s not awesome because a lot of times people feel like that doesn&#8217;t work for them, they don&#8217;t understand it, they feel out of their element. It feels weird, but realistically, when you try it, it does work. Part of what I try to do is model good behavior with my own social media behavior. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also I try to model not being frustrated. When people say, &#8220;Their pictures are stupid. They upload too many pictures. I don&#8217;t care about that person&#8217;s baby. Too much Trump.&#8221; I&#8217;m like, &#8220;Okay. Let me show you how to limit pictures of that person&#8217;s baby or ban the word &#8216;Trump&#8217; from your front page of your Facebook.&#8221; There&#8217;s a lot of tools that we can use to empower us, but I think a lot of people presume the default role of technology is to be disempowered, which is not how I see it, but I can see how they see it that way. I try to get them turn that around and show them that there are tools that can help them. I&#8217;m part of the help manual for this system basically.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just walk the talk. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you&#8217;re interested enough in Creative Commons to be reading this, share your stuff, put your content online, help other people do it, and spread the word. I think that&#8217;s the most important thing that super fans can be doing at this point.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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<figure id="attachment_53179" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53179" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/27/ccworld/panorama/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panorama.jpg" data-orig-size="2362,1575" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1497220680&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;17&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;3200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="panorama" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panorama-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panorama-1024x683.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-53179" src="media/49850abf.panorama-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panorama-1024x683.jpg" alt="bccn-panorama-staff" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panorama-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panorama-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panorama-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panorama-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panorama-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panorama-232x155.jpg 232w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panorama-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Panorama Staff at BCCN, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p><em>by Fernando Paniagua, Andreu Meixide. Photos provided by Ester Villacampa.</em></p>
<p>More than 1500 people attended the last edition of <a href="http://www.bccn.cc/">BccN</a> (Barcelona Creative Commons Film Festival), celebrated in this city from June 7th to 11th. <strong>In 2010, it was the first worldwide festival for films licensed under Creative Commons</strong>, and eight years later, it is much more than that. With digitalization, there comes a new distribution of power, the critical review of intermediaries, and the active role of citizenship both in the reception and the creation of content. Creative Commons licenses are a tool that helps us to deal with these motivating changes, in particular with intellectual property in the digital era. They are part of our <strong>political stance, in the intersection between free culture, common good and cinema, </strong>as we are constantly fostering new models of positive social relationship based on the logics of the Internet.</p>
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<p>BccN has been hosted for all these years by MACBA (Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona), but screenings are also set up in cinemas (like Zumzeig this year) or public spaces as determined by the community. BccN puts different topics on the table through <strong>films,</strong> <strong>performances, discussions and hybrid shows </strong>(such as live cinema or work in progress). This year, the programme conceived by <a href="http://www.panorama180.org/">Panorama 180</a>, the non profit organisation behind the festival, drew an <strong>imaginary line from communities to Commons, under the slogan of </strong>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKy0bo5JQaE">Sharing is caring</a>” – communities that fight to preserve either their rights or their natural resources. Among international guests, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bccnfilmfestival/videos/1383675221669597/">OvO</a> (a duo with <a href="http://www.norikookaku.com/">Noriko Okaku </a>and Akihide Monna), offered a workshop and a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbsPkfVb94Y">performance</a> in the consideration of memory, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ-f76cvgE8">Marc Meillassoux</a>, the young director of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv3qSfKjCPI">Nothing to Hide</a> presented his work. The film deals with surveillance and the misleading argument of “I have nothing to hide”</p>
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<p>On Saturday, we also released the digital platform <a href="http://ccworlfestivals.cc/">CCWorld</a> (Media Commons Network). CCWorld is a network of festivals from all over the world, which aims to <strong>share</strong>, extend and promote audiovisual <strong>works that follow openness and free culture criteria.</strong> CC World is a network of free adhesion and <strong>peer collaboration on a global scale for local action and transformation</strong>. Since 2012, Panorama 180 puts at disposal of any interested collective or person all the materials generated in the realization of its own festival (from films to press notices), with the only condition that they return to the community new materials and knowledge acquired. This is intended to guarantee the sustainability of a common resource, as well as its renewal.</p>
<figure id="attachment_53175" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53175" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/27/ccworld/opening_night/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/opening_night.jpg" data-orig-size="5184,3456" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1496864684&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="opening_night" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/opening_night-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/opening_night-1024x683.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-53175" src="media/f6c33f76.opening_night-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/opening_night-1024x683.jpg" alt="bccn" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/opening_night-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/opening_night-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/opening_night-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/opening_night-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/opening_night-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/opening_night-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/opening_night-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Opening night, BCCN</figcaption></figure>
<p>As a result, there are <strong>more than 25 nodes</strong> holding fully self-managed festivals around the world which, at the same time, are part of a collaborative and decentralized governance network. Organizers of <a href="https://bogota.festivaldecine.cc/">Bogotá CC &amp; New Media Film Festival</a> (running for three years now), <a href="http://www.ccworldfestivals.cc/festivales/ccvad16/">Valladolid CC Film Festival</a> (5 editions), <a href="http://www.ccworldfestivals.cc/festivales/festival-de-cinema-en-creative-commons-a-la-conca-de-barbera/">La Conca de Barberà CC Film Festival</a> and the one which will take place in Prague next year were invited to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnzCcKhgWGU">meeting</a>. Each of them have their own flavor, from small locations to big cultural events.</p>
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<p>CCWorld, as each of its festivals, tries to put a spotlight on the benefits of free circulation of culture and technology, as well as their transformation and appropriation by small communities. We believe culture, as any other Common, should be treated as a right instead of something to speculate with, and digitalization opens the window to collaboration and community. This is the reason why we would like to invite local collectives to join the community in order to share their own festival.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53183
title: CC accueille les francophones: Welcome the CC 4.0 French License Translations!
uri: CC-accueille-les-francophones-Welcome-the-CC-4-0-French-License-Trans
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https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/28/cc-accueille-les-francophones-welcome-cc-4-0-french-license-translations/

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<figure id="attachment_53184" style="width: 561px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53184" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/28/cc-accueille-les-francophones-welcome-cc-4-0-french-license-translations/cc-40-license-team/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-40-license-team.png" data-orig-size="561,424" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="cc-40-license-team" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-40-license-team-300x227.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-40-license-team.png" class="wp-image-53184 size-full" src="media/f66464d6.cc-40-license-team.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-40-license-team.png" alt="cc-license-translators" width="561" height="424" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-40-license-team.png 561w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-40-license-team-300x227.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-40-license-team-53x40.png 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-40-license-team-50x38.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cc-40-license-team-205x155.png 205w" sizes="(max-width: 561px) 85vw, 561px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">CC 4.0 license translation team members meeting in Ouagadougou, CC France, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p>After more than two years of dedicated effort by an extraordinary group of CC francophone community members from more than 8 countries around the globe, we are delighted to publish the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.fr">official translations</a> of our 4.0 licenses in French. More than 220 million people around the world speak French as a primary or secondary language, and French is an official language in more than two dozen countries. This effort magnifies the reach and understanding of our licenses across all continents.</p>
<p>The French language translation involved two face-to-face meetings in 2016, the first in Paris and the second in Ouagadougou. Unique to this translation is that participants from both civil and common law legal traditions converged on a common translation of the six licenses. CC thanks the tireless efforts of translation leads Nicolas Jupillat of CC Canada, Daniele Bourcier of CC France, and Patrick Peiffer of CC Luxembourg. These three were supported in their efforts by many over the course of the translation work, including Esther Ngom from Cameroon and Prof. Tonssira Myriam Sanou from Burkina Faso, who co-organized the Ouagadougou meeting.</p>
<p>The translations and the face-to-face meetings would not have been possible without funding by Wikimedia Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.</p>
<p>Additional thanks for their valuable contributions goes to: Dr. Etienne Alla from Côte d&#8217;Ivoire, Simon Ayedoun from Benin, Florian Ducommun of CC Switzerland, Mawusee Komla Foli-Awli from Togo, Abdou Malam Garba from Niger, Moumouni Krissiamba Ouiminga and Philomène Medah from Burkina Faso, Primavera De Filippi and Batoul Betty Merhi of CC France, Christophe Traisnel, Anne-Laure Riotte, and Gwen Franck, former CC Regional Coordinator for Europe.</p>
<p>For details about the translation and additional contributors to the process, please see the notes posted to our <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/French">wiki here</a>. You can expect details about the public discussion process, language choices, and other decisions to be documented there in the coming months.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53188
title: GIFT film tells the story of sharing around the world
uri: GIFT-film-tells-the-story-of-sharing-around-the-world
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/29/gift-film-tells-story-sharing-around-world/
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<p>We featured Robin McKenna’s new film <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GIFTdocumentary/">GIFT</a> in a special session at the CC Global Summit. Inspired by <em>The Gift,</em> Lewis Hyde’s seminal work on creativity, culture, and art, McKenna&#8217;s film tells moving stories of remarkable generosity and sharing, from Alaska to Black Rock City to Seoul to New York City. Her work has taken her around the world and into the lives and homes of artists and communities motivated by an intrinsic giving force outside of the market economy, in service of the spirit that moves all artists. In a <a href="http://www.shareable.net/blog/documentary-illuminates-the-power-of-gift-culture">2014 interview with Shareable</a>, McKenna says, “I started thinking more about interior gifts, the openness involved in the creative process, the role of chance and accident, the gifts that come to us when we’re ready to receive them. This kind of circulation of gifts has been central to my whole life, the choices I’ve made, and my creative path.”</p>
<p>A call to action to bolster the transformative power of gifting globally, McKenna’s film is a much needed meditation on the role of sharing in the world today.</p>
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<p><strong>In what ways are you inspired by Lewis Hyde&#8217;s work? In what ways do you diverge? How do you balance the act of documentary filmmaking with the book&#8217;s creative ethnography, and how do you make Hyde&#8217;s words come to life for a documentary audience?</strong></p>
<p>I think the book articulated something for me that I had kind of intuited for many years, but hadn’t totally understood until I read it. When I was around 18 I had experiences of, for example, reading William Blake for the first time, or the beat poets, and feeling my heart stop: having the realization “this could change your life.”</p>
<blockquote><p>Art could transform you, spark something in you that changes you. Then that gift takes shape in you, in its own way, and maybe something else is created, out of that.</p></blockquote>
<p>I guess the book became that for me &#8211; a gift that transformed, shape-changed, and took 5 years to become this film.</p>
<p>I told Lewis I wanted to “remix his book for the 21st century.” What’s interesting is the book was written before the Internet existed, the free software movement, the “sharing economy”, any of this. The book came out in 1983, and it talks about the rise of the market economy and its dominance over the culture we live in. In some ways, considering how much more extreme those influences have now become (now, in the age of Trump, in almost a surreal way, right?) some passages in the book sound almost quaint or naïve. Now we almost take for granted the kind of “market triumphalism” that dominates every aspect of our lives.</p>
