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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52355
title: Five years, five days of actions for #freebassel5years
uri: Five-years-five-days-of-actions-for-freebassel5years
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/15/free-bassel-5-years/
content:
<figure id="attachment_48421" style="width: 342px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="48421" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2016/05/22/happybdaybassel/1024px-bassel_khartabil_safadi/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1024px-Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,1271" 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="Bassel" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1024px-Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi-242x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1024px-Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi-825x1024.jpg" class="wp-image-48421" src="media/db0f53b9.1024px-Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi-825x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1024px-Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi-825x1024.jpg" alt="Bassel" width="342" height="425" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1024px-Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi-825x1024.jpg 825w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1024px-Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi-242x300.jpg 242w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1024px-Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi-768x953.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1024px-Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 342px) 85vw, 342px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/4670781482">Photo of Bassel Khartabil</a> in Seoul, 2010. CC BY 2.0 Joi Ito</figcaption></figure>
<p>Five years ago today, CC Syria lead, free culture advocate, and human rights activist Bassel Khartabil was imprisoned by the Syrian government in Damascus. As a commoner, his work on the <a href="http://www.newpalmyra.org/">New Palmyra</a> project, the CC Arabic Translation, and his pivotal influence on information access in the Middle East is a beacon for all who devote their lives to free culture. In the words of <a href="https://freesouls.cc/2017/03/freebassel5years.html">Joi Ito,</a> “The last time that many of us saw Bassel was at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Warsaw in 2011, where he was continuing his work of expanding information and opportunity in his home country and across the Middle East and the world.”</p>
<p>In honor of Khartabil’s influence on the free culture and open source movement, the <a href="http://freebassel.org/">Free Bassel</a> campaign is encouraging five actions in public support of the movement to <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23freebassel">#freebassel</a> in protest of his five years of unjust imprisonment.</p>
<p>This week, the campaign <a href="http://letters.freebassel.org/">released a secret letter</a> Khartabil sent Free Bassel coordinator Jon Phillips in 2014. If you have received a letter from Bassel, the campaign encourages you to share his words publicly and collaborate on the project <a href="https://github.com/freebassel/letters.freebassel.org">via Git.</a></p>
<p>Other contributions include a Soundcloud playlist of nearly fifty songs in support of Bassel and various social media actions.<br />
<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/306313170&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true" width="100%" height="450" frameborder="no" scrolling="no"></iframe></p>
<p>The full list of campaign actions from <a href="http://freebassel.org/campaign/events/freebasselday/2017/03/09/freebassel5years/">Freebassel.org</a> is below. Share #freebassel5years and spread the message:</p>
<ul>
<li>Retweet or reshare #freebassel5years posts on <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23freebassel5years">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=%23freebassel5years">Facebook</a>, or other social media.</li>
<li>If you’ve received a handwritten message from Bassel, contact letters@freebassel.org. We’ll coordinate social media and other sharing with you.</li>
<li>Find and share your favorite #freebassel media on all social media channels, using the tag #freebassel5years. Places to find media include <a href="https://openclipart.org/search/?query=%23freebassel">Openclipart</a>, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=%23freebassel">Flickr</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=freebassel&amp;title=Special:Search&amp;fulltext=Search">Wikimedia Commons</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=freebassel">Internet Archive</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?q=free+bassel">YouTube</a>, and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/search?q=freebassel">Soundcloud</a>.</li>
<li>Hold a #freebassel5years vigil, picnic, hackathon, protest, or other physical space event, and share digital representations of the event or artifacts created there on #freebassel5years social media.</li>
<li>Remix or create your own #freebassel media, upload to your favorite sites, and share links on social media, using the tag #freebassel5years everywhere.</li>
<li>Share projects honoring Bassel such as the <a href="http://costoffreedom.cc/">Cost of Freedom</a> book, again on social media under the tag #freebassel5years.</li>
<li>Share ongoing projects founded by Bassel, such as the <a href="http://www.newpalmyra.org/">#NEWPALMYRA</a> project…on social media, tagged #freebassel5years.</li>
<li>State on social media that you’re participating in #freebassel5years, e.g.: I pledge to make 5 public acts to demand a #freebassel for #freebassel5years, join me http://freebassel.org/campaign/events/freebasselday/2017/03/09/freebassel5years/</li>
<li>Free Bassel. It’s OK if you forget to mention it on social media using the tag #freebassel5years.</li>
</ul>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52358
title: Just make music and share it: Podington Bear’s music for storytelling and podcasts
uri: Just-make-music-and-share-it-Podington-Bear-s-music-for-storytellin
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/16/podington-bear/
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<figure id="attachment_52359" style="width: 290px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/"><img data-attachment-id="52359" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/16/podington-bear/chad_crouch/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch.jpg" data-orig-size="290,290" 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="chad_crouch" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-52359" src="media/9cf2fa07.chad_crouch.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch.jpg" alt="" width="290" height="290" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch.jpg 290w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chad_crouch-128x128.jpg 128w" sizes="(max-width: 290px) 85vw, 290px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Chad Crouch AKA Podington Bear via the Free Music Archive</figcaption></figure>
<p>In 2007, the artist Chad Crouch began releasing three instrumental songs per week under the pseudonym Podington Bear. Crouch revealed his identity in July 2008 upon the release of a box set of his work, ending a speculative mystery covered in NPR, KEXP, Wired, and the Globe and Mail. According to his bio on <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/">Free Music Archive,</a> “The experiment inspired countless new works of art, and translated into commercial success.”</p>
<p>An early podcast innovator, the Podington Bear project was licensed completely under CC before being posted to the Free Music Archive, where Crouch has featured many of his subsequent releases as well.</p>
<p>In addition to his work as Podington Bear, Crouch runs the influential Portland, OR based label HUSH Records and posts his new work on the <a href="http://www.soundofpicture.com/">Sound of Picture Library,</a> a large collection of his instrumental music for creators. By running his own platform, Crouch is able to share his music on his own terms, providing makers the licenses that they need for specific projects.</p>
<p>You can hear Crouch’s music on a large variety of podcasts, documentaries, advertisements, and more. Much of his oeuvre can be found at <a href="http://www.soundofpicture.com/">Sound of Picture Library</a> or at <a href="http://www.chadcrouch.com/wp/">his website.</a></p>
<p><strong>Why did you decide to stay anonymous for so long despite your prolific output? Why did you just ultimately disclose your identity?</strong><br />
Anonymity at that time was attractive because I was just wanting to try something new and at that time when I started making music, I was releasing it as a podcast, so each podcast was just a song. That&#8217;s when podcasting was whatever you wanted it to be. Today it&#8217;s either scripted or unscripted, there&#8217;s people talking, or there&#8217;s music or not, but generally speaking it&#8217;s more a story-driven podcasting than simply just the music. At any rate, it was something new that I wanted to try and I wanted to not have any baggage related to any prior output. It was attractive to me for that reason. Plus, I run a record label, and have done so for the last almost 20 years now. Podcasting, giving away music in those days, in 2007, it was still &#8230; the verdict wasn&#8217;t in. Is it good business to be giving away your music? I don&#8217;t know if people even know now, but given that I was essentially giving away downloads of music, and that&#8217;s how I was releasing it, I didn&#8217;t want it attached to me and my record label, just as an experiment.<br />
I think the second part of your question was why did I reveal my identity? It started with a mistake, and so the mistake was, with every mp3, you have a metadata tag which has the song name and the album name, so forth and so on, just some added data. Well, the program I was using also put my real name in there somehow, and so I figured, well if anyone found that, that would be obvious. Plus I thought it was about time. That&#8217;s why. No big. It&#8217;s not like hundreds of thousands of people wanted to know, it&#8217;s just that I was ready to not keep it a secret anymore, is all.</p>
<p><strong>At a recent event I attended, a number of public radio producers were saying that they felt like your work was kind of like the gold standard for free music online. How have you used your music to maximize for impact as an artist?</strong><br />
Wow, that&#8217;s a nice compliment. The gold standard for free music online. Well, given that I started creating music and it has always been instrumental, that alone makes it more useful for storytelling because it doesn&#8217;t get in the way of the story with words that say something else that the story isn&#8217;t saying. If I was a singer, or I wanted to make vocal music, it wouldn&#8217;t work very well for other people&#8217;s means. I realize more, as the years pass, that people have an interest in using my music. Initially, my involvement with the Free Music Archive in particular was minimal. I only had a few tracks available. Then I realized, this is what &#8230; A lot of these people are using this music. I should just open the flood gates and let it all pour out and see what happens. That&#8217;s what I did.</p>
<p><strong>How did opening the floodgates up maximize for impact? Did you find that you found that your music was more widely used or more widely discoverable? What did you find when you did that?</strong></p>
<p>Like anything that’s word of mouth, if it&#8217;s good, it helps get the word out. Certainly, as far as internet presence, you really can&#8217;t compete with the Free Music Archive. It’s a hub with so much traffic. I could get praise from all kinds of bloggers, and they could post my songs, but still not as many people would hear it as just naturally do through coming to the Free Music Archive. Almost solely, based on their search engine optimization, they just rise to the top of just so many Google searches. They built it, and people came. Being a part of that project, I would say is the single biggest driver.<br />
Then, as part of the NPR set. I think a few years ago, a lot of my repertoire was being played on This American Life in some of their shows that have a lot of influence. Usually they originally heard about me on there and other types of podcasters, and which podcasts are influential.</p>
<p><strong>Why did you decide to use Creative Commons in particular to license your first project?</strong><br />
That&#8217;s a good question. I think I embraced it in the same way I embraced experimenting with the vehicle of the podcast. I forget the exact origin of Creative Commons, but I do remember picking up &#8230; I think it was a copy of Wired Magazine, and it came with a CD and it had Beastie Boys on the cover or something like that, and there was a big, huge, center article about this new thing called Creative Commons. The CD contained songs from artists that so many people have heard of, like Beastie Boys, and it encouraged you to remix material that was on this CD, or do things with it that were less copyright, or less copyright restricted.<br />
That appealed to me, and then I kind of kept that in the back of my head. It probably was eight years &#8230; I don&#8217;t know how many years later, but that I decided to embrace that fully with my music, because I was putting it out there anyway. Putting it out with Creative Commons seemed like a good fit for me.</p>
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</strong><strong>Have you found that putting the license on has changed things for you, changed things in terms of how it&#8217;s recognized, how it&#8217;s found, how it’s distributed across the web?</strong><br />
It&#8217;s a prerequisite of involvement with the Free Music Archive, but I had adopted it before the Free Music Archive. It’s changed the way it&#8217;s distributed, most definitely. Yes, completely. To be honest, the way I compose, too. Originally, I was much more concerned with my musical output, with creating a song that had a beginning, middle, and end. Now as long as the piece of music has a mood, and I usually include the beginning and end, just because I&#8217;m a completist, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be a first chorus, first song type of construction. A lot of my music is quite short, now. CC has informed both the way I distribute my music and the way I make my music, honestly. I make things that have musical voices in them. Like just solo piano, for example, because I know that that&#8217;s something that people find useful for their storytelling in either video, podcast, whatever. It&#8217;s completely changed my output over these years.</p>
<p><strong>Speaking of your output, you&#8217;re a pretty prolific songwriter and artist. What&#8217;s your process? How do you write so much music so quickly?</strong><br />
Well it started ten years ago, and there were years where I did very little. A benefit of having done it for so long and having so much material is that there is an income stream of people who find the music, but they also need it for commercial use and they&#8217;re perfectly happy to pay me some money to use it. As far as my process, it&#8217;s pretty simple. I use the MIDI controller. I use a piece of software, and there honestly aren&#8217;t a lot of acoustic instruments that I&#8217;m using to do my recordings, and so now I can kind of just make it all on a desktop and making it digitally is pretty easy to do. I think there are people who are far more prolific than I am.</p>
<p><strong>Your project, Sound of Picture Library, is an extensive library of your music with a variety of licenses for different types of media. Can you tell me more about that? What&#8217;s worked, and what have you had to tweak, and how does it feel to be an independent artist who&#8217;s in control of your media output?</strong><br />
I&#8217;m not a programmer, so that part of it is difficult. Having a database of songs that people can search and that is fairly responsive so people don&#8217;t say, &#8220;This is taking too long” that&#8217;s useful enough that they can find their way to something hopefully that will work for them. That has been difficult and a learning process – there&#8217;s no site template for exactly that kind of thing. I have enough facility with computers and stuff that I&#8217;ve kind of felt my way along. As far as keeping control of my music, I was just used to that already with running a label, so I kind of know how the sausage is made with regard to the leasing music.<br />
As far as selling licenses online, I&#8217;m certainly not the only one who has a library of music solely created by them who sells licenses, but it seemed a good fit for me, just because I was doing it anyway, but it was taking a lot of my time to deal with emails and negotiate a price and that kind of thing. I would say one of the hardest things about it is coming up with pricing that works for everyone, because there&#8217;s so many different needs that people have for different projects. It&#8217;s amazing. I wanted to meet people at the very low end while not leaving too much on the table for people who have huge budgets to complete advertisements or something online. I try to keep it competitive and fair and just trust people that use them.<br />
Ultimately, sometimes it works out that their project is complicated or it doesn&#8217;t fit with the prescribed licenses that I do offer, so I still am dealing with people through email and doing some negotiation. All in all, it&#8217;s been a really interesting development for me as a musician and entrepreneur. It&#8217;s been growing every year to the point where I&#8217;m quitting other jobs, recently, to give more of my energy and time to making the library and administrating it.</p>
<p><strong>What advice would you give to an independent artist who wants to do a similar project and license their own music?</strong><br />
The advice I would give is try not to be too precious with it. Don&#8217;t try and control. Don&#8217;t be worried about people stealing things. I feel like a lot of musicians try and limit, but I think limiting access to music in a way where you&#8217;re trying to always sell it and get the most money out of it is detrimental to exposure. I would say, have fun. Make music that interests you. Make music that sounds good to you, and share it. In the beginning, do not try and make money. Just share it. Share it as much as possible, and if the Free Music Archive feels like a fit, great. If Creative Commons feels like a fit, great. This will help you along with people discovering you.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52364
title: Open Education Global 2017: Principle, Strategy, and Commitment to Growth
uri: Open-Education-Global-2017-Principle-Strategy-and-Commitment-to-Gro
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/22/open-education-global-2017-principle-strategy-commitment-growth/

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<p><img data-attachment-id="52365" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/22/open-education-global-2017-principle-strategy-commitment-growth/screen-shot-2017-03-21-at-3-59-15-pm/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-3.59.15-PM.png" data-orig-size="480,342" 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="oer-global" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-3.59.15-PM-300x214.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-3.59.15-PM.png" class="alignleft wp-image-52365" src="media/7fd1eccf.Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-3.59.15-PM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-3.59.15-PM.png" alt="oer-logo" width="312" height="222" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-3.59.15-PM.png 480w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-3.59.15-PM-300x214.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-3.59.15-PM-56x40.png 56w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-3.59.15-PM-50x36.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-3.59.15-PM-218x155.png 218w" sizes="(max-width: 312px) 85vw, 312px" />Last week the open education community convened in Cape Town South Africa for <a href="http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2017/">OEGlobal 17</a>. Convening in Cape Town had historical significance as it commemorated the tenth anniversary of the <a href="http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/">Cape Town Open Education Declaration</a>, which is a statement of principle, strategy, and commitment put forward in 2007 to help the open education movement grow. OEGlobal 17 provided a forum to celebrate and reflect on open education advancements over the past 10 years and consider new ways to broaden and deepen open education efforts going forward.</p>
<p>One of the best things about OEGlobal is the diversity of its international participants providing an incredible range of perspectives from open education initiatives around the world. I enjoyed hearing about <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/oeconsortium/open-credential-and-radical-openness-72974696">open credentials and radical openness</a> in the Czech Republic, Norway’s <a href="https://ndla.no/">digital learning arena</a> and sustainable large-scale model for Open Educational Resources (OER), and the pragmatism and insights from South Africa’s own <a href="http://www.siyavula.com/">Siyavula</a> initiative. Europe, Asia, Latin America, the global south, North America, open education is truly a global movement.</p>
<p>Creative Commons was very active at OEGlobal 17. Ryan Merkley, Kelsey Wiens, Cable Green, Paul Stacey, Alek Tarkowski, and Delia Browne collectively demonstrated CC’s commitment to open education through a range of sessions including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/oeconsortium/third-mission-of-universities-moocs-and-oers">Third Mission of Universities, MOOCs and OERs – sharing knowledge toward development cooperation, social inclusion, dialogue with production sectors, collaboration with external subjects </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/saudi-arabias-national-open-education-strategy-master-plan-policy">Saudi Arabia’s National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan &amp; Policy </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/oeconsortium/building-a-more-open-collaborative-cc-global-movement">Building a more open, collaborative Creative Commons global movement</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Paul_Stacey/made-with-creative-commons">Made With Creative Commons – Open Business Models </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Paul_Stacey/creative-commons-certificates">Creative Commons – Hack The Cred </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/mainstreaming-oer-in-support-of-achieving-sdg4">UNESCO Sustainable Development Goal 4 + OER: Working Together to Mainstream Open Education </a></li>
<li>The Cape Town Open Education Declaration +10 Panel and Celebration</li>
</ul>
<p>While the early days of open education were largely about OER, things have evolved a lot over the last 10 years. Now we’re talking about open educational practices, open pedagogy, open education policy, MOOC’s, entire OER degrees, and open education research. Despite this clear evolution, open education is still not considered mainstream. In the closing session a panel and the audience engaged in putting forward ideas for advancing the movement further – the new Cape Town Open Education Declaration +10 ideas will be forthcoming in the weeks ahead. My own personal contribution was to suggest that the various open education movements, including OER, Open Access research publishing, open data, and open science are all currently operating as independent silos and may be more impactful if efforts were put into unifying them into a more synergistic whole.</p>
<p>In the near term, March 27-31, 2017 is <a href="https://www.openeducationweek.org/">Open Education Week</a> and in September UNESCO will be hosting the <a href="http://en.unesco.org/events/2nd-world-open-educational-resources-oer-congress">2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress</a> in Slovenia, Ljubljana.</p>
<p>The vision of the 2007 Cape Town Open Education Declaration is alive and well. From the statement:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching and learning. Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. These educators are creating a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge. They are also planting the seeds of a new pedagogy where educators and learners create, shape and evolve knowledge together, deepening their skills and understanding as they go.” I’m proud that Creative Commons helps make this possible. Congrats to open educators everywhere.</p>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/22/open-education-global-2017-principle-strategy-commitment-growth/">Open Education Global 2017: Principle, Strategy, and Commitment to Growth</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52376
title: Balancing the budget: How a commons-based project is revolutionizing budget reporting in India
uri: Balancing-the-budget-How-a-commons-based-project-is-revolutionizing-b
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/23/open-budgets-india/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="52377" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/23/open-budgets-india/logo_highres_text_original-26/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo_highres_text_original-26.png" data-orig-size="1184,699" 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="Logo_highres_text_original-26" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo_highres_text_original-26-300x177.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo_highres_text_original-26-1024x605.png" class="wp-image-52377 aligncenter" src="media/afd9db92.Logo_highres_text_original-26-1024x605.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo_highres_text_original-26-1024x605.png" alt="" width="471" height="278" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo_highres_text_original-26-1024x605.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo_highres_text_original-26-300x177.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo_highres_text_original-26-768x453.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo_highres_text_original-26-68x40.png 68w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo_highres_text_original-26-50x30.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo_highres_text_original-26-263x155.png 263w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo_highres_text_original-26.png 1184w" sizes="(max-width: 471px) 85vw, 471px" /></p>
<p>Publicly tracking how a government spends its money is more than just posting documents online – making sense of budgets is crucial to providing oversight and interpretation of government spending. Working to demystify this process is at the root of the <a href="https://openbudgetsindia.org/">Open Budgets India</a> project, which is fighting for a more free and open approach to budgets in India.</p>
<p>A beta project with 5,300 datasets from 333 sources, the portal provides access to budgets at every level of government in India, providing APIs and visualizations for previously obscure data. The project also created a useful <a href="https://openbudgetsindia.org/budget-basics/">FAQ</a> to help people understand how government budget data works, how it differs from other kinds of data, and why it matters. Funded by a number of institutional partners, the portal has served more than 3,000 users looking for visualizations and information on open budgets at local and federal levels.</p>
<p><strong>Why open budgets? Why are open budgets important to open government?</strong></p>
<p>Government budgets are a comprehensive statement of government finances for a financial year, translating government’s promises and priorities as expenditures and its receipts to meet such demand. Open Budgets Data is government budget data that is publicly accessible (uploaded online on a timely basis) in a machine-readable and reusable format covering all data points (not just analysis), freely available and legally open to use for everyone without any restriction. Over the years, open budgets data has become vital to build trust in government’s financial activities and sustaining transparency in its policy decisions. It also enables citizens, policy makers, civil societies, journalists, and other key players to engage in budgetary processes and strengthen participation and insight into budgetary policies in the country.</p>
<p>In order to have open and effective governance, governments need to invest and commit on complete budget transparency, i.e. full disclosure of open budgets data on revenues, allocations and expenditures across the public sector. Unfortunately, in India public access to budgets diminishes as we go deeper from the level of the Union Government (Central Government) to the subnational level. As a result, the use and analysis of budget data has been restricted, and the scope for citizen’s engagement with government budgets has been limited. In such a backdrop, Open Budgets India (OBI), a comprehensive and user-friendly open data portal, facilitates free, easy and timely access to relevant data on government budgets in India.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52378" style="width: 403px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img data-attachment-id="52378" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/23/open-budgets-india/screen-shot-2017-03-22-at-1-40-15-pm/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM.png" data-orig-size="2024,1244" 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 2017-03-22 at 1.40.15 PM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM-300x184.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM-1024x629.png" class=" wp-image-52378" src="media/eedc93c4.Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM-300x184.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM-300x184.png" alt="" width="403" height="247" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM-300x184.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM-768x472.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM-1024x629.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM-65x40.png 65w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM-50x31.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM-252x155.png 252w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.40.15-PM-1200x738.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 403px) 85vw, 403px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://openbudgetsindia.org/dataset/selected-indicators-of-the-central-government-s-outstanding-external-debt">Data visualization: Outstanding External Debt from Open Budgets India</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>What are the greatest successes and obstacles you&#8217;ve faced with this project? How have you seen it used so far?</strong></p>
<p>From the very inception of the project, we have collaborated with a diverse team of researchers, technologists, data scientists, policy hackers and groups of volunteers to co-create this portal. We have embraced open-source technology, design, visualizations and documentation to go several steps ahead and become an open-source initiative, facilitating transparent and accessible co-development. We have automated conversion of budget PDFs into clean CSVs, created time-series data and developed scalable visualizations. This has helped us to scale our data mining techniques across various tiers of governments. Also, we forked <a href="https://ckan.org/">CKAN</a>, an open-source data portal platform and customized it as per our needs. Use of open-source softwares has reduced our development time manifolds thus we have kept all our work in open too, so that other organizations can freely reuse it and may help us to make better systems. Also, with the help of our automated data pipeline, we were able to publish machine readable budget data from Union Budget 2017-18 in less than 24 hours, enabling timely and informed budget analysis.</p>
<p>One of the major obstacles towards budget transparency in India is a lack of consistency and standardization in budget data formats across years and government bodies. Few states still avoid publishing their budget documents online and other have fonts and character encoding issues, making it difficult for us to parse those. When it comes to disaggregated detailed data for State Expenditure and Receipts, format varies drastically as no two states follow a similar format for publishing their documents. Some of the budget documents are available only in local languages, thus requiring efforts in translation for interoperability. These issues make it difficult for us to produce crucial machine readable data for state budgets. However, we have developed a technique to generate CSVs for Karnataka and Sikkim, which we plan to scale up for other states in near future.</p>
<p>Unavailability of budget documents online and heterogeneity of the formats further increases as we move down to districts and municipalities. We even need to file <a href="http://rti.gov.in/">RTIs</a> (Right to Information) to several government bodies to acquire these important budget documents. Publishing of such information in a timely and accessible manner can strengthen monitoring of public expenditure as well as engagement of people with budgetary processes. That, in turn, can lead to significant improvements in the manner in which such allocations are spent.</p>
