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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54345
title: It’s alive! Check out the CC Summit Program
uri: It-s-alive-Check-out-the-CC-Summit-Program
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/14/cc-summit-program-is-live/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="54346" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/14/cc-summit-program-is-live/1-square/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1-square.jpg" data-orig-size="2880,2143" 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="1 square" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1-square.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1-square.jpg" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54346" src="media/19876593.1-square.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1-square.jpg" alt="summit-image" width="2880" height="2143" /></p>
<p>The CC Summit is only a month away, and we’re so pleased to announce our<a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com"> schedule of over 110 community-led sessions.</a> We’ve also planned excellent special events including a screening of Yasmin Fedda’s film in progress “The Disappeared” and the announcement of the recipient of the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/bassel-khartabil-fellowship/">Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship</a> and Memorial Fund (applications are open until <strong>March 24th,</strong> so there’s still time to apply.)</p>
<p>This year’s summit also features a podcasting popup salon called “Humans of the Commons,” which will tell the stories of our network and community through an integrative storytelling practice. In addition, Sebastiaan Ter Burg will be back with his popular interactive photography studio, you’ll hear keynotes from <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/29/summit-keynotes-2018/">three major players in open licensing and culture,</a> and the weekend will crescendo with a Saturday night dance party that’s sure to show you what we all have in common(s). (Dancing!)</p>
<p>This year, we have sessions from nearly every continent and 65 countries. The seven tracks are volunteer led and organized and represent the facets of Creative Commons’s work in Open. From the CC Global Network to Open Education to GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) to the Future of the User-Centered Commons, we’ll be conferencing and un-conferencing for a better world. It’s a can’t miss event if you care about the future of open knowledge.</p>
<p>We’d like to thank the <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/summit-program-advisory-committee/">Summit Program Advisory Committe</a>e and Scholarship Committee, which has worked tirelessly to put this program together and to invite our scholarship recipients to join us in Toronto. <a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org/register2018"><strong>To all those who haven’t yet registered – join us!</strong></a></p>
<p>We couldn’t have done it without generous support from our lead sponsor <a href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/buy-vpn/">Private Internet Access</a>, along with all of our sponsors <a href="http://tophat.com">Top Hat,</a> <a href="https://www.ecampusontario.ca/">eCampusOntario,</a> <a href="http://mozilla.com">Mozilla,</a> <a href="http://www.recreatecoalition.org/">Recreate,</a> <a href="https://lumenlearning.com/">Lumen Learning,</a> and <a href="https://www.yoyow.org/index_en.html">Yoyow</a>, as well as in kind support from <a href="https://www.canvaslms.com/">Canvas</a>.</p>
<p>Check out the <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/sessions2018/">full schedule on Sched</a>, and don’t forget to register! Students get 20% off this week only with the code springbreak.</p>
<p>For press inquiries, please reach out to <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org">info@creativecommons.org</a></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Lead sponsor:</h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Supporting sponsors:</h3>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><img data-attachment-id="54349" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/14/cc-summit-program-is-live/yoyow-300x101/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/YOYOW-300x101.jpg" data-orig-size="300,101" 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="YOYOW-300&#215;101" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/YOYOW-300x101.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/YOYOW-300x101.jpg" class="wp-image-54349 aligncenter" src="media/918eae9f.YOYOW-300x101.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/YOYOW-300x101.jpg" alt="yoyow" width="184" height="62" /><br />
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<img data-attachment-id="54354" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/14/cc-summit-program-is-live/tophat_lockup_fullcolor_rgb-2-768x924/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TopHat_Lockup_FullColor_RGB-2-768x924.jpg" data-orig-size="768,924" 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="TopHat_Lockup_FullColor_RGB-2-768&#215;924" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TopHat_Lockup_FullColor_RGB-2-768x924.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TopHat_Lockup_FullColor_RGB-2-768x924.jpg" class="wp-image-54354 aligncenter" src="media/7deec157.TopHat_Lockup_FullColor_RGB-2-768x924.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TopHat_Lockup_FullColor_RGB-2-768x924.jpg" alt="top-hat" width="133" height="160" />In-kind sponsor:</h5>
<p><img data-attachment-id="54348" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/14/cc-summit-program-is-live/canvas_logo-300x72/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Canvas_logo-300x72.png" data-orig-size="300,72" 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="Canvas_logo-300&#215;72" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Canvas_logo-300x72.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Canvas_logo-300x72.png" class="wp-image-54348 aligncenter" src="media/fa06f79d.Canvas_logo-300x72.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Canvas_logo-300x72.png" alt="" width="254" height="61" /></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54370
title: CC Will Host 2018-19 Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow
uri: CC-Will-Host-2018-19-Ford-Mozilla-Open-Web-Fellow
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/21/cc-will-host-2018-19-ford-mozilla-open-web-fellow/
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54371" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/21/cc-will-host-2018-19-ford-mozilla-open-web-fellow/mozfellows/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/mozfellows.png" data-orig-size="2402,1348" 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="mozfellows" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/mozfellows.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/mozfellows.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54371" src="media/2b3d70d6.mozfellows.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/mozfellows.png" alt="" width="2402" height="1348" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Monday, Mozilla </span><a href="https://medium.com/read-write-participate/welcoming-11-new-partners-in-the-quest-for-internet-health-843c8d1b2bf9"><span style="font-weight: 400;">announced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that Creative Commons is among 11 organizations selected to host the 2018-2019 Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows. We’re thrilled to be chosen as one of the host organisations alongside the following excellent organizations: </span><a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Consumer Reports</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tor</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://witness.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Witness</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://codeforscience.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Code for Science &amp; Society</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.bof.nl/english"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bits of Freedom</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.derechosdigitales.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Derechos Digitales</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="http://www.astraeafoundation.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Astraea Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://policy.wikimedia.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikimedia Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="http://privacyinternational.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Privacy International</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="http://artigo19.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Artigo 19</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is the </span><a href="https://advocacy.mozilla.org/en-US/open-web-fellows/overview"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Web Fellowship</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">? It’s a 10-month fellowship program that brings together individuals interested in technology, policy, and advocacy and embeds them within civil society organizations from around the world to advance and protect the open internet. The program aims to 1) increase public awareness and understanding of internet policy issues, 2) support and enable career paths in the internet policy and advocacy sectors, and 3) celebrate and nurture a vibrant network of internet advocacy organizations. </span></p>
<p><b>Applications for the fellowship program </b><a href="https://foundation.mozilla.org/fellowships/apply/"><b>opens</b></a><b> today and closes on Friday, April 20th (5pm ET). </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons is an international organization that works with a global network of supporters, legal experts, activists, and educators. We are open to a variety of project ideas from fellows. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Applicants with the following kinds of experience would fit well with the fellowship: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design / systems thinking</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Data collection, analysis, visualization</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Communications</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grassroots advocacy and digital campaigning</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Community organizing</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interoperability/open standards experience</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are some more specific project ideas we are interested in pursuing. </span></p>
<p><b>Educational program for copyright reform</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We would like to create education programs that explain and connect CC’s work on open licensing and open policy with our work on copyright reform. We will use the expertise within our network (and beyond) to explain in understandable language how—and why—positive copyright reform for the Commons is crucial to meet our progressive vision, and affects all/most of our programmatic areas. We want to be able to develop creative and informational materials (including educational articles, white papers, toolkits, comics, etc) to make it easier for non-experts to explain why this conversation and debate matters to CC and its broad base of users and supporters.  </span></p>
<p><b>Improving CC’s ability to run effective digital issue campaigns</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We would like to improve our ability to run impactful digital campaigns that support our advocacy strategy. This work should be able to address urgent or timely issues as they arise, as well as longer-term proactive campaigns. It should take into account our truly global network of advocates, thus the need to be flexible enough to utilize across various communities, political/social cultures, and languages. </span></p>
<p><b>Survey of organisational research needs in support of evidence-based policymaking</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As CC continues to engage in advocacy that protects and expands the commons, there is a need to improve the ability of the organisation to think and act systemically regarding research in service of evidence-based policymaking. We would like to build the expertise and network of researchers to be able to provide more in depth analysis, evidence, and expert commentary on important public policy issues. A useful first step would be to assess the situation with regard to the academic research community related to CC, with a particular focus on identifying specific issue areas that could be well served by improved data and other evidence-based research to aid copyright reform aligned with our vision and mission. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC is a distributed and virtual organisation (no headquarters office), and we welcome applications from anywhere. We will work to provide the necessary support to ensure that the fellow is connected with the mentor and other relevant CC staff and community. </span></p>
<p><b>Again, applications for the fellowship program </b><a href="https://foundation.mozilla.org/fellowships/apply/"><b>opens</b></a><b> today and closes on Friday, April 20th (5pm ET). </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Applicants with additional questions should contact </span><a href="mailto:fellowships@mozilla.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fellowships@mozilla.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54379
title: We’re entering a new era for the Commons
uri: We-re-entering-a-new-era-for-the-Commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/26/entering-new-era-commons/
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<figure id="attachment_54386" style="max-width: 482px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54386" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/26/entering-new-era-commons/jon-and-bassel/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/jon-and-bassel.jpg" data-orig-size="1180,1180" 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="jon-and-bassel" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/jon-and-bassel.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/jon-and-bassel.jpg" class=" wp-image-54386" src="media/28c803a4.jon-and-bassel.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/jon-and-bassel.jpg" alt="jon-bassel" width="482" height="482" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Jon Phillips and Bassel Khartabil at the Creative Commons Summit, Warsaw, 2011. (Eric Steuer/Flickr/CC license 2.0)</figcaption></figure>
<h3><em>Jon Phillips on gratitude, the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship, and the evolution of the Commons </em></h3>
<p><strong><em>In 2017, the global open movement mourned the loss of a dear champion, colleague and friend</em></strong><em>. </em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/01/bassel/"><em>In August we learned</em></a><em> that Bassel Khartabil, Creative Commons’ Syrian project lead, open source software programmer, Wikipedia contributor and free culture advocate, had been executed by the Syrian regime. Here, Bassel’s long-time friend and Creative Commons advocate, </em><strong><em>Jon Phillips</em></strong><em>, shares his thoughts on continuing Bassel’s work, the new fellowship being awarded in Bassel’s honor, and how the Commons has shaped a generation of programmers and activists. </em></p>
<p><strong>At this year’s Global Summit we’ll announce the recipient of the </strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/bassel-khartabil-fellowship/"><strong>Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship</strong></a><strong>. </strong>It’s a partnership between Creative Commons, Wikipedia, Mozilla and the <a href="http://fabricatorz.org/">Fabricatorz Foundation</a>, which I’m a co-founder of. Noura, Bassel&#8217;s wife, and Jamil Khartabil, his father, will also be at the Summit to present the award.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="54380" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/26/entering-new-era-commons/screen-shot-2018-03-26-at-9-46-36-am/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.46.36-AM.png" data-orig-size="396,183" 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 2018-03-26 at 9.46.36 AM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.46.36-AM.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.46.36-AM.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54380" src="media/af029f9b.Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.46.36-AM.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.46.36-AM.png" alt="fellowship-header" width="396" height="183" /></p>
<p>I joined Creative Commons as an engineer back when the organization was only two or three years old. I initially met Bassel online. I was working on <a href="https://openclipart.org/search/?query=bassel">OpenClipArt</a> and sent out some different announcements — and he responded to them with code. Free code. I thought it was amazing someone would do that.</p>
<p>That led to a close working relationship, and Bassel’s work helped turn OpenClipArt into the world’s largest collection of public domain images. Bassel and I became best friends. Later he invited me to Syria, to help launch <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Syria">Creative Commons Syria</a>.</p>
<p>Bassel was swept up in a wave of military arrests by the Syrian government in 2012. I helped launch the <a href="http://freebassel.org/">#FreeBassel</a> campaign, and thousands of people and organizations around the world demanded his release. But then last year, in August 2017, we learned that security services had executed him in 2015, after torturing him in prison.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54387" style="max-width: 531px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54387" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/26/entering-new-era-commons/freebassel-activist/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/freebassel-activist.jpg" data-orig-size="1180,885" 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="freebassel activist" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/freebassel-activist.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/freebassel-activist.jpg" class=" wp-image-54387" src="media/1263fd5a.freebassel-activist.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/freebassel-activist.jpg" alt="free-bassel-activist" width="531" height="398" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The #FreeBassel campaign drew supporters from around the world (Kennisland/Flickr/CC license 2.0)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Obviously we were devastated; his friends and family had been worried since losing communications contact with him, but we still held out hope. His loss was profound. Bassel was one of the great ones. He could have done so many more things, or become the next Steve Jobs. But instead his light was extinguished.</p>
<p>There was a period of time, after we learned Bassel had been executed, where I did a lot of reflection. It made me think a lot about what I want to do. About how to move forward.</p>
<p>I believe life is inherently optimistic. It would be easy to become toxic and decide that the world sucks and everything&#8217;s over. But I believe the right answer is to find the best people and help unblock them. Help unblock problems.</p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s a big part of what I&#8217;m working on with the </strong><a href="http://fabricatorz.com/"><strong>Fabricatorz Foundation</strong>.</a> Our projects include <a href="http://newpalmyra.org">#NEWPALMYRA</a>, which Bassel founded. It’s an effort to reconstruct the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, which was destroyed by ISIS, as an immersive virtual environment. Fabricatorz has also collaborated on projects like WeiWei Cam with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeiweiCam">Ai WeiWei</a> and other artists speaking out about oppression around the world.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54388" style="max-width: 461px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54388" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/26/entering-new-era-commons/weiweicam/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WeiWeiCam.png" data-orig-size="480,360" 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="WeiWeiCam" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WeiWeiCam.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WeiWeiCam.png" class=" wp-image-54388" src="media/02036860.WeiWeiCam.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WeiWeiCam.png" alt="weiweicam" width="461" height="346" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Still from “WeiWeiCam,” a self-surveillance project by artist Ai Weiwei, which Fabricatorz assisted with</figcaption></figure>
<h3><strong>“The Commons is in our DNA”</strong></h3>
<p><strong>Like Bassel, I believe in sharing. </strong>It&#8217;s a statement. It&#8217;s powerful. I believe <strong><em>everyone</em></strong><strong> should share. </strong>The Commons is the foundation for everything for me.</p>