<p>Balancing the book and film was challenging! We experience a film so differently than a book &#8211; as a medium, cinema tends to be more emotional and experiential. Hyde uses fairytales and folktales as parables to illustrate his ideas. What I decided to do was follow four character-driven stories in different places in the world &#8211; and to try to weave the ideas through their stories. This way, the film takes us inside an experience, and a character; my hope is that we have a chance to feel the ideas, as opposed to just having them explained to us in words.</p>
<p><strong>In the book, Hyde writes, &#8220;The more we allow such commodity art to define and control our gifts, the less gifted we will become, as individuals and as a society. &#8221; How do you interpret this quote? How do you work within the commodity economy as an independent artist? How do you work outside of it?</strong></p>
<p>I spent some years working more in a TV context, as “director-for-hire”, and could feel a kind of conflict in myself: I knew there was something I needed to do that was more personal, more meaningful to me, that I wasn’t fully doing. And when I read The Gift, it spoke to that – how something is sparked in us, by our experience of art &#8211; and needs to come through us, somehow.</p>
<p>When I started making this film in 2013 I stopped working “for hire” almost completely, to just develop this and other personal projects. The Gift film is mostly financed, but not completely: so as producer/director, I’ve had to invest a lot of what I should have been paid to make it, to allow it to get made. So, I guess I’ve been facing the classic dilemma: devoting myself to something I love, not really making a living- basically going into debt.</p>
<p>I guess I haven’t totally solved that one: having to exist in a world where we have to pay rent, where it’s pretty hard to step outside that paradigm completely – although the inhabitants of the factory in Rome (and other people living in squats and occupations) do challenge that paradigm. But I will say that, since I stepped into the world of “the gift” and this film, almost 5 years ago, a circle of gifts and support has appeared. The number of friends who lent me their places, their couches, their support, love and encouragement, cooked meals for me, inspired me, kept me going… all in this kind of web of reciprocity. It’s something I wouldn’t have noticed or named in the same way before working on this project, and I don’t think I could have gotten this far without that support.</p>
<figure id="attachment_53196" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53196" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/29/gift-film-tells-story-sharing-around-world/a012_c005_1119sw/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat.jpg" data-orig-size="1500,633" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;EPIC-M&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1416389274&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A012_C005_1119SW&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="A012_C005_1119SW" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat-300x127.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat-1024x432.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-53196" src="media/d869583c.GIFT-boat-1024x432.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat-1024x432.jpg" alt="gift-boat" width="840" height="354" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat-1024x432.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat-300x127.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat-768x324.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat-95x40.jpg 95w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat-50x21.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat-270x114.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat-1200x506.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-boat.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Film still from GIFT, courtesy of Intuitive Pictures</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>How did you choose your subjects for the documentary? How did you find them? What do they all have in common, and how do they differ? How do they relate to the theme of Gift economy?</strong></p>
<p>Hyde talks about this in relation to the tradition of the indigenous tradition of the potlatch, on the Pacific Northwest Coast- where the person who gives the most is the most respected person in the culture. That was one of the first passages that really struck me- I had the thought: imagine if we all saw the world that way, how different the world could be?</p>
<p>Hyde focuses on the Kwakuitl, now call themselves Kwak’wakwala, I did a bit of research, reached out to the community in Alert Bay, BC, and they connected me with a young artist and carver, Marcus Alfred, who was 30 and planning his first potlatch- spending years saving money, so he could give it all away. I went to BC and met Marcus and his family, spent time in the workshop where the guys were carving- and found the potlatch really was at the centre of a whole system of values, a way of seeing the world. Still going strong in the 21st century. That kind of amazed me. I think that’s when I became convinced I could make this a character-driven film.</p>
<p>So some of the stories, like the potlatch, connect very directly to the book. The artist Lee Mingwei, whose work I read about and loved, many years ago: Buddhist-influenced, confounding the boundaries between art and life, creating trust between strangers. While making the film, I looked him up &#8211; and discovered, synchronistically, that his work is actually directly influenced by Hyde’s thinking.</p>
<p>I wanted a Burning Man story as well, if only because it’s such a visually surreal and fantastical world. When I interviewed Larry Harvey, one of the founders of Burning Man, he told me when they decided to proactively make the idea of “gift economy” one of the core principles of the event, it was actually inspired by having read Hyde’s book-! Which I didn’t know, and was fascinated to hear.</p>
<p>The last storyline I found, an abandoned factory in Rome illegally occupied by 200 migrants and precarious workers, protected by art and artists- is maybe the less obvious story, in connection to the book. But Hyde writes “There are many connections between anarchist theory and gift exchange as an economy.” It was a story about art, that also had some political edge to it- that spoke more directly to the state of the world right now.</p>
<p><strong>The themes of circularity and storytelling are central to Lewis Hyde&#8217;s book. How do you draw on these themes, and how do you interpret them? How do they relate to your film?</strong></p>
<p>In the film, as he prepares for the potlatch, Marcus says “The more you can give, the bigger a chief you are. To see how many people you’re able to bring to your potlatch: and if you’ve helped people along the way, then that part shouldn’t be a problem, because the circle just goes around and around. And if somebody starts to drop off, then it no longer remains a circle.” He’s talking about reciprocity, the circle of the gift, how what we’ve given comes back to us &#8211; not always the way we expected.</p>
<p>All the stories have an element of this circularity- and it becomes also metaphorical, speaking to our inner gifts. “What we’ve been given needs to be given away, not kept”. Hyde begins by talking about this in terms of actual gift exchange, but then it becomes about the creative gift- that comes to us in a way we can’t demand or buy, that’s bestowed, in the manner of a gift- and that, as creative people, we need to give away again, to share and express.</p>
<p>You could say each of these stories, and the experiences behind them, have been a gift, entrusted to me &#8211; now I need to release this film into the world, and share the stories again, so the gift can keep moving. ☺</p>
<figure id="attachment_53195" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53195" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/29/gift-film-tells-story-sharing-around-world/a007_c026_1105zw/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving.jpg" data-orig-size="1500,633" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;EPIC-M&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1415220950&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A007_C026_1105ZW&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="A007_C026_1105ZW" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving-300x127.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving-1024x432.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-53195" src="media/1ef1bcfd.GIFT-carving-1024x432.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving-1024x432.jpg" alt="carver-gift" width="840" height="354" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving-1024x432.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving-300x127.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving-768x324.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving-95x40.jpg 95w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving-50x21.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving-270x114.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving-1200x506.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GIFT-carving.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Film still from GIFT, courtesy of Intuitive Pictures</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Why are the commons important? How can the commons and gift culture provide an antidote to the prevailing currency of excess?</strong></p>
<p>Many years after The Gift, Lewis Hyde wrote a book called Common As Air, exploring this idea of the cultural commons. Of course there’s a lot of overlap between the ideas, like the importance of protecting shared spaces outside the market economy. He writes,</p>
<p>The free market is surrounded by full and well-elaborated speech, but the commons is not. It is therefore hard for us to reckon the value of our common assets, and hard to know how best to protect them, keep them lively, and continue to engender them. It is hard to be good stewards of a wealth so few can see or seem to care about.</p>
<p>In the potlatch story in the film, Marcus’ father Wayne says, “Wealth is many many things – Not just money. Money burns the cheapest of all of them.” The Gift is about the value of something that can’t be measured or counted in numbers. Protecting our common assets, and shared wealth, including the planet we live on… I think it’s becoming more urgent to consider the importance of protecting this wealth, and these spaces, before they’re bulldozed completely.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53217
title: Openscore’s plans to liberate sheet music
uri: Openscore-s-plans-to-liberate-sheet-music
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/30/openscores-plans-liberate-sheet-music/
content:
<p><em>This is a guest post from Peter Jonas of <a href="https://musescore.org/en/user/57401/blog/2017/01/11/introducing-openscore">Openscore,</a> a recently Kickstarted initiative to open up sheet music under CC0. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/">Learn more about CC0</a> and its powerful role for cultural heritage organizations and be sure to <a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/newsletter?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_campaign=donate2017&amp;utm_content=openscore">sign up for our email list</a> for more great content.</em></p>
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<p>OpenScore is a new crowdsourcing initiative that aims to digitize classical sheet music by composers whose works are in the public domain, like Mozart and Beethoven. Massive crowdsourced projects such as Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg and OpenStreetMap have done wonders for the democratisation of knowledge, putting information and power in the hands of ordinary people.</p>
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<p>OpenScore hopes to transform history’s most influential pieces from paper music into interactive digital scores, which you can listen to, edit, and share this will hopefully benefit orchestras, choirs, ensembles, and individuals looking for materials from which to practice music. All OpenScore sheet music editions are freely distributed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/newsletter?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_campaign=donate2017&amp;utm_content=openscore">Creative Commons Zero (CC0)</a>. In doing this, we want to maximize the benefit to music education and research, and inspire composers and arrangers to produce new content.</p>
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<p><iframe src="https://musescore.com/openscore/scores/4053926/embed" width="100%" height="394" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span><a href="https://musescore.com/openscore/scores/4053926">Beethoven &#8211; Für Elise (Bagatelle No. 25, WoO 59)</a> by <a href="https://musescore.com/openscore">OpenScore</a></span></p>
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<p>OpenScore is the result of a partnership between two of the largest online sheet music communities: <a href="https://musescore.com/">MuseScore</a> and <a href="https://imslp.org/">IMSLP</a>. Since 2006 the IMSLP community has been searching for out-of-copyright musical editions, scanning and uploading them to create one of the world’s largest online archives of public domain sheet music in PDF format. MuseScore has a dedicated community of millions of people around the world who use MuseScore’s website and open source notation software to compose, arrange, practise and share digital sheet music. OpenScore will draw on these communities to transcribe the IMSLP editions, which are currently just pictures of pages, into interactive digital scores by typing them up, one note at a time, into MuseScore’s sheet music editor.</p>
<p>OpenScore’s digital scores are available in the popular MusicXML format, which can be opened in most notation programs, and is readily converted to guitar tablature or other forms of notation. The scores can also be parsed by software tools for research and analysis purposes, and even turned into artistic visualisations, such as this visualization of Vivaldi’s <em>Four Seasons</em> by <a href="https://www.c82.net/offthestaff/">Nicholas Rougeux</a>. Nicholas is a digital artist and web designer based in Chicago, and he has agreed to create a unique cover image for each OpenScore Edition based on the music in the score.</p>
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<p>Visualization of Vivaldi’s <em>Four Seasons</em> by <a href="https://www.c82.net/offthestaff/">Nicholas Rougeux</a></p>
<p>We’ve had a number of people reach out to us who are interested in transcribing, and thanks to them we’ve been able to publish the very first <a href="https://musescore.com/openscore">OpenScore Editions</a>. If you are interested in joining our campaign as a transcriber, please see this post on the <a href="https://musescore.org/en/node/225471">MuseScore forums</a>.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53221
title: A Conversation about Making the Web More Human: kickoff event for CC’s prosocial work
uri: 2017-07-05-
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/05/prosocial/
content:
<p><em><a href="https://medium.com/@creativecommons/making-the-web-more-human-ac40ab4d3df2">Read a full recap on Medium.</a></em></p>
<p>As part of our effort to build a more vibrant and usable commons, CC is trying to hone in on what makes sharing truly meaningful. We believe that very often, it is the connection you make with other humans that is the most valuable part of the sharing experience. Whether it is an interaction you have with someone who reads your blog, or a creative collaboration you have with another musician, applying a CC license to your creative work and sharing it with the world becomes even more meaningful if it leads to connections with other people.</p>