<p>In last two months, more than 3K unique users have visited the portal, with highest traffic on data visualizations followed by state and union budget documents. Users are finding CSVs and time-series datasets useful for doing their own budget analysis. It is also encouraging for us to know that other data portals and communities are using Open Budgets India as a source for budget data. For example, the urban data portal, <a href="http://opencity.in">OpenCity.in</a> has credited OBI as a data source for couple of municipal corporation budgets.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52379" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="52379" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/23/open-budgets-india/screen-shot-2017-03-22-at-1-49-10-pm/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM.png" data-orig-size="1978,1174" 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 2017-03-22 at 1.49.10 PM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM-300x178.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM-1024x608.png" class="wp-image-52379 size-large" src="media/cd45da76.Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM-1024x608.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM-1024x608.png" width="840" height="499" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM-1024x608.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM-300x178.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM-768x456.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM-67x40.png 67w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM-50x30.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM-261x155.png 261w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-22-at-1.49.10-PM-1200x712.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Data sectors on Open Budgets India</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>How have governments reacted to having their budgets online and open? What kinds of responses how you seen from various departments?</strong></p>
<p>On 27th January 2017, we conducted a public consultation on ‘Opening Up Access to Budget Data in India’ in New Delhi. The consultation included a panel discussion with experts on what should government authorities and civil society organisations pursue, in the coming years, so as to ensure that people get free, easy and timely access to relevant budget data at various levels of government. Sumit Bose, member, Expenditure Management Commission and former Finance Secretary, advised the project, saying, “A lot of hard work must have gone into developing this project, as budget preparation itself is a humongous exercise. Besides, experts, the volunteers need to be recognized, as they must have contributed in a big way in developing this excellent portal. I’m optimistic about this project… However, I feel that there’s no deliberate attempt by state governments, barring exceptions, not to put machine readable documents online. Probably, they never felt the need or it simply didn’t occur. In the next stage, the CBGA needs to tell state governments about their requirement.”</p>
<p>Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General, K Ganga suggested a few guidelines to strengthen the demand for making budget data available in public domain as well. She said, “Transparency can only be achieved once the common man outside of academics and governance understands budget data and use it. Things are done by keeping only the experts in mind. Besides, communication channels with every stakeholder be kept open even through vernacular medium, ensure that people can access data in various kinds of devices, create an environment by encouraging people to provide data, and pester the government to share data and information.”</p>
<p><strong>Your project aims for accessibility and ease of use within government data. How are you working to make that data accessible despite a variety of file types and standards across organizations?</strong></p>
<p>One of the major additions is a comprehensive metadata for budget datasets, which drastically increases searchability of documents. We have also classified datasets by tiers of government, developmental sectors(like Agriculture and Allied Activities, Health, Education, etc.) and data formats. Apart from adding machine readable files(CSVs), we have also created a number of time-series datasets enabling users to comprehend various trends in budgetary allocations across fiscal years. For Municipal Corporations, we have developed an unified format called as Budget Summary Statement to produce aggregated figures comparable across the municipalities. For each dataset, we have clubbed all the available file formats i.e. CSV, XLS and PDF as multiple resources in a single package so that users can preview and download the format of their choice. We also provide an <a href="http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/">API</a> to programmatically access all 5.1K+ datasets from our portal, this enables developers to automate their search and download processes.</p>
<p><strong>Are you accepting contributors? If so, how could people get involved?</strong></p>
<p>Open Budgets India has resulted from collective efforts by many organisations and individuals, led by <a href="http://www.cbgaindia.org/">Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA)</a>. <a href="http://cis-india.org/">Centre for Internet and Society (CIS)</a>, <a href="http://datameet.org/">DataMeet</a>, <a href="http://www.datakind.org/chapters/datakind-blr">DataKind &#8211; Bangalore Chapter</a> and <a href="https://www.omidyar.com/">Omdiyar Network (ON)</a> have helped significantly in the conceptualisation of the project. A team of pro-bono data scientists led by DataKind Bangalore has helped us develop few key components of the portal. <a href="http://www.publicfinance.in/">Macromoney Research Initiatives</a> has helped us in making available budget data of a large number of Municipal Corporations. Our partner organisations across the country focusing on governments budgets, viz. <a href="https://www.barcjaipur.org/">Budget Analysis Rajasthan Centre (BARC), Jaipur</a>; <a href="http://www.ncasindia.org/">National Centre for Advocacy Studies (NCAS), Pune</a>; and <a href="http://www.pathey.in/">Pathey, Ahmedabad</a>, have contributed their efforts in collecting, collating and translating budget data of a number of Municipal Corporations.</p>
<p>Thus, the spirit of commons is at the core of our initiative, we are happy to seek more support from various diverse communities. Budget researchers, policy makers, civil societies, journalists and data contributors can reach out to us at <a href="mailto:info@openbudgetsindia.org">info@openbudgetsindia.org</a>. While technologists, data scientists, visualizations experts and designers can directly collaborate with us in our design and development cycle via <a href="https://github.com/cbgaindia">Github</a>. Together we aim to continue our efforts in making India’s budgets open, usable and easy to comprehend.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/23/open-budgets-india/">Balancing the budget: How a commons-based project is revolutionizing budget reporting in India</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52394
title: House bill would further politicize the Register of Copyrights
uri: House-bill-would-further-politicize-the-Register-of-Copyrights
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/29/house-bill-politicize-register-copyrights/
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<p><img data-attachment-id="52038" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/26/new-register-copyrights-put-public-center-technology-policy-goals/gx/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx.png" data-orig-size="720,720" 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="gx" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-300x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-52038" src="media/29d2aa69.gx.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx.png" alt="" width="450" height="450" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx.png 720w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-32x32.png 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-64x64.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-96x96.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-128x128.png 128w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In January we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/26/new-register-copyrights-put-public-center-technology-policy-goals/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">urged</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the new Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, to make sure that whoever she appoints as the next Register of Copyrights should put the public at the center of the work of the Copyright Office. Currently the Register leads the Copyright Office, an institution that sits within the Library of Congress. The Register is a key position responsible for—you guessed it—copyright registrations, and also influences copyright policy in the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But now, a bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would alter the role of the Register, and possibly the future of the Copyright Office itself. Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) </span><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/press-release/goodlatte-conyers-grassley-feinstein-leahy-call-quick-action-legislation-provide-selection-process-register-copyrights/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">introduced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> H.R. 1695, the </span><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr1695"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 2017</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The bill would give the President—not the Librarian of Congress—the power to appoint the Register of Copyrights. The position would be subject to Senate confirmation and would last for a term of 10 years (with the possibility of renewal).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a lot of work to be done in upgrading and modernizing the important processes around the Office’s </span><a href="media/fd18f104.USCO-strategic.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.copyright.gov/reports/strategic-plan/USCO-strategic.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">strategic priority</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “to make copyright records easily searchable and widely available to authors, entrepreneurs, and all who need them”. It’s unclear how changing the confirmation and reporting structure of the Register would serve that priority. But it is clear that the shift could further politicize the role, and thus embolden the political agendas of several of the largest publishing associations and entertainment industry businesses that are currently cheering this legislation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">mission of the Library of Congress is “to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.” </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Register of Copyrights should continue to report to the Librarian of Congress. Moving this position out from underneath the public interest mission of the Library will only continue to nudge the balance of copyright toward serving the interests of the incumbent players, and will ignore new creators and users.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52398
title: Art up your life, Art up your tab with a new tool
uri: Art-up-your-life-Art-up-your-tab-with-a-new-tool
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/30/art-life-art-tab-a-new-tool/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What if every time you opened up a new tab you could spice up your day with an artwork selected from the collection of Europeana? Thanks to a </span><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/art-up-your-tab/goibibekpmcmkmnopafijgckplpghpho"><span style="font-weight: 400;">new chrome browser plugin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> developed by Creative Commons Netherlands affiliate </span><a href="https://www.kl.nl/en/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kennisland</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> you can. </span></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.europeana.eu/2017/03/art-up-your-tab-heritage-in-your-browser/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Art up your tab</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a simple browser plugin that will display a full page artwork from the collection of Europeana when you open a new tab in any browser. All artworks that are displayed by Art up your tab are either in the public domain or licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution or Attribution Share alike license. The Images are presented in full screen without any text – clicking on the image allows the user to discover additional information about the artwork on display.</span></p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52399" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/30/art-life-art-tab-a-new-tool/screen-shot-2017-03-27-at-23-15-18/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18.png" data-orig-size="2248,1836" 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 2017-03-27 at 23.15.18" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18-300x245.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18-1024x836.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-52399 size-large" src="media/74c89bd9.Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18-1024x836.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18-1024x836.png" width="840" height="686" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18-1024x836.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18-300x245.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18-768x627.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18-49x40.png 49w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18-50x41.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18-190x155.png 190w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.18-1200x980.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Europeana.eu</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a platform that brings together digitized heritage of more than 3,700 cultural and academic institutions across Europe including gems like </span><a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/90402/SK_C_5.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Night Watch”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by Rembrandt to a 18th-century corset, from photos of paintings by Michelangelo. At this time, the database of Europeana contains approximately 30 million images </span><a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/search?f%5BMEDIA%5D%5B%5D=true&amp;f%5BREUSABILITY%5D%5B%5D=open&amp;f%5BTYPE%5D%5B%5D=IMAGE&amp;q=%2A%3A%2A&amp;view=grid"><span style="font-weight: 400;">7,5 million of which</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are either in the Public Domain or available under free CC licenses.</span></p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52402" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/30/art-life-art-tab-a-new-tool/screen-shot-2017-03-27-at-23-16-57/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57.png" data-orig-size="2248,1836" 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 2017-03-27 at 23.16.57" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57-300x245.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57-1024x836.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52402" src="media/b108b37a.Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57-1024x836.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57-1024x836.png" alt="" width="840" height="686" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57-1024x836.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57-300x245.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57-768x627.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57-49x40.png 49w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57-50x41.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57-190x155.png 190w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.16.57-1200x980.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The initial version of Art Up Your Tab, which has been realised with a contribution from the Dutch Network for Digital Heritage, showcases works provided by Dutch heritage institutions. The images displayed by the plugin are constantly updated and over time the plugin will display images from cultural heritage institution from other European countries as well.</span></p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52400" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/30/art-life-art-tab-a-new-tool/screen-shot-2017-03-27-at-23-15-40/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40.png" data-orig-size="2248,1836" 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 2017-03-27 at 23.15.40" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40-300x245.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40-1024x836.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52400" src="media/3e6bb82e.Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40-1024x836.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40-1024x836.png" alt="" width="840" height="686" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40-1024x836.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40-300x245.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40-768x627.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40-49x40.png 49w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40-50x41.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40-190x155.png 190w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-23.15.40-1200x980.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are reading this in a chrome browser, you can head over to the chrome web store </span><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/art-up-your-tab/goibibekpmcmkmnopafijgckplpghpho"><span style="font-weight: 400;">to install the plugin right now</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52409
title: Rightcopyright.eu: Making copyright work for education
uri: Rightcopyright-eu-Making-copyright-work-for-education
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/03/rightcopyright-eu-making-copyright-work-education/
content:
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52410" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/03/rightcopyright-eu-making-copyright-work-education/slogan-loop-def-1/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Slogan-loop-DEF-1.gif" data-orig-size="590,545" 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="Slogan-loop-DEF-1" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Slogan-loop-DEF-1-300x277.gif" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Slogan-loop-DEF-1.gif" class="aligncenter wp-image-52410" src="media/54050a32.Slogan-loop-DEF-1.gif" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Slogan-loop-DEF-1.gif" alt="right-copyright-gif" width="397" height="367" /></p>
<p>Last week COMMUNIA launched the <a href="http://rightcopyright.eu/">rightcopyright.eu</a> campaign in order to support a better copyright for education. Let’s raise our voices and spread the word about this petition so we can influence European legislators in creating a better copyright for education.</p>
<p><a class="button primary arrow" href="http://www.rightcopyright.eu">SIGN THE PETITION</a></p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52411" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/03/rightcopyright-eu-making-copyright-work-education/communia-campaign-demand-1/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Communia-campaign-demand-1.png" data-orig-size="2500,2292" 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="Communia-campaign-demand-1" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Communia-campaign-demand-1-300x275.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Communia-campaign-demand-1-1024x939.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-52411" src="media/592b06d4.Communia-campaign-demand-1-1024x939.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Communia-campaign-demand-1-1024x939.png" alt="" width="407" height="373" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Communia-campaign-demand-1-1024x939.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Communia-campaign-demand-1-300x275.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Communia-campaign-demand-1-768x704.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Communia-campaign-demand-1-44x40.png 44w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Communia-campaign-demand-1-50x46.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Communia-campaign-demand-1-169x155.png 169w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Communia-campaign-demand-1-1200x1100.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 407px) 85vw, 407px" /></p>
<h2>Why we need your help</h2>
<p>The European Commission has presented a new European copyright law (Draft Directive) to the European Parliament that deeply impacts education in a disappointing and non-facilitative manner. Educators have embraced modern possibilities, and so should copyright. Therefore, <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/">COMMUNIA</a> has developed a <a href="http://rightcopyright.eu">campaign website</a> to collect signatures of educators throughout Europe to let the European Parliamentarians know we need a better copyright for education.</p>
<p>The European parliament will vote on the proposal later this year and can change, accept or reject it. COMMUNIA will present the outcomes of the petition in the European Parliament, clearly showing them the voice of citizens eager for a good-quality education, and a copyright that matches.</p>
<p>Copyright impacts education – it determines the extent to which a teacher may use, share or remix any material made by someone else. In some cases, there is a special exception to copyright for education, but teachers are often forced to do things that are not allowed. All European countries have implemented the current EU laws on copyright in a different way, which makes it very difficult for teachers to know what they can and cannot share internationally.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52412" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/03/rightcopyright-eu-making-copyright-work-education/socialmedia-v1-1_150dpi4/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4.png" data-orig-size="917,458" 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="SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4-300x150.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-52412" src="media/b2b7c741.SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4.png" alt="" width="460" height="230" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4.png 917w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4-300x150.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4-768x384.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4-80x40.png 80w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SocialMedia-V1.1_150dpi4-270x135.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 460px) 85vw, 460px" /></p>
<h3>What you can do</h3>
<p>Please visit the campaign website <a href="http://rightcopyright.eu/">rightcopyright.eu</a> and sign the petition for a better copyright for education. Please share the campaign with your colleagues, friends and family via mail, social media or face to face as well. You can find sample tweets, posts and images on the campaign website.</p>
<p>If you would like to know more about the campaign, or have questions, please contact Lisette Kalshoven at <a href="mailto:lk@kl.nl">lk@kl.nl</a>.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52417
title: RightsCon Redux: Working Toward A Progressive Copyright Framework For Europe
uri: RightsCon-Redux-Working-Toward-A-Progressive-Copyright-Framework-For
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/04/rightscon-redux-working-toward-progressive-copyright-framework-europe/

content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="52418" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/04/rightscon-redux-working-toward-progressive-copyright-framework-europe/rc2017-official-logo/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RC2017-official-logo.png" data-orig-size="736,273" 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="RC2017-official-logo" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RC2017-official-logo-300x111.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RC2017-official-logo.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-52418" src="media/34b2ccaf.RC2017-official-logo.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RC2017-official-logo.png" alt="" width="736" height="273" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RC2017-official-logo.png 736w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RC2017-official-logo-300x111.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RC2017-official-logo-108x40.png 108w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RC2017-official-logo-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RC2017-official-logo-270x100.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p><a href="https://www.rightscon.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">RightsCon</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is an annual conference that focuses on awareness-raising, organising, and advocacy on global issues at the intersection of technology and human rights. The event is produced by the international nonprofit organization </span><a href="https://www.accessnow.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AccessNow</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. RightsCon participants include members of digital rights organisations, legal experts, civil society, government, and business representatives. </span></p>
<p>Creative Commons, Mozilla, and the Wikimedia Foundation organized a panel discussion on the work being done to reform the European Union copyright rules. The goal of the session was to share information on key topics in the Commission’s proposal related to copyright and digital rights as well as connect people with educational and advocacy efforts that support a progressive reform in the public interest.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">MEP </span><a href="https://juliareda.eu/en/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Julia Reda</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> set the stage for the panel, providing background about both the underlying principles for modernising the copyright rules, and also the process that’s involved and where we are now. Ms. Reda is a member of the European Pirate Party and VP for the Greens/European Free Alliance group, She was the rapporteur for the comprehensive </span><a href="https://juliareda.eu/copyright-evaluation-report/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">copyright evaluation report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> presented to the Parliament in 2015.  </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We then moved on to explore six key issues of the copyright reform proposal. </span><b>Lisette Kalshoven from </b><a href="https://www.kl.nl/en/"><b>Kennisland</b></a><b> and the </b><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/"><b>Communia Association</b></a><b> explored the opportunities and challenges presented by the new copyright exception for education.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Lisette talked about how the existing copyright exception for educational uses laid out in the 2001 Information Society Directive is quite good, but is not harmonized across all Member States and doesn’t cover online uses of educational content. The new education exception introduced in the Commission’s proposal is positive because it is mandatory. However, there are three main challenges. First, there is a feature whereby if there is a licensing option in a particular Member State, then that country could ignore the implementation of the education exception. Second, the exception would only cover more traditional educational establishments, such as schools, leaving out other informal education practices, such as online courses. Finally, there’s still some confusion about whether the new exception would adequately cover both online and offline uses of educational resources. Lisette also mentioned the recently-launched digital campaign </span><a href="https://rightcopyright.eu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://rightcopyright.eu/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which aims to mobilize the public in supporting positive changes to copyright that will improve access and use of educational materials and technologies for teachers and students of all types.</span></p>
<p><b>Raegan MacDonald from </b><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/"><b>Mozilla</b></a><b> discussed the possibility for including a copyright exception for user-generated content.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Raegan talked about how the idea of introducing this type of copyright exception would go a long way in creating a better balance in the reform, since the current provisions seem to address the (sometimes unwarranted) concerns of the traditional rights holders like publishers rather than new creators and users. While it was not included in the Commission’s original proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, an exception for user-generated content (UGC) has been introduced in the draft opinions of both the </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/2017/02/16/rapporteur-cult-preserves-upload-filters-draft-opinion/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Culture and Education Committee</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2017/03/03/mep-stihler-highlights-user-generated-content-wheres-freedom-panorama/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The key point on introducing a UGC exception is to support new digital creativity, free speech, and cultural expression.</span></p>
<p><b>Paul Ayris from </b><a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library"><b>University College London Library</b></a><b> talked about the proposed exception to enable text and data mining. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paul said that current research predicts a 1.9% growth of European GDP if the EU commits to a broad exception for text and data mining. Researchers (or anyone else) should not be forced to acquire additional licenses to conduct text and data mining on content which they already have lawful access, and he argued that the EU should follow the lead of the recommendation laid down in the </span><a href="http://thehaguedeclaration.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hague Declaration</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that “the right to read is the right to mine.” The exception should also cover users and uses outside of the traditional academic research community, as doing so would promote novel innovation across and between the public and private sectors.</span></p>
<p><b>Marta Peirano from </b><a href="http://www.eldiario.es/"><b>eldiario.es</b></a><b> talked about the controversial ancillary right for press publishers. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marta explained the negative repercussion to news producers of Spain when they implemented an ancillary copyright a few years ago. This is because Google News, which would have been forced to pay fees to link to and provide context to publishers’ content, called the bluff of rightsholders by discontinuing their service. When users weren’t able to discover information through content aggregation services, access to news sites dropped precipitously. She explained that the publishers pushed for a similar ancillary right in Germany, with comparable results. With so much harm to readers and no return to rights holders, the only sane option is to remove the Commission’s ancillary right for press publishers through Parliament amendments.</span></p>
<p><b>Agata Nowacka from </b><a href="https://www.seznam.cz/"><b>Seznam</b></a><b> talked about the Commission’s proposal that would require filtering of user-uploaded content. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seznam is a search engine based in the Czech Republic that enjoys a high market penetration there—it is one of the few places in Europe where Google does not fully dominate the search market. Agata said that as a relatively small operation (~1000 employees) Seznam would be hard pressed to pull the resources required to implement an active monitoring mechanism proposed by the Commission’s draft directive. This type of “active censorship” would be negative for most of their users, and might only work to reinforce the ubiquity of the major players, thus reducing competition in the search business.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, </span><b>Dimi Dimitrov from Wikimedia&#8217;s <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Team">Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU</a> </b><b>discussed policy options for safeguarding the public domain. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">While there are some positive provisions in the Commission’s proposal to strengthen cultural heritage institutions, there are several ongoing disputes between museums and the Wikipedia community. Dimi pointed to a </span><a href="https://hyperallergic.com/259382/museum-sues-wikimedia-for-hosting-copyrighted-photos-of-its-public-domain-artworks/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">case</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in which a German museum claimed copyright on the digital reproduction of a portrait of composer Richard Wagner. The work was painted in 1862, so it clearly is in the public domain, which would make it a natural addition to the Wikipedia page about Wagner. However, the museum claims a new copyright that arises when the work was digitized, thus for all practical purposes keeping the work out of the public domain. Dimi said that these types of disputes are not uncommon, and that a forward-looking EU copyright law should aim to clarify that digital reproductions of public domain artworks should also be in the public domain—for the broad benefit and enjoyment of the public.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ll continue to advocate for a progressive reform in the public interest. Right now amendments are being tabled by the relevant committees, which will eventually be negotiated and voted on in the European Parliament and Council. There’s still time to fix this copyright law to make sure that it supports users and creators in the 21st century.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/04/rightscon-redux-working-toward-progressive-copyright-framework-europe/">RightsCon Redux: Working Toward A Progressive Copyright Framework For Europe</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


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title: The revolution will be openly licensed!