<p><strong>I think for millennials and people in their early 20s, this is now built into their DNA. </strong>For young developers who have grown up with this, the open, sharing, Commons mentality is built in. If it&#8217;s on Github and it&#8217;s public then you can use it.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54384" style="max-width: 320px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="54384" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/26/entering-new-era-commons/screen-shot-2018-03-26-at-9-50-03-am/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.50.03-AM.png" data-orig-size="320,224" 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 2018-03-26 at 9.50.03 AM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.50.03-AM.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.50.03-AM.png" class="size-full wp-image-54384" src="media/31132f36.Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.50.03-AM.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.50.03-AM.png" alt="bill-smith-stlouis" width="320" height="224" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">St. Louis artist Bill Smith and his artwork construction system, “Synthetic BioStructures”.<br />Photo by Fabricatorz Foundation, CC Zero 1.0.</figcaption></figure>
<p>It&#8217;s really a way of <em>thinking</em> — that you have something and you can share it, and that creates more energy than not sharing it. The diverse cultures of non-majority innovators are seriously advantaged by having some type of shared system that&#8217;s not locked in.</p>
<h3><strong>“Peer-to-peer is back in force”</strong></h3>
<p><strong>I believe it’s only really </strong><strong><em>now</em></strong><strong> that we&#8217;re truly entering the internet age, the digital age. </strong>We thought we were already in it, but I believe the internet age truly began with the blockchain and transaction networks. It will be the foundation going forward.</p>
<p><strong>All the peer-to-peer stuff is now back in force — all the different ways of removing middlemen</strong>. Innovation-wise, that will be some of the most interesting stuff that happens this year. Right now we&#8217;re in the equivalent of the blockchain “dot-com” era — the current blockchain bubble comes out of that. But there really is true innovation emerging.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54383" style="max-width: 289px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img data-attachment-id="54383" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/26/entering-new-era-commons/screen-shot-2018-03-26-at-9-50-24-am/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.50.24-AM.png" data-orig-size="289,216" 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 2018-03-26 at 9.50.24 AM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.50.24-AM.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.50.24-AM.png" class="size-full wp-image-54383" src="media/08692e0b.Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.50.24-AM.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-9.50.24-AM.png" alt="synthetic-biostructuresbillsmith" width="289" height="216" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Bill Smith “Synthetic BioStructures” (2018) detail. Photo by Fabricatorz Foundation, CC0 1.0.</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Take, for example, Creative Commons. </strong>The legal and technical innovation with licenses that Lawrence Lessig adapted from the free software movement — and that have since been optimized — can now be implemented with blockchain.</p>
<p><strong><em>Blockchain provides a mechanism to improve the system.</em></strong></p>
<p>That ultimate goal can now be completed, because now we can have unique digital assets through a shared knowledge base — essentially a shared public anonymous database. That&#8217;s what the blockchain is.</p>
<p><em>Based on a StoryEngine.io interview with Jon Phillips. Interview by Christine Prefontaine, story by Matt Thompson.</em></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/26/entering-new-era-commons/">We&#8217;re entering a new era for the Commons</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54392
title: Knowledge Crushes all Barriers
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/28/knowledge-crushes-barriers/
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<h2><strong>&#8220;Knowledge crushes all barriers”</strong></h2>
<h5>Felix Naartey, 2017’s Wikipedian of the year, on the need for cross-collaboration in the open movement</h5>
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<p><strong><em>Felix Naartey is the Global Coordinator for the </em></strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library"><strong><em>Wikipedia Library</em></strong></a><strong><em> and has been a Creative Commons advocate since 2014.</em></strong><em> In advance of the </em><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/"><em>Creative Commons Global Summit</em></a><em>, we’re gathering the stories of inspiring humans working around the world to shape the Commons’ future. We want to share your story, too &#8212; drop by the “</em><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/sessions2018/"><em>Humans of the Commons</em></a><em>” listening lounge at the Summit to get interviewed and add your voice. Here’s an edited transcript of Felix’s story:</em></p>
<p><strong>One of my major goals is cross-collaboration in the open movement.</strong> I’ve realized that there isn’t enough cohesion between the different programs and individual projects that exist here in Ghana and elsewhere. We need a coalition.</p>
<p>Last year I spoke at the OpenStreetMap “<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Africa_2017">State of the Map Africa</a>” conference, for example, to propose closer collaboration between OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the most notable website in the world &#8212; so why not continue the work we do with OpenStreetMap by adding map data to locations that already exist on Wikipedia?</p>
<figure id="attachment_54393" style="max-width: 960px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54393" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/28/knowledge-crushes-barriers/open-foundation-wa/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/open-foundation-wa.jpg" data-orig-size="960,638" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&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 foundation wa" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/open-foundation-wa.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/open-foundation-wa.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-54393" src="media/ae06627d.open-foundation-wa.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/open-foundation-wa.jpg" alt="openfoundationwestafrica" width="960" height="638" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by <a href="https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/">Open Foundation West Africa</a> CC BY-SA</figcaption></figure>
<p>I created the <a href="https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/index.php">Summer Open School</a> for the same reason: to bring projects together and do trainings that combine Creative Commons, OpenStreetMap, Mozilla and other open projects. When people learn about Creative Commons, for example, they also learn about Wikipedia in the process, and vice versa. You can’t talk about these other projects without mentioning the underlying licenses. It creates continuity for our work, and allows more people to see it. These are ways that Creative Commons can push the agenda.</p>
<p>Some of our students have gone to their schools and instituted programs or set up open collaborations and conferences. We want to extend this further to the West African sub-region, and expand Summer Open School to the whole of that area.</p>
<h3><strong>Growing Creative Commons in Ghana</strong></h3>
<p>Four years ago I learned about the open movement. I wanted to increase knowledge-sharing and improve education in my country. I use this platform [the open movement] because it’s an opportunity to tell my story and the story of my country through sharing.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54394" style="max-width: 452px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="54394" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/28/knowledge-crushes-barriers/wikimedians_of_ghana_wiki_indaba_2017/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Wikimedians_of_Ghana_Wiki_Indaba_2017.jpg" data-orig-size="500,333" 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="Wikimedians_of_Ghana_Wiki_Indaba_2017" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Wikimedians_of_Ghana_Wiki_Indaba_2017.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Wikimedians_of_Ghana_Wiki_Indaba_2017.jpg" class=" wp-image-54394" src="media/64650d9d.Wikimedians_of_Ghana_Wiki_Indaba_2017.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Wikimedians_of_Ghana_Wiki_Indaba_2017.jpg" alt="" width="452" height="301" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Foundation_West_Africa">Felix Nartey, Rapheal Berchie, Joy Agyepong, Ursula Zita, Hariaet Bayel, Elisha Owusu Akyaw, Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Justice Okai-Allotey, Sadik Shahadu and Seth Nyamador at WikiIndaba 2017</a> CC BY-SA 4.0</figcaption></figure>
<p>We started our CC Ghana group through <a href="https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/">Open Foundation West Africa</a>, an NGO that supports the open movement in the West African sub-region. We’re nearly finished the process of becoming a Creative Commons chapter in Ghana.</p>
<p>As a result of our work here in Ghana, I’ve seen companies adopt Creative Commons licenses on their websites. I’ve seen schools change their policies for printing research work using Creative Commons licenses. And I’ve spoken to teachers creating publications under CC licenses so their students will have access. They’ve realized it doesn’t make sense to publish their works in publications students won’t be able to access.</p>
<h3><strong>Knowledge without barriers</strong></h3>
<p><strong>I think a vibrant Commons and a better world are directly related</strong>. When you improve collaboration and access, because content can be shared, you directly improve knowledge. The more knowledge people have, the more they can do. Without factors like the Commons, there’s no continuity and there’s no creativity. The world just stands still and nothing grows.</p>
<p><strong>For me, knowledge crushes all barriers.</strong> I want to see a Ghana that is free from knowledge barriers, because once those barriers are crushed, people will begin to move freely, learn freely, and grow. Once we begin to open up knowledge for people, the barriers that exist – being able to buy textbooks, for example – can be solved with things like open educational resources.</p>
<p>My interest is focused on Ghana but I’m also referring to the African continent more broadly. I feel we are under-represented. Most of our knowledge resides in books, and our people just don’t know how to put it online – whereas everything you’d want to know about the U. S., for example, already exists there.</p>
<p>We need to give people the training and knowledge that they have a voice through platforms like Creative Commons licenses and Wikipedia. We have a voice, we just don’t know how to use it.</p>
<p><em>Based on a StoryEngine.io interview with Felix Naartey. Interview by Christine Prefontaine, story by Matt Thompson.</em></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/28/knowledge-crushes-barriers/">Knowledge Crushes all Barriers</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54437
title: Head of copyright committee wants to deny EU creators the right to share
uri: Head-of-copyright-committee-wants-to-deny-EU-creators-the-right-to-sha
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/29/head-copyright-committee-wants-deny-eu-creators-right-share/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the last few years the European Union has been working on </span><a href="https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">revising its rules on copyright</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. But the latest </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/2018/03/29/mep-voss-doubles-worst-elements-article-11/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">proposal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from the head of the copyright committee would </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">deny creators the right to refuse remuneration</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> — the right to share a work without getting paid — which could undermine the use of CC licenses if approved. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ever since the European Commission released a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/14/european-commission-copyright-proposal-leaves-users-dark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">lackluster draft Directive on copyright</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2016, Creative Commons, </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Communia Association</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and dozens of other organisations have been engaging policymakers in the Parliament to make crucial changes in order to protect user rights and the commons, enable research and education, and promote creativity and business opportunities in the digital market.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_54438" style="max-width: 289px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/40034654505/"><img data-attachment-id="54438" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/29/head-copyright-committee-wants-deny-eu-creators-right-share/fixcopyright-dinosaur/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/fixcopyright-dinosaur.jpg" data-orig-size="1365,2048" 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="fixcopyright dinosaur" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/fixcopyright-dinosaur.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/fixcopyright-dinosaur.jpg" class="wp-image-54438" src="media/ed4e730f.fixcopyright-dinosaur.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/fixcopyright-dinosaur.jpg" alt="" width="289" height="434" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/40034654505/">Photo</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/">Sebastiaan ter Burg</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But as evidenced by the latest proposal, the direction of the copyright reform seems to be getting worse, not better. This week Axel Voss, the lead member of the European parliament (MEP) for the influential legal affairs committee, </span><a href="media/a13fa111.voss11.pdf" data-original-source="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voss11.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">released</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> his own proposed changes to an especially controversial part of the draft Directive, Article 11. This is the provision that would introduce an additional right for press publishers to extract fees from news aggregators for incorporating short snippets of—or even linking to—their content.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This press publisher’s right (also commonly known as the “Link Tax”) already poses a significant threat to an informed and literate society. But Voss wants to amplify its worst features by asserting that press publishers will receive—whether they like it or not—an “inalienable right to obtain an [sic] fair and proportionate remuneration for such uses.” This means that publishers will be </span><b>required </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">to demand payment from news aggregators.   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This inalienable right directly conflicts with publishers who wish to share freely and openly using Creative Commons licenses. As we’ve </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/19/copyright-law-deny-creators-right-share-freely-let-authors-choose/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">warned before</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, an unwaivable right to compensation would interfere with the operation of open licensing by reserving a special and separate economic right above and beyond the intention of some publishers. For example, the Spanish news site </span><a href="https://www.eldiario.es/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">eldiario.es</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> releases all of their content </span><a href="https://www.eldiario.es/licencia/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">online for free</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> under the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. By doing so, they are granting to the public a worldwide, royalty-free license to use the work under certain terms. Other news publishers in Europe using CC licenses that could also find themselves swept up under this new provision include </span><a href="http://www.lastampa.it/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">La Stampa</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.20minutos.es/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">20 Minutos</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">openDemocracy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Forcing publishers who use CC to accept additional inalienable rights to be remunerated violates the letter and spirit of Creative Commons licensing and denies publishers the freedom to conduct business and share content as they wish. The proposal would pose an existential threat to the over 1.3 billion CC-licensed works online, shared freely by hundreds of millions of creators from around the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We support authors and creators, and we firmly believe in their right to choose to share, or to seek compensation for all or some uses of their works. At the same time, we must find solutions that also honor those au</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">thors who choose to share with few or no restrictions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Voss’ proposal must be rejected, and </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/14/commissions-proposal-new-rights-press-publishers-terrible-solution-good-no-one/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Article 11 should be deleted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. It’s been clear all along that an additional right for press publishers won’t do much of anything to support quality journalism or grow the digital single market. Instead, it will negatively affect access to information and the ability for publishers to share using the platforms, technologies, and terms beneficial to them. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54447
title: Recent U.S. Legal Decision Reinforces Strength of CC Licenses
uri: Recent-U-S-Legal-Decision-Reinforces-Strength-of-CC-Licenses
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/02/recent-u-s-legal-decision-reinforces-strength-cc-licenses/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="54292" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/?attachment_id=54292" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/legal_logo-1.png" data-orig-size="600,200" 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="legal_logo" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/legal_logo-1.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/legal_logo-1.png" class="size-full wp-image-54292 aligncenter" src="media/b6c50e7e.legal_logo-1.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/legal_logo-1.png" alt="legal-logo" width="600" height="200" /></p>
<p>Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/17-808/17-808-2018-03-21.html">ruled</a> that a commercial copyshop may reproduce educational materials at the request of a school district that is using them under a CC BY-NC-SA license. The decision aligns squarely with the arguments made by Creative Commons in an amicus brief submitted to the court. Although the court denied our request to admit the amicus brief, the<a href="media/18ddc9ac.CC-Amicus-Brief-and-Motion-for-Leave-to-File-1.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CC-Amicus-Brief-and-Motion-for-Leave-to-File-1.pdf"> brief</a> remains publicly on file with the Second Circuit.</p>
<h3><strong>The Litigation</strong></h3>
<p>The case involved open educational resources (OER) used by schools for non commercial purposes. The school districts asked FedEx Office to reproduce the materials for use in their classrooms. The OER in question were created by Great Minds using public funds and licensed by Great Minds under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a>. Great Minds <a href="media/50566dc7.Complaint.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Complaint.pdf">claimed</a> that the school districts were not allowed to engage FedEx Office to reproduce the materials, and that because FedEx Office made profit while producing the requested copies, they were violating the license. Importantly, Great Minds never alleged that the school districts’ use of the reproduced materials violated the NonCommercial restriction of the license. The central question in the case was whether a licensee – a school district – that is properly using the work for non commercial purposes may outsource the reproduction of the works to another who makes a profit doing so.</p>
<p>In granting FedEx Office’s <a href="media/2a147401.2016-08-24-Defendant-Fedexs-Motion-to-Dismiss-2.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2016-08-24-Defendant-Fedexs-Motion-to-Dismiss-2.pdf">motion to dismiss</a>, the lower court <a href="media/bc5d1814.2017-02-24-Order-Granting-Motion-to-Dismiss.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2017-02-24-Order-Granting-Motion-to-Dismiss.pdf">ruled</a> that under U.S. law, a licensee (here a school district) is permitted to use a third party to exercise rights it has under a CC license, just as with other licenses. It relied on U.S. case law that allows a licensee to use third parties where the license does not expressly prohibit it. The district court noted that the CC license specifically allows licensees to share the licensed content “by any means or process . . . such as reproduction . . . .” thereby giving “licensees broad latitude in exercising their licensed right to reproduce the [M]aterials for non-commercial use.”</p>