<p>We want to find ways to foster and encourage those connections. To do this, we are broadening our focus to look more holistically at sharing and collaboration online. We are calling this our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/toward-better-internet-building-prosocial-behavior-commons/"><em>prosocial work</em></a> &#8212; investigating the values and behaviors that lead to successful collaboration. While this effort will lead us into topics that extend beyond CC licensing, our goal is to gather fodder for our work to infuse those values and behaviors more deeply into the experience of sharing with CC.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53222" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/05/prosocial/screen-shot-2017-07-05-at-11-42-56-am/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-11.42.56-AM.png" data-orig-size="450,334" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2017-07-05 at 11.42.56 AM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-11.42.56-AM-300x223.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-11.42.56-AM.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53222" src="media/a1519460.Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-11.42.56-AM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-11.42.56-AM.png" alt="patreon-event" width="450" height="334" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-11.42.56-AM.png 450w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-11.42.56-AM-300x223.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-11.42.56-AM-54x40.png 54w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-11.42.56-AM-50x37.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-11.42.56-AM-209x155.png 209w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px" /></p>
<p><em>Thanks to <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/timothy/">tvol</a> who took this photo (</em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><em>CC BY</em></a><em>) and extensive notes that have allowed us to provide the summary on <a href="https://medium.com/@creativecommons/making-the-web-more-human-ac40ab4d3df2">Medium!</a></em></p>
<p>We recently hosted the kickoff event for this work. At Patreon’s office space in San Francisco, we brought together people from a wide variety of online sharing platforms for a panel discussion with representatives from Medium, Patreon, Wikimedia, and Reddit. We discussed questions such as <em>What can platforms do to promote more human interactions online? Are there times that introducing some of the inefficiencies of real-life interaction into online platforms can lead to more prosocial behavior? What role do platforms play in developing and memorializing the sharing and collaboration norms that develop within their communities? </em></p>
<p>A full recap of the wide-reaching discussion that followed is <a href="https://medium.com/@creativecommons/making-the-web-more-human-ac40ab4d3df2">available on Medium</a>. There were many interesting insights that emerged, but one of the most valuable aspects of the conversation was the fact that it was happening at all. As we heard from participants after the event, rarely do platforms like Reddit and Wikimedia get to appear on panels together and discuss the struggles and successes they each face within their online communities. As an organization founded to cultivate sharing across the web, CC is well-suited to foster these types of silo-busting conversations. As part of this work, we will be hosting more of these convenings over the coming year.</p>
<p>We’d love to hear from you about what and where our next conversation should be, and if you have suggestions for speakers with experience in behavioral research, technical or social design, or content sharing platforms that may be able to speak to these issues. We will host another conversation in San Francisco in October, with Los Angeles and New York City also possibilities for other months.</p>
<p>Email your ideas to jane or sarah [at] creativecommons [dot] org. We look forward to hearing from you and hosting you at our next conversation!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53237
title: CC files amicus brief explaining NC licenses in Great Minds v FedEx Office litigation
uri: CC-files-amicus-brief-explaining-NC-licenses-in-Great-Minds-v-FedEx-Of
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/06/cc-amicus-brief/
content:
<figure id="attachment_53238" style="width: 323px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="53238" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/06/cc-amicus-brief/school_david_howard/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/school_david_howard.jpg" data-orig-size="1920,2560" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-LZ20&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1436719599&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="school_david_howard" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/school_david_howard-225x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/school_david_howard-768x1024.jpg" class="wp-image-53238 " src="media/a822c8d3.school_david_howard-768x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/school_david_howard-768x1024.jpg" alt="school" width="323" height="431" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/school_david_howard-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/school_david_howard-225x300.jpg 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/school_david_howard-30x40.jpg 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/school_david_howard-38x50.jpg 38w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/school_david_howard-116x155.jpg 116w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/school_david_howard-1200x1600.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 323px) 85vw, 323px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/satguru/19479076968">“School”</a>by <i> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/satguru/">David Howard</a> </i>is licensed under<br /> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0"> CC BY 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Yesterday we asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for permission to file an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae"><em>amicus</em></a> brief in litigation involving our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode">BY-NC-SA 4.0 license</a>. (Full brief <a href="media/1bad89dd.Great-Minds-Amicus-Brief.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Great-Minds-Amicus-Brief.pdf">[pdf]</a>; motion <a href="media/dc771e49.Great-Minds-Amicus-Brief-and-Motion-for-Leave-to-File.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Great-Minds-Amicus-Brief-and-Motion-for-Leave-to-File.pdf">[pdf]</a>). We did so for two reasons: first, to share our understanding of how all of our licenses operate (not just the NC licenses) where an <em>entity</em>, rather than an individual, is using the work; and second, to explain how the NC licenses work when an entity properly using NC-licensed content hires a commercial copy shop to help it exercise its rights.</p>
<p>Rarely do <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Case_Law">legal disputes</a> arise over the interpretation of our licenses. And rarely has CC directly involved itself in those disputes through an <em>amicus</em> to lend our perspective. But sometimes it is important, especially where the fundamentals of our licenses are in question, or when a decision may seriously impact the open license ecosystem, such those at stake in <a href="media/b66185ea.creative-commons.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.copyright.gov/docs/mgm/creative-commons.pdf">Grokster</a>, <a href="media/70d64620.Jacobson_v_katzer_cc_brief.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/7/7c/Jacobson_v_katzer_cc_brief.pdf">Jacobsen</a>, and <a href="media/4813b8ca.10-545-tsac-Creative-Commons.pdf" data-original-source="http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/10-545-tsac-Creative-Commons.pdf">Golan</a>.</p>
<p>In this litigation, Great Minds sued FedEx Office for making copies, at the request of a school district, of educational materials it produced with public funding and licensed under the BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. (The original complaint and many of the related filings, including CC’s request for permission to file an amicus in the district court, are <a href="https://creativecommons.org/documents-great-minds-v-fedex-office-and-print-services-case/">here</a>). Importantly, Great Minds doesn’t argue that the school district’s use of the materials violates the NC restriction, but that FedEx Office does when it makes copies solely at the direction of the school district. We’ve <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/30/defending-noncommercial-uses-great-minds-v-fedex-office/">previously summarized the dispute</a> and shared before <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/09/why-were-fighting-to-protect-noncommercial-uses/">why we’re fighting to protect non commercial uses</a> despite criticism of our NC licenses by some communities.</p>
<p>The interpretation we urge in our <a href="media/1bad89dd.Great-Minds-Amicus-Brief.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Great-Minds-Amicus-Brief.pdf"><em>amicus</em> brief</a> – and the only interpretation that is borne out by common sense, the unambiguous language of the license, and established law – is that:</p>
<p>[a] school district may permissibly use FedEx Office as a means by which the school district exercises its own licensed rights. The license does not restrict the school district to using only employees to exercise those rights; it allows the school district to engage anyone— employees and non-employee contractors alike—to do so.</p>
<p>This is not to say that commercial copy shops can copy NC content without restrictions, but instead to clarify that when acting solely at the direction and request of an organization that is <em>itself</em> only using the work for non commercial purposes, as Great Minds has conceded the school district is, a third party like FedEx Office is sheltered by the non commercial user’s license.</p>
<p>To be sure, CC discourages use of the NC licenses in many situations, including where educational resources are funded using taxpayer dollars. But that community criticism by some and our discouragement as a policy matter in some situations aside, many creators of content appreciate and rely on our NC licenses to preserve their ability to commercially exploit their creations while still sharing those works with the worldwide public for other purposes. Moreover, in this litigation there is more at stake than just the proper interpretation of NC – the core question is about the proper functioning of all of our licenses: whether and when an entity may use non employees to exercise the rights our licenses grant.</p>
<p>As steward, we feel it important not only to support creators and licensees who are using CC-licensed works, but to also educate and ensure judges and courts understand how they operate. Otherwise, the overarching goal of facilitating sharing, and the very utility of our licenses – designed to be <strong><em>useful</em></strong> tools – are undermined. Great Minds has produced open educational resources (OER) using public funds that school districts in New York and elsewhere are eager to reproduce and use as a central part of their curriculum. If the interpretation of our licenses and NC that is offered by Great Minds is accepted, the plain text of our NC licenses will be contradicted, the utility of our NC licenses for reusers will be impaired, and real-life consequences will result that are counter-intuitive at best (we describe some of those cases in our brief).</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/06/cc-amicus-brief/">CC files amicus brief explaining NC licenses in Great Minds v FedEx Office litigation</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53250
title: Van Gogh, Monet, and… Mackinac Island? How CC Searchers are searching the commons
uri: Van-Gogh-Monet-and-Mackinac-Island-How-CC-Searchers-are-searchin
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/07/van-gogh-monet-mackinac-island-cc-searchers-searching-commons/

content:
<figure id="attachment_53251" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53251" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/07/van-gogh-monet-mackinac-island-cc-searchers-searching-commons/mackinac/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mackinac.jpg" data-orig-size="3264,2448" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1375203047&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.13&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0067114093959732&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="mackinac" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mackinac-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mackinac-1024x768.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-53251" src="media/a2351ae6.mackinac-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mackinac-1024x768.jpg" alt="mackinac" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mackinac-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mackinac-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mackinac-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mackinac-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mackinac-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mackinac-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mackinac-1200x900.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">This photo of fudge on Mackinac Island is one of the most popular photos on CC Search. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/9402763413">“Book Club on Mackinac Island” </a>by <i><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/katerha/">Kate Ter Haar </a></i>is licensed under CC BY 2.0.</figcaption></figure>
<p>We launched our new <a href="http://ccsearch.creativecommons.org">CC Search</a> tool in February with an amazing release from the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/07/met-announcement/">Met Museum</a>. Since then, over a million people have visited the site, searching for a wide variety of terms – many of which are related to the Met&#8217;s collection. Surprisingly popular searches include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island">&#8220;Mackinac Island,&#8221;</a> a 3.8 square mile island off the coast of Michigan. (Vacation on the mind, anyone?)</p>
<p>The tool is still in beta, but we&#8217;re making improvements to it every day, improving usability in the commons and providing a &#8220;front door&#8221; to help people access over 1.2 billion works, 9,994,327 of which are currently in CC Search.</p>
<p>Below, find some highlights from the last few months of searches. Be sure to sign up for <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/contact/newsletter/">our email list</a> for more content like this.</p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 23px; font-weight: 900;">Searchin&#8217; Safari</span></h3>
<ul>
<li>On average, people spend 4 minutes and 30 seconds on the search page.</li>
<li>The most traffic was on February 7, the day of the launch, with more than 120,000 visits to the site.</li>
<li>People have visited CC Search 1,780,000 times since launch.</li>
<li>CC Search most recently added the Europeana Collection of 430,000 digital objects, bringing the total number of objects to almost 10,000,000.</li>
</ul>
<h3>CC Searchers &lt;3 art:</h3>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Met searches make up 66.42% of total searches and Van Gogh, Monet, Botticelli, and Picasso are the most searched terms overall (irrespective of institution), followed by cat and dog.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/list/mine/impressionism-and-post-impressionism-fd804959">impressionism and post-impressionism</a> list is the most popular institutional list followed by the <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/list/mine/masterpiece-paintings-42cc0000">masterpiece paintings</a> list, but /list/mine is the most popular list overall. (duh!)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<figure id="attachment_53252" style="width: 599px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53252" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/07/van-gogh-monet-mackinac-island-cc-searchers-searching-commons/van_gogh/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/van_gogh.jpg" data-orig-size="599,474" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="van_gogh" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/van_gogh-300x237.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/van_gogh.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-53252" src="media/ceb07fe3.van_gogh.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/van_gogh.jpg" alt="van-gogh-wheat" width="599" height="474" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/van_gogh.jpg 599w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/van_gogh-300x237.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/van_gogh-51x40.jpg 51w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/van_gogh-50x40.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/van_gogh-196x155.jpg 196w" sizes="(max-width: 599px) 85vw, 599px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">“Wheat Field with Cypresses” by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Top ten museum objects, 2/1-7/7:</h3>