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/05/beautiful-trouble/
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<h3>An interview with Dave Mitchell of Beautiful Trouble</h3>
<p>After Occupy and the Arab Spring in 2011, the artist-activists of <a href="http://beautifultrouble.org/">Beautiful Trouble</a> burst on the scene with a number of seasoned professionals ready to change the dialogue by utilizing creative, radical protest. Since then, the organization has created a number of invaluable online resources for social movements through their online book (CC BY-NC-SA), technology tools, case studies, and network mapping across societal and international boundaries.</p>
<p>Dave Mitchell, one of the founders of Beautiful Trouble, describes their goal as to “make social movements more creative, more effective, and more likely to win,” and credits CC licensing with enabling them to adopt a modular, agile approach that contributes to their message of social good. Focusing on social movements around the world, the book, game, toolbox, and litany of online and offline resources provides a much needed dose of unity, levity, and practical focus in a divisive political era.</p>
<p>The Beautiful Trouble toolbox can be found online, and the organization is creating a number of new tools to support social movements, including a chatbot and a game. In addition, their network of in-person artist-activist trainers provide vital resources both online and offline to support change agents around the world.</p>
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<p><strong>Beautiful Trouble is a toolbox for revolution, a training manual, a collection of case studies, a network map, and more. What was the impetus to start this collection of resources? Why is it important for people to be able to access a toolbox like this online?</strong></p>
<p>Beautiful Trouble emerged in 2011, the year of Occupy and the Arab Spring, and with much the same creative DNA as those flashpoints. We set out to create a common platform where people could come together to share experiences, learn from the ideas and innovations of organizers all over the world, contribute their own ideas, get inspired, get involved, make something happen.</p>
<blockquote><p>We wanted to popularize the idea that social change isn’t about just mindlessly repeating the same tactics over and over again — but also that it isn’t rocket science. That many small groups of clowns and pranksters can change the world; indeed, maybe it’s the only thing that ever has.</p></blockquote>
<p>While Beautiful Trouble is best known in its book form, from the beginning it has also been accessible online, where so many of us live. And because it’s modular, interlinking, and constantly expanding, it lives more comfortably online. Now we’re experimenting with letting people access the toolkit as a <a href="https://beautifulrising.org/platforms/chatbot">chatbot</a>, accessible through various messaging apps like Telegram, Slack, and Facebook Messenger.</p>
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<p><strong>Why did you decide to license your work under CC BY-NC-SA? How does the CC licensing play into your work?</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Creative Commons licensing made sense to us both politically and practically. Politically, our goal is to make social movements more creative, more effective, and more likely to win, and we believe that happens by promoting the kind of agile, creative and modular thinking that Beautiful Trouble embodies.</p></blockquote>
<p>Basically, we want the ideas in Beautiful Trouble to become common knowledge — to be used, shared, repurposed, translated, adapted — so it made no sense to throw barriers of intellectual property in the path of that, beyond those required by our excellent and supportive publisher.</p>
<p>Practically, as the project took shape, we realized how much of it involved referencing and codifying other people’s ideas and methods. We tried always to give credit where it was due, but we also never wanted to suggest that any one person (certainly not us) <em>owns </em>any of the concepts or methods we included. Creative Commons licensing was one way to signal all of that.</p>
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<p><strong>&#8220;Artist-activists&#8221; are at the heart of Beautiful Trouble&#8217;s work. How do you define &#8220;artist activists?&#8221; How does someone join your network?</strong></p>
<p>“Artist-activist” is such an awkward, artless term — we really struggled to come up with something better&#8230; artivist? pranktivist? bohemshevik? Nothing quite fit, but what we wanted to signal was the marriage of two distinct worlds: the elegance, eye for detail, and outside-the-box creativity of the art world with the time-bound, eyes-on-the-prize, immediate-results focus of the organizer. That sweet spot is where minds and hearts open and revolutions take flight, and it’s something anyone can (and should!) seek to embody in their work. Folks who want to pitch us an idea can drop us a line at <a href="mailto:getintouch@beautifultrouble.org">getintouch@beautifultrouble.org</a>.</p>
<p><strong>How do you define &#8220;the commons?&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>The commons represents our best hope for a liveable future. It’s an important enough concept to us that we included it as one of the ‘theories’ in the book, in a piece written by Peter Barnes. In that piece, he proposes that by building a system that protects and expands our common wealth rather than one that exploits it, we can address both our ecological and social imbalances.</p>
<p><strong>What kinds of stories can you tell about your work and how you support global social movements? What kinds of wins are you celebrating? What has your work looked like since November? Has it changed?</strong></p>
<p>For the past few years we’ve been busy working with ActionAid and activists from across the Global South to document the tools and tactics of creative activists operating under authoritarian regimes. That project is available online at <em>beautifulrising.org,</em> and will be published this year as <em>Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South </em>(OR Books).</p>
<p>After last November’s presidential election, that focus on authoritarian regimes is sadly much more relevant and timely for activists in the United States. Specifically in response to the Trump moment, we’ve started a <a href="http://beautifultrouble.org/2016/12/21/trouble-vs-trump/">“Trouble vs. Trump” series</a> to update our toolbox for the current moment. We’ve been hard at work expanding our <a href="http://beautifultrouble.org/trainings/">training program</a> to meet the explosion of interest in nonviolent direct action training, and we’ve just launched a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/resistancehotline/">resistance hotline</a> to help support the surge of new progressive activists planning their first actions and campaigns.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52447" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52447" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/05/beautiful-trouble/1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,682" 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="1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o-1024x682.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-52447" src="media/7d9b910b.1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o-1024x682.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o-1024x682.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="559" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1911297_809147169099731_485284247_o-233x155.jpg 233w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Creative Action Training in NYC, by Dave Mitchell</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>You have a number of projects in addition to Beautiful Trouble including Beautiful Rising, Climate Action Labs, and Beautiful Solutions as well as your in-person trainings for activists. How do you balance this work?</strong></p>
<p>Much like the book we produced, we’re basically a modular organization — a motley crew of activists, trainers and editors scattered around the globe who are organizing horizontally together to spin out related projects that align with our goal of making social movements more creative and effective. That loose structure means we’re able to respond fairly quickly to new opportunities, but also that we sometimes struggle to keep everything running smoothly, since we’ve got no central office, no dedicated development director, and a dispersed leadership structure. Somehow we’ve managed to produce a lot of great tools and keep all the plates spinning so far. Folks who want to support this juggling act are welcome to kick in a few bucks on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/beautifultrouble">our Patreon page</a>, and get a copy of our next book as a token of our thanks.</p>
<p><strong>As a bunch of communicators, what do you think messaging is going to look like on the left in the upcoming months and years? What should it look like?</strong></p>
<p>There’s a battle raging right now for the future of the electoral left. It has taken different forms in different countries, but at its core, that struggle is over whether or not the traditional left/liberal parties can be repurposed to present a compelling, broad-based, radical alternative that speaks to people’s 21st-century fears and frustrations, hopes and dreams, or whether these parties will continue to play the role of neoliberalism’s good cop. The outcome of that battle will basically determine whether or not we can bring the fight for a better future from the margins to the mainstream.</p>
<p>Another way to say it: the left needs to get much better at speaking to people’s values hopes, and desires for a better future, and then put that messaging to work in service of a shared political project.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52456
title: Community and Movement at CC Summit: We’re ready to jump in
uri: Community-and-Movement-at-CC-Summit-We-re-ready-to-jump-in
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/06/community-and-movement/
content:
<p>It’s been a big year for community at Creative Commons. At summit we’ll move ahead on the <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/">Global Network Strategy</a>. We have identified platforms for people to start analysing and have network discussions for deeper conversations. The Global Network Strategy began at the last Global Summit in Seoul in 2015. No doubt you’ve either read the document, participated in a webinar or in person meeting or joined the Slack channel. This is the first time CC has spent time seriously looking at the affiliate network and the broader community. We heard you, we’re ready to jump in.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52457" style="width: 380px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="52457" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/06/community-and-movement/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_page_01/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01.jpg" data-orig-size="788,788" 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="the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-300x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01.jpg" class="wp-image-52457 " src="media/99669c3a.the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01.jpg" width="380" height="380" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01.jpg 788w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-768x768.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-yellow-ladybird_english_20160409_Page_01-128x128.jpg 128w" sizes="(max-width: 380px) 85vw, 380px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">credit: Lara the Yellow Ladybird , Illustrated by Catherine Holtzhausen , Written by Martha Evans, Designed by Nadene Kriel, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">CC-BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>With all this energy, the Community &amp; Movement track is filled with new voices as well as established members. If you want to learn how CC licenses work in the wild, be sure to visit the session with projects like Book Dash, African Storybook Initiative and Pratham in their session <em>Addressing the Scarcity of Multilingual Reading Resources for Children.</em></p>
<p>Look out also for a discussion on <em>CC in the South Seas: Lessons Learned in Aotearoa New Zealand</em> from CC New Zealand Public Lead Elizabeth Heritage. CC New Zealand has always been a strong team, with effective newsletters and content, and this talk is sure to be inspiring to community members of all types.</p>
<p>Open Science nerds don’t worry! We’ve got you covered in Community &amp; Movement. Brian Bot from SAGE Bionetworks will be there to share insights on their project in decentralized biomedical research ecosystems. Interested in hadron colliders? The ATLAS experiment at CERN is will be in Toronto to talk about Outreach and Education by large Scientific (or just Physics) collaborations.</p>
<p>Ready to get your hands dirty and dig in? Open educational resources (OER), Galleries, libraries and Museums (we call them &#8216;GLAM&#8217;), and copyright reform they will have their own space to discuss in depth regarding their actual challenges and how our movement will actively contribute to those spaces. No matter what your level of experience, join the conversation!</p>
<p>In addition, at summit we have three great discussions: one on <em>Building a Culture of Gratitude</em> and another called <em>How Can we Work Together?</em> Another exciting session is called <em>Thinking BIG for the Commons</em>.</p>
<p>Come find your people at the Community &amp; Movement track! In the meantime, you can find me on <a href="http://slack-signup.creativecommons.org">Slack</a> in the #cc-summit channel. Looking forward to seeing you in Toronto.</p>
<p>With Gratitude.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52462
title: Global Coalition Pushes for Unrestricted Sharing of Scholarly Citation Data
uri: Global-Coalition-Pushes-for-Unrestricted-Sharing-of-Scholarly-Citation
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/06/global-coalition-pushes-unrestricted-sharing-scholarly-citation-data/

content:
<figure id="attachment_52463" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52463" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/06/global-coalition-pushes-unrestricted-sharing-scholarly-citation-data/syd-wachs-120737-small/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/syd-wachs-120737-small.jpg" data-orig-size="4000,2666" 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="syd-wachs-120737-small" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/syd-wachs-120737-small-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/syd-wachs-120737-small-1024x682.jpg" class="wp-image-52463 size-large" src="media/495f7709.syd-wachs-120737-small-1024x682.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/syd-wachs-120737-small-1024x682.jpg" width="840" height="559" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/syd-wachs-120737-small-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/syd-wachs-120737-small-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/syd-wachs-120737-small-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/syd-wachs-120737-small-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/syd-wachs-120737-small-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/syd-wachs-120737-small-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/syd-wachs-120737-small-1200x800.jpg 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/slItfWbhijc">Photo</a> by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@videmusart">Syd Wachs</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week a coalition of scholarly publishers, researchers, and nonprofit organizations launched the </span><a href="https://i4oc.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Initiative for Open Citations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (I4OC), a project to promote the unrestricted open access to scholarly citation data. From the website:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Citations are the links that knit together our scientific and cultural knowledge. They are primary data that provide both provenance and an explanation for how we know facts. They allow us to attribute and credit scientific contributions, and they enable the evaluation of research and its impacts. In sum, citations are the most important vehicle for the discovery, dissemination, and evaluation of all scholarly knowledge.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s now open citation data from </span><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/now-free-citation-data-14-million-papers-and-more-might-come"><span style="font-weight: 400;">14 million</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> scholarly papers. Both open access and subscription-based scholarly publishers are contributing to the project. These publishers include the Association for Computing Machinery, PLOS, Wiley, SAGE Publishing, Springer Nature, eLife, Taylor &amp; Francis, and </span><a href="https://i4oc.org/#publishers"><span style="font-weight: 400;">many others</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The goals of project is to promote the availability of data on citations that are “</span><b>structured</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><b>separable</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><b>open</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” According to the I4OC website:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><b>Structured</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> means the data representing each publication and each citation instance are expressed in common, machine-readable formats, and that these data can be accessed programmatically. </span><b>Separable</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> means the citation instances can be accessed and analyzed without the need to access the source bibliographic products (such as journal articles and books) in which the citations are created. </span><b>Open</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> means the data are freely accessible and reusable.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In order to ensure that the data are freely accessible and reusable, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the structured citation metadata will be published using the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0 Public Domain Dedication</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which means that the data may be used without restriction. CC0 enables creators and owners of copyright- or database-protected content to waive those interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright or database law.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulations to I4OC on the launch of this important initiative. We hope that the open sharing of citation data can aid in the discoverability of all types of research, and generate new and interesting connections in our understanding of scientific and scholarly works. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52469
title: The Future of the Commons is an Open Planet
uri: The-Future-of-the-Commons-is-an-Open-Planet
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/07/future-of-commons/
content:
<p>At the end of April, I’ll be joining hundreds of open culture advocates at the Creative Commons Summit in Toronto. The program is looking amazing and I’m looking forward to meeting up with friends and colleagues, both old and new.</p>
<p>I’ll be wearing several hats at the Summit, and I invite everyone to come and chat with me about any of them!</p>
<h3><img data-attachment-id="52470" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/07/future-of-commons/greenpeace_logo-svg-1/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Greenpeace_logo.svg-1.png" data-orig-size="800,124" 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="" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Greenpeace_logo.svg-1-300x47.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Greenpeace_logo.svg-1.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-52470" src="media/903d5c29.Greenpeace_logo.svg-1.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Greenpeace_logo.svg-1.png" alt="" width="800" height="124" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Greenpeace_logo.svg-1.png 800w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Greenpeace_logo.svg-1-300x47.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Greenpeace_logo.svg-1-768x119.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Greenpeace_logo.svg-1-140x22.png 140w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Greenpeace_logo.svg-1-50x8.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Greenpeace_logo.svg-1-270x42.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></h3>
<h3>Greenpeace</h3>
<p>To begin with, I can’t wait to be in a place where people believe that “sharing is at the core of successful societies”. I want to talk about how we’re all sharing this critical asset: Our Planet. All of us need to collaborate on ecological issues – it’s the only way we’re going to solve some of the global problems we’re facing.</p>
<p>At Greenpeace, we’re redesigning our global web presence to engage with people and to help them act on behalf of our planet. The project, code named Planet 4, is the first openly run project of its size at Greenpeace International. In the workshop “Negotiating for Open”, we’ll use <a href="http://greenpeace.org/p4">Planet 4</a> as a case study and explore open decision and design frameworks to help you and your organization establish relationships that can achieve global impacts.<img data-attachment-id="52471" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/07/future-of-commons/p4_roadmap/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap.png" data-orig-size="1200,1200" 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="P4_Roadmap" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-300x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-1024x1024.png" class="wp-image-52471 alignleft" src="media/77e6bb45.P4_Roadmap-1024x1024.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-1024x1024.png" alt="" width="379" height="379" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-1024x1024.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-768x768.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-32x32.png 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-64x64.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-96x96.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/P4_Roadmap-128x128.png 128w" sizes="(max-width: 379px) 85vw, 379px" /></p>
<p>User-driven and community-based design projects are impactful and fulfilling. In the redesign of Greenpeace.org <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ldc9dmV1dcm7o1Sjw4RLV6fEAV7ui6nvblhxduZSR0o/edit#slide=id.10">a remix</a> of <a href="https://github.com/red-hat-people-team/open-decision-framework">the Open Decision Framework</a>, the <a href="http://opendesignkit.org">Open Design Kit</a> and community collaboration is of highest importance. In this interactive session, I’d like to share my experiences in a hands-on way. Participants can bring their ideas, their businesses, their strategic directions, and together we’ll help each other set up structures and processes that invite people in. We’ll give advice, talk through issues and create a working atmosphere that helps people solve real world problems.</p>
<p>The open community is full of people with the skills and attitudes that could truly affect global change. I’m hopeful that wearing my Greenpeace hat will help open advocates see the value in sharing with activists and contributing to the environmental movement.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52472" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52472" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/07/future-of-commons/weareopen-banner/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weareopen-banner.png" data-orig-size="3000,1000" 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="weareopen-banner" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weareopen-banner-300x100.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weareopen-banner-1024x341.png" class="size-large wp-image-52472" src="media/1c79a912.weareopen-banner-1024x341.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weareopen-banner-1024x341.png" alt="" width="840" height="280" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weareopen-banner-1024x341.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weareopen-banner-300x100.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weareopen-banner-768x256.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weareopen-banner-120x40.png 120w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weareopen-banner-50x17.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weareopen-banner-270x90.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weareopen-banner-1200x400.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Image by Bryan Mather, We Are Open Coop</figcaption></figure>
<h3>We Are Open Co-op</h3>
<p>Not only do we all need to understand how our planet fits into the idea of the Commons, we need to talk about openness <em>outside</em> of what we call Open Source or Open Culture communities. Building bridges is the future of the commons. I want to help find and illuminate connections between different communities.</p>
<p>I’ve spent my career working at the crossroads between technology and a variety of different industries, leading to the combinations of: Technology + Media, Technology + Education, Technology + Activism. Spreading the beliefs, processes and culture of open from the tech community and into other sectors is part of the reason I am a founding member of the <a href="http://weareopen.coop">We Are Open Coop</a>. Open principles and practices have gone mainstream in the past few years – from open government to open data, open science to open education, we’re working to connect people to the ideals of open.</p>
<p>Over the last year it’s also become more and more clear to me how much open and co-ops have in common. Reading <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/24/platform-cooperatives-movement-helps-light-commons/">Hal Plokin’s excellent post</a> and attending the <a href="https://2017.open.coop">Open: 2017 Platform Cooperatives conference</a> are just two recent things that have me thinking about finding ways to translate between open communities and co-op communities. Along with <a href="https://dougbelshaw.com">Doug Belshaw</a>, a fellow co-founder of the We Are Open Co-op, I’ll be running a session called “Help us forge links between co-ops and the commons”.</p>
<p>By the end of this session, we hope to have some sort of an artefact that visualizes or structures the commonalities between the Open Movement and the Co-op Movement. We’ll build off the <a href="http://ica.coop/en/whats-co-op/co-operative-identity-values-principles">International Principles of Co-operation</a> to create amap or framework (or comic strip!) to help people from both movements understand how they can work together to build a most just and equitable world.</p>
<h3>More things to talk to me about</h3>
<p>I’m looking forward to digging in deep and having meaningful discussions about sharing, community, and collaboration. I’m bound to get into a discussion about the work we’re doing at <a href="http://opensource.com">Opensource.com</a>, and I always have plenty of thoughts on open education, remix, diversity and inclusion…Basically, just come find me and let’s see what we have to talk about. You can also reach out <a href="http://twitter.com/epilepticrabbit">on twitter</a> in advance of the Summit.</p>
<p>Let’s see how our sharing helps light up the commons.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/07/future-of-commons/">The Future of the Commons is an Open Planet</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52487
title: Almanaque Azul: a Panamanian travel guide licensed under CC
uri: Almanaque-Azul-a-Panamanian-travel-guide-licensed-under-CC
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/10/alamanque-azul/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52488" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52488" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/10/alamanque-azul/libro_pasaporte_tw/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw.jpg" data-orig-size="1280,960" 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="libro_pasaporte_tw" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw-1024x768.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-52488" src="media/4056072c.libro_pasaporte_tw-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/libro_pasaporte_tw.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA by Alamanque Azul</figcaption></figure>
<p>Almanaque Azul is a group of Panamanian environmentalists, artists, and explorers that began the process of creating a travel guide for the beaches of the Republic of Panama in 2005 through a blog that chronicled the amazing cultural and natural diversity of various small towns and deserted beaches.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52489" style="width: 284px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="52489" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/10/alamanque-azul/aa2_product_shot_300_blanco/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aa2_product_shot_300_blanco.png" data-orig-size="350,449" 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="aa2_product_shot_300_blanco" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aa2_product_shot_300_blanco-234x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aa2_product_shot_300_blanco.png" class=" wp-image-52489" src="media/924b7b0f.aa2_product_shot_300_blanco.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aa2_product_shot_300_blanco.png" alt="" width="284" height="364" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aa2_product_shot_300_blanco.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aa2_product_shot_300_blanco-234x300.png 234w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aa2_product_shot_300_blanco-31x40.png 31w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aa2_product_shot_300_blanco-39x50.png 39w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aa2_product_shot_300_blanco-121x155.png 121w" sizes="(max-width: 284px) 85vw, 284px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Alamanque Azul, CC BY-NC</figcaption></figure>
<p>Over the years, dozens of volunteers reported from along the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean coasts of this thin Central American isthmus, otherwise known for the Canal that goes through it (though more recently for the “Panama Papers” leak of documents related to corporate tax-avoidance!)</p>
<p>The images and reports from volunteers were carefully edited into the Almanaque Azul website, which quickly became a popular point of reference for local travellers. The website was published under the Spanish port of the CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 licence. The scope of Almanaque Azul gradually became more activist, as large-scale tourism development and a booming real estate market for coastal land drove people off the land and caused environmental destruction throughout the country. We started promoting a more sustainable community and nature based tourism, which was being largely ignored by the market and regulatory agencies.</p>
<p>In 2009 the Almanaque Azul team began work on compiling the research done by the volunteers over the years into a book. We decided to go beyond the coasts and to cover the entire country, including rivers, mountains and inland towns. The result was the first edition of the Almanaque Azul Panama Travel Guide, a 432-page book published in Spanish in 2013 under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 unported license, with a print run of 2500 copies. We did our own, very limited distribution but even then we sold out in less than two years and the book became somewhat of a cult object.</p>
<p>By then we were already working on the second edition, which we just published last March. This time, we collected $20,000 from a crowdfunding campaign, which we used to print 6000 copies. The book grew to 560 pages and the license used was a 4.0 international license. More than 100 people contributed research, text, photographs, and illustrations for this edition. We have learned a lot about distribution, marketing and inventory control as well, so we expect to do much better on the economic side of publishing this edition.</p>
<p>We also published an e-book version of the first edition, which we sold on Amazon, under the same license and with no copy-protection.</p>
<p>We used almost entirely free software tools for both editions. The first one was laid out using Scribus, for the second edition we used LaTeX, which turned out to be the perfect choice for a book this large and complex. We had to invest some money in developing a LaTeX class with the book specs, which we plan to release but still haven’t decided whether to use a BY NC-SA, a BY-SA, or just an attribution license.</p>
<p>Using Creative Commons licenses is a natural choice for us, especially since it is a collaborative project where we want the information to spread as far and wide as possible, where everyone should be able to use, remix and republish the content. We felt it would be only fair to restrict commercial reuse, which also made it easier for some people to agree to contribute material.</p>
<p>We did publish some of the pictures from our volunteers and contributors on a different project, <a href="http://www.mochila.com.pa/acerca-de-nosotros">La Mochila,</a> intended to support science education in Panama. Since we added all of those images to Wikimedia Commons, we used a CC Attribution-Share Alike License, which required us to do a bit of convincing of the institutions that contributed images, and the Creative Commons Panama Chapter team helped us.</p>
<p>You can check our original website (which is offline at the moment) on the <a href="https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20051103211743/www.almanaqueazul.org">Internet Archive.</a> The book&#8217;s promotional website is <a href="http://libro.almanaqueazul.org">here.</a></p>
<figure id="attachment_52490" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52490" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/10/alamanque-azul/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,496" 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="aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1-300x124.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1-1024x423.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-52490" src="media/04cc54c0.aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1-1024x423.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1-1024x423.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="347" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1-1024x423.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1-300x124.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1-768x317.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1-97x40.jpg 97w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1-50x21.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1-270x112.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/aerealsatelital-1-panama_bay_canal_20070321_1.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Casco Antiguo de Panamá desde el aire, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/by/nc/sa/4.0">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52482
title: Influencing centres of change: the policy and advocacy track at #CCSummit
uri: Influencing-centres-of-change-the-policy-and-advocacy-track-at-CCSum
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/10/policy-and-advocacy/
content:
<figure id="attachment_51335" style="width: 554px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="51335" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/07/school-rocking-copyright-cc-europe-meeting/lisette/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette.jpg" data-orig-size="2048,1365" 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="lisette" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-image-51335" src="media/9defe42f.lisette-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-1024x683.jpg" width="554" height="369" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 554px) 85vw, 554px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Saša Krajnc, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">CC BY 4.0.</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>In a couple of weeks in Toronto, we will welcome a global community of advocates working to improve education and access to information and culture through copyright reform and open policy. The summit’s Policy and Advocacy track will focus on increasing the effectiveness of our community in the current and future hotbeds of law and policy change. We hope you join us in sharing your experiences, learning about what others have been doing, and collaborating with us on education and advocacy activities.</p>
<p>Check out the <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/">full programme</a>, and view some of the highlights from the Policy and Advocacy track below.</p>
<h3><a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/event/AEzw/fixing-copyright-for-education?iframe=no&amp;w=100%&amp;sidebar=yes&amp;bg=no">Fixing copyright for Education</a></h3>
<p>This session on Friday afternoon, led by CC Portugal’s Teresa Nobre focuses on sharing research and campaign experience on influencing the current copyright reform underway in Europe. If you want a sneak peek of what they have been doing, <a href="http://www.rightcopyright.eu">take a look at the campaign.</a></p>
<h3><a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/event/AF18/index-map-registry-how-can-we-track-open-policies-around-the-world?iframe=no&amp;w=100%&amp;sidebar=yes&amp;bg=no">Campaigning for Copyright Reform: New Perspectives and Lessons Learned</a></h3>
<p>Here’s a session that will be led by Vladimir Garay from Derechos Digitales. It will build on the perspectives and lessons learned from advocating for copyright reform from Uruguay to Europe to elsewhere, and explore new ideas and approaches for law reform and open policy adoption worldwide.</p>
<h3><a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/event/AF18/index-map-registry-how-can-we-track-open-policies-around-the-world?iframe=no&amp;w=100%&amp;sidebar=yes&amp;bg=no">Index, Map, Registry: How can we Track Open Policies Around the World?</a></h3>
<p>Alek Tarkowski of Creative Commons Poland leads this session, building on the <a href="media/f402e34d.StateofOpenPolicyFullReport_v2.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/StateofOpenPolicyFullReport_v2.pdf">&#8220;State of Open Policy&#8221;</a> report, which provides an overview of open policies in the spheres of education, heritage, science, and data. This session showcases the outcomes and tries to figure out with your help how can the 2017 report be an even better resource.</p>
<p>We look forward to seeing everyone at the summit!</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/10/policy-and-advocacy/">Influencing centres of change: the policy and advocacy track at #CCSummit</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52504
title: Hacia la Implementación del Tratado de Marrakech en Uruguay
uri: Hacia-la-Implementación-del-Tratado-de-Marrakech-en-Uruguay
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/11/hacia-la-implementacion-del-tratado-de-marrakech-en-uruguay/