<p>“In sum, the unambiguous terms of License permit FedEx to copy the Materials on behalf of a school district exercising rights under the License and charge that district for that copying at a rate more than FedEx’s cost, in the absence of any claim that the school district is using the Materials for other than a ‘non-Commercial purpose.’ The motion to dismiss is granted.”</p>
<p>Great Minds appealed the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Creative Commons filed a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/06/cc-amicus-brief/">request to submit</a> an amicus brief to provide guidance to the court on the proper interpretation of the BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Our request was denied.</p>
<p>Last week, the <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/17-808/17-808-2018-03-21.html">Second Circuit agreed</a> with the decision of the district court and found Great Minds’ argument that FedEx required a separate license in order to reproduce the works at the school districts’ request “unpersuasive.”</p>
<p>“Under Great Minds’ reading of the [CC] License, each teacher and administrator who handles the Material is a “downstream recipient” who acts as an independent licensee, even if their use of the Materials is compelled by the terms of their employment. If a license were intended to achieve such a radical result, we would expect a clear statement in the license to that effect….[it] contains no such statement.”</p>
<p>Further, the court agreed with the lower court that the “unambiguous import” of the provision allowing a licensor to collect royalties for all commercial uses does not apply because FedEx Office’s services did not exceed the scope of the license granted to the school districts.</p>
<p>We stand behind the legal rationale of both courts. The decisions are consistent with the intention of the licenses as we wrote them and how they are used day-to-day by millions of creators and re-users. Based on the facts and circumstances as presented by Great Minds, CC sees no difference between an employee of a school district hitting PRINT at a FedEx Office store, and that of a FedEx Office employee doing so when hired by the school district to do so on their behalf and at their direction.</p>
<h3><strong>Why File a ‘Friend of the Court’ Brief?</strong></h3>
<p>One of our most critical roles as a responsible public license steward is weighing in on cases when necessary and actively providing guidance and education about our licenses. Fortunately, in the 16 years since our licenses were first published, the number of lawsuits turning on the interpretation of a CC license has been extremely low, especially considering that more than<a href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org"> 1.3 billion CC-licensed works</a> are available on the internet and have been reused by many more. CC licenses have fared incredibly well in court, and disputes are rare when compared to the number of lawsuits between parties to privately negotiated, custom licenses.</p>
<p>As we consider weighing in on disputes with commentary or the filing of an amicus brief, we cannot emphasize enough that CC is always acting as an advocate for the licenses and their proper interpretation, never in favor or against a particular litigant. Our goal when we do speak out is to educate the courts and the public about how our licenses work, and to ensure as much as possible that legal decisions interpret the licenses correctly. Sometimes facts play a role in the decision, but fact-finding is not CC’s role. Our interest is making sure that whatever the facts find, the licenses are interpreted correctly in relation to them.</p>
<h3><strong>What’s next?</strong></h3>
<p>We will continue to track this and other litigation and disputes, including a similar case pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit brought by Great Minds against Office Depot that remains pending. As steward, we will constantly monitor these important developments with an eye toward usability of our licenses and the proper alignment of creator and re-user expectations.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54480
title: It’s a Business Model Based on Sharing
uri: It-s-a-Business-Model-Based-on-Sharing
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/03/business-model-based-sharing/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="54484" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/03/business-model-based-sharing/sebastiaan_ter_burg_profile2x/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sebastiaan_ter_Burg_profile@2x.jpg" data-orig-size="512,512" 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="Sebastiaan_ter_Burg_profile@2x" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sebastiaan_ter_Burg_profile@2x.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sebastiaan_ter_Burg_profile@2x.jpg" class=" wp-image-54484 aligncenter" src="media/a3af4f6f.Sebastiaan_ter_Burg_profile2x.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sebastiaan_ter_Burg_profile@2x.jpg" alt="sebastiaan-profile" width="453" height="453" /></p>
<h3><em>Sebastiaan ter Burg on sharing as a way of life, business and innovation</em></h3>
<p><em>In advance of the<span> </span></em><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/"><em>Creative Commons Global Summit</em></a><em>, we’re gathering the stories of inspiring humans working around the world to shape the Commons’ future. We want to share your story, too — drop by the “</em><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/sessions2018/"><em>Humans of the Commons</em></a><em>” listening lounge at the Summit to get interviewed and add your voice. Here’s an edited transcript of Sebastiaan&#8217;s story:</em></p>
<p><strong>When I started taking photos, it was just a hobby for me. </strong>It was never my goal to start earning money out of photography and videography. Then in 2007, I saw the <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity">TED talk by Lawrence Lessig</a> on how the law is killing creativity. That&#8217;s when I started using Creative Commons licenses. I was already using <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/">Flickr</a> to share my photos with people, and then through another project I got involved with people working on Wikipedia as well.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54481" style="max-width: 581px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54481" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/03/business-model-based-sharing/5772753401_ef2d6499ab_b/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/5772753401_ef2d6499ab_b.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,683" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Sebastiaan ter Burg&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Sebastiaan ter Burg&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="5772753401_ef2d6499ab_b" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/5772753401_ef2d6499ab_b.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/5772753401_ef2d6499ab_b.jpg" class=" wp-image-54481" src="media/36f85c0e.5772753401_ef2d6499ab_b.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/5772753401_ef2d6499ab_b.jpg" alt="bubble-blowing" width="581" height="387" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA 2.0</a><br /><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/5772753401/in/album-72157626835178576/">Flickr</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Working this way, I started getting more assignments because people saw my work popping up everywhere. And so I started asking my clients if they wanted me to share their work too in the same way, so that their photos can be used on Wikipedia.</p>
<p><strong>Doing it that way not only benefits my clients, but also provides high quality material for </strong><strong><em>everyone</em></strong>. During the recent European Parliamentary elections, for example, in one instance it took only twelve hours from the time I first took the photo for it to show up on Wikipedia &#8212; so that when people started looking for these candidates, those photos popped up almost immediately.</p>
<h3><strong><em>Sometimes I call myself a “sharing consultant.”</em></strong></h3>
<p><strong>Creative Commons allowed me to start this business model.</strong> It’s a business model around sharing. Sometimes I call myself a “content consultant,” an image consultant or a “sharing consultant.” Creative Commons allowed me to create this niche. I&#8217;m one of the few people working this way around the globe. But I don&#8217;t <em>want</em> to be the only person in the Netherlands doing it this way; my hope is that more creatives will start thinking and working this same way.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54482" style="max-width: 2048px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54482" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/03/business-model-based-sharing/39118863910_c04de4fc20_k/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/39118863910_c04de4fc20_k.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="39118863910_c04de4fc20_k" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/39118863910_c04de4fc20_k.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/39118863910_c04de4fc20_k.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-54482" src="media/af481492.39118863910_c04de4fc20_k.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/39118863910_c04de4fc20_k.jpg" alt="european-copyright-days-of-action" width="2048" height="1365" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/39118863910/in/album-72157691636854522/"> European Copyright Action Days</a> CC0</figcaption></figure>
<h3><strong>Sharing as default for non-profit organizations </strong></h3>
<p><strong>For non-profit organizations, using CC licenses is a way of giving back to society. But it&#8217;s also about enabling other people to share and spread your message. </strong>If you launch a campaign around something you&#8217;re passionate about, then of course you want other people to spread that message <em>for</em> you – even in ways that aren’t always directly linked to your organization.</p>
<p>If you want fewer people to be living in poverty, for example, then it shouldn&#8217;t be a problem that people are getting and spreading that message in all kinds of ways – and not just hearing about your own organization. You want to empower others working on that same goal.</p>
<h3><strong><em>We need to think beyond our own organizations. </em></strong></h3>
<p>To be more effective, we need to not only scale up our own individual organizations, but also think <em>beyond</em> our organizations. What could people outside your organization do if they had greater access to all the stuff you&#8217;re creating daily?</p>
<p><strong>I hope to flip the mentality. </strong>I want non-profit organizations to think of sharing as the default, not the exception, or just cherry-picking one or two elements they think are worth sharing.</p>
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<h3><strong>The Faces of the Commons</strong></h3>
<p>At last year’s global summit I took portrait photos of the attendees, to collect the “faces of the Commons.” We made a video of those faces with some text saying, “We are a global community of creators in every field, sharing our work and the works of others with the world.” The video has now been translated into 18 different languages, and anyone can add a new translation. It&#8217;s so cool to be part of that.</p>
<p>Attending the Creative Commons summit is the best way to talk to people from other countries and hear about what&#8217;s happening in their region. In the Netherlands and Europe our way of thinking about ownership, law, and copyright is often so different from how people think in South America or Africa. Being able to connect with everyone during the summit, and hearing how things are seen and what challenges they’re facing &#8212; that&#8217;s very valuable.</p>
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<h3><strong>“Contributing to the Commons makes me happy”</strong></h3>
<p><strong>I hope our future is one where more people are willing to share.</strong> But right now there are so many changes happening for people, [like professional photojournalists, for example], that their willingness to share may actually be <em>decreasing</em> in some instances. So that&#8217;s a threat to the Commons: there&#8217;s a polarisation between those who want to share and those that don&#8217;t want.</p>
<p>The other challenge stems from online platforms and how they are embracing the Commons. Flickr, for example, is still using Creative Commons 2.0 license and we&#8217;re at 4.0 right now. If it&#8217;s not going to be updated, there may be a breaking point where it&#8217;s not useful anymore.</p>
<h3><strong><em>We&#8217;re still fighting an uphill battle. But you can see the enthusiasm growing everywhere. </em></strong></h3>
<p><strong>What makes me optimistic is that you see the community growing, and also communities coming together.</strong> The amount of people involved in Wikimedia projects that are involved in the Creative Commons community, for example, is increasing. That’s a good thing because we share goals, so working together is extremely valuable.</p>
<p>Supporting the Commons for me is something I can&#8217;t stop doing, because it&#8217;s so close to my personal beliefs, and so close to what I think can better our world. I&#8217;m happy to be alive in the period we&#8217;re living right now. Twenty years ago I probably wouldn&#8217;t have been able to do the things I&#8217;m doing right now.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m happy to be part of this movement. It gives you energy, a more positive view of the future, and my own personal future. So contributing to the Commons is something that really makes me happy.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/03/business-model-based-sharing/">It&#8217;s a Business Model Based on Sharing</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54465
title: Growing an Open Movement: Claudio Ruiz on CC’s Global Network
uri: Growing-an-Open-Movement-Claudio-Ruiz-on-CC-s-Global-Network
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/growing-open-movement-claudio-ruiz-ccs-global-network/
content:
<p>Earlier this year, Creative Commons publicly launched the <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC Global Network</a>, a program designed to provide new and simple ways for anyone in the world to get involved with Creative Commons and the CC community. The Global Network was initiated and developed by members of CC&#8217;s international community over a two-year period that included extensive research and consultation, as well as nearly two dozen meetings with CC stakeholders.</p>
<p>As we approach this year&#8217;s convening of the Creative Commons community — the <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC Global Summit</a> (happening in Toronto, Canada from April 13-15) — it seemed like a good time to check in about what&#8217;s happening with the Network. Below, CC&#8217;s Claudio Ruiz, who has been responsible for guiding the program&#8217;s development, discusses how the Network came to be and offers a few thoughts about where things are headed.</p>
<p><strong><img data-attachment-id="54472" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/growing-open-movement-claudio-ruiz-ccs-global-network/claudio-ruiz/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Claudio-Ruiz.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,1024" 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="Claudio-Ruiz" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Claudio-Ruiz.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Claudio-Ruiz.jpg" class="wp-image-54472 alignleft" src="media/f22a4e0e.Claudio-Ruiz.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Claudio-Ruiz.jpg" alt="claudio-ruiz" width="332" height="332" />Please introduce yourself and describe your role with Creative Commons.</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;m Claudio Ruiz. I&#8217;m based in Santiago, Chile, and I&#8217;m the Director of Ecosystem Strategy at Creative Commons.</p>
<p><strong>What is the Creative Commons Global Network? How is it different from the CC affiliate community that preceded it?</strong></p>
<p>The original Creative Commons affiliate community responded to a need that existed in a particular moment in time. That network of volunteers was established to translate — both linguistically and legally — the Creative Commons copyright licenses, so they would be valid around the world. That effort was massive and successful, resulting in jurisdiction-based licenses in over 85 countries on every continent.</p>
<p>But our network naturally evolved and began to include more people from non-legal backgrounds who were willing to participate in the Open space that our licenses had helped create. Creators, advocates, librarians, and activists started to increasingly contribute to the network; meanwhile, new challenges emerged that related to our community having a more active role in policy and advocacy for things like copyright reform and in the open education space. Additionally, in 2011, Creative Commons announced an internationalization process as part of the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/version4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4.0 versioning of our licenses</a>, which meant translations of the licenses were no longer required. These factors brought us to what we have today: a new network that&#8217;s based on the success of the past but looks at the challenges we should face in the future.</p>
<p><strong>How did this change happen? Why did we do this?</strong></p>
<p>This was a process that was conceived by the network and directed by the network&#8217;s members. It kicked off formally in 2015 at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Seoul, but informal conversations about how and why we might make these changes had begun long before. A diverse group of members of the CC community — the Network Strategy Steering Committee — was created to lead this process. We put out an open call for leadership, which more than 20 people from around the world volunteered to join. That committee was responsible for identifying issues and opportunities, developing insights, and suggesting models for discussion.</p>
<p>This work later included research (like <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/global-affiliate-network/faces-commons-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Faces of the Commons</em></a>, a 300-page multi-region report with recommendations and insights); an open consultation with the broad CC community including affiliates, partners, funders, and the Creative Commons board; and 22 online and in-person meetings with participation from more than 80% of network&#8217;s active members. Finally, the outcome was the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/global-affiliate-network/network-strategy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global Network Strategy</a>, which was finalized and launched at the 2017 CC Global Summit.</p>
<p><strong>What are the goals of the CC Global Network?</strong></p>
<p>The goals are no less than to build a global commons of creativity and knowledge, and to grow a movement that advocates, promotes, and enables openness and sharing around the world.</p>
<p>Those are the ultimate goals. But in the meantime, we&#8217;re developing a structure for working together (called Network Platforms), a decision-making process for the network (the CC Global Network Council), and local structures built around the work (Chapters) — these will be the groups people use to organize themselves in each country.</p>
<p><strong>What kind of people are members of the CC Global Network? What kind of work are they involved in?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s made up of activists, academics, lawyers, professors, educators, and creators from all over the world. All of them are people who recognize the CC Network as a space for meeting people who share values and for contributing to a global commons of knowledge. We&#8217;re still in the process of building the network, based on the earlier affiliate community, so it will be interesting to see what new kinds of people we attract.</p>
<p><strong>How does someone become a member of the CC Global Network? Why should a person who is interested in Creative Commons and open knowledge take the formal steps to become a member?</strong></p>
<p>Membership is the key element of the new structure. Members have a say over the way local Chapters are organized. They make decisions about what kinds of work gets done, and they orientate the work of Creative Commons at a global scale. Becoming a member of the CC Network is free and easy. You just need to apply on the <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Network webpage</a>. Include your reasons for wanting to participate in this community, and tell us about your contributions to our areas of interest. Additionally, you will be required to have two existing members of the Network vouch for your application.</p>
<p><i>Get involved with the CC Global Network:</i></p>
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<li><a href="http://network.creativecommons.org">Join the Network Site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slack-signup.creativecommons.org">Sign up for Slack</a></li>
<li><a href="http://creativecommons.org/newsletter">Sign up for updates from Creative Commons</a></li>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/growing-open-movement-claudio-ruiz-ccs-global-network/">Growing an Open Movement: Claudio Ruiz on CC&#8217;s Global Network</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54418
title: We are CC: This year’s CC Global Summit Scholarship Recipients
uri: We-are-CC-This-year-s-CC-Global-Summit-Scholarship-Recipients
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/