<p>1. <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/jbnFP7Z3sGzWuzGJlx5ZIQ==">“Wheat Field with Cypresses”</a> by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</p>
<p>2.<a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/x9INw3zeEJNrgAwSURPo6w=="> “Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)”</a> by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</p>
<p>3. <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/dy0JSngwCAgJ4tmMXFBVJw==">“Coronation of the Virgin”</a> by Paris, France (?), France, probably Paris via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</p>
<p>4. <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/76ydYp8QXuoWg7odJyHG6g==">“291 – Picasso-Braque Exhibition”</a> by Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</p>
<p>5. <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/Keijum-KLmwteAdmnoYsqA==">“France”</a> by Utagawa Yoshikazu (Japanese, active ca. 1850–1870), Japan via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</p>
<p>6. <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/YXqrg_uhpuV-XMDaheUjtA==">“Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies”</a> by Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</p>
<p>7. <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/Dgyy_osAoAGF3p5LLXIPng==">“Cypresses”</a> by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</p>
<p>8. <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/ZTkuYH4C2TsZX4aJ0FtdLA==">“Washington Crossing the Delaware”</a> by Emanuel Leutze (American, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1816–1868 Washington, D.C.) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</p>
<p>9. <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/YyteVKxvPQs25vJxGD-s_Q==">“Camille Monet (1847–1879) on a Garden Bench”</a> by Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</p>
<p>10. <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/image/detail/rqmO6c5nFyZnzCcRwexilw==">“Young Woman with a Water Pitcher”</a> by Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, Delft 1632–1675 Delft) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</p>
<div>
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</div>
<figure id="attachment_53255" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53255" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/07/van-gogh-monet-mackinac-island-cc-searchers-searching-commons/stieglitz/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/stieglitz.jpg" data-orig-size="600,479" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="stieglitz" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/stieglitz-300x240.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/stieglitz.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-53255" src="media/625370fa.stieglitz.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/stieglitz.jpg" alt="stieglitz" width="600" height="479" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/stieglitz.jpg 600w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/stieglitz-300x240.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/stieglitz-50x40.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/stieglitz-194x155.jpg 194w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">“291 – Picasso-Braque Exhibition” by Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Top ten search keywords:</h3>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Monet</li>
<li>Van Gogh</li>
<li>Picasso</li>
<li>Botticelli (Spelled Botticeli)</li>
<li>Cat</li>
<li>Dog</li>
<li>Mackinac Island</li>
<li>Degas</li>
<li>Painting</li>
<li>Art</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_53253" style="width: 599px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53253" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/07/van-gogh-monet-mackinac-island-cc-searchers-searching-commons/washington/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/washington.jpg" data-orig-size="599,351" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="washington" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/washington-300x176.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/washington.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-53253" src="media/b62d98d1.washington.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/washington.jpg" alt="washington-delaware" width="599" height="351" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/washington.jpg 599w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/washington-300x176.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/washington-68x40.jpg 68w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/washington-50x29.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/washington-265x155.jpg 265w" sizes="(max-width: 599px) 85vw, 599px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">“Washington Crossing the Delaware” by Emanuel Leutze (American, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1816–1868 Washington, D.C.) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0</figcaption></figure>
<p>Like Washington Crossing the Delaware (the eighth most popular image), CC Search has the potential to lead you into unchartered waters. Keep searching, commoners!</p>
</div>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/07/van-gogh-monet-mackinac-island-cc-searchers-searching-commons/">Van Gogh, Monet, and&#8230; Mackinac Island? How CC Searchers are searching the commons</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53264
title: Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad DRM
uri: Terrible-Horrible-No-Good-Very-Bad-DRM
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/09/terrible-horrible-no-good-bad-drm/
content:
<p><a href="https://dayagainstdrm.org"><img data-attachment-id="53265" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/09/terrible-horrible-no-good-bad-drm/eliminate_drm/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eliminate_DRM.png" data-orig-size="2980,1860" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Eliminate_DRM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eliminate_DRM-300x187.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eliminate_DRM-1024x639.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-53265 size-large" src="media/41216a0c.Eliminate_DRM-1024x639.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eliminate_DRM-1024x639.png" alt="" width="840" height="524" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eliminate_DRM-1024x639.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eliminate_DRM-300x187.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eliminate_DRM-768x479.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eliminate_DRM-64x40.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eliminate_DRM-50x31.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eliminate_DRM-248x155.png 248w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eliminate_DRM-1200x749.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today is the annual #</span><a href="https://www.dayagainstdrm.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DayAgainstDRM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a global campaign to raise awareness about the harms of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management"><span style="font-weight: 400;">digital rights management</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (DRM). DRM consists of access control technologies or restrictive licensing agreements that attempt to restrict the use, modification, and distribution of legally-acquired works. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are serious problems with attaching DRM to creative works: not only does it frustrate legitimate users in enjoying the content they’ve paid for in the ways they wish, it also limits access and interaction with these works for educational and socially beneficial purposes. For example, DRM applied to a software program would likely prevent researchers from conducting an independent security audit on it. Alongside the DRM applied to products and services in the private sector, laws have been adopted around the world that criminalize most workarounds. These regulations are quite broad, and usually prohibit the act of breaking the DRM, telling others how to circumvent, or creating and sharing technical tools that assist in the workarounds. These restriction apply even if a user has lawful access to a work. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A major negative feature of digital rights management is that the technology is agnostic as to the purpose a user would want to circumvent the restriction technology. These technologies are flying blind, and aren’t responsive to a particular user who would want to get around copy protection in order to exercise their fair use rights in the underlying content. Aside from a few enumerated exemptions published by the U.S. Copyright Office every three years, DRM continues to trump user rights, and in the process can limit educational activities, freedom of expression, and innovation.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">DRM has also been discussed in the context of the </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2017/06/05/wandering-saga-text-data-mining-exception-eu-copyright-reform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">copyright reform in Europe</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Some of the new provisions having to do with limitations to copyright tabled by the Parliament contain clauses that would forbid not only contractual restrictions, but also technological protection measures (another phrase for DRM) from overriding the exercise of the users’ rights. So, for example, this would mean that a researcher could freely conduct text and data mining on a collection of scholarly works to which she already has legal access, and the journal publisher or other rightsholder would be forbidden from enacting contractual barriers or DRM that would thwart the researcher’s work. These additional user protections are important to include so that the rightsholders cannot simply sidestep the law through the application of private contracts or technological restrictions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC has always attempted to minimize the negative effects of DRM. All </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-use-effective-technological-measures-such-as-drm-when-i-share-cc-licensed-material"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Creative Commons licenses</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> forbid users of CC-licensed works from adding any DRM or other technological measures that would restrict others from using the work in the same way.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last year we wrote about the troubling (and increasingly common) trend of including DRM provisions within international trade agreements. Negotiators of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trans-Pacific Partnership</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (TPP) pushed for anti-circumvention rules that would sit parallel to to the effective enforcement of copyright laws. That would mean that rightsholders could pursue criminal penalties against a user who attempts to circumvent DRM even when the purpose of the circumvention has nothing to do with copyright infringement. We can only assume that negotiators for <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/14/re-negotiating-nafta-opening-pandoras-box/">NAFTA</a> will be pressured by the entertainment and publishing industries to include a similar provision as a part of the “modernization” of the agreement. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">DRM is an ongoing threat to users’ abilities to use and manipulate the technologies and products they legally own. We need to end DRM. Digital freedom depends on the right to tinker, the right to access information and knowledge, and the right to re-use our shared cultural commons.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53285
title: Battle For the Net: A Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality
uri: Battle-For-the-Net-A-Day-of-Action-to-Save-Net-Neutrality
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/12/battle-net-day-action-save-net-neutrality/
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<p><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/"><img data-attachment-id="53286" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/12/battle-net-day-action-save-net-neutrality/avatar-black/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/avatar-black.gif" data-orig-size="300,300" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="avatar-black" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/avatar-black.gif" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/avatar-black.gif" class="aligncenter wp-image-53286 size-full" src="media/8f48b77b.avatar-black.gif" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/avatar-black.gif" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/"><b><i>Tell the FCC to protect net neutrality today</i></b></a></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons and dozens of the world’s largest web platforms are joining countless internet users and online communities to </span><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/"><b>take action</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in support of net neutrality. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Net neutrality</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the principle that internet service providers should treat all online data the same, and not discriminate or charge different amounts for different audiences.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are over <strong>1 billion</strong> CC-licensed works online, shared freely with anyone with access to the internet. The majority of these works are hosted on content platforms such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Internet Archive, Flickr, and Vimeo. What if you couldn’t access your favorite works because your ISP wants you to see instead content they’re getting paid to promote? What if the video that you created and uploaded online is slowed so others can’t watch it? We know that Creative Commons licensing is only one factor in a healthy open internet ecosystem. A strong digital commons requires universal access to basic digital infrastructure, and enforceable rules that promote fair competition and freedom of information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the United States net neutrality is under attack. Even with massive public pushback, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai wants to reel in the net neutrality rules put in place in 2015. If Pai’s proposed changes are adopted, the FCC will give companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&amp;T increased control over what users can see and do on the internet, with the power to slow down or block websites and charge apps and sites extra fees to reach an audience.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today the internet comes together to support and protect net neutrality. Learn more and join the action here: </span><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.battleforthenet.com/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.  </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53313
title: Should copyright law deny creators the right to share freely? Let the authors choose.