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<p><img data-attachment-id="52505" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/11/hacia-la-implementacion-del-tratado-de-marrakech-en-uruguay/logo_creative_commons_uruguay_alternativo/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Logo_Creative_Commons_Uruguay_alternativo.png" data-orig-size="599,225" 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="Logo_Creative_Commons_Uruguay_alternativo" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Logo_Creative_Commons_Uruguay_alternativo-300x113.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Logo_Creative_Commons_Uruguay_alternativo.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-52505 size-full" src="media/127ec05b.Logo_Creative_Commons_Uruguay_alternativo.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Logo_Creative_Commons_Uruguay_alternativo.png" width="599" height="225" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Logo_Creative_Commons_Uruguay_alternativo.png 599w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Logo_Creative_Commons_Uruguay_alternativo-300x113.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Logo_Creative_Commons_Uruguay_alternativo-106x40.png 106w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Logo_Creative_Commons_Uruguay_alternativo-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Logo_Creative_Commons_Uruguay_alternativo-270x101.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 599px) 85vw, 599px" /></p>
<p>El “<em>Tratado de Marrakech para facilitar el acceso a obras publicadas a las personas ciegas, con discapacidad visual o con otras dificultades para acceder al texto impreso”</em>, constituye un hito en la relación entre los derechos de autor y los DD.HH., siendo el primer tratado internacional consagrado con el objetivo exclusivo de proteger los derechos de acceso a la cultura y el conocimiento.</p>
<p>Dicho Tratado fue aprobado en el ámbito de la OMPI en el año 2013 y entró en vigor el 30 de setiembre de 2016. Desde su aprobación y ratificación, varios Estados parte se encuentran trabajando para lograr su efectiva implementación a nivel nacional.</p>
<p><strong>La implementación del Tratado de Marrakech</strong></p>
<p>Dos aspectos clave a tomar en cuenta para la implementación de Marrakech en las legislaciones nacionales son:</p>
<p><strong>1) Marrakech constituye un mínimo de protección. </strong> Las cláusulas mandatorias del tratado incluyen la obligación de establecer como mínimo las siguientes excepciones o limitaciones relacionadas con el acceso a las obras publicadas a las personas ciegas, con discapacidad visual o con otras dificultades para acceder al texto impreso:</p>
<ol>
<li>Excepción o limitación para la producción de obras en formatos accesibles.</li>
<li>Excepción o limitación para la distribución y comunicación al público de obras en formatos accesibles.</li>
<li>Excepción o limitación para la exportación (transferencia internacional) de obras en formatos accesibles.</li>
<li>Excepción o limitación para la importación (introducción al país) de obras en formatos accesibles.</li>
<li>Excepción a las Medidas Tecnológicas de control de Acceso (DRM)</li>
</ol>
<p>Si bien en el cuerpo del Tratado se sugieren modelos de implementación para estas excepciones, estos modelos no son vinculantes. Las Partes Contratantes podrán incluir limitaciones y excepciones distintas a las previstas o con un mayor alcance, en la medida que se cumpla con la regla de los tres pasos presente en todos los acuerdos de DA y conexos.</p>
<p><strong>2) La clave del éxito de Marrakech depende de la creación de redes internacionales con procesos ágiles de producción e intercambio de ejemplares accesibles</strong>, procurando evitar la duplicación de esfuerzos.</p>
<p>La mayor innovación del Marrakech es, sin lugar a dudas, la instauración de un régimen internacional de transferencia internacional de ejemplares en formato accesible, facilitando el intercambio y fortaleciendo la eficiencia de aquellas entidades habilitadas a realizar la producción y distribución de este tipo de obras. Estas instituciones deben contar con un marco normativo claro y compatible con el de las entidades de otros países. Un país miembro podrá establecer como requisito suficiente para la exportación que el país haya ratificado Marrakech o que su legislación lo permita, pero también podrá disponer otro tipo de restricciones. Esto último podría dificultar enormemente el análisis de la legalidad de la transferencia, operando de barrera en el intercambio. La redacción óptima de esta excepción será siempre la más simple y menos restrictiva.</p>
<p>El régimen de cooperación internacional encaminado a facilitar el intercambio transfronterizo previsto en Marrakech establece a la OMPI como punto de acceso a la información, por lo que la OMPI se encuentra actualmente trabajando en la creación de una base de entidades autorizadas a nivel mundial, un catálogo mundial de obras y mecanismos de análisis de la compatibilidad entre legislaciones (a través del<a href="http://accessiblebooksconsortium.org/portal/en/index.html"> Proyecto ABC</a>). Entendemos que, la implementación óptima del tratado a nivel nacional, deberá efectuarse indefectiblemente en coordinación con la OMPI.</p>
<p><strong>Implementación de Marrakech en Uruguay</strong></p>
<p>Los días 23 y 24 de marzo tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Montevideo el “<em>Seminario Nacional: El derecho a la accesibilidad. La excepción a los derechos de autor en la Ley de Derechos de Autor del Uruguay y la implementación del Tratado de Marrakech de la OMPI</em>” coorganizado por el <a href="http://www.mec.gub.uy/innovaportal/v/37416/2/mecweb/derecho-de-autor?leftmenuid=37416">Consejo de Derechos de Autor</a> del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura de Uruguay (CDA &#8211; MEC) y la OMPI.</p>
<p>En dicha ocasión, fue presentado y discutido el proyecto de Decreto reglamentario del Tratado elaborado por el CDA-MEC. A su vez, las diferentes instituciones del gobierno, academia y sociedad civil que se encuentran trabajando en proyectos de bibliotecas digitales accesibles, presentaron sus experiencias e inquietudes.</p>
<p>Destacamos algunos aspectos de la propuesta de Decreto Reglamentario presentado por el CDA- MEC de Uruguay:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Se implementa el Tratado mediante la instauración de excepciones</strong>,<strong> excluyendo el uso de licencias obligatorias o limitaciones con remuneración compensatoria</strong>. Este requisito de remuneración compensatoria sería un gran obstáculo o carga poco razonable, ya que los proyectos de bibliotecas digitales accesibles de países como Uruguay cuentan con pocos recursos e infraestructura. Por otra parte, no existiría nada que compensar cuando la oferta comercial de obras en este tipo de formatos es prácticamente inexistente.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Se propone la creación del “<strong>Registro de Obras e Instituciones Autorizadas comprendidas en la excepción de derecho de autor a favor de personas ciegas o con otras discapacidades para la lectura</strong>”, el registro será de carácter obligatorio e implicará la creación de un catálogo nacional de obras y de una nómina de instituciones autorizadas. Dicho Registro estará a cargo de la <a href="http://www.bibna.gub.uy/">Biblioteca Nacional del Uruguay </a>que además cumplirá con las funciones de control, coordinación y colaboración con las las instituciones autorizadas, así como la facilitación y estímulo del intercambio interinstitucional y transfronterizo.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>El Proyecto de Decreto<strong> declara como “instituciones autorizadas”</strong> para proporcionar y producir ejemplares en formatos accesibles a las <strong>instituciones de enseñanza públicas y/o privadas, las Bibliotecas públicas o privadas</strong> y a dos asociaciones: la Unión Nacional de Ciegos del Uruguay y la Fundación Braille del Uruguay. De esta forma se facilita la existencia de proyectos de producción y distribución de ejemplares en formatos accesibles en estas instituciones. Se prevé que, para otro tipo de instituciones sin fines de lucro, exista un trámite de acreditación, autorización e inscripción en el registro.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Se habilita directamente a los beneficiarios del tratado</strong> (personas ciegas o con problemas de acceso al texto escrito) <strong>y a las personas que actúen en su nombre a producir e importar ejemplares en formato accesible</strong>, no solamente a las instituciones autorizadas.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>El Proyecto de Decreto <strong>NO obliga a efectuar un análisis de mercado </strong>previo a la producción o distribución de cada ejemplar, con el fin de determinar la<strong> posibilidad de obtención comercial </strong>en condiciones razonables. Simplificando, de esta forma, el trabajo de las bibliotecas, instituciones educativas y fundaciones.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>El Proyecto de Decreto<strong> plantea una redacción simple, clara y sin mayores restricciones para el caso de intercambio transfronterizo de obras</strong>: toda institución autorizada que se encuentre registrada podrá distribuir, comunicar o poner a disposición de las personas beneficiarias o para una institución autorizada establecida en otro país Parte Contratante del Tratado de Marrakech o de un país cuya legislación lo admita, las obras en formato accesible de su catálogo.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Por último,<strong> se establece la legalidad de la elusión de medidas de protección tecnológica en el marco de las actividades relacionadas con estas excepciones</strong>. Por lo que, por ejemplo, desencriptar o desactivar la protección tecnológica de un archivo que contenga una obra, para producir un ejemplar accesible, no sería sancionable por el delito penal previsto en el artículo 46 de la ley de derecho de autor de Uruguay.</li>
</ul>
<p>Consideramos que la reglamentación propuesta por el Consejo de Derechos de Autor del Uruguay es un buen modelo a seguir, esperamos sea aprobada a la brevedad por el Poder Ejecutivo.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52509
title: The Usable Commons at the CC Summit
uri: The-Usable-Commons-at-the-CC-Summit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/12/usable-commons/
content:
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<p><img data-attachment-id="52502" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/share-everyone-wins/cc_summit_logo_final_ag_color-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2.png" data-orig-size="1278,789" 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_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color (2)" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-300x185.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-1024x632.png" class=" wp-image-52502 aligncenter" src="media/41af6b7e.cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-1024x632.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-1024x632.png" alt="" width="443" height="273" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-1024x632.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-300x185.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-768x474.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-65x40.png 65w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-50x31.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-251x155.png 251w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-1200x741.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2.png 1278w" sizes="(max-width: 443px) 85vw, 443px" /></p>
<p>The Usable Commons track at the <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">CC summit</a> contains an exciting array of sessions that explore how to make the digital commons more discoverable, usable, and human-centered. In content communities such as 3D printing, research, and social media, we will focus on key questions of human behavior, including: What motivates people to share online? What social and technical design factors help people to make connections and build relationships? What can CC and its partners do to better facilitate and foster this collaboration online?</p>
<p>In order of appearance on the <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/index.php/program/sessions/">summit agenda</a>, below are some of the sessions and speakers central to the Usable Commons. Note that all sessions at the summit are tagged across multiple tracks. The Usable Commons is simply one way for you to navigate this year’s excellent program.</p>
<p>We look forward to collaborating with you at this year’s CC Summit in Toronto!</p>
<p><em>Note: Session times are subject to change. For up-to-date descriptions of each session, check the </em><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/index.php/program/sessions/"><em>Sched app</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sharing norms that go beyond the licenses and CC’s role, starting with 3D design community</strong></p>
<p><em>(Day 1, April 28) Friday, 1:30-3:30pm</em></p>
<p>What would it look like for Creative Commons to shift its primary focus to the norms of sharing content online, rather than the precise legalities of sharing? To help us envision this strategy in practice, we will apply it in the area of 3D printing. We will look at the existing norms for sharing 3D designs, and then discuss how Creative Commons could help make the culture of sharing even more pronounced and productive in this domain. As part of the discussion, we will brainstorm specific things CC might do and talk about the potential negative consequences, as we explore this new way of operating. This will be a two-part session, with discussion/debate in the second hour.</p>
<p>Speakers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Tony Buser (Thingiverse/Makerbot)</li>
<li>Meghan Coakley (NIH 3D Print Exchange)</li>
<li>Jeric Bautista (re3D)</li>
<li>Ben Malouf (Lulzbot/Aleph Objects)</li>
<li>Meredith Jacob (CC U.S.)</li>
<li>Frank Polcino (Thingiverse/Makerbot)</li>
<li>Michael Weinberg (Shapeways)</li>
<li>Sarah Pearson (Creative Commons)</li>
<li>Jane Park (Creative Commons)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>CC Search: Usability, Features, and Partners </strong></p>
<p><em>(Day 1, April 28) Friday, 4:00-5:30pm</em></p>
<p>In February, Creative Commons released a working beta of CC Search. The initial service indexes about 1 percent of the Commons, and has a few key features, including list making, favoriting, and one-click attribution. Following the release, many partners have come forward asking to be involved. Before CC builds a complete index and service, we should continue consulting with partners, users, and the CC community. We&#8217;ll generate insights and map ideas for the future of CC search as a product. We will conduct a user-testing session; share statistics and analytics of CC search tools and partner platforms; work in smaller groups to generate solutions for a vital search product for the commons built to go beyond discovery to support collaboration and human connections</p>
<p>Speakers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ryan Merkley (Creative Commons)</li>
<li>Liza Daly (Software engineer, lead of beta CC Search)</li>
<li>Rob Myers (Creative Commons)</li>
<li>Maarten Zeinstra (CC Netherlands /Kennisland)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>How to encourage prosocial behavior</strong></p>
<p><em>(Day 1, April 28) Friday, 4:00-5:30pm</em></p>
<p>Healthy collaboration requires a lot more than copyright licenses. Among other things, it requires that people recognize the humanity in each other and behave accordingly, something that is far from a given online. Creating online environments that encourage prosocial behavior requires proactive effort and design. This session will feature platforms who regularly grapple with these issues. Each will explain the processes and infrastructure they use to create online environments where people interact in productive ways. Discussion will follow regarding what else we can do to foster greater cooperation and sharing online, especially with regards to commons content communities. We will explore the lifecycle of sharing, including: the pre-conditions for sharing, the actual act of sharing, what happens after sharing, and then what might feed back into the cycle, which may be ongoing or a one-time act.</p>
<p>Speakers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Juliet Barbara (Wikimedia Foundation)</li>
<li>Ashe Dryden (Programmer, Diversity Advocate and Consultant)</li>
<li>Alex Feerst (Medium)</li>
<li>Tony Buser (Thingiverse/Makerbot)</li>
<li>Sarah Pearson (Creative Commons)</li>
<li>Jane Park (Creative Commons)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Share or Die: Is the Future of Manufacturing Open Source? Open Hardware Business Models</strong></p>
<p><em>(Day 2, April 29) Saturday, 9-10am</em></p>
<p>How can manufacturers open source their design and products without losing their unique value proposition? This panel, organized by Danish Design Centre, debates the challenges and opportunities of designing open source-based business models for manufacturing and looks at the future of production in a new era. An era increasingly defined by not only the technology of the maker movement, but also its major underlying currents of knowledge sharing, co-creation and crowdsourced innovation. A future where manufacturers and designers will have to learn to share &#8211; or die.</p>
<p>Speakers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Christian Villum (CC Denmark)</li>
<li>Paul Stacey (Creative Commons)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>How to make good on the Creative Commons Promise?</strong></p>
<p><em>(Day 3, April 30) Sunday, 10:30-11:30am</em></p>
<p>As use of Creative Commons licenses increases, we are seeing more instances of people misunderstanding the licenses or making mistakes with reuse. Creators who use Creative Commons face the issue that they often do not receive proper attribution that the licenses promised them when their works are reused. Reusers of CC-licensed works are increasingly facing the issue of legal threats from creators if they make mistakes in their attribution. In this session, we will discuss these issues, share our experience with them, and develop strategies for addressing them. We hope to develop an approach for how to proceed to better ensure that people are getting what they expect when they both release their works using a CC license and when they reuse CC-licensed works.</p>
<p>Speaker:</p>
<ul>
<li>Charles M. Roslof (Wikimedia Foundation)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Patents: The Next Open Access Fight</strong></p>
<p><em>(Day 3, April 30) Sunday, 1:30-2:30pm</em></p>
<p>Even as scientific research becomes accessible to a wider public, some of that same research is falling into the hands of patent trolls, companies that serve no purpose but to amass patents and sue innovators who independently created similar inventions. Those trolls can undo open access allies&#8217; work in bringing knowledge and innovation to the public. Join us for an overview and discussion about current day challenges and opportunities, and the role that Creative Commons might play in furthering a patent commons.</p>
<p>Speaker:</p>
<ul>
<li>Elliot Harmon (Electronic Frontier Foundation)</li>
<li>Jorge Contreras (University of Utah)</li>
<li>Diane Peters (Creative Commons)</li>
<li>Ryan Merkley (Creative Commons)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>CC Usability: Reimagining CC’s tools for real users</strong></p>
<p><em>(Day 3, April 30) Sunday, 3:00-5:00pm</em></p>
<p>If we were to reimagine CC&#8217;s core tools for real users in 2017, who would be our core audience? If we didn&#8217;t have the constraints of 15 years ago when the licenses launched, how would we design the licenses to serve CC users’ needs and desires today? We will present and discuss current and new designs of the CC licenses, buttons, deeds, and chooser. Content platforms will provide insight into their users’ motivations. Additionally, we invite participants from every region to give us insight into their users’ needs, and an opportunity to help reimagine CC’s tools for the current web and sharing climate.</p>
<p>Speakers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Alex Feerst (Medium)</li>
<li>Melissa Nightingale (Wattpad)</li>
<li>Cheyenne Hohman (Free Music Archive)</li>
<li>Charles M. Roslof (Wikimedia Foundation)</li>
<li>Mack Hardy (Affinity Bridge)</li>
<li>Eric Steuer (Creative Commons)</li>
<li>Ryan Merkley (Creative Commons)</li>
<li>Jane Park (Creative Commons)</li>
</ul>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52530
title: Future living with SPACE10: Open Source innovation for a local food system
uri: Future-living-with-SPACE10-Open-Source-innovation-for-a-local-food-sy
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/13/future-living-with-space10/
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<figure id="attachment_52535" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52535" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/13/future-living-with-space10/photo_alonavibe_munchies-festival_3580/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580.jpg" data-orig-size="1500,1000" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1472895156&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;ALONA VIBE&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies Festival_3580" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-image-52535 size-large" src="media/3a60e256.Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580-1024x683.jpg" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3580.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Alona Vibe, Munchies Festival</figcaption></figure>
<p>SPACE10 is a Danish “future living lab” with an open source twist. Founded by IKEA in 2015, the lab is focused on innovative design to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems. To that end, in February 2017, the lab licensed their popular Growroom design under CC BY in order to provide the maximum impact possible. This attractive, sustainable indoor circular garden quickly grows a massive amount of food in only a few square feet by utilizing vertical space, urban architecture, and hydroponics. <a href="https://www.space10.io/journal/growing-sphere-exploring-how-cities-can-feed-themselves-through-advanced-urban-farming">In the words of director Carla Cammilla Hjort,</a> &#8220;At Space10, we envision a future where we grow much more food inside our cities. Food producing architecture could enable us to do so.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Growroom can be downloaded and fabricated for free at the <a href="https://www.space10.io/journal/space10-open-sources-the-growroom">SPACE10 website</a> and you can find out more about the project via their<a href="https://space10-community.github.io/conversational-form/"> “Conversational Form.”</a> Thanks to SPACE10 Communications Director Simon Caspersen for the interview.</p>
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<p><strong>The Growroom was launched in 2016 and open-sourced in February 2017. The expressed impetus for open sourcing the design was to encourage local production and materials. How did you come to that conclusion, and how has the project changed since it was open sourced? Why is open sourcing the plans vital to local food production?</strong></p>
<p>We feel it makes complete sense because both our global food production system and our global supply chain of goods are based on the same model.</p>
<p>We produce everything on massive scale far away from where we live and ship everything halfway across the planet and into our cities, where we consume it before we export the waste.</p>
<p>This model has served us well. Humans have never been more food secure in the history of mankind and it would probably not by overreaching to claim that much of the living standards and material prosperity of modern society can be traced back to our current industrial model. The model, however, also has its physical limits, and these have been reached.</p>
<p>Our food system is driven by scale, chemicals, and fuel. It is one of the most crucial drivers of climate change. It is a critical user of our dwindling supplies of fresh water, the process compromises the nutritional value of our food severely, and 1/3 of the food produced goes to waste due to spoilage and overproduction. Furthermore, we each year note the date when humanity exhausts a year’s supply of the earth’s natural resources. In 2006 that date fell in October. In 2016 it was in August. All the evidence suggests that if we continue at our current rate, we’ll soon need a second planet&#8230;</p>
<p>We wanted to explore alternatives. The Growroom started as an architecture competition that we launched together with CHART. We wanted to explore how cities can feed themselves through food producing architecture. The winner was two Danish architects: Sine Lindholm and Mads Ulrik Husum, who created The Growroom as a one-off pavilion for the festival. The ideas was to spark conversations about this local food production.</p>
<p>The Growroom ended up sparking excitement from Taipei to Helsinki, from Rio de Janeiro to San Francisco, where people reached out and wanted to buy or exhibit The Growroom. But we didn’t feel it made sense to promote local food production and then start a centralised production of The Growroom and ship this large structure across oceans and continents.</p>
<p>We therefore tapped into the fab city movements idea of globally connected, locally productive cities that aspires to produce everything within our cities, went back to the drawing board and remade a version designed for open source, so we could ship the digital design files and let people build it themselves locally instead of the physical structure.</p>
<p><strong>SPACE10 is a lab, a journal, and an exhibition space that explores the future of urban development. How do you think that open source plays into the future of global cities and production? How do you balance your approach to open as an Ikea project?</strong></p>
<p>I think open source is one of the most exciting opportunities of our time. Open source could potentially change everything and empower people in ways we can’t even imagine. One thing is that open source and the advancements in digital fabrication will allow us to make everything locally &#8211; on demand. Whether it’s furniture, housing, cities, everything. Open source also enable us to not only share but also learn, build upon, and develop together. I deeply believe that if you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room. We need to surround ourselves with people who are smarter than us and open source allow us to learn and work together with the brightest minds out there.</p>
<p>In terms of IKEA, we are 100 % supported by IKEA and we work as an external future-living lab. If we weren’t looking into the opportunities of open source, we would be a pretty useless future-living lab, wouldn’t we?</p>
<blockquote><p>We are also aware that transforming our current production system is a huge and complex issue and one of the biggest creative challenges of our time &#8211; and we also need to be aware of the social consequences if production moves out of areas where people depend on that for their livelihood. Nevertheless, it’s about getting in now, gaining learnings, and helping shape a future that is better for all of us.</p></blockquote>
<figure id="attachment_52534" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="52534" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/13/future-living-with-space10/photo_alonavibe_munchies-festival_3624/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624.jpg" data-orig-size="1500,892" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1472895714&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;ALONA VIBE&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies Festival_3624" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624-300x178.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624-1024x609.jpg" class="wp-image-52534 size-large" src="media/2a34657d.Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624-1024x609.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624-1024x609.jpg" width="840" height="500" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624-300x178.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624-768x457.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624-67x40.jpg 67w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624-50x30.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624-261x155.jpg 261w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624-1200x714.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo_AlonaVibe_Munchies-Festival_3624.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Alona Vibe</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>How difficult is it to actually put together the Growroom? How long would it take? Have you seen any successful examples of the finished project that you&#8217;d like to share?</strong></p>
<p>It is fairly simple actually. We have a very intuitive manual. No big tools needed: two rubber hammers and a screwdriver. We just exhibited in Milan for the design week and it took three people one hour, but they have also done it before and the local fab lab had a very precise CNC, so everything was like LEGO.</p>
<p>We are seeing different versions pop up different places using the hashtag: #space10growroom on instagram, but have also seen people who have set a little business up on top of the design &#8211; here is a nice little video from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/growroombuildingsupport/">Denmark</a> and a website in <a href="http://www.growroom.be/">Belgium</a>. There have also been articles in the <a href="http://fox13now.com/2017/04/02/artists-create-pop-up-parks-in-salt-lake-city-during-annual-downtown-garden-stroll/">USA</a> and <a href="http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/City-student-grows-good-idea-20170325">Canada</a>. And we have been in touch with people who have concrete plans to build one in:</p>
<p>Lund, Sweden<br />
Stockholm, Sweden<br />
Helsinki, Finland<br />
Rensselaer, United States<br />
Minneapolis, United Sates<br />
Pittsburgh, United States<br />
Alberta, Canada<br />
Québec, Canada<br />
Germany<br />
Plymouth, UK<br />
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</p>
<p>This is the real beauty of open source. Our version is just the beginning. People are iterating, improving it, personalizing it, scaling it and implement technology in it. We even talked with people who want to make it in mycelium and pressed dirt, so it becomes 100 % biodegradable.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52537" style="width: 684px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52537" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/13/future-living-with-space10/niklasadrianvindelev_space10_pavillion_00084-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1.jpg" data-orig-size="3268,4895" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D610&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1483709820&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1-200x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1-684x1024.jpg" class="wp-image-52537 size-large" src="media/df5335a6.NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1-684x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1-684x1024.jpg" width="684" height="1024" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1-684x1024.jpg 684w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1-768x1150.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1-27x40.jpg 27w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1-33x50.jpg 33w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1-103x155.jpg 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NiklasAdrianVindelev_Space10_Pavillion_00084-1-1200x1797.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Niklas Adrian Vindelev, SPACE10</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>What advice would you give to other architects and designers who want open source their designs? Do you have plans to openly license other designs at SPACE10 in the future?</strong></p>
<p>If your aspiration in life is to design beautiful solutions that makes a difference for a lot of people, then you have a unique opportunity with open sourcing your solutions or build on top of others. We are challenged with some big questions and our current answers seems insufficient and outdated. We need collaboration and forward thinking people to work together more than ever. Open sourcing the physical world is still in early stage, so it’s about dipping your toes in the water, exploring the opportunities and seriously: how often do you have a chance to be a pioneer in a field that have the potential to change everything?</p>
<p>At SPACE10 we would like to open source every time it makes sense. We strongly believe that collaboration beats competition.</p>
<p>We launched an open source digital framework back in November called the <a href="https://space10-community.github.io/conversational-form/">“Conversational Form”</a> that turns web forms into conversations —  we make it easy for developers and designers to engage with users in a more compelling and conversational way. We needed one for ourselves, but couldn’t find any suitable solutions, so we decided to build one of our own and open sourced it. A couple of months after &#8211; 200.000 people use it on daily basis on different platforms, and developers from all over the world iterate and build upon our initial framework, which benefits everyone. Imagine how much money we would have needed to build that big of a team to do the same work inhouse. Or imagine if Wikipedia had decided to build their site with an inhouse team. Imagine how your architectural design could scale, develop and improve over time if you just open sourced it.</p>
<p><strong>Why did you choose to use CC BY as your license?</strong></p>
<p>I was actually a bit unsure of what the right license would be. I wanted it to be as accessible as possible, but it was important that Mads-Ulrik Husum and Signe Lindholm (the designers) were credited for their work.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52536" style="width: 683px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52536" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/13/future-living-with-space10/alicia-sjo%cc%88stro%cc%88m__salone-del-mobile-_img_9455-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1500,2250" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&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;1491325871&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Alicia Sjöström__Salone Del Mobile _IMG_9455" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1-200x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1-683x1024.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-52536" src="media/8068a40d.Alicia-Sjostrom__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1-683x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1-683x1024.jpg" alt="" width="683" height="1024" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1-27x40.jpg 27w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1-33x50.jpg 33w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1-103x155.jpg 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alicia-Sjöström__Salone-Del-Mobile-_IMG_9455-1.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by: Alicia Sjöström, Salone Del Mobile</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Design blogs are asking if the Growroom is the urban gardening of the future, cementing its importance in the development of cutting-edge urban agriculture. How are you maintaining the project&#8217;s longevity What hopes do you have for the Growroom, and what would you like to accomplish with it in the future?</strong></p>
<p>We have been very overwhelmed and incredibly happy with the positive response we have had from people, design institutions and media. For us, the ideal outcome would be that we didn’t do anything, but that people are inspired to build it themselves locally and gets joy from producing food on their own doorstep, rooftop or in their community &#8211; that it brings people together, support people’s sense of well being and provides food that is fresh, healthy, organic, and tastes better. That is what we dream of and why we open sourced it in the first place. I would also love to see people improve it, make it better and be creative with the design.</p>
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title: Spheres of Open: strengthening ties across the movement
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/14/spheres-of-open/
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<p>Sessions in the “Spheres of Open” track will focus on meaningful discussions about how we can work together to enhance, promote and move further the premises of CC in different areas of Open, such as Open GLAM, Open Education and Open Culture. Be prepared not only to learn from global practitioners, but also to be involved in a collective journey to search for the common questions regarding how we can make the world a better place with the CC community, its values, licenses and tools. This is an important year for the Creative Commons (CC) community gathering at the CC Summit, as we’re in the middle of discussing our new <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/24/cc-community-releases-movement-strategy-consultation/">strategy</a>, so be sure to drop by and join us!</p>
<p>Some of the questions that we’ll be exploring include:</p>
<ul>
<li>How can we celebrate and strengthen our ties to creators of culture who make the Commons visible and real to people?</li>
<li>How might we ensure Open Access initiatives meet the knowledge and information needs of the public?</li>
<li>How can we shape the future of the GLAM sector in a world with imbalanced copyright laws?</li>
<li>How do we open up government archives and advance Open Data initiatives?</li>
<li>Should we create an annual a CC film festival?</li>
<li>How do we mainstream Open Education?</li>
<li>How can open education be aligned with the global grand challenges we all face?</li>
</ul>
<p>These are some of the questions we’ll be exploring as the CC network shifts from its role as a set of legal tools and licenses to a community that focus on people, sharing, and gratitude.</p>
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title: An interview with Michael Geist: copyright reform in Canada and beyond
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/17/michael-geist/
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<p>Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. He is an authority on intellectual property, telecommunications, and privacy policy, and is a frequent writer and commentator on issues such as international trade negotiations and Canadian copyright reform. Geist will join the CC community at the Creative Commons Global Summit later this month.</p>
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<p><strong>Creative Commons is looking forward to hosting its Global Summit in Toronto at the end of this month. One of the topics to be discussed is how CC allies from around the world can share information and work together around supporting the reform of copyright rules in service of users and the public interest. CC affiliates are already active in copyright reform and commons advocacy in Europe, Australia, Latin America, and other places. Can you describe what’s going on with copyright reform in Canada, and how the Creative Commons network can help mobilize positive changes? What do you think we should push to achieve at the Summit re: copyright reform organising?</strong></p>
<p><span>Canada is often held out as a great example of successful copyright advocacy leading to a more balanced law. After more than a decade of debate, the law was overhauled in 2012.  While there are plenty of provisions for rights holders &#8211; strong anti-circumvention laws and anti-piracy measures &#8211; the law also features some innovative limitations and exceptions such as an exception for non-commercial user generated content.  There is also a cap on statutory damages in non-commercial cases and a privacy-friendly approach to intermediary liability.  Moreover, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that fair dealing is a user’s right that should be interpreted in a broad and liberal manner, leading to results that affirm a balance to copyright.</span></p>