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<p>This year was a transformative year for our Global Community. We launched our new <a href="http://network.creativecommons.org">network structure</a> and worked globally to light up the Commons. The Summit is our annual time to come together to celebrate, appreciate, amplify, and learn with each other.</p>
<p>For the past two years, Creative Commons has funded attendance for nearly 25% of Global Summit attendees, all of whom are working to advance the cause of open knowledge in their home communities. This cohort of advocates, activists, community members, lawyers, librarians, and more were chosen by an outstanding committee of volunteers and staff.</p>
<p>CC was able to fund travel and expenses for an incredibly diverse group of people this year, awarding nearly $75,000 in funding. Our 97 scholarship winners represent six world regions. The majority of scholarship recipients come from the Global South – 91% of the money awarded went to this region, divided over 72% of recipients. 22% of scholarship recipients are from Latin America, 18% from Asia Pacific, 25% from Africa, 22% from Europe, 8% from the Arab World, and 5% from North America.</p>
<p>As CC Canada Public Lead Kelsey Merkley wrote on <a href="https://twitter.com/bella_velo/status/964234427797667840">Twitter,</a> &#8220;Travel is&#8230; hugely valuable. The opportunity cost is too great if we miss those voices in the room.&#8221; Through programs like our scholarship program, we are able to uplift those voices and affirm our commitment to diversity, accessibility, and usability in a variety of disciplines.</p>
<p>Below, hear how scholarship recipients are looking forward to engaging with their community at the Summit and spreading the values of the Commons around the world. The CC Global Summit will take place in Toronto, CA from April 13-15. <a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org">Join us!</a></p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54419" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/perfil_informal/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/perfil_informal.png" data-orig-size="597,599" 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="perfil_informal" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/perfil_informal.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/perfil_informal.png" class="wp-image-54419 aligncenter" src="media/35f5a594.perfil_informal.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/perfil_informal.png" alt="perfil_informal_andres" width="350" height="351" /><strong>Andrés Delgado, Ecuador<br />
</strong>I&#8217;m Andrés Delgado, contributor at Creative Commons Ecuador since 2012, and coming to the Summit from its capital city, Quito. The Global Summit is my first international event ever and I am overly excited to meet like-minded people from all over the world. I am looking forward to connect and create collaborative projects with them&#8211;seriously&#8211;I&#8217;ll be directing a workshop called &#8220;Mapping and engaging stakeholders and policy implementation for the Commons,&#8221; where you can learn how to address a high-ranked politician as well as how to create a coalition or face an opposing one (Saturday 4 PM, SoCo Ballroom C).</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Jessica Stevens, Australia<br />
</strong>I&#8217;m Jessie, a PhD Candidate at the Queensland University of Technology and a member of the Australian CC Chapter. I am coming to the Summit from Brisbane, Australia. I&#8217;m excited to attend the Global Summit because it’s a great opportunity to meet with people to share ideas, discuss new projects and learn more about what is happening within the CC community. I am involved with CC as my personal beliefs and goals align with those of CC – I believe that access to knowledge, culture and information is fundamental to progress and development! I will be running a session in the Open Bazaar on ‘Open Education, Open Publishing, and the value of access’.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54421" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/carlos-foto-cc/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/carlos-foto-CC.png" data-orig-size="474,484" 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="carlos foto CC" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/carlos-foto-CC.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/carlos-foto-CC.png" class="wp-image-54421 aligncenter" src="media/42865843.carlos-foto-CC.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/carlos-foto-CC.png" alt="carlos-guerrero" width="356" height="364" /><br />
<strong>Carlos Guerrero, Peru<br />
</strong>I&#8217;m Carlos Guerrero, Peruvian lawyer enthusiastic about technology and IP, coming to the Summit from Lima. This is my second time in Toronto and I&#8217;m really excited to attend the sessions, hang around with friends and share thoughts and drinks. I&#8217;m involved with CC because I believe in the philosophy of the openness and the value of the Commons.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54422" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/33983025070_6052debda4_o/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/33983025070_6052debda4_o.jpg" data-orig-size="600,400" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Sebastiaan ter Burg&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1493549078&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Sebastiaan ter Burg&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;56&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="33983025070_6052debda4_o" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/33983025070_6052debda4_o.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/33983025070_6052debda4_o.jpg" class="wp-image-54422 aligncenter" src="media/bee5b565.33983025070_6052debda4_o.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/33983025070_6052debda4_o.jpg" alt="sara-fratti" width="426" height="284" /><br />
<strong>Sara Fratti, CC Guatemala</strong><br />
I&#8217;ve been a CC advocate since 2013 – this community has changed my life. I&#8217;m excited to attend this year Summit, to share experiences around the Commons and meet amazing humans that work on the openness. Come say hi at the <a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/E6pg/cc-summit-for-newbies-first-timer-breakfast">CC Newbies Breakfast</a> on Saturday at 8am, we are going to have some activities related to what brought us to the Commons, sharing is caring. Also join me at the session I&#8217;ll be facilitating:<a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/E6qa/central-america-goes-cc">Central America goes CC</a> on Saturday at 4pm.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54423" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/rhogue-cropped/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/RHOGUE-Cropped.png" data-orig-size="712,710" 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="RHOGUE-Cropped" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/RHOGUE-Cropped.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/RHOGUE-Cropped.png" class="wp-image-54423 aligncenter" src="media/65ae30ef.RHOGUE-Cropped.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/RHOGUE-Cropped.png" alt="rebecca-hogue" width="214" height="213" /><br />
<strong>Rebecca Hogue, USA</strong><br />
I’m Rebecca Hogue, an Associate Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts-Boston in the MA in instructional design program. I’m also a co-director of Virtually Connecting. I’m excited to be heading to CC global summit in order to learn additional ways I can integrate CC into my teaching. I’m also looking forward to meeting several Virtually Connecting “regulars” who are also CC Global Summit regulars – many of whom I will meeting face-to-face for the first time in Toronto. I’m not facilitating any formal sessions, but you will find me supporting informal Virtually Connecting (<a href="http://virtuallyconnecting.org/">http://virtuallyconnecting.org</a>) hallway conversations during the summit.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54424" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/sadike/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sadike.jpg" data-orig-size="1848,1224" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;OWULAKPAKPO PHOTOGRAPHY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;WYZZLEWANY.WORDPRESS.COM&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="sadike" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sadike.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sadike.jpg" class="wp-image-54424 aligncenter" src="media/e1156b1f.sadike.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sadike.jpg" alt="sadike" width="412" height="273" /><br />
<strong>Shahadu Sadik, Wikimedia Ghana</strong><br />
I volunteer in contributing to Wikipedia and its sister projects and I will be representing Ghana at the 2018 CC global summit in Toronto, Canada.<br />
I&#8217;m super excited to attend CC summit because I will be meeting other amazing contributors from the open community. I hope to learn more from other commoners across the globe. I am involved with CC because I believe in openness, diversity and sharing knowledge. I will be volunteering in the future of the commons track during the summit.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54425" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/george-hari-popescu/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/George-Hari-Popescu.jpg" data-orig-size="550,581" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Alin Dobrin&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Alin Dobrin&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="George Hari Popescu" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/George-Hari-Popescu.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/George-Hari-Popescu.jpg" class="wp-image-54425 aligncenter" src="media/506db741.George-Hari-Popescu.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/George-Hari-Popescu.jpg" alt="george-hari" width="301" height="318" /><br />
<strong>George Hari Popescu, CC Romania</strong><br />
It will be my 2nd participation at the CC Summit and I will have the opportunity to see some results of the last year&#8217;s proposals and campaigns. I will also be happy to meet again in person people whom I met last year and who are involved in interesting projects. I&#8217;m from Romania, an Eastern European country, member of the European Union, still struggling with reforms in open education, copyright and innovation.<br />
I am remotely working as Translation Assistant for Creative Commons, supervising the translations of licenses in different languages and communicating with affiliates and teams across the Globe. I believe that all creators on Earth need to have the CC licenses in their own languages, in order to further use and promote them. In the Translation Working Group session, we will be trying to form a diverse team in order to streamline and better implement translation of licenses and supplementary useful content from</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54426" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/adadsadsa/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/adadsadsa.jpeg" data-orig-size="200,200" 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="adadsadsa" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/adadsadsa.jpeg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/adadsadsa.jpeg" class="size-full wp-image-54426 aligncenter" src="media/bb383ebf.adadsadsa.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/adadsadsa.jpeg" alt="franco-argentina" width="200" height="200" /><br />
<strong>Franco Giandana, Argentina</strong><br />
I look forward to meeting you all in Toronto soon! My name is Franco Giandana and I will be assisting from Argentina, where I run a non profit Digital Rights organization and work as a digital lawyer, specially close to the creative sector. I am excited to get involved with the Global Community and to be part of the Commons network, and I expect to be having amazing conversations and discovering new perspectives on policy making and support for the creative sector in the Global South!</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54427" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/20180227_172612/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180227_172612.jpg" data-orig-size="2592,1944" 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="20180227_172612" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180227_172612.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180227_172612.jpg" class="wp-image-54427 aligncenter" src="media/0b1d12f5.20180227_172612.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180227_172612.jpg" alt="virginia-rodes" width="344" height="258" /><br />
<strong>Virginia Rodés, Uruguay</strong><br />
Hello! I am Virginia Rodés and these are my wonderful partners of open adventures from the University of the Republic, Uruguay. I am happy and grateful to be able to participate in the CC Summit 2018 to contribute to disseminate the advances and challenges in open education in my country and in the Latin American region. With awesome colleagues from the region I will participate in the Session &#8220;How to involve public institutions with open policies?&#8221;, Difficulties and success stories from Latin America Saturday, April 14, 5:30 pm.</p>
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<p><strong>Leo Arias, Costa Rica</strong><br />
I&#8217;m Leo, from Costa Rica. I am member of a JáquerEspeis, where we try to combine many diverse expressions of free software, hardware and culture. I have just seen the schedule for the summit, and without a doubt it will help us on our journey to become a more sustainable collective, and to make our work more relevant to our region. I am looking forward to learn from and work with so many people from all over the world who are leading the open revolution. I will participate in the translations session on Saturday morning.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54428" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/my-picture/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/My-picture.jpg" data-orig-size="206,206" 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="My picture" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/My-picture.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/My-picture.jpg" class="wp-image-54428 aligncenter" src="media/4515bea6.My-picture.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/My-picture.jpg" alt="esther-ekong" width="265" height="265" /><strong>Esther Ekong, Nigeria</strong><br />
I am Esther, a research fellow at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the institutional lead for CC Nigeria. I am one of the Institute’s coordinators for CC Nigeria and I am really excited about the Global Summit. There is still a level of suspicion and distrust among Nigerians about open knowledge caused largely by inadequate information. Being a strong advocate of ‘Openness’, I believe the summit is an opportunity for me to learn more and find out effective ways to help other academics especially in Nigeria, to appreciate ‘Openness’. It will also be an opportunity to meet others from different parts of the world and find out how they have dealt / are dealing with resistance to ‘Openness’. Thank you for the opportunity!</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54431" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/ifiome/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ifiome.jpg" data-orig-size="1936,1936" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1494868097&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="ifiome" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ifiome.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ifiome.jpg" class="wp-image-54431 aligncenter" src="media/f315963e.ifiome.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ifiome.jpg" alt="ifioma-shodiende" width="350" height="350" /><br />
<strong>Ifeoma Shodeinde, Nigeria</strong><br />
My name is Ifeoma, a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. Nigeria. I feel awesome! I look forward to the Global Summit. I have a lot to learn from this global movement for the commons and connecting  with friends.I have <span class="il">written, published and presented papers in local and International forums on Creative Commons and access to knowledge.  I sincerely believe in open access to knowledge especially for those of us in the developing economies. I look forward to meeting every member of this Great Family!</span></p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54432" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/kamel/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Kamel.jpg" data-orig-size="1026,1684" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G610F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1508767016&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.53&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.03030303030303&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Kamel" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Kamel.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Kamel.jpg" class="wp-image-54432 aligncenter" src="media/bdf97389.Kamel.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Kamel.jpg" alt="kamel" width="176" height="289" /><br />
<strong>Kamel Belhamel, Algeria</strong><br />
I&#8217;m Kamel, a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bejaia in Algeria &#8211; North Africa. I’m thrilled to attend the CC Global Summit in Toronto because I&#8217;m very interested in collaboration, and also contributing to the African presence in open education. I&#8217;d like to see things change and even visible globally, also see a move toward having openness in terms of educational policy. I’ll participate to open Bazaar on Friday, April 13th at 2:00 pm.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54433" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/shooting_marvel01-1/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Shooting_Marvel01-1.jpg" data-orig-size="400,600" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 60D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1422283724&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;106&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Shooting_Marvel01 (1)" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Shooting_Marvel01-1.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Shooting_Marvel01-1.jpg" class="wp-image-54433 aligncenter" src="media/a97ec6e3.Shooting_Marvel01-1.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Shooting_Marvel01-1.jpg" alt="antonio-photo" width="235" height="353" /><br />
<strong>Antonio Martínez Velázquez, Mexico</strong><br />
I&#8217;m Antonio, journalist, editor and digital rights activist from Mexico. For the past eleven years I have been a great Creative Commons enthusiast. Since then I have made sure that the sites I have edited, the texts I have written and the initiatives in which I participate are in CC. This is the first time I will be able to learn directly from the community that has inspired me and made my work possible. See you in Toronto!</p>
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<p><strong>Eddie Avila, Bolivia<br />
</strong>I’m Eddie Avila, Rising Voices Director with Global Voices. I’ll be traveling from Cochabamba, Bolivia to take part in the CC Summit. I’m especially interested in learning more about alternative ways that indigenous communities are expressing and sharing knowledge in the digital age. I’ll also be participating in the Translation Working Group.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54434" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/achraf-y/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Achraf-Y.jpg" data-orig-size="1362,2048" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Youssef Aferdou&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Youssef Aferdou&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="Achraf Y" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Achraf-Y.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Achraf-Y.jpg" class="wp-image-54434 aligncenter" src="media/f27c4b94.Achraf-Y.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Achraf-Y.jpg" alt="achraf y" width="282" height="424" /><br />
<strong>Achraf Younssi, Morocco</strong><br />
I&#8217;m Achraf, Filmmaker from Morocco, and member of madNess Association. I&#8217;m coming to the Summit from Casablanca, Morocco. I&#8217;ll be presenting at the Global Summit to learn more about the CC network, and sharing knowledge, and to exchange with people from the community, also to see what does other organizations like us are working on in relation with creativity, expose and share the world. We are working on a CC chapter in Morocco, specially about our project CCCC and the advocacy process about copyright and especially CC.</p>
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<p><strong>Penny Andrews, UK</strong>​<br />
I&#8217;m Penny, a researcher at the University of Sheffield, and I&#8217;m coming to the Summit from Leeds in Yorkshire. I work on issues around policy and governance in Open, alongside my other research and teaching. I&#8217;m really looking forward to meeting friends old and new and building on our collaborations. I am involved with Open because it&#8217;s an important part of social justice. I&#8217;ll be facilitating a session called Infrastructure is Everything, Governance is Everything, Inclusion is Everything! on Friday at 5.30pm and you should check out the Sched to find out how you can contribute in advance.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_54466" style="max-width: 492px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54466" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/33506122664_166b1507c7_z/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/33506122664_166b1507c7_z.jpg" data-orig-size="640,427" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="33506122664_166b1507c7_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/33506122664_166b1507c7_z.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/33506122664_166b1507c7_z.jpg" class="wp-image-54466" src="media/ebb24d08.33506122664_166b1507c7_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/33506122664_166b1507c7_z.jpg" alt="peter-leth" width="492" height="329" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Sebastiaan Ter Burg, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Peter Leth, Denmark</strong><br />