uri: Should-copyright-law-deny-creators-the-right-to-share-freely-Let-the
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https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/19/copyright-law-deny-creators-right-share-freely-let-authors-choose/

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<figure id="attachment_53314" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99864378@N08/16333365598/"><img data-attachment-id="53314" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/19/copyright-law-deny-creators-right-share-freely-let-authors-choose/band-reflections/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections.jpg" data-orig-size="1600,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Band reflections" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections-300x169.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections-1024x576.jpg" class="wp-image-53314 size-large" src="media/83b52850.Band-reflections-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Band-reflections.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99864378@N08/16333365598/">Band reflections</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99864378@N08/">Dave Ferguson</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<h3><em>Imposing a mandatory and unwaivable compensation scheme violates the letter and spirit of open licensing.</em></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright policymakers in Europe and South America have proposed legislation that would impose an unwaivable right to financial remuneration for authors and performers on copyrighted works. The laws attempt to ensure that creators receive payment for their work, but they would interfere with the operation of Creative Commons licensing by adding a special and separate economic right above and beyond the intention of some authors who wish to share their creative works with the world for free. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In short, these unwaivable rights would damage or break the global standard mechanism for sharing content freely and openly online.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright automatically extends to every work of original authorship fixed in some tangible medium of expression—from paint on canvas, a digital photo on a smartphone, or a mindless scribble on a napkin. Copyright attaches to a work whether or not the creator wants it, and protection extends to literary, musical, and dramatic works, as well as photographs and graphics, audio and visual recordings, and software.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We know that many creators feel that the default rules of copyright are too restrictive. The Creative Commons licenses are a standardized and legally sound tool for creators to grant permission in advance for the public to use works in ways that the law otherwise forbids. When creators choose to share, it is a gift to the world, allowing anyone to build and create on top of their works. To date the CC licenses have been used to share </span><a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">more than 1.2 billion works</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which are downloaded and reused tens of millions of times a day, creating an expansive digital commons of works that anyone can view, use, and enjoy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s clear that digital technologies and the web have dramatically altered—and continue to change—the ways creative content is produced and shared. The proliferation of new content distribution mechanisms, social media platforms, and crowdfunding services have fueled innovation in the way authors, artists, and performers connect with fans and are paid for their creative work.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recently, there has been an increasing call by rightsholders and intermediaries to use copyright as the means to ensure that authors and performers can earn adequate compensation for their creative works, even after those creators have transferred their rights to publishers, or film or music producers. For example, in the context of the EU copyright reform legislation, the ITRE Committee of the European Parliament has </span><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fNONSGML%2bCOMPARL%2bPE-592.363%2b02%2bDOC%2bPDF%2bV0%2f%2fEN"><span style="font-weight: 400;">introduced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> amendments that would impose an unwaivable right to remuneration for authors and performers. This right would apply to all works, even those published voluntarily under an open license. Last year Chile </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/06/16/new-chilean-law-make-harder-authors-freely-share-audiovisual-works/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">passed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a similar law that applies to authors of audiovisual works. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately, these solutions are ill-suited to address the core business and labor issues at hand. Instead, they seek to use copyright as the mechanism to remedy the inequity in the bargaining position of creators in relation to rightsholders. These unwaivable remuneration schemes may be well-intentioned, but they have significant unintended consequences because they reduce the overall flexibility of how copyright can be exercised. An unwaivable right to compensation would interfere with the operation of open licensing by reserving a special and separate economic right above and beyond the intention of some authors. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons has </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2010/12/13/new-copyright-like-rights-considered-harmful/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">taken the position</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that these types of regulations would create unnecessary complexity for those who wish to share their works under our licenses because they would deny creators the choice to share as they wish. All Creative Commons licensors permit their works to be used for at least non-commercial purposes. When an author applies a CC license to her work, she grants to the public a worldwide, royalty-free license to use the work under certain terms. And many authors simply want to share their creativity freely under open terms to benefit the public good. For example, educators and scholarly researchers create and share works primarily to advance education and to contribute to their field of study—not necessarily for financial remuneration. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We support authors and creators, and we firmly believe in their right to choose to share, or to seek compensation for all or some uses of their works. At the same time, we must find solutions that also honor those authors who choose to share with few or no restrictions. Mandatory and unwaivable compensation schemes violate the letter and spirit of Creative Commons licensing, and they’re a poor substitute for more meaningful and lasting change in service of fair remuneration for those working in the creative industries today.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53308
title: Join us in Toronto: Creative Commons Global Summit 2018
uri: Join-us-in-Toronto-Creative-Commons-Global-Summit-2018
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/21/summit-2018-announcement/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="53323" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/21/summit-2018-announcement/summit-image-3-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/summit-image-3-1.png" data-orig-size="612,359" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="summit-image-3" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/summit-image-3-1-300x176.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/summit-image-3-1.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53323" src="media/6013c7d5.summit-image-3-1.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/summit-image-3-1.png" alt="cc-global-summit" width="612" height="359" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/summit-image-3-1.png 612w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/summit-image-3-1-300x176.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/summit-image-3-1-68x40.png 68w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/summit-image-3-1-50x29.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/summit-image-3-1-264x155.png 264w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p>We are proud to announce that the 2018 CC Summit will be in Toronto, Canada from April 13-15. This is a return to Toronto, which allows us to build on last year’s successful sold-out event. As part of our new strategy, CC has moved to annual summits to help build our community capacity and momentum, and we’re thrilled to be bringing people together again to support global collaboration and action.</p>
<p>For the 2017 Summit, CC selected Toronto as our location, and underscored a strong commitment to presenting a community-driven event. We divided up the work: CC provided the “container” — venue, catering, audio-visual, website, promotion, travel support, and other logistics — and the community “filled it” with the program, people, activities, and discussions that make our movement vibrant and engaging. It’s a busy season for conferences, but we’ve been able to fit into the timeline between other key community events like RightsCon and the Open Knowledge Festival.</p>
<p>Based on what we learned at the CC Summit in Seoul in 2015, we hired a full-time events manager to run logistics and ensure we had a world-class event. We also re-focused our scholarship funds to ensure we helped as many community members as possible to join us.</p>
<p>The improvements were noticeable and profound:</p>
<ul>
<li>42 community members led the development of the program, and selected over 100 sessions, with a mix of long standing community members and brand new participants</li>
<li>The conference sold out well in advance, with nearly 400 registered participants — our largest summit ever</li>
<li>We had five incredible international women scheduled as keynotes (4 in the end due to a late-cancelled flight), and not a single all-male panel</li>
<li>Nearly 60 percent of our scholarship funding supported African and Latin American region participants. We doubled the number of participants from Africa</li>
</ul>
<p>As we plan for 2018, we have decided to return to Toronto. There are a variety of factors that make it a great destination along with some additional factors to consider. We expect Summit 2018 will exceed 500 participants, and also host the first meeting of the new Global Network Council. We want to build and iterate on what we learned in Toronto about running a great and inclusive event. The Canadian dollar continues to be low, which increases our purchasing power. The Delta Hotel, which did a spectacular job for us, is available to host us again. Many of the participants who got visas have them for terms long enough to permit a return next year. Finally, in this year of transition, there are very few teams that have the capacity to deliver an event of this size in just 11 months without significant support from CC HQ — most teams are (rightly) focused on their core work, not event planning.</p>
<p>With all of these considerations, we are very excited to return to Toronto, Canada for the CC Summit, scheduled for April 13-15, 2018.</p>
<p>Historically, CC has located the Summit at various venues around the world — Boston, Rio de Janeiro, Dubrovnik, Sapporo, Warsaw, Buenos Aires, Seoul. There are advantages and challenges of this solution. I’m excited about the opportunity to build on what we learned in 2017 — to iterate and remix the city for an even better event.</p>
<p>That said, this year’s decision to return to Toronto does not preclude the idea of future Summits being hosted in other locations. We expect the Global Network Council to help us think through our options for future summits. Many of you provided helpful criticism and feedback based on Toronto’s event. We’ll make a strong effort to incorporate those comments in our planning as we iterate and improve for the next event. In particular, several of you asked for more affordable hotel options. We’ll be adding a second conference hotel to ensure you have more choices.</p>
<p>As with 2017, CC will provide the “container” and the community will “fill it” with its energy, activities, and momentum. We’ll be opening a call for the planning committee in the coming months, and welcome your ideas for an even bigger, better, inclusive event. We can’t wait.</p>
<p class="p1"><i>Photo: </i><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/"><span class="s1"><i>Sebastiaan ter Burg</i></span></a><i>, </i><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><span class="s1"><i>CC BY 2.0</i></span></a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53328
title: We want your story ideas about collaboration in the commons
uri: We-want-your-story-ideas-about-collaboration-in-the-commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/25/want-story-ideas-collaboration-commons/
content:
<figure id="attachment_53330" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/111201180/in/photolist-aPWeJ-6ZRpF4-dPWjn-9cfXT-qziGki-8g8DQu-3NSCP1-sjjHtF-pdbnSW-T2Xqc5-9zsb65-4JEYvD-stPRUk-aE4uwg-9EcHgC-r7px2Y-roQHs2-3NSCN7-3NNiJ6-3NNiJD-3NNiGK-smdX1Z-3NNiJP-bmTcy7-qsXJct-VnZ1yx-pmR2iB-qVBqHt-j3d5au-czakf3-7rMx61-VjX5FJ-qENyGU-4Btk24-qosr9F-snhs4H-ryp2qh-6257Ly-83BtBw-LnP8N-KbDq4-v27c8-czajiJ-LnP8G-qXsFK7-rynWWY-egPT96-3kzUc-qJ4D3h-duMEYb" rel="https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/111201180/in/photolist-aPWeJ-6ZRpF4-dPWjn-9cfXT-qziGki-8g8DQu-3NSCP1-sjjHtF-pdbnSW-T2Xqc5-9zsb65-4JEYvD-stPRUk-aE4uwg-9EcHgC-r7px2Y-roQHs2-3NSCN7-3NNiJ6-3NNiJD-3NNiGK-smdX1Z-3NNiJP-bmTcy7-qsXJct-VnZ1yx-pmR2iB-qVBqHt-j3d5au-czakf3-7rMx61-VjX5FJ-qENyGU-4Btk24-qosr9F-snhs4H-ryp2qh-6257Ly-83BtBw-LnP8N-KbDq4-v27c8-czajiJ-LnP8G-qXsFK7-rynWWY-egPT96-3kzUc-qJ4D3h-duMEYb"><img data-attachment-id="53330" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/25/want-story-ideas-collaboration-commons/111201180_25864c3df3_o/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/111201180_25864c3df3_o.jpg" data-orig-size="640,480" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DCR-VX2000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1088756072&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;8.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Collaboration" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/111201180_25864c3df3_o-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/111201180_25864c3df3_o.jpg" class="wp-image-53330 size-full" title="Collaboration" src="media/b29c9496.111201180_25864c3df3_o.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/111201180_25864c3df3_o.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/111201180_25864c3df3_o.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/111201180_25864c3df3_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/111201180_25864c3df3_o-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/111201180_25864c3df3_o-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/111201180_25864c3df3_o-207x155.jpg 207w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/111201180/in/photolist-aPWeJ-6ZRpF4-dPWjn-9cfXT-qziGki-8g8DQu-3NSCP1-sjjHtF-pdbnSW-T2Xqc5-9zsb65-4JEYvD-stPRUk-aE4uwg-9EcHgC-r7px2Y-roQHs2-3NSCN7-3NNiJ6-3NNiJD-3NNiGK-smdX1Z-3NNiJP-bmTcy7-qsXJct-VnZ1yx-pmR2iB-qVBqHt-j3d5au-czakf3-7rMx61-VjX5FJ-qENyGU-4Btk24-qosr9F-snhs4H-ryp2qh-6257Ly-83BtBw-LnP8N-KbDq4-v27c8-czajiJ-LnP8G-qXsFK7-rynWWY-egPT96-3kzUc-qJ4D3h-duMEYb">Collaboration</a> by Quinn Dombrowski, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We need your help!