<p><span>The 2012 reforms also included a mandatory review every five years, which means that a new review will start late in 2017.  There is still room for improvement and learning from best practices from around the world would be enormously helpful.  Moreover, there is an expectation that some rights holders will demand that the government roll back fair dealing at the very time that other countries are open to fair use provisions.  The Global Summit offers an exceptional opportunity to develop national and international strategies, learn about reforms around the world, and begin the process of speaking with a consistent voice on positive copyright reform.</span></p>
<p><strong>You’ve been a key voice in opposition to international trade agreements that attempt to push through restrictive clauses around intellectual property and e-commerce that enhance corporate protections while downplaying user rights. The most recent version of this was the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a sprawling agreement signed by 11 Pacific Rim nations, including Canada. Now that the United States, under the Trump administration, has formally withdrawn from the agreement, what is the future for the TPP? And what do you make of the seemingly inevitable reopening of NAFTA, especially with regard to digital rights?</strong></p>
<p><span>The TPP in its current form is dead.  The agreement reflects a bargain for countries premised on access to the U.S. market.  Without the U.S., that bargain doesn’t make any sense.</span></p>
<p><span>That said, the U.S. seems intent on reviving many of the IP provisions in future trade talks, including NAFTA.  The renegotiated NAFTA will have enormous implications for copyright and digital rights more generally.  I expect to see pressure for copyright term extension and increased criminalization of copyright. On the digital rights issue, privacy concerns such as data localization and data transfers will be on the agenda.  The U.S. is likely to promote restrictions on both issues, leaving countries between a proverbial rock and a hard place with the U.S. seeking open transfers and the European Union focused on privacy protections from localization and limits on transfers in some circumstances.</span></p>
<p><strong>As usual, there’s a lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) that’s continually sown around claims about copyright’s effect on rightsholders. You’ve written on several of these topics recently, including efforts by rightsholders associations to inflate numbers on piracy rates, fraud in search index takedown notices, and disinformation around the impacts of fair dealing on publishers’ businesses. How can digital rights advocates fight against such tactics?</strong></p>
<p><span>There has been a remarkable amount of fake news associated with copyright’s effect on rights holders. The Google data on fake takedown notices from its search index were stunning &#8211; more than 99% of requests did not involve an actual page in its search index. Similarly, during a recent trip to Australia and New Zealand I was shocked to see how Canadian law has been badly misrepresented with claims about effects on publishers that were simply false.</span></p>
<p><span>The best way to counter FUD is with facts. In Australia, one representative from a leading publisher approached me after a talk to express embarrassment over the claims that had been in that country’s policy process in light of the real facts. Our community should not hesitate to counter inaccurate claims on piracy and fair use/fair dealing with a clear, objective discussion of the reality online and in the marketplace.</span></p>
<p><strong>The issue of supporting and expanding copyright exceptions for education is on the table now within the context of the reassessment of the EU copyright rules, the international agenda at WIPO, and other national level copyright reforms. How do you see this will be addressed within the Canadian copyright reform which will commence this autumn?</strong></p>
<p><span>Canada included several new exceptions within the 2012 reforms, including the additional of “education” as one of the fair dealing purposes. The reality is that this change was relatively minor since the existing purposes such as research and private study covered most purposes within education.  Indeed, the Supreme Court’s rulings on fair dealing were far more important than the legislative change.  That said, there will be a concerted lobbying effort to roll back fair dealing for education in Canada that must countered with facts.  Further, there is room for improvement. Canada’s anti-circumvention laws are among the most restrictive in the world and do not include a fair dealing exception.  That should change if Canada wants to ensure that fair dealing is treated equally in the analog and digital worlds.  Moreover, Canada would still benefit from a fair use provision, particularly given the increased emphasis on data and machine learning, which may not neatly fit within our existing purposes in all circumstances.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52555
title: Imagining together the future of the commons
uri: Imagining-together-the-future-of-the-commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/18/imagining-together-future-commons/
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<figure id="attachment_52556" style="width: 435px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52556" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/18/imagining-together-future-commons/screen-shot-2017-04-18-at-11-22-08-am/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.22.08-AM.png" data-orig-size="435,602" 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="future-of-commons" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.22.08-AM-217x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.22.08-AM.png" class="wp-image-52556 size-full" src="media/a3fb1e12.Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.22.08-AM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.22.08-AM.png" alt="future-of-the-commons" width="435" height="602" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.22.08-AM.png 435w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.22.08-AM-217x300.png 217w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.22.08-AM-29x40.png 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.22.08-AM-36x50.png 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.22.08-AM-112x155.png 112w" sizes="(max-width: 435px) 85vw, 435px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Remix of the Visions of the <a href="media/c0bb13a9.superearth-small.jpg" data-original-source="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/images/superearth-small.jpg">Future HD40307 poster</a> courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. Original created by <a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/about.php">The Studio.</a> Made available by JPL <a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/">for any purpose without prior permission.</a><br /> Remix by Paul Stacey, for Creative Commons Global Summit 2017.</figcaption></figure>
<p>CC Summits have always been an opportunity for the Creative Commons global movement to take stock of our work and plan next steps. This year, we decided to make this theme even more prominent, and defined “Future of the Commons” as one of the five tracks of the Global Summit.</p>
<p>This track was formed due to the influential research from the internal “Faces of the Commons” study conducted by a team led by Anna Mazgal. One of the recommendations in her report was that Creative Commons create a platform for engaging people in generating big ideas and insights related to the future of the commons and the potential for Creative Commons to be an agent of exponential social change.</p>
<h1>Why should we care about the future of the commons?</h1>
<p>This interest is due in part to the <a href="http://consultation.creativecommons.org">ongoing strategic process</a>, which will conclude at the Summit with the adoption of a new model for the CC network. As we re-design our global community, we need to ask ourselves: what are our long-term goals, what is the role that CC can play in shaping our societies, and how do we address new challenges?</p>
<p>Creative Commons builds its activism on the belief that the way in which we manage a variety of resources matters, particularly when it comes to copyright. When properly shared, our intellectual resources will foster collaboration, equity, innovation and engagement. This fundamental assumption is valid as much today, as it was when CC was formed in 2001.</p>
<p>The “Future of the Commons” track is an opportunity to reflect together on our mission and goals, on the relevance of CC tools, and ways in which we can adapt to better address current challenges. We also want to talk about how we can work collaboratively with others, to build a broader open movement and a shared vision of the commons.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52557" style="width: 501px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52557" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/18/imagining-together-future-commons/screen-shot-2017-04-18-at-11-27-12-am/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM.png" data-orig-size="1262,984" 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 2017-04-18 at 11.27.12 AM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM-300x234.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM-1024x798.png" class=" wp-image-52557" src="media/c193ec89.Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM-1024x798.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM-1024x798.png" alt="" width="501" height="391" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM-1024x798.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM-300x234.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM-768x599.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM-51x40.png 51w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM-50x39.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM-199x155.png 199w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM-1200x936.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-11.27.12-AM.png 1262w" sizes="(max-width: 501px) 85vw, 501px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Future of the Commons graphic by Joanna Tarkowska, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<h1>The three strands of the track</h1>
<p>The <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/overview/type/Future+of+the+Commons">Future of the Commons track</a> was shaped around three strands, each with their own set of questions.</p>
<p><strong>Strand One: What is the commons, in particular the digital commons?</strong> How has CC contributed to the digital commons in the last 15 years? What part does CC currently play in helping it flourish and what more could CC do? Who else is working on this and how might CC collaborate with them?</p>
<p><strong>Strand Two: What is the role of the commons in the future economy?</strong> How do we develop open business models? What is CC&#8217;s role in sharing cities, platform cooperatives, and the sharing economy? How do we apply the concept of sharing to other crucial resources and technologies (like data or the internet of things)?</p>
<p><strong>Strand Three: What is CC&#8217;s role in going beyond licenses?</strong> How do we engage in and advance the social community practice of commoning? How is a commons managed? What are social norms for helping a digital commons thrive?</p>
<p>You can learn more about the track sessions in our <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/overview/type/Future+of+the+Commons">Summit schedule</a>.</p>
<h1>If you care about the future of the commons &#8211; get in touch!</h1>
<p>We invite Summit participants who are particularly interested in these issues to meet during lunch on Friday for an informal chance to meet peers. Look for the track logo in the lunch area.</p>
<p>We will also be organizing a <a href="http://virtuallyconnecting.org/">Virtually Connecting</a> session on Sunday during the 10.00 am break, to bring together summit participants with online peers, in order to share more broadly the track experience.</p>
<p><strong>To make the Future of the Commons track interactive we are inviting participants attending each session to write down one big idea or action from the session they think CC should pursue to ensure a flourishing future commons.</strong> All ideas will be posted to a Future of the Commons wall poster in the Summit venue hallway. Over the course of the summit, the Future of the Commons wall will gradually have more big ideas on it. to encourage idea browsing and conversation.</p>
<p>All the ideas from the Future of the Commons wall poster will feed into a culminating session on the last day of the Summit called &#8220;A Platform for Big Thinking About the Future of the Commons&#8221;. All participants in this final session will be engaged in an activity that selects and prioritizes ideas from the wall poster into a Future of the Commons action plan.</p>
<p>The “Future of the Commons” track has been shaped by an organizing team including: Alek Tarkowski (Poland), Claudia Cristiani (El Salvador), Alexandros Nousias (Greece), Anna Mazgal (Poland), SooHyun Pae (South Korea), and Paul Stacey (Canada).</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52545
title: March for Science on Earth Day
uri: March-for-Science-on-Earth-Day
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/18/march-science-earth-day/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="52547" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/18/march-science-earth-day/marchforscience-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/marchforscience-2.png" data-orig-size="7386,4079" 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="marchforscience" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/marchforscience-2-300x166.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/marchforscience-2-1024x566.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52547" src="media/711d1521.marchforscience-2-1024x566.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/marchforscience-2-1024x566.png" alt="" width="840" height="464" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/marchforscience-2-1024x566.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/marchforscience-2-300x166.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/marchforscience-2-768x424.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/marchforscience-2-72x40.png 72w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/marchforscience-2-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/marchforscience-2-270x149.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/marchforscience-2-1200x663.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On April 22, 2017 (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earth Day</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) tens of thousands of people will join the </span><a href="https://www.marchforscience.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">March for Science</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and stand together “to acknowledge and voice the critical role that science plays in each of our lives.” Marches will take place in Washington, D.C. and </span><a href="https://www.marchforscience.com/satellite-marches/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">over 500 other cities</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p>The mission of the March for Science is to champion the robust funding and public communication of science as a pillar of human freedom and prosperity. It aims to promote science that serves the public interest, fuels evidence-based policymaking, and advocates for cutting-edge research and education.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A particularly important aspect of science is communicating openly about the results of scholarly research. Practicing science in such a way that promotes collaboration can accelerate and improve research discoveries. From the </span><a href="https://www.marchforscience.com/mission-and-vision/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span></p>
<blockquote><p>Restricting the free exchange of scientific research within local and global communities threatens to stall the scientific progress that benefits people all over the world. Gag rules on scientists in government and environmental organizations impede access to information that is a public right. Our tax dollars support this scientific research, and withholding their findings limits the public’s ability to learn from the important developments and discoveries that we have come to expect from our scientists. In addition, scientists often rely on the public to help identify new questions that need to be answered.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Check out the </span><a href="https://www.marchforscience.com/satellite-marches/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">satellite events</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and join a march to promote and protect science for the good of all. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52562
title: Remixing Recipes and Sharing Spices when Virtually Connecting meets CC
uri: Remixing-Recipes-and-Sharing-Spices-when-Virtually-Connecting-meets-CC
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/19/virtually-connecting/
content:
<p>Listen to a recording of this post on Soundcloud</p>
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<p>Food brings people together. Sharing favourite recipes and talking about interesting spices can open conversations. But it’s not the recipe or the spice that leaves a lasting impression. It’s the people that come together to share the meal. It’s going to be a global smorgasbord when the<a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/register/"> Creative Commons Global Summit</a> comes to Toronto, April 28 to 30th. I’m looking forward to swapping some recipes and experiencing new spices while sharing about<a href="http://virtuallyconnecting.org/"> Virtually Connecting</a> (VC).</p>
<figure id="attachment_52563" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52563" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/19/virtually-connecting/30189178713_dc77b33ced_z/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30189178713_dc77b33ced_z.jpg" data-orig-size="640,480" 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="30189178713_dc77b33ced_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30189178713_dc77b33ced_z-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30189178713_dc77b33ced_z.jpg" class="wp-image-52563 size-full" src="media/6074e45c.30189178713_dc77b33ced_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30189178713_dc77b33ced_z.jpg" alt="people-virtually-connecting" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30189178713_dc77b33ced_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30189178713_dc77b33ced_z-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30189178713_dc77b33ced_z-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30189178713_dc77b33ced_z-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30189178713_dc77b33ced_z-207x155.jpg 207w" 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/autumm393/30189178713/">#OpenEd16 Virtually Connecting<br /> VC sessions from #OpenEd16</a> by Autumn, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>At the CC Global Summit there will be many opportunities to share the magic that happens within Virtually Connecting sessions in both physical and digital spaces. It’s an opportunity to bring people together in small groups to share ideas, experiences, feelings, connections between and among the formal conference sessions. These common ingredients often become remixed and cook up unexpected results. <a href="http://virtuallyconnecting.org/vc-formats/">VC sessions range</a> in format from hallway hangouts to conversations about conversations. However these sessions happen, it’s about the people at the table that makes the meal a memorable one. A list of the <a href="http://virtuallyconnecting.org/all-posts/">many VC sessions shared</a> is found on the VC site.</p>
<p>Since I’m a relative newcomer to the Creative Commons (CC) neighbourhood, I’m looking forward to meeting new people and actively sharing my VC experiences. I’ll also be connecting with the VC community through conversations with people who are attending the summit. Since this is now a sold-out event, there’s an opportunity for those who can’t physically be present to engage in the conversations. VC sets the table and anyone can join the meal.</p>
<h2>What will happen when Virtually Connecting meets CC?</h2>
<p>Will new topics simmer while recipes are remixed? Will exciting flavours be exchanged? There’s a wealth of creativity in the common ground that food and cooking can bring. A meal together breaks down barriers and builds community – no telling where this can lead. Toronto and the CC Global Summit will have much to offer when VConnecting meets CC.</p>
<p>VC is centered on people, conversations, and topics that are open and invitational. These global campfire conversations are “<em>motivated by a desire to improve the virtual conference experience for those who cannot be present at conferences for financial, logistical, social or health reasons.</em>” (<a href="http://virtuallyconnecting.org/virtually-connecting-manifesto/">Virtually connecting web site</a>). These video collaborations use Google hangout to connect people from the physical conference space to virtual participants who engage in live conversations. Check the <a href="http://virtuallyconnecting.org/all-posts/">VC website</a> to see <a href="http://virtuallyconnecting.org/blog/2015/05/21/et4buddy-pilot-project/">how it all started</a> over two years ago and how it’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GD8QbzsuYg">grown over time</a>.</p>
<p>The aim of VC is to welcome and include while recognizing that these conference conversation experiences are bounded by time, space, access, technology, and by the availability of volunteers who can engage in these synchronous physical-with-virtual gatherings. Technology issues with hardware and software are often uncontrollable ingredients. Speakers, microphones, laptops, tablets, mobile technologies, and environmental locations become controlling factors in the quality and novelty of the conversational context.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52568" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52568" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/19/virtually-connecting/28966659465_6b2df16516_z/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/28966659465_6b2df16516_z.jpg" data-orig-size="640,480" 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="28966659465_6b2df16516_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/28966659465_6b2df16516_z-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/28966659465_6b2df16516_z.jpg" class="wp-image-52568 size-full" src="media/dba51b06.28966659465_6b2df16516_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/28966659465_6b2df16516_z.jpg" alt="people-virtually-connecting" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/28966659465_6b2df16516_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/28966659465_6b2df16516_z-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/28966659465_6b2df16516_z-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/28966659465_6b2df16516_z-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/28966659465_6b2df16516_z-207x155.jpg 207w" 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/142192778@N06/28966659465/">#DigPed UMW<br /> Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute University of Mary Washington 2016</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>The recipe for VC sessions is an ever-changing blend of ingredients. As master chefs are aware, it’s not the recipe that rules the outcome, but the serendipity of quality, quantity, diversity and novelty of ingredients that create the best dishes. While adding spices to the combinations, it’s the magic of the moment that determines the outcome. As it is with VC conversations, not all seasoning combinations work out well and the resulting flavours aren’t necessarily to everyone’s liking, but the lessons learned in the explorations are worth the efforts. When VConnecting meets CC at the Global Summit it’ll be less about reduction or intensifying discourse, and more about adding zest to the open dialogues.</p>
<p>The CC Global Summit will provide space and place for people from diverse neighbourhoods within the CC movement to engage openly in conversations of importance to the community. With there may be separate tracks for engagement at the summit, there’s potential for a rich diversity of flavours to add into the mix. VC will bring a metaphoric campfire to augment and spice up the conversations. With this shared collaboration in physical and digital spaces, VC and CC can create a savoury exchange of ideas, people and experiences. With the upcoming VC and CC interactions, I hope that some VC spice will leave a lasting, positive impression in the CC cooking pot. In return, I’m certain that CC experiences will flavour the meal for VC participants. The possibilities that can come from the CC Global Summit with a VC presence are potentially catalytic which hopefully will continue the remixing of recipes for both movements.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52565" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52565" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/19/virtually-connecting/30165584315_91a07c880f_z/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30165584315_91a07c880f_z.jpg" data-orig-size="640,480" 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="30165584315_91a07c880f_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30165584315_91a07c880f_z-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30165584315_91a07c880f_z.jpg" class="wp-image-52565 size-full" src="media/6c4d6520.30165584315_91a07c880f_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30165584315_91a07c880f_z.jpg" alt="people-virtually-connecting-around-laptop" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30165584315_91a07c880f_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30165584315_91a07c880f_z-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30165584315_91a07c880f_z-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30165584315_91a07c880f_z-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30165584315_91a07c880f_z-207x155.jpg 207w" 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/cogdog/30165584315/"> Virtually Connecting is ON!<br /> George Station, Mia Zamora, Kate Green, and Christian Friedrich at DML Conference 2016</a> by Alan Levine <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Public Domain</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>You are welcome to join in these conversations and add your unique ingredients. The schedule of VC sessions happening at the CC Global Summit is posted on the Virtually Connecting site. If you are on-site at the summit, you are welcome to watch a session in action. When you’re ready, join into an event. If you can’t get to the CC Global Summit you can participate in a session virtually or watch live while it’s happening. Sessions will be recorded and can be viewed after the event. Send us a tweet <a href="http://twitter.com/vconnecting">@VConnecting</a> or add a comment on the<a href="http://virtuallyconnecting.org/blog/2017/04/17/we-are-vconnecting-from-ccsummit-on-april-28-30-2017/"> blog</a> post to let us know you’re open to the opportunity. Please let us know how and when you’d like to join in.</p>
<p>So let’s get together in the kitchen and stir the pot a little! New spicy combinations will emerge.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/19/virtually-connecting/">Remixing Recipes and Sharing Spices when Virtually Connecting meets CC</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52590
title: Driving community change through campaigning: Open Democracy Project at the CC Summit
uri: Driving-community-change-through-campaigning-Open-Democracy-Project-a
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/20/driving-community-change-campaigning-open-democracy-project-cc-summit/

content:
<p>In the fall of 2016, a small Toronto-based civic tech group convened around a question: What if we could use technology to connect municipal campaigners and enable them to share knowledge and tools in an open resource kit across traditional geographic and partisan divides?</p>
<p>We were motivated by the significant advantage incumbents enjoy as well as an appreciation of the potential impact thousands more well-run, digitally-savvy campaigns could have on our democracy.</p>
<p>At their best, local campaigns are ideal learning environments for skills to drive community change. They can be:</p>
<ul>
<li>Relevant – Issues often directly affect all community members.</li>
<li>Independent – In jurisdictions with no political parties, individual candidates must make a direct appeal to voters based on their own track record and ideas.</li>
<li>Diverse – Campaigns draw teams of volunteers across professional, class, ethnic and partisan lines.</li>
<li>Entrepreneurial – They&#8217;re low-resource pressure-cooker environments that form meaningful bonds between community volunteers.</li>
<li>Risky – Campaigns are time-limited and election day provides a built-in failure mechanism.</li>
<li>Important! Campaign volunteers make our system of representative government possible by helping civic leaders find their public voice and run for office.</li>
</ul>
<p>Despite the significant role election campaigns play in our democratic system, the process of planning and managing a successful ground campaign remains a mystery to the average citizen.</p>
<h2>DemocracyKit</h2>
<p>In October 2016, we founded the Open Democracy Project and launched an <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/democracykit">Indiegogo campaign</a> that raised $31K – enough to develop the first version of <a href="http://democracykit.org">DemocracyKit</a>. Upon release April 25, 2017, DemocracyKit will have a searchable campaign resource library, community directory and campaign orientation with five modules: Explore, Build Your Team, Create a Plan, Choose Technology and Run a Campaign. Documents are stored in Google Drive to facilitate editing by a distributed team of contributors and editors and made available under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)</a> licence.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52591" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/20/driving-community-change-campaigning-open-democracy-project-cc-summit/screen-shot-2017-04-20-at-12-35-40-pm/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-20-at-12.35.40-PM.png" data-orig-size="685,349" 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="open-democracy" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-20-at-12.35.40-PM-300x153.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-20-at-12.35.40-PM.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-52591" src="media/2708a107.Screen-Shot-2017-04-20-at-12.35.40-PM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-20-at-12.35.40-PM.png" alt="open-democracy-cc" width="685" height="349" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-20-at-12.35.40-PM.png 685w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-20-at-12.35.40-PM-300x153.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-20-at-12.35.40-PM-79x40.png 79w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-20-at-12.35.40-PM-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-20-at-12.35.40-PM-270x138.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<h2>Your Input</h2>
<p>Open Democracy Project is a distributed team and we use the same technology and tactics as the municipal campaigns we’re preparing to serve. Currently, we meet weekly in Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario and have volunteers organizing to launch this summer in Alberta.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re in the process of drafting a 2-year strategic plan and are keen for input on how best to structure the organization to allow for growth and partnerships across Canada and abroad.</p>
<p>We would appreciate your input. Please <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/event/AF3N/open-democracy-project-workshop">join our Creative Commons Global Summit workshop on April 29, 5 &#8211; 6pm</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Workshop Agenda</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Introduction to the Open Democracy Project</li>
<li>DemocracyKit walkthrough</li>
<li>Workshop &amp; feedback:</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Feedback on Mission, Vision, Values</li>
<li>Preparing to expand in Canada</li>
<li>Preparing to partner internationally</li>
</ul>
<p>Hope to see you there!</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/20/driving-community-change-campaigning-open-democracy-project-cc-summit/">Driving community change through campaigning: Open Democracy Project at the CC Summit</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52585
title: Announcing 470,000 images from Europeana, now in CC Search
uri: Announcing-470-000-images-from-Europeana-now-in-CC-Search
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/20/europeana-search/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52586" style="width: 461px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52586" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/20/europeana-search/durer/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/durer.jpeg" data-orig-size="940,1200" 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="durer" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/durer-235x300.jpeg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/durer-802x1024.jpeg" class=" wp-image-52586" src="media/53bb6965.durer-802x1024.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/durer-802x1024.jpeg" alt="durer" width="461" height="589" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/durer-802x1024.jpeg 802w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/durer-235x300.jpeg 235w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/durer-768x980.jpeg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/durer-31x40.jpeg 31w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/durer-39x50.jpeg 39w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/durer-121x155.jpeg 121w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/durer.jpeg 940w" sizes="(max-width: 461px) 85vw, 461px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><br /><a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2048429/item_X4IHE2QORDWKBVJNYT5GZRV2DWCMHMTY.html?utm_source=api&amp;utm_medium=api&amp;utm_campaign=fjqyYDAFX">“Runde mit Flechtwerk und Knoten”</a> by <i>Dürer, Albrecht </i>is licensed under<br /><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0"><br />CC0 1.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><a href="http://ccsearch.creativecommons.org">CC Search beta</a> has added 470,000 images from the millions of materials contained in Europeana’s collection of Creative Commons images. Europeana is Europe&#8217;s digital platform for cultural heritage, collecting and providing online access to over 54 million of digitised items ranging from books, photos, and paintings to television broadcasts and 3D objects. As an important cultural partner to CC, Europeana’s platform strengthens the commons through its large, searchable collection of digital records from nearly 4,000 European libraries, archives, museums and audiovisual galleries. As CC Search continues to grow, we’ll be adding more material from this rich repository of cultural heritage images, data, and records.</p>
<p>The new <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/07/new-cc-search/">CC Search</a> provides tools to make lists, attribute work with one click, and serves up a massive collection of images by utilizing open media APIs. This new addition from Europeana brings the number of searchable objects up to 10,022,832 <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/about">making Europeana the second main image provider</a>. Previous repositories include February’s landmark release from <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/07/met-announcement/">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> as well as large collections of freely licensed images from 500 px, Flickr, Rijksmuseum, and New York Public Library. While the beta project focuses on images, the tool aims to provide a ‘front door to the commons,’ bringing together a multitude of collections to inspire creativity and collaboration on the web.</p>
<p>Among the images now available in CC Search are major works by masters of European art as well as photographs, prints, drawings, and more. Explore the entire collection at the CC Search page.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52602
title: Made with Creative Commons: Available at the CC Summit
uri: Made-with-Creative-Commons-Available-at-the-CC-Summit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/21/made-with-cc/
content:
<h4 class="graf graf--h4 graf--empty"><img data-attachment-id="52603" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/21/made-with-cc/made_with_cc_cover-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/made_with_cc_cover-1.png" data-orig-size="638,826" 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="made_with_cc_cover" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/made_with_cc_cover-1-232x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/made_with_cc_cover-1.png" class="wp-image-52603 aligncenter" src="media/f7444e48.made_with_cc_cover-1.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/made_with_cc_cover-1.png" alt="" width="412" height="534" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/made_with_cc_cover-1.png 638w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/made_with_cc_cover-1-232x300.png 232w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/made_with_cc_cover-1-31x40.png 31w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/made_with_cc_cover-1-39x50.png 39w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/made_with_cc_cover-1-120x155.png 120w" sizes="(max-width: 412px) 85vw, 412px" />Our new book was released to Kickstarter backers today and will be available at the CC Global Summit and in wide release May 5.</h4>
<p class="graf graf--p">For the last year and a half, Creative Commons staff Sarah Hinchliff Pearson and Paul Stacey have been writing a <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creativecommons/made-with-creative-commons-a-book-on-open-business" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creativecommons/made-with-creative-commons-a-book-on-open-business">Kickstarter backed book</a> about sharing and open business models called <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://creativecommons.org/made-with-cc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/made-with-cc/"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Made With Creative Commons</em></a>.</p>
<p class="graf graf--p">Here’s a short excerpt:</p>
<p class="graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">“When we began this project in August 2015, we set out to write a book about business models that involve Creative Commons licenses in some significant way — what we call being Made with Creative Commons. With the help of our Kickstarter backers, we chose twenty-four endeavors from all around the world that are Made with Creative Commons. The mix is diverse, from an individual musician to a university-textbook publisher to an electronics manufacturer. Some make their own content and share under Creative Commons licensing. Others are platforms for CC-licensed creative work made by others. Many sit somewhere in between, both using and contributing creative work that’s shared with the public. Like all who use the licenses, these endeavors share their work — whether it’s open data or furniture designs — in a way that enables the public not only to access it but also to make use of it.</em></p>