I&#8217;m Peter Leth, affiliate for CC Denmark, where I work as an educational advisor, trying to help schools, GLAMs, teachers and of course pupils to know and use Creative Commons. Over the last 10 years I have tried to find out what the best set of tools and activities are when adopting Creative Commons into education. I going to speak about it in the session <a href="http://sched.co/E6zj">&#8220;How to bring CC into education,</a>&#8221; with my collegue Rikke Falkenberg. It is my second summit, and I look forward meeting many of you again. It gives me so much inspiration and optimism. Thank you all.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54467" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/maryam-chakouk/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Maryam-Chakouk.jpg" data-orig-size="1479,1972" 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="Maryam Chakouk" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Maryam-Chakouk.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Maryam-Chakouk.jpg" class="wp-image-54467 aligncenter" src="media/d831219f.Maryam-Chakouk.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Maryam-Chakouk.jpg" alt="maryam" width="227" height="303" /><br />
<strong>Maryam Chakouk, Morocco<br />
</strong>I&#8217;m part of madNess, an NGO working for the development and promotion of creative industries in Morocco and Africa. I&#8217;m also preparing a PhD in economics and management.<br />
My daily work at madNess with creatives and artists, as well as the difficulties I personally meet as a student researcher, have pushed me to embrace the philosophy of open knowledge. That&#8217;s why I joined the global movement for the Commons. Being able to participate in the Global Summit is an opportunity for me to learn more and thus transmit more.</p>
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<p><strong>Mohamed Rahmo, Morocco</strong><br />
<span class="im">I<span class="im">&#8216;m the President of madNess an NGO that is creating and curating the Creative Commons Moroccan chapter – we are very excited because right now we are doing work about educating and promoting the CC culture and the open culture through several projects. The mean focus now is to introduce people to Creative Commons, then push them to publish content under Creative Commons licenses and also advocate about the copyright policies here. First step is to make the Creative Commons part of the Moroccan copyright law and pass policies that make institutions use the CC.  We are very excited about the summit because we will advocate about our CCCC (Creative Commons Content Creation) project and also network with counterparts from all over the world and find opportunities for collaboration and work together for a more open world.</span></span></p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54468" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/jupillat-nicolas/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Jupillat-Nicolas.jpg" data-orig-size="291,291" 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="Jupillat Nicolas" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Jupillat-Nicolas.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Jupillat-Nicolas.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-54468 aligncenter" src="media/ee0e8cf2.Jupillat-Nicolas.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Jupillat-Nicolas.jpg" alt="nicolas jupilat" width="291" height="291" /><br />
<strong>Nicolas Jupillat, Canada</strong><br />
I was lucky to co-lead the official French translation process of the CC 4.0 licenses on behalf of CC Canada, in cooperation with CC France and CC Luxembourg, with the support of community members from all over French-speaking Europe and Africa. I became involved in the project because I firmly believe in the role of the open movement in promoting linguistic and cultural diversity online. After more than two years of online exchanges and two face-to-face meetings in France and Burkina Faso, we came up with translations we could be proud of and made lasting friendships. I am excited to see my friends from the Francophone community again and meet the rest of the broader global community during the summit. I will be facilitating a session with Danièle Bourcier on Effective tools of Communication and Collaboration within the Francophone CC Community.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54469" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/stamping/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/stamping.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,700" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="stamping" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/stamping.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/stamping.jpg" class="wp-image-54469 aligncenter" src="media/3ea67317.stamping.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/stamping.jpg" alt="sam" width="394" height="230" /><br />
<strong>Sam Muirhead, New Zealand</strong><br />
I&#8217;m Sam, coming from Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, and this will be my first ever event with the CC community, I can&#8217;t wait! I want to see a much wider range of people collaborating online, and building commons together, particularly in the arts. I&#8217;ll be running an open source collaboration workshop called Cut, Copy &amp; Paste: we&#8217;ll use an analog version control system (rubber stamps, a photocopier and a typewriter) to create, remix and fork zines. We&#8217;ll be sharing stories and ideas about designing for remix and participation!</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54470" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/lucien_of_cctw_at_2014_cc_korea_international_conference/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Lucien_of_CCTW_at_2014_CC_Korea_International_Conference.jpg" data-orig-size="500,625" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;CCKorea&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1410876470&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;CC BY-SA&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;12800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Lucien_of_CCTW_at_2014_CC_Korea_International_Conference" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Lucien_of_CCTW_at_2014_CC_Korea_International_Conference.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Lucien_of_CCTW_at_2014_CC_Korea_International_Conference.jpg" class="wp-image-54470 aligncenter" src="media/7735e903.Lucien_of_CCTW_at_2014_CC_Korea_International_Conference.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Lucien_of_CCTW_at_2014_CC_Korea_International_Conference.jpg" alt="" width="301" height="377" /><br />
<strong>Lucien C.H. Lin, Taiwan</strong><br />
Hi I&#8217;m Lucien, the Legal Adviser at Open Culture Foundation. I have been a participant of CC Taiwan since 2007 – for quite a time. The past few years, I have engaged in the Open Data promotion activities in Taiwan, and successful help the authorities to apply a new Open Government Data license with a CC BY 4.0 switching clause. That makes almost all of the materials provided on the official data portals in Taiwan able to be utilized under CC licenses. I look forward very much to meeting more friends at the Global Summit this year, it&#8217;s the best occasion that we can share what we do in CC promotion and how we can do that together or learn how to do that in a more collaborative and efficient way. During the summit, I can be found in most of the OpenGLAM sessions, and other legal framework related ones.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54471" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/sasa/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sasa.jpg" data-orig-size="5562,3713" 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="sasa" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sasa.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sasa.jpg" class="wp-image-54471 aligncenter" src="media/43700524.sasa.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sasa.jpg" alt="sasa" width="349" height="233" /><br />
<strong>Saša Krajnc, Slovenia</strong><br />
I’m Saša and I work at the Intellectual property institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Our institute offers consulting services in the field of IP, but I am very happy and proud, that we can also engage in activities promoting open education and sharing of creative content and advocate for changes of IP laws, which will benefit the open society. I am looking forward to meeting the members of the CC Community and broadening my views at my first Global Summit in the awesome setting of Toronto!</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54491" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/img_3384/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_3384.jpg" data-orig-size="640,640" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="IMG_3384" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_3384.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_3384.jpg" class="wp-image-54491 aligncenter" src="media/486cb094.IMG_3384.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_3384.jpg" alt="marjorie" width="425" height="425" /><strong>Margorie M. Merel S., Panama</strong><br />
This summit is a great opportunity for all those who wish to research on copyright and contribute to open knowledge.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54494" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/screen-shot-2018-04-04-at-1-21-59-pm/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-04-04-at-1.21.59-PM.png" data-orig-size="154,191" 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 2018-04-04 at 1.21.59 PM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-04-04-at-1.21.59-PM.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-04-04-at-1.21.59-PM.png" class="wp-image-54494 aligncenter" src="media/ae9165d1.Screen-Shot-2018-04-04-at-1.21.59-PM.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-04-04-at-1.21.59-PM.png" alt="aisulu" width="229" height="284" /><br />
<strong><b><span lang="EN-US">Aisulu Chubarov, Kyrgyz Republic</span></b></strong><br />
Thank you for the opportunity to attend the CC Global Summit! I am so excited about it! I have been working over CC licensing issues for several years although there is no formalized CC representation in the Kyrgyz Republic. I am therefore keen to learn more how the CC ecosystem works, how to get involved into the CC network, promote the CC mindset as well as learn about best practices in collecting and promoting open educational content. The schedule of the Summit is so eventful; I wish I could attend all the sessions!</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54492" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/razan/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/razan.jpg" data-orig-size="1080,1080" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="razan" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/razan.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/razan.jpg" class="wp-image-54492 aligncenter" src="media/1a40b64d.razan.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/razan.jpg" alt="razan" width="389" height="389" /><br />
<strong>Razan Al-Hadid, CC Jordan project lead</strong><br />
I&#8217;ll be attending the summit coming all the way from Jordan. I&#8217;m so very excited to meet all the folks from all around the globe to pass our experiences and learn from each other. I&#8217;ll be presenting the session &#8220;Faces of the commons in the Arab World&#8221; Friday 13th April at 4:00 pm. Catch you there.</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="54493" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/04/we-are-cc/pp-photo/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pp-photo.jpg" data-orig-size="297,297" 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="pp photo" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pp-photo.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pp-photo.jpg" class="wp-image-54493 aligncenter" src="media/94dcde5a.pp-photo.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pp-photo.jpg" alt="plamena" width="355" height="355" /><br />
<strong>Plamena Popova, Bulgaria</strong><br />
I&#8217;m Plamena, part of the CC group in Bulgaria since last year. I am particularly excited of the chance to learn more about the CC initiatives in the area of education/Open Education Movement and ways to contribute to these ideas and developments. Looking forward to a great Summit!</p>
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<p><strong>Sabreen Taha, Palestine<br />
</strong>I&#8217;m Sabreen, a freelance TV producer and journalist, and I&#8217;m from Jerusalem, Palestine. I have used a lot of material from Creative Commons before but never really understood how this community is building and developing itself. I am very excited to attend the Global Summit because it will be a great change for me to meet new people and learn from their experiences and be able to become part of this community and take all the knowledge back to my people at home.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54530
title: Chris Bourg on the Compelling Vision for an Open Digital Commons
uri: Chris-Bourg-on-the-Compelling-Vision-for-an-Open-Digital-Commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/05/chris-bourg/
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<figure id="attachment_54157" style="max-width: 307px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="54157" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/29/summit-keynotes-2018/chris_bourg/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/chris_bourg.jpg" data-orig-size="1365,1365" 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="chris_bourg" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/chris_bourg.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/chris_bourg.jpg" class=" wp-image-54157" src="media/593413ae.chris_bourg.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/chris_bourg.jpg" alt="" width="307" height="307" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Chris Bourg, by L. Barry Hetherington, available under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY</a> license</figcaption></figure>
<p>MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg is one of the most salient voices in the library community for open access, diversity and inclusion, ethics in scholarly publishing, and social justice. As a keynote speaker for this year’s CC Global Summit, she’ll be discussing the nuances of the Open movement as an advocate for the digital commons and director of a major open access initiative.</p>
<p>Chris’s <a href="https://twitter.com/mchris4duke">tweets</a> and <a href="https://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/">blog</a> are must-follows – her dog, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dailyjiffy?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;src=hash">Jiffy,</a> is an adorable and frequent guest star. In this interview, she discusses tech optimism, storytelling, diversity, and the fallacy of neutrality. Join Chris and more than 400 open advocates at the <a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org">CC Global Summit in Toronto from April 13-15.</a></p>
<p><strong>As an open movement, it&#8217;s become difficult to live our values as the web&#8217;s content Commons have become increasingly enclosed and the halcyon days of internet utopianism seem long over. As a prominent figure in the movement and a crusader for open, how can we do better? What are tangible and intangible steps we can take to move the needle? How can libraries play a role?<br />
</strong>I think that generally speaking, I’m an optimist, but not a tech utopian. So I think we keep focusing on the ultimate goal and reasons for promoting an open digital commons. There are compelling stories to be told about the harms of information scarcity and knowledge monopolies, and there are equally compelling stories about ways in which open access to knowledge and culture helps us solve big (and small) challenges across the globe. We have to unearth and tell those stories, and bring more people and communities in to the cause. In some ways, the increasing commercialization of not just scholarship, but of our own personal, social, and behavioral data may be the wake-up call that leads to the next wave of organizing around creating a truly open, non-commercial, digital commons. I think libraries can play a role by acting as the trusted facilitators of information creation, exchange, and preservation that we have always been. A digital commons that combines the values of openness and sharing with the values of privacy and informed choice sounds an awful lot like a library to me – or at least the kind of network of libraries that many of us aspire to create and maintain.</p>
<p><strong>In your position as Director of MIT Libraries, you are an outspoken advocate for open access and knowledge resources. The question of why libraries need to stand up for open access has been answered in a <a href="https://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/tag/open-access/">variety of places,</a> but why are the MIT libraries central to this fight?<br />
</strong>A big part of what drew me to this job at MIT is the fact that MIT, and the MIT libraries in particular, combine a strong cultural commitment to openness with an equally strong commitment to building the infrastructure needed to openly share knowledge resources. MIT has led before in making the fruits of its research and teaching open to the world; with Harvard in 2008 and 2009 on passing Faculty Open Access Policies, and before by launching <a href="https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm">Open CourseWare</a> in 2000, with the mission of sharing all of MIT’s course content online, for free. When the MIT Faculty passed the OA policy in 2009, they turned to the libraries to implement the policy. The libraries at MIT have long been seen as a key player in facilitating the dissemination of MIT research to the world, and frankly, we’ve been pretty good at it. Nearly 50% of MIT faculty journal articles written since 2009 are openly available to the world – that’s <a href="https://libraries.mit.edu/news/access-downloads-13/27077/">nearly 27,000 articles, downloaded nearly 9.5 million times</a>.</p>
<p>We are in a great position in the MIT libraries to be able to partner with leading scholars across the Institute, in Engineering, Sciences, Business, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Architecture and Planning, to strategize on what’s next for open access. Through the work of the recently launched <a href="https://libraries.mit.edu/open-access/">Ad hoc Task force on Open Access to MIT’s Research</a>, which I am co-chairing with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Abelson">Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor and founding director of Creative Commons, Hal Abelson</a>, we are basically asking what’s next? How can we push the needle further, and how can MIT continue to lead? Creating a more open scholarly record will require changes at the technological, legal/regulatory, political, and social levels; so our task force has experts from all those perspectives represented. We are also reaching out to experts across the globe to inform our recommendations.</p>
<p>We talk a lot in libraryland about whether the open access movement and/or institutional repositories have been successful, but/and I think what MIT has been able to do in getting nearly 50% of the journal articles of our faculty in our open repository is a compelling success story. And that success story is an MIT Libraries story, so I feel some obligation to build on that success and to leverage it for the broader community of libraries and other organizations who share the goal of opening up our cultural and scholarly heritage to a global audience.</p>
<p><strong>In his ALA talk this year, Junot Diaz pulled no punches when it came to the issues of diversity in libraries. “I wish that libraries would finally have a reckoning and know that [staffs that are] 88% white means 5000% percent agony for people of color, no matter how liberal and enlightened you think you are,” he said. You cited this quote in a recent talk as well. In your opinion, how can we do better as a movement for free and open knowledge? As librarians, researchers, scientists, and artists? How can we, in his words, &#8220;decolonize libraries,&#8221; or in the parlance of this conference, &#8220;decolonize open?&#8221;<br />
</strong>I think we always have to ask who and what is missing, and continue to work to not just be more inclusive, but also to decenter white, western knowledge; and center the knowledge of marginalized communities.</p>
<p>But/and, instead of doing it ourselves we need to look to the people who are doing this work in and with those communities. Two examples I love are the work being done by Anasuya Sengupta and her colleagues at <a href="https://whoseknowledge.org/about-us/">whoseknowledge.org</a>, and P. Sanaith’s work creating and maintaining the <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/pages/about">People’s Archive of Rural India</a>.</p>
<p>Decolonizing scholarship and decolonizing the web will require radical collaboration across many social, geographical, and political divides; and will have to be based on mutual exchanges of knowledge and skills. All of that requires trust, which is something that takes time to build and is based on relationships and authentic human connection. So if we want to decolonize open, then maybe we need to decolonize our social networks first.</p>