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the next year, we will be investigating and reporting on 2-3 of the most compelling stories about collaboration in the commons. We want to tell the story of when and why a creator first decides to use CC, the kinds of connections they make online, how they invite and encourage collaboration, and what makes them feel like they are valued for their work and part of a community. We’re looking for stories that are similar to the </span><a href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2016 State of the Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, but deeper, getting at the heart of what really drives collaboration online.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is part of our prosocial work, which you can read about in </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/toward-better-internet-building-prosocial-behavior-commons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">this post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We are broadening our focus to look more holistically at sharing and collaboration online. We will investigate the values and behaviors associated with successful collaboration, in the hopes that we might apply them to content platforms where CC licensing is taking place, thereby enhancing the experience of sharing with CC.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fill out </span><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/2u6Xi2xTP99yY0662"><span style="font-weight: 400;">this short form</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (it takes 3 min to complete). We are asking for story </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">leads</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8212; not fully fleshed out stories &#8212; so don’t worry about having enough material for a case study. We plan to contact, interview, and follow these creators or projects over the next year. So if you can think of 1-2 compelling leads, please share!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are prioritizing the following fields:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">3D printing</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arts &amp; Culture</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Media &amp; Journalism</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The<span> form will be open for submissions through </span><b>15 August, 2017. </b>Looking forward to your ideas. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/contact/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Contact us</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with any questions!</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53340
title: Our Proposal to add CC Symbols to Unicode, Round 2
uri: Our-Proposal-to-add-CC-Symbols-to-Unicode-Round-2
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/26/proposal-add-cc-symbols-unicode-round-2/
content:
<p>Last October we <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/31/cc-logo-icons-unicode/">submitted</a> an initial proposal to get CC license symbols into Unicode. Since then we&#8217;ve gotten some feedback from them, incorporated that into our thinking, and submitted an updated application.</p>
<p>Here is the <a href="media/dbfde009.CC-Unicode-Character-Proposal_2017-07-24-lo.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-Unicode-Character-Proposal_2017-07-24-lo.pdf">new proposal</a>. (The old one for reference <a href="media/a89ad8d5.CC-Unicode-Character-Proposal_2016-10-17.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Unicode-Character-Proposal_2016-10-17.pdf">here</a>.) Th<span>e new proposal presents the CC license icons as graphic symbols. We&#8217;ve discussed a bit how trademark rights come into play and think we&#8217;ve come up with an inclusive approach that permits public access to the graphic symbols, without affecting the trademark rights in the specific icons. This is similar to how companies like IBM have managed their marks with Unicode.</span></p>
<p>We also asked the public some questions about how you currently mark works with CC licenses. We thought you&#8217;d be interested in the results so here are some very simple graphs that show those results (disclaimer: I am not a data analyst). Of the 709 responses, it seems that more than half (441) use the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads/">CC license icons or buttons</a> to indicate the license on a work. Many more (681) said they would also like to be able to use the CC license icons in text (Unicode!) to indicate the CC license. Good news—we&#8217;re working on addressing your concerns. Fingers crossed that our new proposal will be accepted by Unicode. Thanks for all your support!</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53345" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/26/proposal-add-cc-symbols-unicode-round-2/cc-icon-current-use/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-current-use.jpg" data-orig-size="2016,1030" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="CC icon current use" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-current-use-300x153.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-current-use-1024x523.jpg" class="alignnone wp-image-53345 size-large" src="media/18470dd0.CC-icon-current-use-1024x523.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-current-use-1024x523.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="429" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-current-use-1024x523.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-current-use-300x153.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-current-use-768x392.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-current-use-78x40.jpg 78w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-current-use-50x26.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-current-use-270x138.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-current-use-1200x613.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53346" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/26/proposal-add-cc-symbols-unicode-round-2/cc-icon-desired-use/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-desired-use.jpg" data-orig-size="2120,1048" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="CC icon desired use" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-desired-use-300x148.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-desired-use-1024x506.jpg" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-53346" src="media/bc8ae230.CC-icon-desired-use-1024x506.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-desired-use-1024x506.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="415" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-desired-use-1024x506.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-desired-use-300x148.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-desired-use-768x380.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-desired-use-81x40.jpg 81w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-desired-use-50x25.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-desired-use-270x133.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CC-icon-desired-use-1200x593.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53337
title: Annuncia la traduzione 4.0 della licenza in Italiano!
uri: Annuncia-la-traduzione-4-0-della-licenza-in-Italiano
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/31/annuncia-la-traduzione-4-0-della-licenza-italiano/
content:
<h3>The CC 4.0 licenses are now translated into Italian</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The official Italian translation of the Creative Commons <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Italian#FINAL_translation_files">4.0 Licenses</a> and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.it">CC0 waiver</a> is now available! Led by CC Italy, the translations also benefited from the collaboration with CC Switzerland. The working group was hosted and coordinated by the Nexa Center for Internet &amp; Society at Politecnico di Torino, the Italian-affiliated institution of the Creative Commons international network. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the drafting of the 4.0 licenses in English, the original CC Italy group worked closely with the CC HQ legal team determine how best to manage sui generis database rights. These discussions minimized the number of issues they faced when translating the licenses into Italian. After the public launch of the English licenses, the CC Italy working group drafted the Italian translation of the CC 4.0 license suite and reviewed the Italian translation of CC0—with the important feedback of several fellows of the Nexa Center and other members of the Italian Creative Commons community.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_53352" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53352" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/31/annuncia-la-traduzione-4-0-della-licenza-italiano/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp.jpg" data-orig-size="1620,1080" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 1000D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1498481713&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="foto-nexa-community-small-sharp" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp-1024x683.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-53352" src="media/91b41e8d.foto-nexa-community-small-sharp-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp-1024x683.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/foto-nexa-community-small-sharp-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The community of the Nexa Center at Politecnico di Torino, the Italian CC network affiliate institution. Photo by <a href="http://nexa.polito.it/people/fruggiero">Francesco Ruggiero</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.it">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">More details about the translation process are available on the Creative Commons </span><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Italian"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wiki</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The final part of the 4.0 and CC0 Italian translation process is also documented on the Nexa Center’s </span><a href="https://github.com/nexacenter/cc-it"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GitHub account</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The GitHub documentation provides only part of the story, but it generates useful documentation of the linguistic and legal exercise of translation. The CC Italy team is committed to using this GitHub again and more systematically in the future. </span><a href="https://github.com/nexacenter/cc-it/commit/e05d20405d940d61224a39e8e92b0f23931c9de1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See an example of how the team used Github</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to improve their processes, where a suggestion from Sarah Pearson helped the team minimize the differences between the original English version and the Italian translation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A special thank you to the following groups: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The original CC Italy Working Group of: Federico Morando, Claudio Artusio, Massimo Travostino, Marco Ricolfi, Alessandro Cogo, and Thomas Margoni </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The fellows at the Nexa Center: Elena Pavan, Stefano Leucci, Marco Ciurcina, and Miryam Bianco for the 4.0 suite and Angelo Maria Rovati and Silvia Bisi for CC0</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other members of the CC Italy Community: Monica Palmirani, Manuela Avidano, Maurizio Lana, Matteo Montanari, Giacomo Di Grazia, Luca Spinelli, and Simone Musarra for the 4.0 licenses and Francesco Ermini for CC0.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulazioni con la CC Italia!</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53363
title: Announcing the First Round of Grants for the Community Activities Fund
uri: Announcing-the-First-Round-of-Grants-for-the-Community-Activities-Fund
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/01/announcing-first-round-grants-community-activities-fund/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="53366" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/01/announcing-first-round-grants-community-activities-fund/activities-fund/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/activities-fund.png" data-orig-size="606,480" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="activities fund" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/activities-fund-300x238.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/activities-fund.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53366" src="media/83176f15.activities-fund.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/activities-fund.png" alt="" width="606" height="480" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/activities-fund.png 606w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/activities-fund-300x238.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/activities-fund-51x40.png 51w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/activities-fund-50x40.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/activities-fund-196x155.png 196w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last month we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/13/community-activities-fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">announced the Community Activities Fund</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as part of our ongoing efforts to support the activities of CC communities and beyond. Creative Commons is committed to building and fostering a vibrant global commons through the activities and projects they undertake. Our fund was created in response to direct community requests, and we could not be happier to announce that the following projects have been granted financial support through this fund:</span></p>
<p><b>Uruguay: Copyright Reform Brochures</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Uruguay is currently in the middle of a hard fight for a copyright reform in Uruguay that includes strengthening limitations to copyright for purposes of citation and parody, as well as exceptions for libraries and education, freedom of panorama, orphan works, and others. The CC Community Activities Fund will help the team print brochures that explain the copyright reform work and the CC Licenses.</span></p>
<p><b>Zimbabwe: First CC Community Meetup</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Until recently, Zimbabwe did not have an active Creative Commons community. We’re supporting a small group to host the first CC event in Bulawayo which will bring together various stakeholders and interested parties with a view to kickstart a broader CC Zimbabwe team.</span></p>
<p><b>Uganda: OER Workshop</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Uganda, like many places in the developing world, access to education is increasingly limited to the few that can afford it as instructional resources becomes more exam-oriented and teacher centered. We’re supporting a team from Uganda to host an OER workshop for high school teachers to expose them to the benefits of OER and strategize how to adopt it in their schools.</span></p>
<p><b>Tanzania: CC Training for Young Lawyers and IT Students</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Awareness-raising about Creative Commons remains a top priority in Tanzania, and the CC TZ team is  targeting young lawyers at the Institute of Judicial Administration (IJA) &#8211; Tanzania. Their goal is to train these lawyers on CC licenses and get them involved the in CC community in Tanzania, and globally.</span></p>
<p><b>India: CC Outreach to Startup and Business Communities</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We received several applications from India and we’re glad to be supporting an initiative to reach out to the startup and business communities  in the Coimbatore and Bengaluru to talk about open issues.</span></p>