<p class="graf graf--p"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">We analyzed the revenue models, customer segments, and value propositions of each endeavor. We searched for ways that putting their content under Creative Commons licenses helped boost sales or increase reach. Using traditional measures of economic success, we tried to map these business models in a way that meaningfully incorporated the impact of Creative Commons. In our interviews, we dug into the motivations, the role of CC licenses, modes of revenue generation, definitions of success.</em></p>
<p class="graf graf--p"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">In fairly short order, we realized the book we set out to write was quite different from the one that was revealing itself in our interviews and research.</em></p>
<p class="graf graf--p"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">It isn’t that we were wrong to think you can make money while using Creative Commons licenses. In many instances, CC can help make you more money. Nor were we wrong that there are business models out there that others who want to use CC licensing as part of their livelihood or business could replicate. What we didn’t realize was just how misguided it would be to write a book about being Made with Creative Commons using only a business lens.”</em></p>
<p class="graf graf--p">The book we ended up writing is so much more than what we set out to do. <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Made With Creative Commons</em> started as a book about business models, but it ultimately became a book about sharing. Part analysis, part handbook, part collection of case studies, we see <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Made With Creative Commons</em> as a guide to sharing your knowledge and creativity with the world, and sustaining your operation while you do. It makes the case that sharing is good for business, especially for companies, organizations, and creators who care about more than just the bottom line. Full of practical advice and inspiring stories, <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Made with Creative Commons </em>is a book that will show you what it really means to share.</p>
<p class="graf graf--p">We’re thrilled to announce <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Made With Creative Commons</em> is now ready for release. It will first be released to our Kickstarter backers April 21, 2017 and print copies will be distributed April 28, 2017 to all attendees of the <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons Global Summit</a>. The book will be officially made available to the public on May 5, 2017 at <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="http://madewith.cc" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-href="http://madewith.cc">madewith.cc</a>. You can pre-order copies on <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://www.amazon.com/Made-Creative-Commons-Sarah-Pearson/dp/8799873338/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1492444978&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=made+with+creative+commons" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-href="https://www.amazon.com/Made-Creative-Commons-Sarah-Pearson/dp/8799873338/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1492444978&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=made+with+creative+commons">Amazon</a> now.</p>
<p class="graf graf--p">We can’t thank our backers, case study interviewees, and Creative Commons colleagues enough for their support and encouragement. Writing <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Made With Creative Commons</em> transformed and inspired us. We hope it inspires you too.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52648
title: Platforms: A commons-based approach to global collaboration
uri: Platforms-A-commons-based-approach-to-global-collaboration
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/24/platforms-summit/
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<p><img data-attachment-id="52502" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/share-everyone-wins/cc_summit_logo_final_ag_color-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2.png" data-orig-size="1278,789" 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_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color (2)" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-300x185.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-1024x632.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-52502 " src="media/41af6b7e.cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-1024x632.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-1024x632.png" alt="cc-summit" width="482" height="297" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-1024x632.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-300x185.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-768x474.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-65x40.png 65w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-50x31.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-251x155.png 251w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2-1200x741.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cc_summit_logo_FINAL_AG_color-2.png 1278w" sizes="(max-width: 482px) 85vw, 482px" /></p>
<p>CC&#8217;s community grew up around the licenses, but over the past decade it has evolved into a powerful and diverse movement of interests and areas of work including open policy, open education, access to research and data, and cultural sharing. While those communities grew naturally, CC has never had a model for collaboration, shared goal-setting, and mobilizing action. The new network strategy, for the first time, creates a simple structure to enable global collaboration and action.</p>
<p>The Global Network will identify and collaborate on a series of shared interests and priorities, which we have called Platforms. A Platform is an <em>area of work</em>, a space for individuals and institutions to organize and coordinate themselves across the broad network. It’s open to <em>anyone</em> inside and outside the Creative Commons Global Network to support, share experience and collaborate on its goals and objectives. Through Platforms, we want to initiate strategic collaboration between network members that will have worldwide impact.</p>
<p>We are using the opportunity of this Global Summit to open the conversation about designing Platforms in several ways. On Friday, just after the opening, we will host a session called <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/event/AEU7/working-programs-for-the-new-cc-global-network-how-can-we-work-together">Programs for the New CC Global Network: How Can We Work Together?</a> (Friday 13:30 &#8211; 15:00), where we expect to talk about the future work our community would like to be engaged to work in the future and have a <em>big picture</em> conversation about it. On Sunday (13:30 &#8211; 15:30), there will be a session called <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/event/AFYF/a-platform-for-big-thinking-about-the-future-of-the-commons">A Platform for Big Thinking about CC</a>, a follow up session to the first, where we expect to think <em>really big</em> about the <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/overview/type/Future+of+the+Commons">Future of the Commons</a>, both in terms of challenges surrounding CC but also the Digital Commons.</p>
<p>Then, we will have specific sessions on Platforms related to the <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/event/AEUs/cc-global-network-open-education-platform-workshop">Open Education Platform</a> (Friday 15:00 &#8211; 16:50), <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/event/AF1Y/kickstarting-a-cc-wide-copyright-reform-platform-in-support-of-the-commons">Copyright Reform</a> (Saturday 15:30 &#8211; 18:00) and <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/event/AFZ4/a-platform-for-open-glam-in-the-new-global-network-structure">Open GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)</a> (Sunday 13:30 &#8211; 15:30). And, strongly connected with this community-driven effort, we also scheduled a specific session on <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/event/AF2W/building-a-culture-of-appreciation-for-the-new-global-network">Building a culture of appreciation for the new Global Network</a> (Saturday, 16:00 &#8211; 17:30) where we expect to open a conversation about requirements, needs and tools we would like to see to make our community strengthen and grow healthy and diverse.</p>
<p>While participating in the Summit, and especially leading sessions, please keep in mind the possibility of establishing a platform around a shared issue of interest. We have prepared <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rlVotXHK0CQ5oC6dbyIRfpCUcq9RqpltgAgDtxFqQ3k/edit#heading=h.83e1ftyum9yi">guidelines</a> for people interested in proposing a platform.</p>
<p>The CC Summit is an exciting opportunity for global collaboration and action. Summit participants will begin to share their goals, objectives, strategies, and tactics and lead a global conversation towards a stronger commons and community through an open invitation that starts at Summit, but will continue through the year, and beyond.</p>
<p>The Summit is the beginning of this conversation as well as the beginning of a big experiment in working together. By proposing a platform early on, you can join this early phase of testing how platforms will function. If you have ideas about CC platforms, please share them on social media using #ccplatforms hashtag and in our Slack. We would be very happy to see a broad range of platforms being discussed. Join us.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52513
title: Meet CC: Voices from our Global Summit Scholarship Recipients
uri: Meet-CC-Voices-from-our-Global-Summit-Scholarship-Recipients
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients/
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<p>Nearly a quarter of the participants coming to the Creative Commons Global Summit in Toronto, CA from April 28–30 are scholarship recipients. They are representatives from a variety of communities and issues, including free and open culture, copyright reform, GLAM, open education, and global information systems. They represent every CC world region, with the majority coming from Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.</p>
<p>Of the 95 scholarship recipients, 23% are from Africa, 18% are from Latin America, 29% are from Europe, 18% are from Asia-Pacific and 6% are from the Arab World. In addition, we&#8217;ve nearly doubled our scholarship numbers this year both in terms of community participation and organizational funding. This is a big investment for CC, and we’re proud to support our community members to help them join the conversation.</p>
<p>Through our scholarship program, we are creating a healthy community by recognizing and engaging with gender, cultural, and geographical diversity in order to fulfill our organizational mission of a vibrant commons and community. As you’ll see, the diversity of the scholarship recipients extends beyond geography in order to provide opportunities to summit first timers as well as CC veterans and moves the community conversations beyond licenses toward advocacy, art, law, education, usability, and growth of the commons.</p>
<p>Creative Commons believes that providing pathways to participation is crucial to our goal of lighting up the commons and we’re proud to support so many participants from our Global Community. Below, read about some of the ways our community is looking forward to engaging during the summit and beyond.</p>
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<img class="alignleft" src="media/a1055180.IMG_0075-e1492825906501-300x225.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0075-e1492825906501-300x225.jpg" alt="lia" width="349" height="262" />Lia Hernandez, CC Panama Legal City Leader</strong></p>
<p>I am almost ready to attend the CC Global Summit in cold Toronto. I am so excited because its my first global summit and I am looking forward to meeting all of you in real life.￼￼￼</p>
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<p><strong><img class="alignleft" src="media/c98db7e2.ChristianVillum_large_square-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ChristianVillum_large_square-300x300.jpg" alt="christian" width="300" height="300" />Christian Villum, CC Denmark</strong></p>
<p>As always, I look forward to the summit in order to reconnect with the global community and have important discussions that help drive forward the expansion of the global knowledge commons. Specifically I am excited to be part of a few of the sessions around new open business models because I believe this to be a cornerstone in building the future that we want.</p>
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<p><strong><img class="alignleft" src="media/04665a18.uli-amenyedor-digital-marketer-and-design-strategist-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cherubim-mawuli-amenyedor-digital-marketer-and-design-strategist-300x300.jpg" alt="cherubim" width="283" height="283" />Cherubim Mawuli Amenyedor, CC Ghana</strong></p>
<p>I’m excited about the summit because I will get to meet, share and learn from equally passionate and knowledgeable community members working tirelessly to explore the future of the Commons and sharing for users, creators and activists.I’m grateful to CC for providing the needed platform to free-up the results of creative work for re-use, sharing and collaboration. I believe this will help me unlock Africa’s creative potential in the digital economy.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft" src="media/c6b1b909.lesliechan-202x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lesliechan-202x300.png" alt="leslie" width="202" height="300" />Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough<br />
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</strong>Usually I have to travel to attend conferences of this scale, and it is a nice change to welcome the world to Toronto instead. I am committed to ensuring that the Web will continue to be inclusive and open to diverse knowledge making and sharing, and I am looking forward to meeting so many like minded folks and to share experience. I will be speaking on Lessons from Failures in Open Advocacy and how I would do things differently on Sunday morning April 30.</p>
<p><strong>Dimitar Dimitrov, Wikimedia Brussels</strong></p>
<p>I have always believed that instead of several parallel movements we are one big free and open movement. I am particularly excited to meet the great girls and guys who are actively working on freeing up creativity and knowledge in Africa.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft" src="media/94b400ca.File_000-228x300.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/File_000-228x300.jpeg" alt="paula" width="228" height="300" />Paula Eskett, CC New Zealand</strong></p>
<p>I’m most excited about the amazing speaker lineup and connecting and learning from the other Summit participants, but can’t deny the obvious excitement of traveling to the other side of the world too!</p>
<p>Last year I was so lucky to be part of IOL2 — a life changing learning experience, and I’ve recently joined the CC Aotearoa New Zealand Advisory Panel as an education representative.</p>
<p>As a professional librarian I see CC and Open as integral to the sustainability and future focused thinking of all libraries regardless of sector, and strongly believe in libraries providing equitable access to information and spaces to create and share new knowledge.</p>
<p>I’ll be delivering a session Friday 4pm : Preloading not backfilling : Preparing our children for a life of Open.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft" src="media/e745328d.14906980_10157616033855048_1469750666048864804_n-297x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/14906980_10157616033855048_1469750666048864804_n-297x300.jpg" alt="mohamed" width="297" height="300" />Mohamed Rahmo, CC Morocco</strong></p>
<p>I’m excited about the summit because I will meet my open counterparts from all over the world. I’m from Morocco and I have an idea for all the people of the CC community in the world — I would like to launch a global content creation day, and I will advocate about the copyright policy back home so I want to learn from the other people. Back home we will also start a series of workshops to educate people about CC.</p>
<p><strong>John Weitzmann, CC Germany</strong></p>
<p>I’m excited about the CC Global Summit because it is most important and inspiring to meet many of the fantastic people in the network in person. My connection with the CC idea is based on the fact that such legal tools are simply necessary as long as the defaults of the law continue to hinder exchange and sharing.</p>
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<figure><strong><img class="alignleft" src="media/8dae17f8.IMG_9708-5-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_9708-5-300x300.jpg" alt="bastian" width="300" height="300" />Bastian Greshake, Germany</strong></figure>
<p>I’m super excited to finally meet all of the commoners again, as we’re not getting the chance to meet in person that often. I’m involved as I’m running a website that uses Creative Commons to enable research by putting genomes into the public domain. While I’m a strong believer in all things open*, my professional background makes me especially interested in the Academic Commons, that’s why I’ll be facilitating a session on “Towards the Scholarly Commons” on Saturday from 2:30–3:30PM.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft" src="media/c9a9e057.IMG_4659-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4659-300x300.jpg" alt="kayode" width="300" height="300" />Kayode Yussuf, CC Nigeria Tech Lead</strong></p>
<p>I am a member of the CC Africa . School of Open team, I was a member of the CCSummit program committee and I plan and execute CC Nigeria’s projects.</p>
<p>I am excited to attend the Global Summit because I’d get the opportunity to meet with community members in real life. I am also looking forward to seeing the CCSummit program play out. The committee did a lot of work, making calls, sharing documents across several times zones to put the program together. As one of the committee members put it — this will be the best summit ever.</p>
<p><strong>Carlos Guerrero, Hiperderecho, Peru</strong></p>
<p>I’m really excited about the summit because it’s a big opportunity to share experiences and to enhance the ecosystem of CC. I’m especially enthusiastic about the work on my region; Latin America. Nos vemos ahí!</p>
<figure><strong><img class="alignleft" src="media/fcd0b09f.clint_headshot-300x225.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/clint_headshot-300x225.jpg" alt="clint-lalonde" width="300" height="225" />Clint Lalonde, CC Canada</strong></figure>
<p>I have been involved with the CC community for a number of years through my work with Open Educational Resources, and believe that the work of CC is vitally important in empowering people to fully maximize the affordances of new and emerging digital technologies. This will be my first CC Global Summit and, while I am looking forward to connecting with others working in the OER space, I am very excited at the opportunity to connect and learn more about the burgeoning Platform Co-operative movement and am happy to see the connections being made between the CC community and this exciting new movement.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="media/b99a3d99.photo-of-yihsuan-lin-1.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/photo-of-yihsuan-lin-1.png" alt="yi-hyisan" width="241" height="296" /><strong>Yi-hsuan Lin, CC Taiwan</strong></p>
<p>I am mainly in charge of the license translation/localization issues. I&#8217;m excited to participate in the summit and I&#8217;m looking forward to networking with others who have reconciled 4.0 license issues.</p>
<p>Thanks for CC HQ for providing me this great opportunity to participate 2017 CC global summit!</p>
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<p><strong>Aristarik Maro, Public Lead CC Tanzania</strong></p>
<p>I’m so excited about the 2017 summit because I&#8217;ll get to meet community members from different parties of the world, some of who I have been communicating with online in real life!! &amp; some of which are new to me but hoping to hook up and network. I am thankful to CC for the support especially the establishment of the countries’ affiliate teams where we network. I&#8217;ll participate in most interesting sessions and use CC communication tools to support the Global Movement in my country.</p>
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<p><strong>Maxwell, economics student and open textbook advocate at University of Victoria</strong></p>
<p>I got truly involved with CC while working with a professor to develop an open textbook for microeconomics. I&#8217;m excited about the summit because I&#8217;ll get a chance to immerse myself in the CC environment and learn about the many aspects it has beyond just open education! I’m involved with CC because I see the potential it has to make education more innovative and more accessible.</p>
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<p><strong>Marcela Basch, Buenos Aires</strong></p>
<p>I can&#8217;t wait to get to Toronto and meet the amazing global CC community. I run El plan C, a digital magazine on collaborative economy, free culture and commons, with special focus on Latin America. The future of the commons and collaboration is one of my main areas of interest, so I&#8217;m eager to participate on that track and be able to discuss with people who&#8217;s been thinking about that from other points of view, geographically and culturally speaking. Almost at the end of the meeting I&#8217;ll be hosting a session on this topics, &#8220;What is exactly a commons oriented initiative and how could it be sustainable?&#8221;, on Sunday 4pm. Spoiler: I don&#8217;t really have answers yet, but I hope we could think it through together.</p>
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<p><strong>Shahadu Sadik, Wikipedia Ghana</strong></p>
<p>I am an editor on Wikpedia, a blogger and a technology enthusiast. I love open education.</p>
<p>I am super excited to be a part of this year&#8217;s Creative Commons Global Summit in Toronto Canada. I just can&#8217;t wait to meet people from across the globe to share and discuss issues relating to Creative Commons and its sister projects.</p>
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<p><strong>Megan Beckett, CC South Africa Public Lead<br />
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I&#8217;m passionate about advancing access to education and life changing learning experiences in my country. CC tools and licenses have been an integral part in enabling the far reaching impact of the work we&#8217;ve done at Siyavula Education in OER collaborative development and communities of practice. I&#8217;ve also recently joined CC South Africa as the Public Lead. I&#8217;m really looking forward to the Summit to be inspired, to learn and to engage with CC and openness more broadly in the international community, whilst finding out what works for others locally.</p>
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<p><img class="alignleft" src="media/09a987f0.Elizabeth-bw.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Elizabeth-bw.jpg" alt="" width="236" height="315" /><strong>Elizabeth Oyange, Copyright Associate for Aga Khan University (global), </strong><strong>based in Nairobi, Kenya</strong></p>
<p>I look forward to attending the CC Summit for a broader perspective on the various program areas, the keynote speeches and meeting like-minded CC’ers from all corners of the world. This community involvement and networking will allow us to disseminate current views and CC information and hopefully contribute our institutional insight.</p>
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<p><img class="alignleft" src="media/d0de8229.calu-2017-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/calu-2017-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /><strong>Calú (Carlos) Raul Correa Loyola, CC Ecuador<br />
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<p>I don&#8217;t believe in copyright lottery, obstacles to science and knowledge access, and old-fashioned ways to create. I&#8217;m very excited to attend CC Summit because we can push forward all Internet potential, driving a new era of development, growth and productivity. I would like promote this potential in my country, sharing and applying this ideas on widespread arenas with my partners and colleagues.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="52654" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients/photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272.jpg" data-orig-size="350,467" 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;1492901062&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="photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272-225x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272.jpg" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-52654" src="media/e356a388.photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272-225x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272-225x300.jpg" alt="guido" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272-225x300.jpg 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272-30x40.jpg 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272-37x50.jpg 37w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272-116x155.jpg 116w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/photo_2017-04-19_15-55-272.jpg 350w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px" /><strong>Guido Gamba, CC Argentina</strong></p>
<p>I’m looking forward to the summit and to meet fellow colleagues from the commons all around the world. I’ve been involved with the network for quite some time already–in fact, this is not my first global summit! Regardless, I’m excited and anxious as if it was my first one. I believe that CC is a vivid example that things can be done otherwise, in a more just and fair way, and it&#8217;s always thrilling to meet with so many people people who feel the same way. I’ll be participating in two sessions: &#8220;Faces of the Commons: How Can the People of Creative Commons Change the World?&#8221; (<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1500861796" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Friday</span></span> 13:30h) and &#8220;Building a Culture of Appreciation for the New Global Network&#8221; (Saturday 16:00h). I hope to see you there!</p>
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<p><strong><img data-attachment-id="52658" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients/sony-dsc/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc.jpg" data-orig-size="1500,1000" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSLR-A500&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;SONY DSC&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1491930792&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SONY DSC&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc-1024x683.jpg" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-52658" src="media/8fee37ec.svet_ermakovich_cc-300x200.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc-300x200.jpg" alt="ermakovich" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/svet_ermakovich_cc.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />Sviatlana Yermakovich, CC Belarus</strong></p>
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<div>I am excited to go to Summit and meet people who share the idea of the commons. I am a cyber_designer who shares creativity under CC licenses (making swag for our affiliate) and teaches people to use them. I believe that the CC philosophy lets the commons be in balance with the personal.</div>
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<div><strong><img data-attachment-id="52655" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients/hf-ccid/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hf-ccid.jpg" data-orig-size="639,579" 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="hf-ccid" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hf-ccid-300x272.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hf-ccid.jpg" class="alignleft wp-image-52655 size-medium" src="media/30a5372b.hf-ccid-300x272.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hf-ccid-300x272.jpg" alt="hilman-fathoni" width="300" height="272" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hf-ccid-300x272.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hf-ccid-44x40.jpg 44w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hf-ccid-50x45.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hf-ccid-171x155.jpg 171w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hf-ccid.jpg 639w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />Hilman Fathoni, Creative Commons Indonesia (CCID), Legal Lead</strong></div>
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<div>Working as CCID&#8217;s Legal Lead (License Consultant) is my first job after I graduated from law school and it gives me bunch of opportunity to challenge myself on innovating the way we spread knowledge about open licensing and social function of copyright in Indonesia. I&#8217;d like to learn more about the innovations on spreading &#8216;open&#8217; ideas and also exchange ideas or even collaborate with people from other communities that I&#8217;ll get to meet at this Summit.</div>
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<div><span><img data-attachment-id="52656" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients/darep/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/darep.jpg" data-orig-size="222,256" 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="darep" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/darep.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/darep.jpg" class="alignleft wp-image-52656 size-full" src="media/5918c03a.darep.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/darep.jpg" alt="dare-pejic" width="222" height="256" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/darep.jpg 222w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/darep-35x40.jpg 35w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/darep-43x50.jpg 43w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/darep-134x155.jpg 134w" sizes="(max-width: 222px) 85vw, 222px" /></span></div>
<div><strong>Dare Pejic, CC Slovenia, Public Lead</strong></div>
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<div><span>In 2010 I first got involved with CC. At first it was learning by osmosis and through work with the much appreciated website </span><a href="http://culture.si/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://culture.si&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1493210151066000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGs65H0FZDCCwsd4tj0AtAddscuCA">culture.si</a><span>, an online encyclopedia of cultural production in Slovenia run by Ljubljana Digital Media Lab (Ljudmila). CC made me aware that individual creativity was initially in the domain of commons and general knowledge. Much of its potential is being commodified and CC gives some of the power to change that back to authors and creators. As my last global summit was in Warsaw way back in 2011, I look forward to get familiar with examples of best practices from around the globe, meet other affiliates and get to know the latest developments firsthand.</span></div>
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<div><img data-attachment-id="52657" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients/screen-shot-2017-04-25-at-10-48-25-am/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-10.48.25-AM.png" data-orig-size="266,406" 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 2017-04-25 at 10.48.25 AM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-10.48.25-AM-197x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-10.48.25-AM.png" class="alignleft wp-image-52657 size-medium" src="media/b90a2afd.Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-10.48.25-AM-197x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-10.48.25-AM-197x300.png" alt="aleck-ncube" width="197" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-10.48.25-AM-197x300.png 197w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-10.48.25-AM-26x40.png 26w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-10.48.25-AM-33x50.png 33w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-10.48.25-AM-102x155.png 102w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-10.48.25-AM.png 266w" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 85vw, 197px" /><strong>Aleck Ncube, CC Zimbabwe</strong></div>
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<div>I am excited to be attending the CC 2017 Summit as it enables me to meet and network with community members. The CC system is not very active in Zimbabwe and I would like to learn more about the CC approach so that I can engage the Zimbabwean content creators to embrace the system. I am currently a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cape Town. I have presented papers at several conferences, seminars, workshops and symposia in Zimbabwe and abroad and have also been associated in an advisory capacity with several national institutions on Intellectual Property Rights Issues.</div>
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<div><strong>Valentina, ApTI Romania, CC legal lead </strong></div>
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<div><span>I can&#8217;t wait to get together with like-minded people who are dedicated to transforming the very core of our society by advocating for a more open, transparent, responsible, vibrant &amp; innovative environment! I&#8217;m sharing my experience with localizing a series of animated videos in different languages during the Messy Market </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1500861836" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span><span> (</span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1500861837" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">29 April</span></span><span>) so please drop by the booth between </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1500861838" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">4-6pm</span></span><span> at Parkdale Room.</span></div>
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<div><img data-attachment-id="52659" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients/img_4518/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4518.jpg" data-orig-size="3264,2448" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1490385118&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="IMG_4518" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4518-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4518-1024x768.jpg" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-52659" src="media/5de4b7f4.IMG_4518-300x225.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4518-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4518-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4518-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4518-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4518-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4518-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4518-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4518-1200x900.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></div>
<div><strong>Dr. Roshan Karn, Director of Open Access Nepal</strong></div>
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<div><span>I am excited about the summit because I recently formed the CC affiliate in Nepal and I really look forward to meet my peers and experts to advocate and work on CC licenses in a more effective way. As a medical doctor, these licenses have given liberty and more visibility to my work. I will be a speaker in the OpenCon panel discussing about my work in the field of OA.</span></div>
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<div><img data-attachment-id="52660" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients/screen-shot-2017-04-25-at-08-44-02-1/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-08.44.02-1.png" data-orig-size="548,526" 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 2017-04-25 at 08.44.02 (1)" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-08.44.02-1-300x288.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-08.44.02-1.png" class="alignleft wp-image-52660 " src="media/e3bf854c.Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-08.44.02-1-300x288.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-08.44.02-1-300x288.png" alt="freyja" width="327" height="314" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-08.44.02-1-300x288.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-08.44.02-1-42x40.png 42w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-08.44.02-1-50x48.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-08.44.02-1-161x155.png 161w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-08.44.02-1-32x32.png 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-08.44.02-1.png 548w" sizes="(max-width: 327px) 85vw, 327px" /><span><strong>Freyja van den Boom, Researcher and Project Manager Future TDM</strong> </span></div>
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<div><span>As you can see I am super excited to be joining you all again in Toronto. I do artistic and academic research and love to talk about legal stuff and disruptive digital technologies especially data and AI related developments.</span><br />
<span>I am currently doing socio-legal research for Open Knowledge International on data sharing and we have a session </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1500861855" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span><span> at </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1500861856" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">09:00</span></span><span>. What better way to start your day with a discussion on Text and Data mining!</span></div>
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<div><strong><img data-attachment-id="52667" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients/image1/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/image1.jpeg" data-orig-size="750,503" 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="image1" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/image1-300x201.jpeg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/image1.jpeg" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-52667" src="media/fccce602.image1-300x201.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/image1-300x201.jpeg" alt="hildah" width="300" height="201" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/image1-300x201.jpeg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/image1-60x40.jpeg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/image1-50x34.jpeg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/image1-231x155.jpeg 231w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/image1.jpeg 750w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />Hildah Nyakawa, Executive Director at Jamlab, CC Kenya </strong></div>
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<div>I&#8217;m excited about the summit because I&#8217;ll be able to meet and interact with fellow Open Education contributors and enthusiasts.</div>
<div>I have been hosting School of Open sessions here in Kenya and at the summit I&#8217;ll be co-hosting a session with P2PU on Learning Circles <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1500861867" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span> from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1500861868" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">11:30 am to 12 noon</span></span>.</div>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients/">Meet CC: Voices from our Global Summit Scholarship Recipients</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52679
title: How Can The Commons Stay Relevant? Let’s Talk GLAM.