<p><strong>One of the longest running and most frustrating conversations within libraries is whether they are &#8220;neutral.&#8221; (As you write, you are strongly on the &#8220;hell no&#8221; side.) Can you speak to the politics of neutrality within open, and particularly as it regards seemingly &#8220;neutral&#8221; actors like CC licenses and libraries? How does the conversation about &#8220;neutrality&#8221; relate to issues of diversity and inclusion within the free knowledge movement?<br />
</strong>I don’t think of CC licenses or libraries as neutral. They are both predicated on the idea that people ought to have the ability to freely create, share, and access knowledge and cultural materials. That’s actually a pretty radical idea. Even if CC licenses and libraries can be and are used to provide access to a huge range of ideas and viewpoints, that doesn’t make them neutral. One of the arguments I make is that you can’t be neutral if one side argues that certain ideas should not be available in libraries (whether those ideas are contained in books representing LGBTQ families, or in gatherings of neo-Nazis) and another side argues that you have to include all ideas and viewpoints. You can’t satisfy both sides – you can’t keep the LGBTQ book and not keep the LGBTQ book at the same time. I may start calling this the Schrodinger’s Library argument against neutrality.</p>
<p>The fact that libraryland continues to have these debates about neutrality is really frustrating, and is very much related to issues of diversity and inclusion. So many of the library debates about neutrality are theoretical and academic and detached, and I think that reflects the stark lack of diversity in our profession. Too often the argument that it is a moral imperative for libraries to represent all sides of an issue, and to serve all patrons regardless of beliefs, come from a position of privilege and relative safety. For marginalized folks, it can feel like these debates about neutrality are really debates about whether we have to honor and engage with people who deny our very humanity and seek our destruction. Many of us would argue that allowing those who deny the humanity and basic dignity of others to coopt the legitimacy of our libraries and our profession to spread their hatred and intimidation is not in any way a neutral choice.</p>
<p><strong>What is the need for Creative Commons today and why are you coming to keynote the Summit?<br />
</strong>What I love about Creative Commons and the CC community is that it is driven by a compelling vision of an open digital commons, and that it provides the tools for people across the globe to choose how they want to participate in that commons. That combination of an abiding belief that openly accessible culture and knowledge are good for society, with a commitment to honoring individual choice is powerful; and it resonates with what I think is needed to advance the perpetual project of decolonizing and opening up the internet.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54522
title: Copyright in Mercosur-EU trade agreement: A little better, but mostly worse
uri: Copyright-in-Mercosur-EU-trade-agreement-A-little-better-but-mostly
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/06/copyright-mercosur-eu-trade-agreement-little-better-mostly-worse/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A recently-leaked </span><a href="media/9d2394d2.iprs.pdf" data-original-source="http://bilaterals.org/IMG/pdf/iprs.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">draft</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the Mercosur-EU free trade agreement shows minor improvements to the chapter on intellectual property. It appears that the unnecessary and unwarranted 20 year copyright term extension is now dropped from the agreement, and the parties have introduced some flexibility for users to get around technical protection measures in order to leverage their rights. But for the most part, the negotiations continue to favor increased tightening of copyright at the expense of protections for user rights and the commons. As we explain below, measures to support the public domain continue to be watered down, the provision which requires mandatory compensation—whether creators want it or not—is retained, and the section outlining exceptions and limitations to copyright is pulled back to a minimum.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last year, in collaboration with several partners from our global network, Creative Commons published a brief </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/policy-advocacy-copyright-reform/eu-mercosur-trade-agreement-harm-user-rights-commons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">policy analysis</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> covering several copyright-related issues presented in a draft of the intellectual property chapter of Mercosur-EU free trade agreement. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The European Union (EU) and the Latin American sub-regional bloc consisting of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay (Mercosur) have been negotiating this free trade agreement (FTA) since 2000. It’s </span><a href="https://www.ip-watch.org/2017/03/22/watch-eu-mercosur-fta-negotiations-consequences-access-medicines/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">expansive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, addressing trade in industrial and agricultural goods, potential changes to rules governing small- and medium-sized businesses as well as government procurement, and intellectual property provisions such as copyrights and patents. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We examined issues that would affect the public domain, creativity and sharing, and user rights in the digital age. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mercosur-EU FTA negotiations take place in an environment where an increasing level of copyright policy is being constructed through multilateral trade agreements.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">In our policy brief, the main points we argued included the following:</span></p>
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<ul>
<li>copyright terms should not be extended</li>
<li>user rights must be protected by expanding limitations and exceptions</li>
<li>mandatory remuneration interferes with CC licensing</li>
<li>technical protection measures must not limit the exercise of user rights</li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also echoed the longstanding commonsense principle that trade agreement negotiations must be transparent and involve the public, not secret and decided behind closed doors. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since our analysis, there has been two subsequent leaked drafts of the chapter on intellectual property. One was </span><a href="https://trade-leaks.org/mercosur-leaks/intellectual-property-rights-3/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">published</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by Greenpeace in December 2017 based on the 28th round of negotiations. Another was </span><a href="media/9d2394d2.iprs.pdf" data-original-source="http://bilaterals.org/IMG/pdf/iprs.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">published last week</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by the website </span><a href="http://bilaterals.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">bilaterals.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, based on the consolidated text as it stood at the completion of the 32nd round of negotiations which ended last month. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Jorge Gemetto </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/2018/01/03/mercosur-eu-free-trade-agreement-bad-deal-public-domain/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the Communia Association blog, the text of the IP chapter leaked by Greenpeace showed significant disagreement between the parties. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is easy to see that, while the interest of the European Union is to increase the terms and scope of IP protection, as well as to impose new penalties on infringement, Mercosur countries seek to avoid higher IP standards, incorporate mandatory limitations and exceptions to copyright, and favor the identification and protection of the public domain.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Gemetto warns, there’s a big discrepancy in the bargaining power leveraged by each party, with the EU clearly holding the upper hand. And with the EU already aligned with the more restrictive </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPS_Agreement#Post-TRIPS_expansion"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“TRIPS Plus”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> IP framework, they’re looking to export these increased protection and enforcement measures elsewhere. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, we arrive to the recent leaked intellectual property chapter published by bilaterals.org. There are a few notable changes since the Greenpeace version. </span></p>
<h3><b>Mention of public domain will be watered down, and buried</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Greenpeace leak (Dec 2017) found the parties arguing whether (and how) there should be a mention of support for the public domain in Article 4 (Principles). The EU sought the language, “The Parties recognise the importance of a robust, rich, and accessible public domain,” while the Mercosur countries (MCS) advocated for, “The Parties shall take due account of the need to preserve a robust, rich, and accessible public domain, and shall cooperate with each other in identifying subject matters that have fallen into the public domain.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The EU version won. The consolidated text shared by bilaterals.org now reads “The Parties recognise the importance of a robust, rich, and accessible public domain”). In addition, a note on the document moves the text from the “Principles” section to the “Cooperation” section. </span></p>
<h3><b>Mandatory remuneration stays</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The earlier Greenpeace version showed that the parties were arguing whether there will be mandatory remuneration (Article 9.6) for performers and producers of music. The EU wanted the text to read “The Parties shall provide a right in order to ensure that a single equitable remuneration is paid by the user to the performers and producers of phonograms, if a phonogram published for commercial purposes, or a reproduction of such phonogram, is used for broadcasting by wireless means or for any communication to the public.” MCS wanted to only make this right optional, suggesting that the text should read “The Parties may&#8230;”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The EU version won. The consolidated text now reads “shall.” This change repeats a common theme seen within the negotiations: provisions that have to do with enforcement and protecting incumbent rights holders are mandatory (“shall”), while provisions that would benefit users and the public interest are only optional (“may”). This type of arrangement would interfere with the operation of some Creative Commons licenses by requiring a payment even when the intention of the author is to share her creative work with the world for free.</span></p>
<h3><b>Copyright term extension put on hold</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The draft leaked by Greenpeace found that the parties continued to argue about copyright term (Article 9.7). EU wanted life + 70 years, while MCS life + 50. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The consolidated text now reads “shall run for the life of the author and not less than 50 years or for 70 years where the domestic legislation of the Parties so provides&#8230;”. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The MCS version won because the text states that existing national terms will apply. This is a significant improvement in that it doesn’t require the countries with the shorter term to increase to the longer term. Further extending copyright terms does nothing to promote the creation of new works, and even exacerbates related challenges, such as the orphan works problem.</span></p>
<h3><b>Exceptions and limitations pulled back to a minimum</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Greenpeace leak showed that the parties were arguing about the scope of the section on limitations and exceptions (Article 9.9). MCS wanted to include non-exhaustive list of acceptable uses to be covered under limitations and exceptions, including for criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the consolidated text published by bilaterals.org does not include the non-exhaustive list. Instead, it mostly goes back to relying on the 3-step test language (“Each Party shall provide for exceptions and limitations to the exclusive rights only in certain special cases which do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the subject matter and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the right holders.”). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright protection and enforcement measures should always be balanced with public interest considerations; in other words, the rights of authors should always be tempered by recognizing and upholding the rights of users in the copyright ecosystem. The consolidated text only provides the bare minimum consideration for users rights. </span></p>
<h3><b>Some flexibility to exercise rights under TPM schemes</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, the Greenpeace version found that the EU was proposing new language around technological protection measures, or TPMs (Article X.15). In that earlier draft, there was no inclusion of text that permits any circumvention of technological measures in order for a user to exercise their rights under an exception or limitation. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the consolidated text now includes the following language: “The Parties (EU: where permissible in accordance to their domestic law) shall (EU: may) ensure that right holders make available to the beneficiary of an exception or limitation the means of benefitting from that exception or limitation, to the extent necessary to benefit from that exception or limitation.” So it appears that there will be at least some legal consideration to protect the ability of users to circumvent TPMs in order to exercise their rights under an exception or limitation. </span></p>
<h3><b>Conclusion</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While it’s positive that at least the parties are coming to the conclusion to forego the gratuitous copyright term extension, most of the changes in the consolidated text show a continued tightening of copyright protections that favor incumbent rights holders at the expense of users and the commons. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Furthermore, the negotiations remain mostly secretive and closed, with little public knowledge save for these helpful leaks, and few opportunities for the public to voice their concerns. The negotiations must be reformed to fully support a process that is transparent, inclusive and accountable. </span></p>
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<h2><strong>“This is all about sharing”<br />
</strong></h2>
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<h5><em>Aris Maro on the power of networking, librarians, and sharing African knowledge with the world</em></h5>
<p><strong><em>Aristarik Hubert Maro is the CC Tanzania Public Lead, an executive secretary at the Tanzania Library Association, and a PhD candidate at University Dar es Salaam.</em></strong><em> In advance of the </em><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/"><em>Creative Commons Global Summit</em></a><em>, we’re gathering the stories of humans working around the world to shape the Commons’ future. We want to share your story, too – drop by the “Humans of the Commons” listening lounge at the Summit to get interviewed and add your voice. Here’s an edited transcript of Aris’ story: </em></p>
<p><strong>I was part of the team that founded Creative Commons in Tanzania.</strong> Since that time, we’ve created a large network and come to know so many people. To me, that’s the greatest strength of my involvement with CC; I’ve gotten to connect not only with people from Tanzania, but also people from around the world.</p>
<p>I now have friends in places like South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria – and colleagues in South Korea and Canada, where I attended previous summits. If it weren’t for Creative Commons, I wouldn’t have met these people. The success is the power of networking.</p>
<p>Creative Commons has become a big part of my life, especially when I’m talking about issues of shared data and licenses. That’s why I’ve decided to focus my PhD research on Creative Commons licenses. And why it’s a big honor for me to be able to represent Tanzania at the Creative Commons Summit in Toronto.</p>
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<h3><strong>Librarians as “masters of learning” </strong></h3>
<p><strong>When I first started organizing trainings and events about Creative Commons, people wondered: “Why is this </strong><strong><em>librarian</em></strong><strong> talking about sharing and licenses and the like?”</strong> Most people used to think that librarianship was just about books, books, books. But today, Creative Commons has helped people perceive librarianship as part and parcel of technology.</p>
<p><strong><em>Creative Commons has helped me change people’s perceptions about librarianship in the country.</em></strong></p>
<p>You can’t separate librarianship today – or library teaching or information science – from technology. People are coming to realize that libraries are where this knowledge is stored, and that if you want to access knowledge on just about anything, whether through old technologies or new, the library can provide that.</p>
<p>This is all about sharing. Librarians are becoming more like “masters of learning.” And if you empower librarians with high-tech skills, it’s a completely different story. This is the direction we are going. My work with CC has helped bring us to that level.</p>
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<h3><strong>Sharing local knowledge and skills globally</strong></h3>
<p><strong>One of the biggest challenges we face in Tanzania is knowledge around how best to utilize technology – especially when technology is moving and changing so fast</strong>. Each night when you go to sleep, you wake up to find that everything you knew has changed completely. This has been the biggest challenge in my work: getting people access to the knowledge and know-how they need when the pace of change is so fast.</p>
<p><strong><em>You cannot talk about a better world today without talking about technology, and about the </em></strong><strong><em>sharing</em></strong><strong><em> of technology. </em></strong></p>
<p>One of the greatest challenges to the Commons that I see is understanding of the licenses by the majority of the African continent. If we are able to reach out to <em>all</em> of the creators – the artists, the musicians, the writers – in the grassroots, in different places, in the rural areas, that will be a great opportunity for Creative Commons.</p>
<p><strong>I want to ensure we aren’t leaving out the potential creators and creative people in the grassroots.</strong> There are so many new platforms where we can share their viewpoints and demonstrate their skills and knowledge. Creative Commons has a big part to play to make sure that all of the achievement of these people, their creativity and skills, can be shared globally. We need to reach out to ensure African knowledge and skills are shared globally.</p>
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title: Katherine Maher on a generosity of spirit and contributing to the Commons
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<p>The Wikimedia and Creative Commons communities are <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/28/knowledge-crushes-barriers/">inextricably linked,</a> sharing networks, content, and a vision of the world’s knowledge collaboratively governed in a Global Commons built on gratitude and sharing.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher">Katherine Maher</a> has been the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2016, and is one of the leading advocates for Open around the world. As a leader, her centering of community voice and the Wikimedia global network, as well as a strategic vision built around <a href="http://2030.wikimedia.org/">Wikimedia 2030</a> has led to some of the organization’s most creative growth and evolution.</p>
<p>Katherine will be speaking on <a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/E8bA">Friday, April 13 at 11AM</a> at the CC Global Summit and will follow up her talk with a panel on “The Big Open,” exploring how networks for Open can work together collaboratively and effectively.</p>
<p><strong>The Wikimedia 2030 strategic document proposes that Wikimedia become the essential infrastructure for free knowledge. What does this strategic statement mean to the Wikimedia organization and what does it mean to the movement?</strong><strong><br />
</strong>Wikimedia is one of the largest and most widely used free knowledge resources in the world. More than a billion devices visit our sites every month and we have been supported by millions of people over the years. In some ways, to the extent that an open source project is successful and has a daily tangible and visible impact on people&#8217;s’ lives, Wikimedia is the definition of that success.</p>
<p>What we&#8217;ve also seen… is that Wikipedia is the essential infrastructure for free knowledge in many places in the world. We have stepped into that role in different language communities where free knowledge may not have as robust an ecosystem.</p>