<p><b>Nepal: Introduction to Creative Commons Event</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Until recently, Nepal is another country that hasn’t had an active CC presence. We’re supporting a team there to host a two day CC Nepal event themed “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Introduction to Creative Commons in Nepal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">”. This event will be an orientation for students, researchers, lawyers, open advocates, activists and professionals from different fields about the core concepts of Creative Commons.</span></p>
<p><b>Ghana: Summer Open School</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Returning to the theme of awareness-raising, a team in Ghana is planning a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summer Open School</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—a three day conference to bring students together and introduce them to the Open Movement, with lessons on two main subject areas: Creative Commons and Wikipedia. We’re supporting some of the logistics to put on this event.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So far, we’ve received and reviewed over 200 applications from all 5 regions around the globe. The highest number of applications came from USA, India, Nigeria, Canada, France, Tanzania, Australia and Ghana. Of those that applied for the grant, 76 applicants are CC affiliates and 128 are not CC affiliates.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/13/community-activities-fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Community Activities Fund</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is still open and we’re receiving and reviewing applications. Please </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOrNfq3Kh4w0_GIjUMA3Qv6y41IilkMcW04BOh1WpFY_fI-w/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1&amp;usp=send_form"><span style="font-weight: 400;">consider submitting an application</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53371
title: Statement on the death of CC friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil
uri: Statement-on-the-death-of-CC-friend-and-colleague-Bassel-Khartabil
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/01/bassel/
content:
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are deeply saddened and completely outraged to learn today that our friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil has been executed by the Syrian regime.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil">Bassel</a> was Creative Commons&#8217; Syrian project lead, an open source software programmer, teacher, Wikipedia contributor, and free culture advocate. He was also a devoted son and husband, and a great friend to many people in the open knowledge community around the world. The projects and communities he helped to build live on across the globe, and will remain a tribute to his leadership.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In March of 2012, Bassel was taken from the street in Damascus amid a wave of military arrests. He was jailed for several years, during which time he was allowed to infrequently communicate with family members. Then, in October 2015, he was abruptly transferred to an undisclosed location. At that time, all communications between Bassel and the outside world ceased. The Creative Commons board publicly </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/10/17/creative-commons-board-of-directors-consensus-resolution-for-bassel-safadi-release/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">called for Bassel&#8217;s immediate release</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the MIT Media Lab </span><a href="http://news.mit.edu/2015/mit-media-lab-offers-research-position-bassel-khartabil-1022"><span style="font-weight: 400;">offered Bassel a research position</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in its Center for Civic Media. His family and friends prayed for his safe return, and are heartbroken today to learn the awful and terrifying news of his execution.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the past several years, a variety of human rights groups called for Bassel&#8217;s release. </span><a href="https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/syria-release-bassel-khartabil-ua-22015/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amnesty International</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> launched a campaign through its Urgent Action network that encouraged the public to write letters to Syrian authorities and urge them to grant Bassel access to his family, a lawyer, and medical attention. The US State Department singled him out on International Human Rights Day in 2015 as a “prisoner of conscience.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additionally, since his detention, an international community of Bassel&#8217;s friends and colleagues have worked to raise awareness about Bassel, his projects, and his story through the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/freebassel"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#FreeBassel</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> campaign. As an extension of this project, a massive 3D-printed rendering of one of the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/new-palmyra/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Palmyra Tetrapylons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was created for and exhibited at this year’s <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/new-palmyra/">Creative Commons Global Summit</a>. The rendering was a tribute to Bassel and was made directly possible by Bassel’s work in the founding of </span><a href="http://www.newpalmyra.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#NEWPALMYRA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, an effort to <a href="https://www.wired.com/2015/10/jailed-activist-bassel-khartabil-3d-models-could-save-syrian-history-from-isis/">digitally capture and remodel</a> the endangered ruins of Palmyra.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Around the world, activists and advocates seek the sharing of culture, and open knowledge. Creative Commons, and the global commons of art, history, and knowledge, are stronger because of Bassel’s contributions, and our community is better because of his work and his friendship. His death is a terrible reminder of what many individuals and families risk in order to make a better society. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53401
title: Announcing the Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund
uri: Announcing-the-Bassel-Khartabil-Memorial-Fund
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/03/announcing-bassel-khartabil-memorial-fund/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil was Creative Commons’ Syrian project lead, an open source developer, a teacher, a Wikipedia contributor, and a renowned free culture advocate. He was also a devoted son and husband, and a great friend to many in the global open knowledge community.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We were heartbroken and outraged to learn earlier this week the awful </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/01/bassel/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">news</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of Bassel’s execution by the Syrian regime.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the request of Bassel’s family, Creative Commons is announcing today that it has established the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/bassel/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to support projects in the spirit of Bassel’s work. Creative Commons is accepting donations, and has seeded the fund with $10,000. Bassel was our friend and colleague, and CC invites the public to celebrate Bassel’s legacy and support the continuation of his powerful work and open values in a global community. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Contributions to the fund will go towards projects, programs, and grants to support individuals advancing collaboration, community building, and leadership development in the open communities of the Arab world. The fund will also support the digital preservation, sharing, and remix of creative works and historical artifacts. All of these projects are deeply intertwined with CC’s core mission and values, and those of other communities to which Bassel contributed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visit the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/bassel/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> page for more on how to get involved. Learn more about Bassel and his work at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikipedia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="http://freebassel.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FreeBassel.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/bassel-khartabil-memoriam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">EFF</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40795739"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BBC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/02/middleeast/syrian-internet-activist-executed/index.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CNN</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/bassel-khartabil-missing-syrian-palestinian-executed-170802100920059.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Al Jazeera</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53408
title: Honoring Our Friend Bassel: Announcing the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship
uri: Honoring-Our-Friend-Bassel-Announcing-the-Bassel-Khartabil-Free-Cultu
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/11/bassel-free-culture-fellowship/
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<p>On August 1, 2017, we received the heartbreaking news that our friend Bassel (Safadi) Khartabil, detained since 2012, was executed by the Syrian government shortly after his 2015 disappearance. Khartabil was a Palestinian Syrian open internet activist, a free culture hero, and an important member of our community. Our thoughts are with Bassel’s family, now and always.</p>
<p><strong>Today we&#8217;re announcing the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship to honor his legacy and lasting impact on the open web.</strong></p>
<p>Bassel was a relentless advocate for free speech, free culture, and democracy. He was the cofounder of Syria&#8217;s first hackerspace, Aiki Lab, Creative Commons’ Syrian project lead, and a prolific open source contributor, from Firefox to Wikipedia. Bassel&#8217;s final project, relaunched as #NEWPALMYRA, entailed building free and open 3D models of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. In his work as a computer engineer, educator, artist, musician, cultural heritage researcher, and thought leader, Bassel modeled a more open world, impacting lives globally.</p>
<p>To honor that legacy, the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship will support outstanding individuals developing the culture of their communities under adverse circumstances. The Fellowship — organized by Creative Commons, Mozilla, the Wikimedia Foundation, <span style="font-weight: 400;"> the Jimmy Wales Foundation, #NEWPALMYRA,</span> and others — will launch with a three-year commitment to promote values like open culture, radical sharing, free knowledge, remix, collaboration, courage, optimism, and humanity.</p>
<p>As part of this new initiative, fellows can work in a range of mediums, including art, music, software, and community building. All projects will catalyze free culture, particularly in societies vulnerable to attacks on freedom of expression and free access to knowledge. Special consideration will be given to applicants operating within closed societies and in developing economies where other forms of support are scarce. Applications from the Levant and wider MENA region are greatly encouraged.</p>
<p>Throughout their fellowship term, chosen fellows will receive a stipend, mentorship from affiliate organizations, skill development, project promotion, and fundraising support from the partner network. Fellows will be chosen by a selection committee composed of representatives of the partner organizations.</p>
<h2><strong>FELLOWSHIP DETAILS</strong></h2>
<p>Organizational Partners include Creative Commons, #FREEBASSEL, Wikimedia Foundation, GlobalVoices, Mozilla, #NEWPALMYRA, YallaStartup and SMEX.</p>
<p>Amazon Web Services is a supporting partner.</p>
<p>The Fellowships are based on one-year terms, which are eligible for renewal.</p>
<p>The benefits are designed to allow for flexibility and stability both for Fellows and their families. The standard fellowship offers a stipend of $50,000 USD, paid in 10 monthly installments. Fellows are responsible for remitting all applicable taxes as required.</p>
<p>To help offset cost of living, the fellowship also provides supplements for childcare and health insurance, and may provide support for project funding on a case-by-case basis. The fellowship also covers the cost of required travel for fellowship activities.</p>
<p>Fellows will receive:</p>
<ul>
<li>A stipend of $50,000 USD, paid in 10 monthly installments</li>
<li>A one-time health insurance supplement for Fellows and their families, ranging from $3,500 for single Fellows to $7,000 for a couple with two or more children</li>
<li>A one-time childcare allotment of up to $6,000 for families with children</li>
<li>An allowance of up to $3,000 towards the purchase of laptop computer, digital cameras, recorders and computer software; fees for continuing studies or other courses, research fees or payments, to the extent such purchases and fees are related to the fellowship</li>
<li>Coverage in full for all approved fellowship trips, both domestic and international</li>
</ul>
<p>The first fellowship will be awarded in April 2018. Applications will be accepted beginning February 2018.</p>
<p>Eligibility Requirements. The Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship is open to individuals and small teams worldwide, who:</p>
<ul>
<li>Propose a viable new initiative to advance free culture values as outlined in the call for applicants</li>
<li>Demonstrate a history of activism in the Open Source, Open Access, Free Culture or Sharing communities</li>
<li>Are prepared to focus on the fellowship as their primary work</li>
</ul>
<p>Special consideration will be given to applicants operating under oppressive conditions, within closed societies, in developing economies where other forms of support are scarce, and in the Levant and wider MENA regions.</p>
<p><strong>Eligible Projects</strong>. Proposed projects should advance the free culture values of Bassel Khartabil through the use of art, technology, and culture. Successful projects will aim to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Meaningfully increase free public access to human knowledge, art or culture</li>
<li>Further the cause of social justice/social change</li>
<li>Strive to develop both a local and global community to support its cause</li>
</ul>
<p>Any code, content or other materials produced must be published and released as free, openly licensed and/or open-source.</p>
<p><strong>Application Process</strong>. Project proposals are expected to include the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Vision statement</li>
<li>Bio and CV</li>
<li>Budget and resource requirements for the next year of project development</li>
</ul>
<p>Applicants whose projects are chosen to advance to the next stage in the evaluation process may be asked to provide additional information, including personal references and documentation verifying income.</p>
<h2><strong>ABOUT BASSEL</strong></h2>
<p>Bassel Khartabil, a Palestinian-Syrian computer engineer, educator, artist, musician, cultural heritage researcher and thought leader, was a central figure in the global free culture movement, connecting and promoting Syria&#8217;s emerging tech community as it existed before the country was ransacked by civil war. Bassel co-founded Syria’s first hackerspace, Aiki Lab, in Damascus in 2010. He was the Syrian lead for Creative Commons as well as a contributor to Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox browser and the Red Hat Fedora Linux operating system. His research into preserving Syrian archeology with computer 3D modeling was a seminal precursor to current practices in digital cultural heritage preservation — this work was relaunched as the #NEWPALMYRA project in 2015.</p>