uri: How-Can-The-Commons-Stay-Relevant-Let-s-Talk-GLAM
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/26/glam-commons-summit/
content:
<p>Imagine a Vilhelm Hammershøi painting printed out and hung over your fireplace, a 3D printed sculpture in your garden, or maybe a party that mixes Spotify playlists with an opera singer performing romantic songs in front of the newly acquired Friedrich’s painting. Sounds like something <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVg2EJvvlF8">John Lennon</a> dreamed up in the song “Imagine?” These are actual examples of a museum keeping up to date and using technology to its advantage.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52680" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52680" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/26/glam-commons-summit/smk-blog/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog.png" data-orig-size="1088,728" 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="smk-blog" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-300x201.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-1024x685.png" class="wp-image-52680 size-large" src="media/625bf7e8.smk-blog-1024x685.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-1024x685.png" alt="smk-friday" width="840" height="562" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-1024x685.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-300x201.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-768x514.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-60x40.png 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-50x33.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-232x155.png 232w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog.png 1088w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">SMK Friday at the SMK Museum, Copenhagen, Ida Tietgen, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<h2>Engaging with users: a closer look at the strategies of GLAM institutions</h2>
<p>After almost 30 years of “the modern internet” and ten years of “Internet 2.0,” we already know that technology won’t open all the doors. As GLAM (Galleries Libraries Archives and Museums) practitioners <strong>our objective is clear: how can we make sure people stay connected to knowledge and heritage, and become inspired by it? How can technology be our ally?</strong></p>
<p>Heritage institutions improve accessibility and access to knowledge, art, and culture. . In addition to access, they also provide the inspiration and building blocks for further innovation and creativity. How can the (digitised) commons serve as the means to both heritage institutions’ and their audiences&#8217; ends? What are the different institutional strategies and user behaviours related to them? What works and what doesn’t in delivering access, use and reuse? To what extent are CC licenses already promoting this? And, last but not least: why?</p>
<figure id="attachment_52681" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52681" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/26/glam-commons-summit/smk-blog-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-2.png" data-orig-size="1086,730" 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="smk-blog-2" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-2-300x202.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-2-1024x688.png" class="size-large wp-image-52681" src="media/af37f999.smk-blog-2-1024x688.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-2-1024x688.png" alt="smk-blog-2" width="840" height="564" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-2-1024x688.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-2-300x202.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-2-768x516.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-2-60x40.png 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-2-50x34.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-2-231x155.png 231w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smk-blog-2.png 1086w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><em>Alicja Peszkowska gets up close with </em><em>Johannes Larsen’s ‘Hvinænder i en våge’, 1899</em><em>, picture by Jonas Heide Smith, </em><a href="https://medium.com/smk-open/watching-the-watchers-a-typology-of-instagram-art-photos-a04138f1a25b"><em>Watching the Watchers</em></a><em>, CC BY</em></p>
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<p>We are going to address these questions during our Creative Commons Summit 2017 session. The idea behind the session is to shift the conversation from the abstract ideas and values to the actual institutional strategies and user behaviours. Our implicit hypothesis is that the only way for the commons to stay relevant over time is for increased usage. The context of <em>who</em> and <em>how</em> they can be used is, on the other hand, ever-changing. There are no absolute responses. The research that has already been done in a field will serve as a point of reference and a context for studying particular examples. We propose to explore the examples of how GLAM institutions successfully engaged the users basing on their (different) behaviours, rather than assumptions or declarations. And we welcome participants’ own reflections on both the present, and future, of heritage institutions’ use of open licenses to deliver creativity and innovation.</p>
<p><strong>Our session will kick off with presentations and later take up a form of an open discussion. <a href="https://creativecommonsglobalsummit2017t.sched.com/event/AFIU/libraries-and-museums-the-role-of-cc">Let’s talk commons, and let’s talk GLAM. You are invited.</a> See you in Toronto!</strong></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/26/glam-commons-summit/">How Can The Commons Stay Relevant?  Let’s Talk GLAM.</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52685
title: Sharing a lost city: An innovative collaboration with re:3d and the New Palmyra project
uri: Sharing-a-lost-city-An-innovative-collaboration-with-re-3d-and-the-Ne
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/new-palmyra/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="52688" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/new-palmyra/palmyra-print/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra-print.png" data-orig-size="961,1243" 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-print" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra-print-232x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra-print-792x1024.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-52688" src="media/9b11d3f7.palmyra-print-792x1024.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra-print-792x1024.png" alt="" width="430" height="556" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra-print-792x1024.png 792w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra-print-232x300.png 232w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra-print-768x993.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra-print-31x40.png 31w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra-print-39x50.png 39w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra-print-120x155.png 120w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra-print.png 961w" sizes="(max-width: 430px) 85vw, 430px" /></p>
<p>Together with <a href="https://re3d.org/">re:3d</a>, an Austin-based 3D printing company, and the <a href="http://www.newpalmyra.org/">#NEWPALMYRA</a> project, a community platform dedicated to the virtual remodeling and creative use of architecture from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, Creative Commons has produced a 200 pound, 7.5 feet tall 3D rendering of one of the Palmyra Tetrapylons. This rendering will be on display at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Toronto, CA from April 28-30, bringing the commons to life through the work of its community.</p>
<p>This large-scale rendering is one of the four quad-column pylons, or gateways, that would have marked a central place in the city. Palmyra is a desert oasis, a UNESCO world heritage site, and is considered one of the most important global archaeological sites. Since 2015, large sections of Palmyra have been destroyed by ISIL and many of its precious artifacts lost or sold on the global market.</p>
<p>In January 2017, it was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/world/middleeast/palmyra-syria-isis-amphitheater.html?_r=0">confirmed by satellite imagery published in the New York Times</a> that Palmyra’s ongoing destruction by ISIS continues – including this section of the Tetrapylon.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52697" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/new-palmyra/bassel_palmyra-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bassel_palmyra-1.jpg" data-orig-size="588,891" 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="bassel_palmyra" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bassel_palmyra-1-198x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bassel_palmyra-1.jpg" class="alignleft wp-image-52697" src="media/54280b5d.bassel_palmyra-1.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bassel_palmyra-1.jpg" alt="bassel-pal" width="269" height="408" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bassel_palmyra-1.jpg 588w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bassel_palmyra-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bassel_palmyra-1-26x40.jpg 26w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bassel_palmyra-1-33x50.jpg 33w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bassel_palmyra-1-102x155.jpg 102w" sizes="(max-width: 269px) 85vw, 269px" />The #NEWPALMYRA project was begun in 2005 by CC Syria leader Bassel Khartabil, a Palestinian-Syrian open source software developer, educator, and free culture advocate. Working with the publisher Al-Aous and a team of artists in Damascus, Khartabil began remodeling the endangered ruins of Palmyra in 3D until 2012, when he was unlawfully imprisoned by the Syrian government. Much of this work was never published, though Bassel was committed to its free dissemination and use. In 2015, Khartabil was sentenced to death by the Assad regime. His whereabouts remain unknown.</p>
<p>A nonprofit founded by Bassel’s family, friends, and community, #NEWPALMYRA is freeing Syrian culture digitally, providing agency and advancement for the Syrian people through cultural heritage and digital preservation. Khartabil’s visionary work ignited a community that stands for transparency, openness, and free culture and continues to grow via the remix, reuse, and sharing of his foundational work.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52691" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/new-palmyra/palmyra_column/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra_column.jpg" data-orig-size="961,1243" 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_column" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra_column-232x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra_column-792x1024.jpg" class="alignleft wp-image-52691" src="media/c2a764c6.palmyra_column-792x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra_column-792x1024.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="466" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra_column-792x1024.jpg 792w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra_column-232x300.jpg 232w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra_column-768x993.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra_column-31x40.jpg 31w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra_column-39x50.jpg 39w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra_column-120x155.jpg 120w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/palmyra_column.jpg 961w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 85vw, 360px" />In the words of Ryan Merkley, Creative Commons CEO, “Creative Commons wanted to bring the commons to life for its 2017 Summit in Toronto. CC brought Austin-based re:3D together with the #NEWPALMYRA project team. The Gigabot, re:3D’s spectacular printer, renders massive models at commercial quality. Together, we produced a huge replica of one of the models of Palmyra: the Tetrapylon.”</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52698" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/new-palmyra/gigabot-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1.jpg" data-orig-size="810,809" 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="gigabot" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-300x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1.jpg" class="aligncenter wp-image-52698" src="media/8a58a85e.gigabot-1.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1.jpg" alt="gigabot" width="505" height="504" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1.jpg 810w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-768x767.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gigabot-1-128x128.jpg 128w" sizes="(max-width: 505px) 85vw, 505px" /></p>
<p>re:3D began with a digital 3D model of Palmyra provided by the #NEWPALMYRA team and transformed the digital into the physical using their Gigabot printer, which uses a rope-like filament resembling hot glue to precisely build the model layer by layer. Each layer is between .2-.6 mm thick, depending on layer of detail. The entire structure was assembled from 25 separate pieces with an internal wooden frame for support. It weighs 91kg and took about 800 hours to print.</p>
<p>As an in-kind sponsor of our Global Summit, re:3D Inc. participated in the project pro-bono, including the development, design, printing, and shipping of the final model to Toronto, Canada. re:3D is a full service socially focused additive manufacturing company based in Houston, Texas USA.</p>
<p>Creative Commons would like to thank re:3D and #NEWPALMYRA for their collaboration on the project and commitment to the global commons. Follow us on social media for pictures of the display on our <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">Twitter,</a> <a href="https://facebook.com/creativecommons">Facebook,</a> and <a href="https://instagram.com/creativecommons">Instagram</a>.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52694" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52694" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/new-palmyra/img_0916/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0916-e1493390197667.jpg" data-orig-size="3264,2448" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1493375684&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;3&quot;}" data-image-title="IMG_0916" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0916-e1493390197667-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0916-e1493390197667-1024x768.jpg" class="wp-image-52694 size-large" src="media/94775ac9.IMG_0916-e1493390197667-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0916-e1493390197667-1024x768.jpg" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0916-e1493390197667-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0916-e1493390197667-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0916-e1493390197667-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0916-e1493390197667-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0916-e1493390197667-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0916-e1493390197667-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_0916-e1493390197667-1200x900.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Ryan Merkley presenting at CC Summit, Photo by Jennie Rose Halperin, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52572
title: Our biggest report yet: State of the Commons 2016
uri: Our-biggest-report-yet-State-of-the-Commons-2016
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/state-of-the-commons-2016/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large" src="media/e907dda2.SOTC-gif-main.gif" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SOTC-gif-main.gif" width="1611" height="726" /></p>
<p>Today marks another milestone for the commons: the release of the 2016 <a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/">State of the Commons</a>, our annual deep dive and celebration of the global community working to further collaboration, creativity, and access to creativity and knowledge.</p>
<p>This year’s report goes beyond data and metrics to focus on the people that power the commons in every region of the world. These stories illustrate how our movement is growing and evolving, driven by people who choose to share. The commons continues to grow, with the total number of CC licensed works now at 1.2 billion in 2016, including the increased use of licenses that invite remix, commercial use, and collaboration – up to 65% of all content shared this year.</p>
<p>TL;DR: 2016 was our biggest year yet. From incredible sharing of 375,000 public domain works with the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/07/met-announcement/">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> to our massive <a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org">Global Summit,</a> we’re seeing CC communities organize around renewed focus on movement building, free culture, policy reform, sharing, and global collaboration powered by gratitude.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52675" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/state-of-the-commons-2016/wiki-loves-sotc/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wiki-loves-sotc.png" data-orig-size="1649,598" 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="wiki-loves-sotc" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wiki-loves-sotc-300x109.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wiki-loves-sotc-1024x371.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52675" src="media/8ecbf839.wiki-loves-sotc-1024x371.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wiki-loves-sotc-1024x371.png" alt="wiki-loves-sotc" width="840" height="304" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wiki-loves-sotc-1024x371.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wiki-loves-sotc-300x109.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wiki-loves-sotc-768x279.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wiki-loves-sotc-110x40.png 110w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wiki-loves-sotc-50x18.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wiki-loves-sotc-270x98.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wiki-loves-sotc-1200x435.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>The commons is the largest collection of free and open knowledge in the world. In order to bring you this report, we’ve partnered with a handful of the hundreds of platforms that provide CC licensing to bring you more data and user spotlights in a new and attractive format.</p>
<p>In October, we issued a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/04/2016-state-commons-call-submissions/">Call for Submissions</a> that asked our community to report on their favorite projects from the commons this year. These impact stories were beyond what we could have imagined: we heard stories of portals that use open data to predict and plan for <a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/#geonet">earthquakes in New Zealand, </a>a <a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/#datos">citizen-led civic data portal</a> in El Salvador, a <a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/#coutinho">series of medical photographs that surfaces</a> the untold struggle for independence against Portuguese colonial rule, and the “<a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/#wikimedia">world’s most beautiful slideshow</a>” of historic monuments submitted by over 10,000 Wikipedians. These examples, only a few of the many, tell the vibrant and life-altering stories of the people behind the commons.</p>
<p><a href="flickr-sotc"><img data-attachment-id="52676" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/state-of-the-commons-2016/flickr-sotc/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc.png" data-orig-size="1599,767" 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="flickr-sotc" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc-300x144.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc-1024x491.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52676" src="media/54e379f7.flickr-sotc-1024x491.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc-1024x491.png" alt="flick" width="840" height="403" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc-1024x491.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc-300x144.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc-768x368.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc-83x40.png 83w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc-50x24.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc-270x130.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc-1200x576.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/flickr-sotc.png 1599w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p>Highlights from our partners include the <a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/#free-music">Freeharmonic Orchestra,</a> a group of 12 musicians who met in a virtual room on the Free Music Archive to produce the most collaborative album ever. From our friends at Flickr comes the Multimedia Commons Initiative, where teams of researchers around the world utilize the epic 100 million image dataset to build new applications and explore people’s interaction with places.</p>
<p>With the CC0 public domain dedication tool, we’re actively stewarding and helping grow the public domain, with 92.9 million public domain works to date. CC0 has served a diversity of purposes, this year most notably supporting the release of 375,000 digital works into the commons from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 has also supported photographers on emerging platforms such as Unsplash, which now hosts a robust community of photographers “giving their work away for free” and gaining exposure and acclaim in the process.</p>
<p>These stories also echo the work we’ve been doing in areas like 3D printing, usability, and global community building. A spotlight on the British Museum, which released 128 models of sculptures from the Roman and Egyptian periods on the 3D design sharing platform Sketchfab and a tale of remix and community among the more than 1.5 million CC licensed objects on Thingiverse is proof that our community is front and center, and it’s working together better than ever.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52581" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/state-of-the-commons-2016/sketchfab-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1.png" data-orig-size="1277,656" 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="sketchfab" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1-300x154.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1-1024x526.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52581" src="media/2161c402.sketchfab-1-1024x526.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1-1024x526.png" alt="sketchfab" width="840" height="431" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1-1024x526.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1-300x154.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1-768x395.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1-78x40.png 78w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1-50x26.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1-270x139.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1-1200x616.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sketchfab-1.png 1277w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>Lastly, the report itself was translated by 30 volunteers into a dozen languages as part of our efforts to make our community more accessible to international communities.</p>
<p>Like everything else, we truly couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you so much for your support in 2016 and beyond. Read, excerpt, share, and tweet the report at <a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/">http://stateof.creativecommons.org</a> with the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sotc&amp;src=typd">#sotc</a>.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52734
title: Mainstreaming OER in Latin America and The Caribbean
uri: Mainstreaming-OER-in-Latin-America-and-The-Caribbean
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/08/mainstreaming-oer-latin-america-caribbean/
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<p>The fifth <a href="http://rcoer.col.org/">Regional OER Consultation</a> for the Latin America and Caribbean region was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 3rd-4th April. The event was in preparation for the <a href="http://www.oercongress.org/">2nd OER World Congress</a> that will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in September of this year. The meeting was organized by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), alongside partners UNESCO, University of Campinas, the Government of Slovenia, and made possible by the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The event brought together 31 government officials and key education stakeholders from 18 countries to discuss concerns and issues for mainstreaming OER to support inclusive and equitable quality education.</p>
<p>The opening session was launched by President and CEO of COL, Asha Kanwar, and Joe Hironaka, OER Programme Specialist from UNESCO Paris. There were also remarks made by Brazilian officers demonstrating why Brazil is the most vanguard country on OER policy in the region. The Brazilian Ministry of Education announced that it will soon discuss a federal bill where all educational resources would be made available under open licenses. Meanwhile, the Secretary of Education of the São Paulo local government talked about the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2012/12/21/sao-paulo-legislative-assembly-passes-oer-bill/">2012 state bill</a> that required all educational resources funded by the public to be openly licensed and outlined the challenges to promote innovation and a new education culture of sharing and knowledge building.</p>
<p>The technical sessions began with the presentation of Mrs. Kanwar, who emphasized that COL believes that learning must lead to sustainable development as outlined in <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg4">Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4).</a> It was argued that early reports revealed that many countries would fall behind the 2030 target to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. As such, innovative approaches are instrumental to achieve both speed and scale. In addition, she stated that OER has a tremendous potential for increasing access and mitigating the cost of quality education.</p>
<p>Mrs. Kanwar presented an overview of the surveys to governments and educational stakeholders currently in progress to provide a context for detailed deliberation. These surveys show a significant interest for developing national OER policies throughout publicly-funded programmes and projects that promote flexible learning that increases access, efficiency, and quality of educational resources. Alongside the potential benefits, the barriers to mainstreaming OER relate to insufficient access to quality content, lack of users’ capacity, lack of appropriate policies, changing business models, and language and cultural barriers.</p>
<p>OER UNESCO Chair and local host from the University of Campinas, Tel Amiel, followed with remarks that Latin America and the Caribbean is at an early stage regarding the adoption of OER. Although many of the countries in the region do show <a href="media/4f204412.tic_educacao_2015_coletiva_de_imprensa.pdf" data-original-source="http://cetic.br/media/analises/tic_educacao_2015_coletiva_de_imprensa.pdf">high use and practices of digital resources</a> like remixing and open licensing, he pointed to two main reasons why there is delayed uptake: lack of visibility, and a lack of mobilization/articulation. There is a challenge to expose more and better OER initiatives within the region like the higher education open textbook initiative <a href="http://www.proyectolatin.org">LATin</a>, funded by the European Commission that gathered 12 countries, 9 from Latin America, or <a href="http://www.temoa.info/es">TEMOA</a>, a knowledge hub and multilingual catalog of OER for Mobile Learning. <a href="https://www.educ.ar/">EducAR</a>, the national repositories of digital resources for K-12 education in Argentina, is the first repository to include an institutional OER policy (adopting the CC BY-NC-SA license) for most of the resources. This should be an example for other Latin American countries, specially being a member of <a href="http://www.relpe.org/">Latin American Network of Educational Portals RELPE</a> and the <a href="http://www.riure.net/">Iberoamerican Network for Educational Repository Usability RIURE</a>.</p>
<p>Regarding mobilization/articulation, the OER initiatives of the region need to be better identified, for example through a project that maps OER activities as the <a href="https://oerworldmap.org/">OER Worldmap</a>, where only two countries (Chile and Brazil) have “champions” to upload OER data. Again, Brazil leads the way with the recently launched <a href="http://aberta.org.br/">Iniciativa Educaçao Aberta</a>, kickstarted by the <a href="http://educacaoaberta.org/">UNESCO Chair at UNICAMP</a>, and the <a href="http://www.educadigital.org.br">Educadigital Institute</a>, which brings together productions, academic research, publications, repositories, distance-learning, and other projects in Brazil.</p>
<p>The OER UNESCO/ICDE/COL Chair, Rory McGreal, highlighted one of the biggest educational challenges for all countries: by 2025 there will be an increased demand for learning from 98 million new students. To meet this demand there would be a need to establish 4 traditional universities per week, an impossible task, so it&#8217;s urgent to develop and deploy new forms of teaching and learning to meet this tremendous future demand.</p>
<p>Even as we begin to address this incredible challenge, we face tremendous opposition from the traditional copyright industries. Mr. McGreal gave a brief history that copyright (or similar notions of it) going as far back as the 6th Century have attempted to restrict access to information and knowledge. But he advocated that copyright should be a tool to build the right balance between the “encouragement of learning” to society and the rights of authors and creators. OER, understood as technology-enabled, open provision of educational resources for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users, clashes against the currently-unbalanced copyright rules. Copyright law frustrates potential new educational uses of copyrighted works, such as remixing to create a new resources, adaptation to varied learning contexts, extraction to remove assets, localization and translation to other languages or reuse/repurpose of the resources. Copyright is an obstacle to assemble or “deboning” OER in courses, especially for e-learning settings, further complicated by digital rights management (DRM) and restrictive digital licenses.</p>
<p>I work at the Library of National Congress of Chile, and followed with the challenges related to designing and implementing an OER policy. Presenting two real cases from Chile, a <a href="media/6272a15a.PresentacionFinal_Modelos.pdf" data-original-source="http://historico.enlaces.cl/tp_enlaces/portales/tpe76eb4809f44/uploadImg/File/2014/documentos/modelos/PresentacionFinal_Modelos.pdf">frustrated experience with personalized web-based platforms</a> and the <a href="media/57d367af.Informe-Textos-escolares.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.ieschile.cl/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Informe-Textos-escolares.pdf">corrupted/poor quality public textbook market</a>, I highlighted the first challenge for OER policy is to approach today&#8217;s educational challenges with specific, pragmatic, sustainable solutions at different levels guided by the OER principles and open practices. The necessary condition to shape OER as a response to educational challenges is OER capacity building for all education stakeholders.</p>
<p>Regarding capacity building, a major initial task is to advocate for the benefits and potential—and also address risks and barriers—of openness in educational processes for teaching and learning. This focus on the outcomes of the educational process is part of a maturity of the process of how openness impacts education, where as 5 or 10 years ago the focus was on infrastructure, licensing, and creating a volume of resources. There is a growing body called “Open Educational Practices” and “Open Pedagogies” emerging through the use of digital technology, a true reflection on how openness catalyses innovation. As we advocate for the massive potential of OER, we also have the opportunity to correct partial or misleading notions about &#8220;openness&#8221;, as there is still much confusion related on what openness is and how it relates to education.</p>
<p>Another issue around capacity building for stakeholders is to support them with resources and tools for OER Policies, such as COL’s <a href="media/7e18a8f7.232855s.pdf" data-original-source="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002328/232855s.pdf">Guidelines for Open Educational Resources for Higher Education</a>, the <a href="http://oasis.col.org/handle/11599/2388">Institutional OER Policy Template</a>, the <a href="http://policy.lumenlearning.com/es/">OER Policy Development Tool</a>, the <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/OER_Policy_Registry">OER Policy Registry</a>, and other excellent resources for college and university governance officials. <a href="media/67c6f115.oer_country_policy_template.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/oer_country_policy_template.pdf">UNESCO’s OER Country Policy Template</a> is a tool that articulates the goals of the policy, outlines the purpose and rationale of the policy, and provides information on why the policy is necessary and what it will accomplish. Another venue for information sharing and action is the <a href="https://openpolicynetwork.org/">Open Policy Network</a> (OPN), whose mission is to foster the creation, adoption and implementation of open policies and practices by supporting advocates, organizations and policy makers. The OPN is responsible for the <a href="media/29d16a5e.StateofOpenPolicyFullReport_FINAL-1-1-1-1.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/StateofOpenPolicyFullReport_FINAL-1-1-1-1.pdf">Global Open Policy report</a> that tracks the spread of open policies around the world with a systematic overview of open policy development, as well as the <a href="https://openpolicynetwork.org/iol/">Institute for Open Leadership</a> that trains new leaders on the values and implementation of openness in licensing, policies, and practices.</p>
<p>Research is also today an important asset for OER advocacy and policy-making. There is a growing body of evidence and recommendations on the process of adoption and impact of the use of OER in educational settings, with initiatives like the <a href="http://go-gn.net/">PhD student GOGN network</a>, the <a href="http://oerhub.net/">OER Research Hub</a> from the UK Open University, the <a href="http://openedgroup.org/">Open Education Group</a> in the U.S. Increasingly pertinent to developing and emerging countries is the <a href="http://roer4d.org/">Research on Open Educational Resources for Development ROER4D</a>, a evidence-based research project from 26 countries in South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle Asia and Southeast Asia, with the objective to improve educational policy, practice, and research in developing countries by better understanding the use and impact of OER.</p>
<p>The final issue around capacity building for all education stakeholders is the need to build a compelling and encouraging narrative about the benefits and potential of OER. A good example is the <a href="http://www.openwa.org/about-policy-video/">Open Washington OER Network</a> that features videos of grassroots reports from the field, end-user practices in the use and impact of OER, and policy videos with interviews with experts in various areas of OER. These are woven into a series of multimedia presentations on Open Education policy strategy, implementation, and vision.</p>
<p>I closed by exploring the <a href="https://www.opengovpartnership.org/">Open Government Partnership</a> as a platform to advocate for OER policy, especially as countries begin to include education in their action plans. I highlighted initiatives from <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/17/open-education-open-government-chile/">Chile</a> and <a href="http://aberta.org.br/3o-plano-de-acao-ogp-brasil-destaca-principios-de-rea/">Brazil</a> working to do this.</p>
<p>These presentation were followed by exciting and thoughtful group discussions with all the participants to focus on concrete action, such as strategies for mainstreaming OER and exploring national OER practices to tackle SDG4. Also drafted was a list of commitments that will to added to and synthesized for the global report leading up to the World OER Congress.</p>
<p>Read the full report from COL <a href="media/c93893cd.lac_rcoer_report_final.pdf" data-original-source="http://rcoer.col.org/uploads/2/2/8/4/22841180/lac_rcoer_report_final.pdf">here</a>.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52757
title: Creative Commons Summit 2017: Coming together as a community of gratitude and sharing
uri: Creative-Commons-Summit-2017-Coming-together-as-a-community-of-gratit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/15/cc-summit-2017/
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<p>Gratitude brings lasting transformative change and greater well-being to communities through providing recognition, reflection, and grounding. Creative Commons focuses on uniting a community of makers in gratitude, and this year’s <a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org">CC Global Summit</a> was reflective of this focus as well as our renewed organizational mission “to build a vibrant, usable commons powered by collaboration and gratitude.”</p>
<p>From April 28-30, nearly 400 commoners gathered in Toronto, Canada in support of the commons for three days of connecting, collaboration, and debate. The summit outlined some big, audacious goals for the commons, and the community showed its enormous capacity to rise up to meet them. Together we completed the network strategy discussions to grow our movement, began designing collaborative platforms for shared global action, had hundreds of vital discussions on copyright reform, technology, education, science, and so much more.</p>