<p><strong>Both Creative Commons and Wikimedia provide valuable infrastructure for the open web. As institutions working towards complementary goals, how do you see this these organizations as part of a larger global community of open knowledge?</strong><strong><br />
</strong>Like in open source, CC and Wikimedia are part of the core infrastructure – but we play different roles on the stack. More than 50% of the content across the internet relies on open source and Wikimedia is the largest website or open media property on the planet. That means that we have been successful in achieving our open goal. The Creative Commons licenses power billions of freely licensed content that is accessible to the whole world. We&#8217;ve reached a point in which our model has demonstrated its success. Now the question is, &#8220;Where do we go from there?&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>As communities and projects that started based on the premise that individual contributors and individual people all over the world create and build open culture and the Commons, we now see that other institutions and players are getting involved.</p></blockquote>
<p>As successful projects, how do we go forward from here? What&#8217;s the course that we chart?</p>
<p><strong>Practically, how do you see the networks working together and sharing resources?</strong><strong><br />
</strong>As Ryan [Merkley, Creative Commons CEO] likes to say, &#8220;Many Creative Commoners are Wikimedians, Mozillians, Open Street Mappers&#8230;&#8221; If you are part of an open community, the distinction between those communities is artificial.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s already collaboration and mutual support across these communities. What are the fights that we want to fight together and how are we more effective when we [collaborate]? How can we bring in more institutions that historically haven’t been part of our ecosystem, and how can we scale up at this size?</p>
<p>Those are great conversations for us to have as partners, and to learn from our successes and our failures as well, as we try to take these missions forward.</p>
<p><strong>What does a vibrant, usable Commons powered by collaboration and gratitude mean to you? What do you think sharing will look like online in the future?<br />
</strong>A vibrant Commons is something that everybody has access to and people can give back to in a meaningful way. The work of creating a Commons doesn’t just happen –there&#8217;s labor involved… When we think about the importance of supporting and ensuring that the Commons is a part of the world in which we live, that speaks to the issue of generosity.</p>
<p>Those people who contribute to the Commons are actually a very tiny fraction of the overall whole. Some folks contribute directly, because they contribute their work, their creations, their ideas, and others contribute financially.</p>
<p>But again, it&#8217;s a small group – although it is a very generous group. If we were to imagine a future in which [the Commons] is a vibrant and robust ecosystem that continues to grow and thrive, then generosity needs to be something that&#8217;s reflected by a much larger group of individuals than it is today.</p>
<p>And we need to be generous in return.</p>
<blockquote><p>We need to be generous in the spirit in which we approach these conversations, in the way that we welcome people into our communities, in the way that we think about the folks who use the content that we create. Generosity flows both ways.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>How do you complement the work that Wikimedia provides as a tool or a product on the open web with the community building work you&#8217;ve done as an organization?</strong><strong><br />
</strong>They&#8217;re deeply interrelated. I often talk about how what makes us different is the fact that we are a community project, but what makes us powerful is the fact that we are a website that&#8217;s used by hundreds of millions of people all over the planet. I don&#8217;t think you get to have one without the other. Wikimedia would not exist without the incredible community that has built it, that supports it, that has defined its values, and that ensures we stay true to those values.</p>
<p>We support the websites because they are how we achieve our mission, but that support has to be in service of the people that we are trying to serve, like our community members and the people who read, use, and learn from the knowledge we support.</p>
<p><strong>How is Wikimedia working toward a better web as an organization and a community? How are you working toward a better world?</strong><strong><br />
</strong>To a better web – we are one of the larger open source projects that exists today and every single thing that Wikimedia produces is open source. We believe that a web that is open, interoperable, and rewriteable is the right sort of web.</p>
<p>We stand apart from any other platforms in that we are largely trusted, we are community governed, we present a model for what we can and should be, and we hearken back to the ideals of the early web [of sharing].</p>
<p>In terms of working for a better world? What animates all Wikimedians is the belief that when more people have access to knowledge the world is, in fact, a better place. People are more informed and have access to critical information that shapes the way they make decisions in their lives. They have the opportunity to educate themselves in their communities.</p>
<p>While we don&#8217;t necessarily say in our vision statement that “we&#8217;re out here to change the world,” that is exactly what most Wikimedians believe we&#8217;re doing every day.</p>
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title: Upcoming highlights from the CC Global Summit
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<p>The <a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org">Creative Commons Global Summit,</a> the annual event for the promotion of open knowledge, sharing, and the Commons around the globe, kicks off on Friday in Toronto, Canada. This can’t miss event will bring together more than 450 advocates, activists, lawyers, educators, policy-makers and technologists for over 110 sessions about open education; galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM); legal and copyright reform; open access; the future of the Commons; and the Creative Commons Global Network.</p>
<p>CEO Ryan Merkley says, “At its heart, the CC Summit is a community event — people from all over the world built the program, selected the speakers, and will now travel to Toronto to plan the future of the collaborative commons. It’s inspiring.”</p>
<p>Keynotes and panels will feature Katherine Maher, Executive Director of Wikipedia / Wikimedia Foundation, Chris Bourg, Director of MIT Libraries, and Ruth L. Okediji, John Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Each day of the Summit, Creative Commons will launch a new project or piece of work, including the 2017 State of the Commons annual report, the official launch of the CC Certification Program for Librarians and Educators, and the much-anticipated announcement of the recipients of the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship and Memorial Fund. The fellowship announcement will be accompanied by exclusive footage from award-winning, BAFTA nominated documentarian Yasmin Fedda, whose film “The Disappeared” chronicles the lives of Khartabil and Jesuit Priest Paolo Dall’Oglio, both killed in Syria in the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Merkley will be joined via video conference by <span style="font-weight: 400;">Khartabil’s widow, Syrian human rights lawyer Noura Ghazi Safadi, to present the award.</span></p>
<p>Featured sessions at the CC Summit include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/E700#">The “Big Open,” a panel discussion and workshop with Wikimedia, Mozilla, and Creative Commons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/E6tu#">Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge, Copyright, and Creative Commons: A Discussion of Practices and Principles</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/E6qM">Empathetic Design for Code of Conduct Reinforcement in Open Communities</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/E6u7#">Open Data, Open Research: Fuel for a Healthier Internet</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/EDKn#">From Unlocking Free Culture to Reviving American Democracy</a> with Lawrence Lessig</li>
<li><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/E8Py#">Blockchain for the Commons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/E6zz#">The Future of Digital Archives</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/E6vR#">Conversations with Real Users Across the Spectrum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/event/E6uT#">Certifying Open Source Hardware: Norm Setting in Complex IP Environments</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you to Private Internet Access, lead sponsor of the CC Global Summit, as well as supporting sponsors: The Argosy Foundation, Top Hat, eCampus Ontario, Mozilla, Re:Create Coalition, Intellus Learning, Lumen Learning, Yoyow, and in-kind sponsors Canvas and Shareable.</p>
<p>Keynotes will be streamed at 11AM Friday, 10:15AM Saturday, and 10:30AM Sunday, EST, on YouTube <a href="https://m.youtube.com/user/creativecommons">@creativecommons.</a> Follow the Summit on Twitter at <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=ccsummit&amp;src=typed_query">#ccsummit.</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54590
title: 5 Things I’m looking forward to at the CC Global Summit
uri: 5-Things-I-m-looking-forward-to-at-the-CC-Global-Summit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/12/5-things-im-looking-forward-to-at-the-cc-global-summit/
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<p>The CC Summit begins tomorrow. For the second year in a row, we’re sold out, and it’s our largest event yet. The summit is organized every year by a spectacular group of international contributors from the CC community, with stellar support from the CC staff. This year’s event was co-chaired by Claudia Cristiani of CC El Salvador, and our own Cable Green, Director of Open Education. They led the process of developing the program, working with a volunteer program group from around the world.</p>
<p>The CC Summit is much more than its three great keynotes and 110+ sessions: it’s full of surprises, big and small. Last year, we revealed the 3-D printed Tetrapylon, the UnCommon Women colouring book, and added Ontario’s new Chief Digital Officer Hillary Hartley as a surprise keynote. This year we have more great things in store for you. We can’t wait.</p>
<p>Here are five things I hope you’ll explore at this year’s summit:</p>
<h2>The growing network</h2>
<p>The most significant community investment we’ve ever made has been to completely redesign the CC network to enable collaborative governance and decision-making, deeper engagement, and community leadership. The affiliate network, which made CC a truly international organization, is evolving into the CC Global Network, which focuses on enabling individual contributors to collaborate in international chapters. You can <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/sign-up/">sign up today</a> to become a member, and there’s an <a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/overview/type/CC+Global+Network?iframe=no&amp;w=100%&amp;sidebar=yes&amp;bg=no">entire track of sessions</a> to help you get involved.</p>
<h2>Humans of the Commons</h2>
<p>CC board member Johnathan Nightingale often says, “It’s all made of people.” The Humans of the Commons project is an interactive listening lounge where you can drop by, get interviewed, and share your story with the rest of the Summit, Creative Commons network and the world. You’ll find them on the 2nd floor.</p>
<h2>Sebastiaan ter Burg</h2>
<p>With so many incredible contributors in the CC movement, it’s nice to have great photos. If you give public talks, having a headshot makes you look more professional. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/03/business-model-based-sharing/">CC community photographer Sebastiaan ter Burg</a> will have a photo booth set up to take individual and group shots.</p>
<h2>Inaugural Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fellowship</h2>
<p>Last year, we learned of the death of CC friend and community leader Bassel Khartabil. At the request of his family, we established and led the development of a fellowship in his name. With our many open community partners, <a href="http://sched.co/E8b9">we’ll be announcing the first fellow</a>, along with a series of funded community-based projects.</p>
<h2>More CC surprises</h2>
<p>There are always other surprises in store, so keep your eyes and ears open. The CC staff have been working hard to create some delightful commons experiences for you, including some stellar visual and audio experiences. See you soon!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54599
uri: Derecho-de-autor-en-el-tratado-de-libre-comercio-Mercosur-Unión-Europ
title:
Derecho de autor en el tratado de libre comercio Mercosur-Unión Europea: pocas mejoras y muchos retrocesos

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https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/06/derecho-de-autor-en-el-tratado-de-libre-comercio-mercosur-union-europea-pocas-mejoras-y-muchos-retrocesos/

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<p><em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/06/copyright-mercosur-eu-trade-agreement-little-better-mostly-worse/">Publicado originalmente en inglés</a> el 6 de abril de 2018. Traducción: Equipo de <a href="http://www.creativecommons.uy/">CC Uruguay</a>.</em></p>
<p>Un<span> </span><a href="media/9d2394d2.iprs.pdf" data-original-source="http://bilaterals.org/IMG/pdf/iprs.pdf">borrador recientemente filtrado</a><span> </span>del tratado de libre comercio Mercosur-Unión Europea muestra pequeñas mejoras en el capítulo sobre propiedad intelectual. Parece que la extensión innecesaria e injustificada de 20 años de duración del derecho de autor ahora se elimina del acuerdo, y las partes han introducido cierta flexibilidad para que los usuarios eviten las medidas tecnológicas de protección con el fin de ejercer sus derechos. Pero en su mayor parte, las negociaciones continúan favoreciendo un mayor endurecimiento de los derechos de autor a expensas de las protecciones para los derechos de los usuarios y los bienes comunes. Como explicamos a continuación, las medidas para proteger el dominio público continúan diluidas, la disposición que requiere una compensación obligatoria -independientemente de que los creadores la quieran o no- se mantiene y la sección de excepciones y limitaciones al derecho de autor se reduce a un mínimo.</p>
<p>El año pasado, en colaboración con varios capítulos de nuestra red global, Creative Commons<span> </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/policy-advocacy-copyright-reform/el-tratado-de-libre-comercio-union-europea-mercosur-danara-los-comunes-y-los-derechos-de-los-usuarios/">publicó un análisis</a><span> </span>que abarca diversos temas relacionados con el derecho de autor presentados en un borrador del capítulo de propiedad intelectual del tratado de libre comercio Mercosur-UE.</p>
<p>La Unión Europea (UE) y el Mercosur han estado negociando este tratado de libre comercio (TLC) desde el año 2000. El tratado<span> </span><a href="https://www.ip-watch.org/2017/03/22/watch-eu-mercosur-fta-negotiations-consequences-access-medicines/">es expansivo</a><span> </span>y se ocupa de aspectos tan dispares como el comercio de bienes industriales y agrícolas, cambios potenciales a las reglas que rigen a las pequeñas y medianas empresas, compras gubernamentales y disposiciones de propiedad intelectual, incluyendo los derechos de autor y las patentes. En nuestro análisis del año pasado, examinamos cuestiones que afectarían el dominio público, la creatividad y el intercambio de conocimiento, así como los derechos de los usuarios en la era digital.</p>
<p>Las negociaciones del TLC entre el Mercosur y la UE tienen lugar en un entorno en el que se está definiendo de manera creciente la regulación de derecho de autor a través de acuerdos comerciales multilaterales. En nuestro informe, los principales puntos que discutimos fueron los siguientes:</p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>los plazos de derecho de autor no deben extenderse,</li>
<li>los derechos de los usuarios deben protegerse expandiendo las limitaciones y excepciones al derecho de autor,</li>
<li>la remuneración obligatoria interfiere con el licenciamiento Creative Commons,</li>
<li>las medidas tecnológicas de protección no deben limitar el ejercicio de los derechos de los usuarios.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>También recordamos el principio de sentido común según el cual las negociaciones de tratados comerciales deben ser transparentes e involucrar a la ciudadanía, no secretas y decididas a puerta cerrada.</p>
<p>Desde nuestro análisis del año pasado, ha habido dos nuevos borradores filtrados del capítulo sobre propiedad intelectual. Uno fue<span> </span><a href="https://trade-leaks.org/mercosur-leaks/intellectual-property-rights-3/">publicado por Greenpeace</a><span> </span>en diciembre de 2017 en base a la 28ª ronda de negociaciones. Otro fue<span> </span><a href="media/9d2394d2.iprs.pdf" data-original-source="http://bilaterals.org/IMG/pdf/iprs.pdf">publicado la semana pasada</a><span> </span>por el sitio web<span> </span><a href="http://bilaterals.org/">bilaterals.org</a>, basado en el texto consolidado tal como quedó al final de la 32ª ronda de negociaciones que finalizó el mes pasado.</p>
<p>Como<span> </span><a href="http://www.creativecommons.uy/tratado-de-libre-comercio-mercosur-union-europea-un-mal-acuerdo-para-el-dominio-publico/">Jorge Gemetto escribió</a><span> </span>en el blog de la Asociación Communia, el borrador del capítulo de propiedad intelectual filtrado por Greenpeace reveló un gran desacuerdo entre las partes.</p>
<blockquote><p>Se advierte fácilmente que, mientras el interés de la Unión Europea es el de aumentar los plazos y áreas de protección de la propiedad intelectual, así como imponer nuevas sanciones penales para las infracciones, los países del Mercosur buscan evitar estándares más altos de propiedad intelectual, incorporar excepciones y limitaciones obligatorias al derecho de autor, y favorecer la identificación y protección del dominio público.</p></blockquote>
<p>Como lo advierte Gemetto, existe un gran desbalance entre el poder de negociación de cada parte, y la UE claramente tiene la ventaja. Estando la UE ya alineada con el marco restrictivo de propiedad intelectual “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPS_Agreement#Post-TRIPS_expansion">TRIPS Plus</a>“, busca exportar a otros lugares estas medidas de incremento de la protección y su aplicación.</p>
<p>Finalmente, llegamos al borrador del capítulo de propiedad intelectual filtrado recientemente que publicó bilaterals.org. Hay algunos cambios importantes desde la versión publicada por Greenpeace.</p>
<h3>La mención del dominio público se diluirá y quedará sepultada</h3>
<p>La filtración de Greenpeace de diciembre de 2017 encontró que las partes discutían si (y cómo) debía mencionarse el apoyo al dominio público en el Artículo 4 (Principios). La UE propuso el texto: “Las Partes reconocen la importancia de un dominio público robusto, rico y accesible”, mientras que los países del Mercosur abogaron por: “Las Partes tendrán debidamente en cuenta la necesidad de preservar un dominio público robusto, rico y accesible, y cooperarán entre sí para identificar los diferentes materiales que han ingresado en dominio público”.</p>
<p>La versión de la UE ganó. El texto consolidado compartido por bilaterals.org ahora dice: “Las Partes reconocen la importancia de un dominio público robusto, rico y accesible”. Además, una nota en el documento mueve el texto de la sección “Principios” a la sección “Cooperación”.</p>
<h3>La remuneración obligatoria permanece</h3>
<p>La borrador anterior, publicado por Greenpeace, mostraba que las partes discutían si habría una remuneración obligatoria (Artículo 9.6) para los intérpretes, ejecutantes y productores de música. La UE quería que el texto dijera: “Las Partes otorgarán un derecho para garantizar que el usuario pague una única remuneración equitativa a los artistas intérpretes o ejecutantes y productores de fonogramas, si un fonograma publicado con fines comerciales, o una reproducción de dicho fonograma, se utiliza para la transmisión por medios inalámbricos o para cualquier comunicación al público.” El Mercosur quería que este derecho fuera opcional, sugiriendo que el texto dijera: “Las Partes pueden otorgar…”.</p>
<p>La versión de la UE ganó. El texto consolidado ahora dice “otorgarán”. Este cambio muestra un esquema que se repite en las negociaciones: las disposiciones que tienen que ver con la aplicación de la propiedad intelectual y la protección de los titulares de derechos son obligatorias (“deberán”), mientras que las disposiciones que beneficiarían a los usuarios y al interés público son solo opcionales (“pueden”). Este tipo de disposición interferiría con el funcionamiento de algunas licencias Creative Commons, exigiendo un pago incluso cuando la intención del autor es compartir su trabajo creativo con el mundo de forma gratuita.</p>
<h3>La extensión del plazo de derecho de autor fue puesta en suspenso</h3>
<p>El borrador filtrado por Greenpeace reveló que las partes continuaban discutiendo sobre el plazo de derecho de autor (Artículo 9.7). La UE quería la vida de autor + 70 años, mientras que el Mercosur quería la vida + 50 años.</p>
<p>El texto consolidado ahora dice “transcurrirá durante la vida del autor y no menos de 50 años o por 70 años cuando así lo disponga la legislación nacional de las Partes…”.</p>
<p>La versión del Mercosur ganó porque el texto indica que se aplicarán los términos nacionales existentes. Esta es una mejora significativa en el sentido de que no obliga a aumentar el plazo a los países que tienen un plazo más corto. Ampliar aún más los plazos de derecho de autor no hace nada por promover la creación de nuevas obras, e incluso exacerba los desafíos relacionados con los plazos extensos, como el problema de las obras huérfanas.</p>