<p>Bassel’s influence went beyond Syria. He was a key attendee at the Middle East&#8217;s bloggers conferences and played a vital role in the negotiations in Doha in 2010 that led to a common language for discussing fair use and copyright across the Arab-speaking world. Software platforms he developed, such as the open-source Aiki Framework for collaborative web development, still power high-traffic web sites today, including Open Clip Art and the Open Font Library. His passion and efforts inspired a new community of coders and artists to take up his cause and further his legacy, and resulted in the offer of a research position in MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media; his listing in Foreign Policy’s 2012 list of Top Global Thinkers; and the award of Index on Censorship&#8217;s 2013 Digital Freedom Award.</p>
<p>Bassel was taken from the streets in March of 2012 in a military arrest and interrogated and tortured in secret in a facility controlled by Syria’s General Intelligence Directorate. After a worldwide campaign by international human rights groups, together with Bassel&#8217;s many colleagues in the open internet and free culture communities, he was moved to Adra&#8217;s civilian prison, where he was able to communicate with his family and friends. His detention was ruled unlawful by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and condemned by international organizations such as Creative Commons, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Jimmy Wales Foundation.</p>
<p>Despite the international outrage at his treatment and calls for his release, in October of 2015 he was moved to an undisclosed location and executed shortly thereafter — a fact that was kept secret by the Syrian regime for nearly two years.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/11/bassel-free-culture-fellowship/">Honoring Our Friend Bassel: Announcing the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


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The staff of music is long, but it bends towards harmony: An interview with the authors of Theft! A History of Music

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<p>“To those who think that mash-ups and sampling started with YouTube or a DJ’s turntables, it might be shocking to find that musicians have been borrowing—extensively borrowing, consciously and unconsciously—from each other since music itself began,&#8221; write James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins, two superhero academics have taken on the subject of music and creativity in a new graphic novel. Meticulously researched and incredibly entertaining, the book explores 2,000 years of musical history, from Plato’s admonition that “musical innovation is full of danger to the whole state” to the recent “Blurred Lines” case – and everything in between.</p>
<p><em><img data-attachment-id="53422" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/16/theft/theft_frontcover/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_FrontCover.jpg" data-orig-size="425,550" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Theft_FrontCover" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_FrontCover-232x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_FrontCover.jpg" class="alignleft  wp-image-53422" src="media/22707040.Theft_FrontCover-232x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_FrontCover-232x300.jpg" alt="theft-cover" width="250" height="323" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_FrontCover-232x300.jpg 232w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_FrontCover-31x40.jpg 31w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_FrontCover-39x50.jpg 39w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_FrontCover-120x155.jpg 120w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_FrontCover.jpg 425w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px" />Theft! A History of Music</em> is the newest comic from Jenkins and Boyle, the team behind the 2006 fair use comic <em>Bound by Law.</em> <em>Theft</em> was written in collaboration with the late illustrator and academic Keith Aoki; Boyle and Jenkins developed the graphic designs that were illustrated and inked by Ian Akin and Brian Garvey. The book is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 and is <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/download/">available on the website</a> of the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain.</p>
<p><strong>In the book’s afterword, you write that you thought you were &#8220;done with comic books.&#8221; Why this one, and why now? How did the process of writing this book, which took ten years, differ from your previous comic, &#8220;Bound by Law?&#8221; Why did you decide to take on music as your next subject? </strong></p>
<p><em>Bound By Law</em> had success far beyond our expectations because it met a need – it explained fair use to a generation of creators and reusers of culture who found the language of copyright law mystifying and felt thwarted by the “permissions culture” of today, which presumes that permissions and fees must be attached to even the tiniest piece of creative culture.</p>
<p>We thought the same was true of music – particularly the permissions culture point. But when we came to write the book we saw that it had to roam much further, through the history of attempts to regulate musical borrowing – whether on grounds of philosophy, religion, race, or property rights. We saw common themes in all of those, common relationships between technology, incentives, law and the fire of sympathetic inspiration, which is impatient with barriers – whether it was a generation of white teenagers being inspired by African American rhythm and blues, or a church composer taking from the songs of the troubadours. As for the ten years it took us to finish, that gets to the pledge we made to our dear departed colleague, Keith Aoki.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53423" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/16/theft/theft_page111/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page111.jpg" data-orig-size="746,515" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Theft_Page111" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page111-300x207.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page111.jpg" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-53423" src="media/b2074a14.Theft_Page111.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page111.jpg" alt="superhero" width="746" height="515" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page111.jpg 746w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page111-300x207.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page111-58x40.jpg 58w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page111-50x35.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page111-225x155.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p><strong>In some &#8220;superhero&#8221; type scenes, your protagonists struggle with the push and pull between power and control vs freedom, with alter-egos employed to demonstrate the impossibility of the decision. How do you, as academics and authors, reconcile the tension between these two forces?</strong></p>
<p>We don’t think that the forces can ever be reconciled once and for all; they are dynamic tensions that actually drive the art. The important thing is to understand that this is a dynamic balance, not a simple equation where more control means more incentives and thus more art.</p>
<p>Jamie still remembers the first conversations with Larry Lessig, Hal Abelson and others about why we needed Creative Commons – we asked the Copyright office how creators could choose to share, to make their material freely available for others to use and build upon. Their answer was “we don’t provide that service.” That is missing a key part of the cultural dynamic – the fact that culture needs raw material on which to build. Creative Commons tried to deal with one aspect of that, namely the sharing commons. But we understood very well that some of that raw material needs to be there because law doesn’t reach it in the first place. For example, E=MC2 or the alphabet aren’t “owned” and if they were you would get less creativity, not more. Yet that does not mean freedom is always the answer. We want artists and composers to have rights over their work and to receive the compensation and attribution they richly deserve. That is in their, and our, interests. But it is also in their interests to have the freedoms to build on the past in interstitial ways that prior musical generations took for granted!</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53424" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/16/theft/theft_page149_abbey-road/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road.jpg" data-orig-size="775,532" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road-300x206.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road.jpg" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-53424" src="media/7195f460.Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road.jpg" alt="abbey-road" width="775" height="532" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road.jpg 775w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road-300x206.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road-768x527.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road-58x40.jpg 58w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road-50x34.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page149_Abbey-Road-226x155.jpg 226w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p><strong>Something I found particularly compelling about the book is the </strong><strong>complicated nature of many of the artists&#8217; copyright disputes juxtaposed with lighthearted illustrations and narrative. For example, you discuss a number of surprising stories from the 20th Century, like the clampdown on the kind of sampling in early Public Enemy (the court decision announcing “get a license or do not sample”) or the case finding George Harrison liable for “subconscious” copying. You also include more distant history about Bach, Gutenberg, and even Plato in ways that are easy to understand and often irreverent. What was it like to turn court cases and history into comics? How did you employ storytelling tropes to craft a narrative out of 2000 years of scholarship and history?</strong></p>
<p>Each domain of creativity – from music to comics – has its own dynamics. As academics, fond of long, carefully constructed arguments, we found it a wonderful challenge to fit complex and multifaceted ideas into a comic panel, a picture and a short speech bubble! But designing each of those panels was what made the art so truly satisfying – it was a rush, a creative high. As for law, it can be the subject of both art and humour – look at what Shakespeare and Dickens do with it! The question for us here was whether we could be technically faithful to the details and nuances – this is academic research with references behind every assertion, but it is also an attempt to capture a “conversation” that has been going on for hundreds of years, and do so fairly.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53425" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/16/theft/theft_page193_blurred-lines/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page193_Blurred-Lines.jpg" data-orig-size="734,499" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Theft_Page193_Blurred-Lines" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page193_Blurred-Lines-300x204.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page193_Blurred-Lines.jpg" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53425" src="media/35dccc20.Theft_Page193_Blurred-Lines.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page193_Blurred-Lines.jpg" alt="blurred-lines" width="734" height="499" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page193_Blurred-Lines.jpg 734w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page193_Blurred-Lines-300x204.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page193_Blurred-Lines-59x40.jpg 59w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page193_Blurred-Lines-50x34.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page193_Blurred-Lines-228x155.jpg 228w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p><strong>Even a casual reader will notice that the book is well researched. How did you do the research? How did you decide on the narrative structure, from the invention of notation to &#8220;Blurred Lines?&#8221; What primary sources did you draw on, and how did you do it collaboratively?</strong></p>
<p>Again, there is so much to tell. We worked with composers and musicologists – our colleague, Dr. Anthony Kelley of the Duke music department bears much of the credit there. We taught classes made up of half law students and half composers and asked each group to explain the lines that the other group drew around “allowed” and “forbidden” creativity. We scoured the great books about musical history and borrowing – there are many. We drew on the legal scholars who have touched on this debate – Mike Carroll, another person on the CC founding board has written several of the most important law review articles on the subject. And above all, we listened to how music has been influenced and changed over time.</p>
<p>As for the structure, it emerged out of the chaos of our desire to tell the story and our panic that we wouldn’t be able to do so in a way that showed how fascinating it is. The readers of the book will be the best judge of whether we succeeded.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53426" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/16/theft/theft_page249_staff-of-music/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music.jpg" data-orig-size="791,591" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music-300x224.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music.jpg" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53426" src="media/cb88f044.Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music.jpg" alt="staff-of-music" width="791" height="591" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music.jpg 791w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music-300x224.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music-768x574.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music-54x40.jpg 54w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music-50x37.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Theft_Page249_Staff-of-Music-207x155.jpg 207w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p><strong>The book ends with a question – what will music production and rights look like going forward? How will musicians find their way in the 21st century? What do you think is the future of music?</strong></p>
<p>We see several possible futures. Frankly, if we go on our current path – with the permissions culture extending legal claims to the atomic level of musical creativity – then we think that the future will be poorly served. We say in the book that we wouldn’t have got jazz, rock and roll, soul or the blues if we had used the rules we have today. Those musical forms would simply have been made impossible. It is a horrifying thought to think of that dynamic denying us the next great musical form. But we also see a reaction against that cultural sclerosis. We wanted this book to provide the raw material, the balanced information, that helps us decide as a culture which line we wish to go down.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Watch a three minute video about the book below: </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y-8X4G5s6Rw" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
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