<p>As facilitators of the summit, we sought to maintain an inclusive, inviting space for our participants as well as thrill and delight our community and friends. While the sessions were certainly informative, other projects like the <a href="https://co.creativecommons.org/?p=2591">Se Oye Libre</a> radio station, which streamed live during the summit and provided interviews and music all day, were a fun and invigorating glimpse into the incredible work our communities are doing around the world.</p>
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<p>What makes the Creative Commons community unique is its diversity of scope and geographic breadth. From artists to activists to copyright wonks, there was truly something for everyone at the summit. In addition, through collaboration with projects like <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/19/virtually-connecting/">Virtually Connecting,</a> our<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients/"> major scholarship program,</a> and <a href="https://www.genderavenger.com/tally/">Gender Avenger</a>, we encouraged participation from around the world from a variety of perspectives.</p>
<p>In this spirit, we opened the summit with an invocation to gratitude and an opening of the space from Whabagoon Walker, an Ojibway indigenous elder who taught us the word “Meg-wetch,” giving thanks to all around us. Deb Matthews, Deputy Premier of Ontario shared Ontario’s plan for becoming “open by default” and the government’s role in facilitating the move. Her invigorating talk was followed by David Lametti, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, who encouraged openness as part of a balanced copyright regime in Canada.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Government has a huge role in facilitating openness.&quot; Minister <a href="https://twitter.com/Deb_Matthews">@Deb_Matthews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/xfvJWLMkrm">pic.twitter.com/xfvJWLMkrm</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Creative Commons (@creativecommons) <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/857959765510586369">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley’s opening speech outlined three main tenets in order to guide the summit and the community’s course: Everything is political, no small fights, and collective acts. These statements are at the core of his vision for Creative Commons and help us perpetuate a culture of openness. In order to underscore the importance of gratitude, Ryan also revealed a new bronze CC pin that is not for sale, but rather given as a gift to people who are promoting a culture of gratitude in the community.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Being given this special, you-can&#39;t-buy-it <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">@creativecommons</a> pin badge felt like gaining status on the best airline in the world. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/mD14Zbrwpr">pic.twitter.com/mD14Zbrwpr</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Doug Belshaw (@dajbelshaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/dajbelshaw/status/858108431361814530">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<figure id="attachment_52764" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><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>Other highlights of the opening session included an unveiling of a project by CC Canada Public Lead Kelsey Merkley called <a href="https://twitter.com/uncommon_women">“Uncommon Women,”</a> a coloring book of illustrations of some of the women who are most important to us as an organization and network. In addition, Jane Park announced the release of the <a href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org">2016 State of the Commons</a>, our largest annual report yet. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/state-of-the-commons-2016/">Our thanks</a> to all the translators, volunteers, and community members who participated in this project.</p>
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<p>&mdash; UnCommon Women (@uncommon_women) <a href="https://twitter.com/uncommon_women/status/857958959487037440">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The opening session concluded with a surprise unveiling of the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/new-palmyra/">#NEWPALMYRA tetrapylon,</a> a collaboration with Austin 3D printing company re:3D that brings to life the work of CC Affiliate Bassel Khartabil, who has been missing in Syria since 2015. The CBC was on hand and <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/resurrecting-palmyra-s-tetrapylon-with-3d-printing-1.4098599">released a documentary and article about the stunning event.</a></p>
<figure style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="52768" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/15/cc-summit-2017/image24/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image24.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="image24" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image24-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image24.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-52768" src="media/c36dc0a7.image24.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image24.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image24.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image24-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image24-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image24-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/image24-232x155.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">Photo by Sebastiaan Ter Burg, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p>After admiring the tetrapylon, participants came back for a presentation that celebrated the conclusion of the development of CC’s new Global Network Strategy from Board Chair Molly van Houweling, Ryan Merkley, Evelin Heidel (Scann), Delia Browne, Alek Tarkowski, and Claudio Ruiz. With the strategy now complete, the hard work of community implementation begins.</p>
<p>Scann’s discussion of diversity was particularly important to the discussion as she encouraged participants to rethink their privilege and enable new global voices in the community.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">One of our longest running <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">@creativecommons</a> members <a href="https://twitter.com/claudio">@claudio</a>! Talks ambitious plans to restructure the CC network <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/nPRpNx7YEb">pic.twitter.com/nPRpNx7YEb</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jane Park (@janedaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/janedaily/status/857990248533557248">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>After lunch, participants broke out into to a number of sessions in the five tracks: Usable Commons, Community and Movement, Policy and Advocacy, the Future of the Commons, and Spheres of Open. Highlights from these sessions included our Awesome Funded project “Copywrong,” which discussed copyright in performing arts spaces, an overview of Anna Mazgal’s research into what makes Creative Commons communities work, Paula Eskett’s talk on CC for education, and Maira Sutton’s talk on Sharing Cities, a new initiative from Shareable. Jesse von Doom from CASH music also ran a popular session on CC in the arts community.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Deep discussion of the copyright of the moonwalk going on here at copywrong <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a></p>
<p>&mdash; (((Terry Greene))) (@greeneterry) <a href="https://twitter.com/greeneterry/status/858023532932083712">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ftureofthecommons?src=hash">#ftureofthecommons</a> track kicked off with a talk with the community on the Faces of the Commons research <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/fWhw6hrUbA">pic.twitter.com/fWhw6hrUbA</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Anna Mazgal (@a2na) <a href="https://twitter.com/a2na/status/858051605039652864">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/librarypaula">@librarypaula</a> talking about Creative Commons and open thinking. Preparing children for open access. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/GmBM5adycp">pic.twitter.com/GmBM5adycp</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Javie Ssozi (@jssozi) <a href="https://twitter.com/jssozi/status/858060638299598850">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">RT janedaily: .maira from Shareable talking urban commons and the real sharing economy (not uber) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/2Pt0Veo87F">pic.twitter.com/2Pt0Veo87F</a> via Sh…</p>
<p>&mdash; Share Club (@shareclubio) <a href="https://twitter.com/shareclubio/status/858349130661457925">April 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thoughtful talk <a href="https://twitter.com/jessevondoom">@jessevondoom</a> the value of sharing openly in the arts  <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/beyondthelicense?src=hash">#beyondthelicense</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/QNod0Vi0MW">pic.twitter.com/QNod0Vi0MW</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Cathy Lewis Long (@cathylewislong) <a href="https://twitter.com/cathylewislong/status/858041012081577985">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>We ended the day with a surprise talk from Barry Threw of <a href="http://www.newpalmyra.org/">#NEWPALMYRA</a> on creative reuse in cultural heritage and community autonomy through digital openness. Matthew Fielder of re:3D closed out the day by demonstrating how his team built the tetrapylon over 800 hours with the Gigabot 3D printer. Fielder’s talk also focused on how his company emphasizes social good, community, and openness for innovation.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Excellent to hear how <a href="https://twitter.com/re_3D">@re_3D</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/chief_hacker">@chief_hacker</a> focuses on social good in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/3dprinting?src=hash">#3dprinting</a>. Great talk. (+ watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gigabot?src=hash">#gigabot</a> in action!) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/UcqmssjreU">pic.twitter.com/UcqmssjreU</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jennie Rose Halperin (@little_wow) <a href="https://twitter.com/little_wow/status/858081715738300416">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Even our breakfasts were active – the Summit Newbies breakfast led by Simeon Oriko attracted a new form of summit self-expression: self-portraits!</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Not used to selfies yet but that was awesome breakfast session with Klaudia Grabowska and <a href="https://twitter.com/SimeonOriko">@SimeonOriko</a> and all newcomers to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/R25TxyUskI">pic.twitter.com/R25TxyUskI</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Kamil Śliwowski (@kasliwowski) <a href="https://twitter.com/kasliwowski/status/857984619551043585">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Great start to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a>. Portraits from newbie breakfast <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/opencircle?src=hash">#opencircle</a> <a href="https://t.co/N8xR1lDqeJ">pic.twitter.com/N8xR1lDqeJ</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Sally Wilson (@pomathorn) <a href="https://twitter.com/pomathorn/status/857949197722693632">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Among the many exciting sessions at the summit, one highlight for participants on Saturday was the joint publisher’s session on three CC licensed publishing initiatives for early readers around the world. Saturday morning also included a session from Kelsey Merkley on making a living while working open, one on text and data mining, and one on CC’s role at the World Bank.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="media/b06f968d.1f60d.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.2.1/72x72/1f60d.png" alt="😍" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://twitter.com/africastorybook">@africastorybook</a> open access children&#39;s story books available in upto 100 African languages[<a href="https://t.co/DHwRnQ2BOT">https://t.co/DHwRnQ2BOT</a>] <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/opencircle?src=hash">#opencircle</a> <a href="https://t.co/OWbwiz41HB">pic.twitter.com/OWbwiz41HB</a></p>
<p>&mdash; IP Quail (@IPquail) <a href="https://twitter.com/IPquail/status/858712596505079813">April 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Currently enjoying <a href="https://twitter.com/vdtree">@vdtree</a>&#39;s session on TDM. *SO MUCH* awesome early career-led programming at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a>. Thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/bella_velo">@bella_velo</a> &amp; CC team!</p>
<p>&mdash; Nick Shockey (@nshockey) <a href="https://twitter.com/nshockey/status/858316747874734080">April 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Before lunch, we had our first keynote from diversity activist Ashe Dryden called “Time Traveling: A Primer,” which discussed why compassion and sharing is more important than efficiency in building a better world. Dryden discussed the importance of intent and positivity in our communities as we struggle to reconcile the future of tech. Dryden emphasized “sustainability” and inclusivity” in communities and she drove the point home through an entertaining and often humorous talk. Oh, and there were also buff shark people.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">As communities we need to understand &amp; accept this crucial responsibility <a href="https://twitter.com/ashedryden">@ashedryden</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Open?src=hash">#Open</a> <a href="https://t.co/7pjWi4jCVL">pic.twitter.com/7pjWi4jCVL</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Gaurav Godhwani (@gggodhwani) <a href="https://twitter.com/gggodhwani/status/858340163503755265">April 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;The shark people on Jupiter are buff, and they are ready for a smooch.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/ashedryden">@ashedryden</a> crushing science fiction dreams of the future <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/bOCiXQNzbB">pic.twitter.com/bOCiXQNzbB</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Ryan Merkley (@ryanmerkley) <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanmerkley/status/858332531908804608">April 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>During lunch, the filmmaker Robin McKenna graciously stopped by to screen early footage from her film GIFT, based on the Lewis Hyde book <em>The Gift.</em> McKenna spoke beautifully about the gift cultures around the world and shared some thoughts with Ryan Merkley about her journey to filmmaking.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Robin McKenna talking about gift culture with <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanmerkley">@ryanmerkley</a> after a preview of her film based on book by Lewis Hyde <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/eScIDULf5D">pic.twitter.com/eScIDULf5D</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jane Park (@janedaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/janedaily/status/858368527518052353">April 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>After lunch, Sarah Pearson and Paul Stacey presented the first copy of their book <em>Made with CC</em> to the Toronto Public Library in a presentation with Pam Ryan, representing the largest library system in the world. Next, we heard a keynote by Sarah Jeong, a lawyer and journalist who Sarah Pearson of CC claimed has “The rare gift of being both very funny and a lawyer.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pam Ryan <a href="https://twitter.com/torontolibrary">@torontolibrary</a> receiving Made with CC from <a href="https://twitter.com/shinchpearson">@shinchpearson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pgstacey">@pgstacey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/aoqokAsGXN">pic.twitter.com/aoqokAsGXN</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Creative Commons (@creativecommons) <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/858375651417624577">April 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Sarah Jeong’s incendiary talk “This is the way the world ends” was a fitting complement to Ashe Dryden’s future-forward talk. In her talk, Jeong outlined the issues with the current media landscape, which privileges clicks over meaningful content, encouraging participants to “fight against the monopolization of speech that exists purely for economic gain.” Creative Commons, in her estimation, “helps fight against the monopolization of our channels of speech that exist solely for economic gain.” She concluded by asserting that “Creative Commons is a way out… it’s not a hobby, it’s a moral imperative.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Creative Commons helps fight against the monopolization of our channels of speech that exist solely for economic gain <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahjeong">@sarahjeong</a> <a href="https://t.co/7UyTFpx9RH">pic.twitter.com/7UyTFpx9RH</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Creative Commons (@creativecommons) <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/858385543733932033">April 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Creative Commons is a way out&#8230; It&#39;s not a hobby, it&#39;s a moral imperative.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahjeong">@sarahjeong</a> <a href="https://t.co/IKYvrYV4IT">pic.twitter.com/IKYvrYV4IT</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Creative Commons (@creativecommons) <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/858385198240727040">April 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Still buzzing from Sarah’s keynote, we heard talks about kickstarting a copyright platform for CC, continued Virtually Connecting, and enjoyed a vibrant “Messy Market” for creators and CC enthusiasts alike! <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/19/virtually-connecting/">Read more about Virtually Connecting on our blog.</a></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">screenshot from when <a href="https://twitter.com/thatpsychprof">@thatpsychprof</a> and I popped into <a href="https://twitter.com/hj_dewaard">@hj_dewaard</a> &#39;s VConnecting session from the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CCSummit?src=hash">#CCSummit</a> Messy Market. <a href="https://t.co/oHy69Bfe2b">pic.twitter.com/oHy69Bfe2b</a></p>
<p>&mdash; (((Terry Greene))) (@greeneterry) <a href="https://twitter.com/greeneterry/status/859075199232352257">May 1, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Many thanks to the <a href="https://twitter.com/torontolibrary">@torontolibrary</a> for 3D printing this logo for my son at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CCSummit?src=hash">#CCSummit</a> messy market <img src="media/78924bcd.1f642.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.2.1/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://t.co/rYUuUFVM1P">pic.twitter.com/rYUuUFVM1P</a></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Amazing photo collection <a href="https://twitter.com/cogdog">@cogdog</a> from <a href="https://twitter.com/VConnecting">@VConnecting</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/atarkowski">@atarkowski</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LNKalshoven">@LNKalshoven</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/drgong">@drgong</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/clintlalonde">@clintlalonde</a> <a href="https://t.co/zN9hoUAsij">https://t.co/zN9hoUAsij</a></p>
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<p>Another highlight of the afternoon was the <a href="http://madewith.cc"><em>Made with Creative Commons</em></a> author discussion, where Sarah Pearson and Paul Stacey discussed their process as collaborators with Ryan Merkley.</p>
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<p>After an entire day of activities, we just couldn’t get enough, so we ended the evening with a rad party from the listener supported nonprofit <a href="http://dublab.org/">dublab</a> and international DJs Basic Soul Unit and Invisible City.</p>
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<p>The next morning, it was breakfast again!</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/creativecommons?src=hash">#creativecommons</a> does breakfast <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/welcometotoronto?src=hash">#welcometotoronto</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/getyourfruitfill?src=hash">#getyourfruitfill</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">@creativecommons</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ccglobalsummit">@ccglobalsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/ss7dhLA1GQ">pic.twitter.com/ss7dhLA1GQ</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jessica Rees (@jreesonfire) <a href="https://twitter.com/jreesonfire/status/857948907233566720">April 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Some highlights from the Sunday morning talks included a discussion on CC’s legal infrastructure with Diane Peters in order to kick off a collaboration for legal initiatives around the world. The same set of talks also brought us a discussion on teaching 3D printing as a means of teaching entrepreneurship with the New York Public Library and Shapeways.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/shapeways">@shapeways</a> Lauren Slowik talks 3D printing education <a href="https://twitter.com/nypl">@nypl</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/aukgl6LzTa">pic.twitter.com/aukgl6LzTa</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jane Park (@janedaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/janedaily/status/858671041027207169">April 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>After the break, we had talks from Laura Hilliger, who <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/07/future-of-commons/">discussed community-based design at Greenpeace </a>and the importance of community collaboration as well as from Capture Canada and Unsplash, two Canadian platforms revolutionizing photography.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Exploring sharing CC photos with <a href="https://twitter.com/unsplash">@unsplash</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CaptureCanada?src=hash">#CaptureCanada</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/valremix">@valremix</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/julietake2">@julietake2</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SciTechMuseum">@SciTechMuseum</a> <a href="https://t.co/CgTfB3VtTX">pic.twitter.com/CgTfB3VtTX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Brian Dawson (@briandawson) <a href="https://twitter.com/briandawson/status/858701488511750145">April 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/epilepticrabbit">@epilepticrabbit</a> says that just modelling open practices isn&#39;t enough &#8211; you have to design for participation. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/eAJHJE6QeF">pic.twitter.com/eAJHJE6QeF</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Doug Belshaw (@dajbelshaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/dajbelshaw/status/858693320163373056">April 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Our last keynote block opened with Ana Garzón Sabogal, a free culture activist and educator in Colombia in conversation with María Juliana. Sabogal spoke about her work in post-conflict zones in Colombia and advocating for openness through storytelling and coalition building.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I love this resource map, from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> keynote Ana Garzón Sabogal. Beautiful! <a href="https://t.co/iy4tXBM3t2">pic.twitter.com/iy4tXBM3t2</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Ryan Merkley (@ryanmerkley) <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanmerkley/status/858714777094410241">April 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Our final keynote was Hillary Hartley, Chief Digital Officer of Ontario, a last-minute keynote addition who definitely delivered! She spoke of the lessons she learned at <a href="https://18f.gsa.gov/">18f</a> while leading a team for digital services delivery for the United States Government. In a compact, smart talk called “Transforming Government Through Openness,” she encouraged the audience to “lead by example” to transform digital spaces. Hillary’s talk discussed how “thinking like a designer” and creating an open door policy can lead to big, transformative change.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">At the heart of transformation especially in the government are people. <a href="https://twitter.com/hillary">@hillary</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/rYjit1PGu2">pic.twitter.com/rYjit1PGu2</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Regina Gong (@drgong) <a href="https://twitter.com/drgong/status/858721436281786370">April 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> user centred design, iterate, API first, open from the start <a href="https://twitter.com/hillary">@hillary</a> thx, great advice <a href="https://t.co/7me6DFsxuz">pic.twitter.com/7me6DFsxuz</a></p>
<p>&mdash; mackaffinity (@mackaffinity) <a href="https://twitter.com/mackaffinity/status/858722259162288129">April 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>At the heart of Hillary’s work is people, and in going “open by default,” her team is truly changing government from the inside out.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Great keynote by <a href="https://twitter.com/hillary">@hillary</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a>, including praise of CC0 and the &quot;open by default&quot; mantra. <a href="https://t.co/G8I6L6xgMX">pic.twitter.com/G8I6L6xgMX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; nikki forebber (@antischokke) <a href="https://twitter.com/antischokke/status/858722785660743680">April 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Our final few blocks of talks included sessions on patent reform, user rights, usability, and Latin American Communities. It also included a series of platform discussions on Big Thinking about the Commons, Open GLAM, and Open Education.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Our <a href="https://twitter.com/paul_keller">@paul_keller</a> sharing on copyrightexceptions.eu research &#8211; showing the fragmented user rights landscape in Europe during <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/KqTFetm1EV">pic.twitter.com/KqTFetm1EV</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Kennisland (@Kennisland) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kennisland/status/858741981866065920">April 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thinking about education and resource sharing comes with the GLAM territory. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/xqurKawCRY">pic.twitter.com/xqurKawCRY</a></p>
<p>&mdash; OurDigitalWorld (@ODWorg) <a href="https://twitter.com/ODWorg/status/858746255819722752">April 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>On Sunday evening, we came together one last time, and our intrepid event photographer Sebastiaan ter Burg surprised us with a short video that featured <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/albums/72157680015540503">our portraits from his photobooth!</a> We’ll be sharing out a more polished version of the video soon. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/">Check out more of Sebastiaan&#8217;s photos on Flickr.</a></p>
<p>In the spirit of the commons, we the CC Global Summit ended with gratitude: for our event coordinators, to our staff, for our affiliates and volunteers, and finally for ourselves. Together we made this happen, and we couldn’t have done it without all of our friends and supporters.</p>
<p>See you next year, CC. We can’t wait.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">It&#39;s a wrap! Thank you all for being a part of this special experience. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccgratitude?src=hash">#ccgratitude</a> <a href="https://t.co/NKr23dSaNN">pic.twitter.com/NKr23dSaNN</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Creative Commons (@creativecommons) <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/858793263393910784">April 30, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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title: Lively Discussions at the CC Summit Author Salon
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<p><em>Andrew Malcolm is an author and a freelance communications specialist. His creative writing is published on his website, along with his <a href="https://andrewrichardmalcolm.com/author/">author bio.</a></em></p>
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<p>When I walked into the large ballroom to attend the author salon, I was pleased to find the attendance was modest enough that we could sit with all three authors in a circle and have a discussion that, as Paul Stacey described at the end of the session, “Felt more like a podcast than a workshop.” With each question igniting long conversations, and the discussions ultimately illustrating shared objectives and processes behind the three books, we all walked away happy to have the lively dialogues recorded, if not on our computers, at least in our memories.</p>
<p>The authors of the three books, Paul Stacey and Sarah Pearson, Maira Sutton, and Matt Thompson write about the commons, sharing, and economic models for working open. While Stacey and Pearson’s book <em>Made with Creative Commons</em> was the only one completed and in the hands of every attendee, all three authors shared intimately about their process as creators. Paul began the salon and said, “We started writing a book about open business models that were successfully earning profits, but as we interviewed entrepreneurs, creators and organizational leaders using CC licenses, we were surprised to find that our initial framework for understanding their success was misguided. Yes, they were earning profits, but that was never the objective of the work – their objectives were always something more socially conscious, and their earnings were meant to sustain the pursuit.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/maira">@maira</a> from <a href="https://twitter.com/Shareable">@Shareable</a> talking urban commons and the real sharing economy (not uber) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/2Wp1Rz6rNl">pic.twitter.com/2Wp1Rz6rNl</a></p>
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<p>Maira Sutton, talking about sharing cities, said she hoped to see the same diversity of objectives take the place of profiteering in our economies. As Manager of Community Engagement at Shareable, she campaigns to promote sharing and solidarity economics, and is working with them on a book called “Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” – a collection of case-studies and policies that exemplify commons-based sharing services.</p>
<p>Matt Thompson, a Mozilla Fellow, also introduced his book as one that advocates for a change in the way people work, though some specifics were still coming together: “My book is called Working Open: And I’ve had about a million ideas for a subtitle, but nothing solid yet.” All three projects seemed to bring surprises in the research that changed the author’s own understanding of what their work was illustrating, so a constantly shifting subtitle was understandable. Matt is interviewing people who are part of the most exciting open source projects and writing about how they are exemplifying the power of collaboration.</p>
<p>Needless to say, I was thrilled to have a chance to speak with authors who are working on the leading edge of a new era in publishing and licensing, but our conversation quickly turned to the biggest challenge each author faced – overcoming resistance to change.</p>
<p>Maira said, “What we want to do is convince cities to create policies that regulate the sharing economy so that they’re more conducive to community organizations, non-profits and coops. Still today most people think of companies like Uber and Airbnb when they think of the sharing economy, but their profit only objectives are proving to be bad for fairness, equality, and even safety for both providers and customers.”</p>
<p>Matt asked Maira, “Do you find city counsellors and policy makers are resistant to changing the rules to accommodate grass roots movements instead of companies?” This is how we know when an author salon is going well – when the authors start asking each other questions.</p>
<p>“Yes, but once we can point to other projects that are successful, they become much easier to convince. They’re just trying to make decisions that are best for the city, but it’s difficult for policy makers to decide to do anything new themselves. Once you can show that other cities have adopted policies and projects that work, that bring real value to their citizens, then it’s easy to get them on board,” she responded.</p>
<p>Matt said, “That’s what I find with many of the business leaders I’ve interviewed. The idea of working open, of revealing all their companies’ secrets and inviting outsiders in, really scares them. But they’re starting to notice that working open is actually creating the best possible products, that Wikipedia really is the best knowledge resource ever created. And despite GM and other large corporations investing heavily into developing the best self-driving cars, it’s OSVehicle’s open source platform for Edit that’s set to lead the way for the industry.”</p>
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<p>The three books advocate to different audiences: Paul and Sarah’s to creators and organizations that could benefit from applying Creative Commons licenses to their products, Matt’s to business leaders who would benefit from creating open-work environments, and Maira’s to civic leaders who could create true sharing cities. Despite the disparate audiences, by the end of the session a commonality emerged – it’s examples and case studies that are most effective at changing minds and showing the value of commons-based approaches.</p>
<p>There are already people and organizations around the world working to ensure that the global economy is driven by something more than profits and growth. But they’re still the minority, and if that’s ever going to change, clearly we need to keep looking for those who are on the leading edge of social justice movements and telling their stories. Those stories can show leaders that objectives based in achieving equal rights to housing, food, knowledge, a sustainable environment and all our hopes for social change are already driving people to innovate and create with far more originality and ambition than ever before.</p>
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title: Bipartisan Legislation Would Ensure Open Access to Government Data
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<p><b></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the United States, there are two bills making their way through Congress that would require all government data to be made available in open and machine readable formats by default. The OPEN Government Data Act has been introduced in both the </span><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr1770"><span style="font-weight: 400;">House of Representatives (H.R. 1770)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s760"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senate (S. 760)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The bill would ensure that federal government data is “open, available, discoverable, and usable to the general public, businesses, journalists, [and] academics.” The legislation would codify the Obama administration’s 2013 </span><a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/executive-order-making-open-and-machine-readable-new-default-government-"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Executive Order</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Along with the </span><a href="https://www.datacoalition.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Data Coalition</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Creative Commons and a group of over 80 organisations </span><a href="media/d6f5a8a3.2017-OPEN-gov-data-act-support-letter-full.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/7/7d/2017-OPEN-gov-data-act-support-letter-full.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the House and Senate asking for their continued support: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First and foremost, this legislation would institutionalize the federal government’s commitment to open data and allow the United States to remain a world leader on open data. Second, adopting a policy of open by default for government data would ensure that the value of this public resource would continue to grow as the government unlocks and creates new data sets. Third, a firm commitment to providing open data as a public resource would encourage businesses, non-profits, and others to invest in innovative tools that make use of government data. And, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s review of the 2016 unanimously passed Senate bill, taking these steps would not have a significant impact on agency spending.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another bill—the </span><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s960"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Preserving Data in Government Act of 2017</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (S. 960)—has been introduced in the Senate. Similar to the OPEN Government Data Act, this bill acknowledges the importance of publishing data in open and machine readable formats. It focuses on ensuring that federal government data sets be adequately preserved for long term access and use. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The introduction of the bills are a breath of fresh air within a political environment that has </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/28/epa-website-removes-climate-science-site-from-public-view-after-two-decades/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">jeopardized</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> access to government data on topics such as climate change. The bipartisan support for this legislation demonstrates that sharing publicly-funded data under open licenses and in machine readable formats can be an important tool to improve access and reuse of data for both the public and private sectors. </span></p>
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