<h3>Las excepciones y limitaciones fueron reducidas al mínimo</h3>
<p>La filtración de Greenpeace mostró que las partes discutían sobre el alcance de la sección sobre limitaciones y excepciones (Artículo 9.9). El Mercosur quería incluir una lista no exhaustiva de usos aceptables para ser cubiertos bajo limitaciones y excepciones, incluyendo la crítica, la cobertura de noticias, la enseñanza y la investigación.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, el texto consolidado publicado por bilaterals.org no incluye la lista no exhaustiva. En su lugar, esencialmente vuelve a apoyarse en el texto de la regla de los tres pasos (“Cada Parte establecerá excepciones y limitaciones a los derechos exclusivos solo en ciertos casos especiales que no entren en conflicto con la explotación normal de la obra y no perjudiquen injustificadamente los intereses legítimos de los titulares de derechos”).</p>
<p>La protección del derecho de autor y las medidas de aplicación de dicha protección siempre deben equilibrarse con consideraciones de interés público; en otras palabras, los derechos de los autores siempre deben limitarse, reconociendo y defendiendo los derechos de los usuarios en el ecosistema del derecho de autor. El texto consolidado solo proporciona una mínima consideración para los derechos de los usuarios.</p>
<h3>Una cierta flexibilidad para ejercer los derechos bajo los esquemas de medidas tecnológicas de protección</h3>
<p>Por último, la versión publicada por Greenpeace reveló que la UE estaba proponiendo un nuevo texto en torno a las medidas tecnológicas de protección (TPM, por sus siglas en inglés) (Artículo X.15). En ese borrador anterior, no se incluía ningún texto que autorizara a eludir las medidas tecnológicas para que un usuario pueda ejercer sus derechos bajo una excepción o limitación.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, el texto consolidado ahora incluye el siguiente texto: “Las Partes (UE: cuando sea permisible de conformidad con su legislación nacional) deberán (UE: podrán) garantizar que los titulares de derechos pongan a disposición del beneficiario de una excepción o limitación los medios para beneficiarse de esa excepción o limitación, en la medida necesaria para beneficiarse de esa excepción o limitación”. Por lo tanto, parece que habrá al menos alguna consideración legal para proteger la capacidad de los usuarios de eludir las TPM para ejercer sus derechos bajo una excepción o limitación.</p>
<h3>Conclusión</h3>
<p>Si bien es positivo que al menos las partes están llegando a la conclusión de renunciar a la extensión innecesaria del plazo de derecho de autor, la mayoría de los cambios en el texto consolidado muestran un persistente endurecimiento de la protección del derecho de autor, que favorece a los titulares de derechos a expensas de los usuarios y de los bienes comunes.</p>
<p>Además, las negociaciones siguen siendo esencialmente secretas y cerradas, con escaso conocimiento público salvo estas útiles filtraciones, y con pocas oportunidades para que la ciudadanía exprese sus preocupaciones. Es preciso reformar las negociaciones para apoyar plenamente un proceso que sea transparente, inclusivo y responsable.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54596
title: Direito autoral no tratado comercial Mercosul-UE: poucas melhoras e muitos retrocessos
uri: Direito-autoral-no-tratado-comercial-Mercosul-UE-poucas-melhoras-e-mu
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https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/06/direito-autoral-no-tratado-comercial-mercosul-ue-poucas-melhoras-e-muitos-retrocessos/

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<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/06/copyright-mercosur-eu-trade-agreement-little-better-mostly-worse/">Publicado originalmente em inglês</a> em 6 de abril de 2018. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tradução: Ana Luiza Araújo</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Uma </span><a href="media/9d2394d2.iprs.pdf" data-original-source="http://bilaterals.org/IMG/pdf/iprs.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">proposta recém vazada</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> do tratado de livre comércio entre o Mercosul e a União Europeia mostra pequenas melhorias no capítulo sobre propriedade intelectual. Agora parece que a extensão desnecessária e injustificada dos prazos de direito de autor por 20 anos não está mais no tratado, e as partes introduziram alguma flexibilidade para que os usuários contornem as medidas técnicas de proteção com o objetivo de exercer seus direitos. Mas, em sua maior parte, as negociações continuam a favorecer um maior endurecimento do direito de autor às custas das proteções de direitos dos usuários e dos bens comuns. Como explicaremos abaixo, as medidas para apoio do domínio público continuam a ser diluídas, a cláusula que requer a compensação obrigatória &#8212; indiferentemente se o criador a deseja ou não &#8212; está mantida, e a seção que delimita as exceções e limitações aos direitos autorais foi reduzida ao mínimo.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No ano passado, em colaboração com diversos parceiros de nossa rede global, a Creative Commons </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/policy-advocacy-copyright-reform/tratado-de-livre-comercio-uniao-europeia-mercosul-prejudicaria-os-direitos-dos-usuarios-e-o-conjunto-de-bens-comuns-commons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">publicou uma breve análise</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> de políticas, cobrindo diversos problemas relacionados ao direito de autor em um esboço do capítulo sobre propriedade intelectual do tratado de livre comércio Mercosul-UE.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A União Europeia (UE) e o sub-bloco regional da América Latina, formado por Argentina, Brasil, Paraguai e Uruguai (o Mercosul) vêm negociando um tratado de livre comércio (TLC) desde o ano 2000. O TLC UE-Mercosul </span><a href="https://www.ip-watch.org/2017/03/22/watch-eu-mercosur-fta-negotiations-consequences-access-medicines/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">é amplo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, abarcando o comércio de bens industriais e agrícolas, potenciais mudanças nas regras aplicáveis a pequenas e médias empresas e às compras públicas, e provisões sobre propriedade intelectual como patentes e direito de autor. Nessa análise, nós examinamos as questões que afetariam o domínio público, a criatividade e o compartilhamento, e os direitos de usuário na era digital.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As negociações do TLC Mercosul-UE acontecem em um ambiente no qual as políticas de direito de autor se estabelecem de maneira crescente por meio de acordos de comércio multilaterais. Dentre os principais pontos defendidos em nossa análise, destacamos os seguintes:</span></p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Os prazos de proteção do direito de autor não devem ser estendidos;</li>
<li>Os direitos dos usuários devem ser protegidos mediante a expansão das limitações e exceções;</li>
<li>A remuneração obrigatória interfere com o licenciamento em Creative Commons;</li>
<li>Medidas de proteção tecnológica não devem limitar o exercício dos direitos dos usuários.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nós também compartilhamos do princípio de senso comum de que negociações para acordos comerciais devem ser transparentes e incluir o público, não secretas e decididas atrás de portas fechadas.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Desde a nossa análise, mais duas versões provisórias do capítulo sobre propriedade intelectual foram vazadas. Uma foi </span><a href="https://trade-leaks.org/mercosur-leaks/intellectual-property-rights-3/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">publicada pelo Greenpeace </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">em dezembro de 2017, com base na 28ª rodada de negociações. Outra foi </span><a href="media/9d2394d2.iprs.pdf" data-original-source="http://bilaterals.org/IMG/pdf/iprs.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">publicada na última semana</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> pelo site </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><a href="http://bilaterals.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">bilaterals.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">com base no texto consolidado ao final da 32ª rodada de negociações que teve fim em março.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.creativecommons.uy/tratado-de-libre-comercio-mercosur-union-europea-un-mal-acuerdo-para-el-dominio-publico/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Como escreveu Jorge Gemetto</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> no blog da Communia Association, o texto do capítulo sobre propriedade intelectual revelado pelo Greenpeace mostrou um significativo desentendimento entre as partes.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">É fácil perceber que, enquanto o interesse da União Europeia é o de aumentar os prazos e áreas de proteção da propriedade intelectual, assim como impor novas penas para as infrações, os países do Mercosul procuram evitar padrões mais altos de propriedade intelectual, incorporar limitações e exceções obrigatórias para o direito de autor, e favorecer a identificação e proteção do domínio público.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Como adverte Gemetto, há uma grande discrepância entre os poderes de negociação de cada parte, com a UE claramente tendo a vantagem. E com a UE já alinhada com o restritivo marco regulatório </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPS_Agreement#Post-TRIPS_expansion"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“TRIPS Plus”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, há uma procura por exportar essas medidas mais duras de proteção e aplicação em outros lugares.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Por fim, chegamos ao capítulo mais recente sobre propriedade intelectual publicado pela organização bilaterals.org, no qual temos algumas mudanças notáveis desde a versão do Greenpeace.</span></p>
<h3><b>A menção ao domínio público será diluída e enterrada</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A versão vazada pelo Greenpeace (em dezembro de 2017) revelou a discussão entre as partes sobre se (e como) deveria haver uma menção de apoio ao domínio público no Artigo 4 (Princípios). A UE propôs a linguagem “As Partes reconhecem a importância de um domínio público robusto, rico, e acessível”, enquanto os países do Mercosul defenderam a redação “As Partes levarão devidamente em conta a necessidade de preservar um domínio público robusto, rico e acessível, e devem cooperar mutuamente para identificar os diferentes materiais que ingressaram no domínio público.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A versão da UE ganhou. O texto consolidado compartilhado pela bilaterals.org agora diz “As Partes reconhecem a importância de um domínio público robusto, rico, e acessível”. Além disso, uma nota no documento muda o texto da seção de “Princípios” para a seção de “Cooperação”.</span></p>
<h3><b>A remuneração obrigatória fica</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A versão anterior publicada pelo Greenpeace mostrava que as partes estavam discutindo se haveria a remuneração obrigatória (Artigo 9.6) para os intérpretes, músicos executantes e produtores musicais. A UE queria que a redação do texto fosse “As Partes conferem um direito para garantir que uma única remuneração equitativa seja paga pelo usuário aos intérpretes, músicos executantes e produtores de fonogramas, se um fonograma for publicado para fins comerciais, ou a reprodução de tal fonograma for utilizada para a difusão por meios sem fio ou para qualquer comunicação ao público.” Os países do Mercosul queriam apenas fazer deste um direto opcional, sugerindo que o texto fosse “As Partes poderão conferir&#8230;”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A versão da UE venceu. O texto consolidado diz “conferem”. Essa mudança repete um tema comum visto entre as negociações: cláusulas que se referem à aplicação da propriedade intelectual e à proteção dos detentores de direitos incumbentes são obrigatórias (“devem”), enquanto cláusulas que iriam beneficiar os usuários e o interesse público são apenas opcionais (“podem”). Este tipo de arranjo poderia interferir na operação de algumas licenças de Creative Commons ao exigir um pagamento mesmo quanto a intenção do autor seja o compartilhamento de seu trabalho criativo com o mundo de graça.</span></p>
<h3><b>A extensão do prazo do direito de autor foi posta em suspensão</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">O texto provisório revelado pelo Greenpeace mostrava que as partes continuaram a discutir sobre os prazos do direito de autor (Artigo 9.7). A UE queria direitos vitalícios + 70 anos, enquanto os países do Mercosul os mesmo vitalícios + 50 anos.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">O texto consolidado agora diz “transcorrerá durante a vida do autor e por não menos do que 50 ou 70 anos quando assim prover a legislação nacional das Partes&#8230;”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A versão do Mercosul venceu porque o texto afirma que se aplicarão os termos nacionais existentes. Essa é uma melhora significativa no sentido de que não exige que os países com prazos mais curtos aumentem-os para o prazo mais longo. Estender ainda mais os prazos do direito de autor não faz nada para promover a criação de novos trabalhos, e até exacerba os desafios relacionados com prazos maiores, como o problema de obras órfãs.</span></p>
<h3><b>Exceções e limitações reduzidas ao mínimo</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A versão do Greenpeace mostrou que as partes estavam discutindo sobre o escopo da seção sobre limitações e exceções (Artigo 9.9). O Mercosul queria incluir uma lista não-exaustiva de usos aceitáveis a serem cobertos sob as limitações e exceções, incluindo críticas, notícias, educação, e pesquisa.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No entanto, o texto consolidado publicado pela bilaterals.org não inclui a lista não-exaustiva. Ao invés disso, ele essencialmente volta a se apoiar no texto da regra dos três passos (“Cada Parte irá estabelecer exceções e limitações para os direitos exclusivos apenas em certos casos especiais que não entrem em conflito com a exploração normal da obra e não prejudiquem de maneira injusta os interesses legítimos dos titulares de direitos”).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Medidas de proteção e aplicação dos direitos de autor devem sempre ser equilibradas com considerações do interesse público; em outras palavras, os direitos dos autores devem sempre ser moderados, reconhecendo-se e defendendo-se os direitos dos usuários no ecossistema dos direitos de autor. O texto consolidado somente provê o mínimo de considerações para os direitos de usuários.</span></p>
<h3><b>Alguma flexibilidade para o exercício de direitos sob os esquemas de medidas tecnológicas de proteção</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Por último, a versão do Greenpeace revelou que a UE estava propondo uma nova linguagem sobre medidas tecnológicas de proteção (Artigo X.15). Neste esboço anterior, não havia a inclusão de um texto que permitisse qualquer circunvenção de medidas tecnológicas para que um usuário possa exercer seus direito sob uma exceção ou limitação.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No entanto, o texto consolidado agora inclui a seguinte linguagem: “As Partes (UE: quando for permitido de acordo com suas leis nacionais) deverão (UE: poderão) garantir que os detentores de direito deixem à disposição do beneficiário de uma exceção ou limitação, na medida necessária para beneficiar-se dessa exceção ou limitação”. Então, parece que haverá pelo menos alguma consideração legal para proteger a capacidade de usuários de contornar as medidas tecnológicas de proteção para exercer seus direitos sob uma exceção ou limitação.</span></p>
<h3><b>Conclusão</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ao mesmo tempo em que é positivo que ao menos as partes estejam chegando à conclusão de renunciar à desnecessária extensão do prazo dos direitos de autor, a maioria das mudanças na versão consolidada do texto mostra um contínuo endurecimento da proteção do direito autoral, o que favorece os titulares de direitos às custas dos usuários e dos bens comuns.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Além disso, as negociações continuam essencialmente secretas e fechadas, com pouco conhecimento público, salvo por esses úteis vazamentos, e poucas oportunidades para o público expresse suas preocupações. As negociações devem ser reformadas para apoiar plenamente um processo que seja transparente, inclusivo, e responsável.</span></p>
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title: The Commons Opens Up the World
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<p><em>Cynthia Khoo on net neutrality, where creativity comes from, and getting involved with the Creative Commons Summit </em></p>
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<p><strong><em>Based in Toronto, Cynthia Khoo is an internet and technology lawyer working at the intersection of digital rights, copyright and freedom of expression</em></strong><em>. In advance of the </em><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/"><em>Creative Commons Global Summit</em></a><em>, we’re gathering the stories of inspiring humans working around the world to shape the Commons’ future. We want to share your story, too &#8212; drop by the “</em><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/sessions2018/"><em>Humans of the Commons</em></a><em>” listening lounge at the Summit to get interviewed and add your voice. Here’s an edited transcript of Cynthia’s story: </em></p>
<p><strong>I first got involved with Creative Commons last year when the </strong><strong>Creative Commons Global Summit</strong><strong> happened in Toronto. </strong>I had just moved to Toronto, so it seemed like a great opportunity to see what the organization did firsthand. The summit was an amazing experience; I loved it. It felt unlike other conferences I&#8217;d been to up to that point.</p>
<p>After that I went from just being <em>aware</em> of Creative Commons to actively wanting to be a part of it. I got added to the Creative Commons <a href="https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/">Slack</a> – I hung out for a bit, just to see what was up and keep an eye out for ways to get involved. I was working with <a href="https://openmedia.org">Open Media </a>at the time on their copyright reform platform, and because Creative Commons is in that space as well we found opportunities to collaborate together.</p>
<p>So when the opening came up for <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/volunteering-2018/">volunteers</a> to help organize this year&#8217;s summit, I thought it would be an amazing opportunity to help out and pay it forward.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54588" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54588" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/12/the-commons-opens-up-the-world/34283773506_1f0291474d_z-1/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/34283773506_1f0291474d_z-1.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="34283773506_1f0291474d_z (1)" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/34283773506_1f0291474d_z-1.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/34283773506_1f0291474d_z-1.jpg" class="wp-image-54588 size-full" src="media/244c2a6c.34283773506_1f0291474d_z-1.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/34283773506_1f0291474d_z-1.jpg" alt="soohyun-claudia-breakfast" width="640" height="427" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/34283773506/"><em>From the 2017 CC Summit in Toronto. Sebastiaan ter Burg &#8212; Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)</em></a></figcaption></figure>
<h3><strong>“Yes! They got it!!” </strong></h3>
<p><strong>One recent success I’m really proud of is a significant victory for net neutrality here in Canada. </strong>Net neutrality is under serious threat in the U.S. and around the world right now, and last year’s hearing was similarly critical for Canada. It focused on “<a href="https://openmedia.org/en/what-heck-zero-rating-and-how-does-it-undermine-net-neutrality">zero rating</a>,” which is about whether phone and cable companies should be allowed to discriminate or privilege some content on your mobile phone data plan, like certain music or video services.</p>
<p><strong>One of the challenges we faced from the parties on the opposing side, I thought, was a misrepresentation around </strong><strong><em>how</em></strong><strong> our internet access is structured.</strong> Their argument conflated two very different layers: the <em>access</em> component of going online, and the <em>content</em> component. If you think of a layer cake, it was like they were trying to cut through both layers of the cake and serve them to consumers as slices. That would essentially be a form of Internet rationed out to users piece by piece, as opposed to a <em>neutral</em> Internet connection that’s essential for access to information and freedom of expression.</p>
<p><strong>I wanted to make it really clear that wasn&#8217;t an accurate characterization of how the system actually works. </strong>We had to figure out how to make the Commissioners see that there are <em>reasons</em> we need to keep those layers distinct, going back to basic telecom principles like common carriage and non-discrimination between users in similar situations. That was something I spent a lot of time trying to think through, because they came at that argument from several different angles.</p>
<p><strong>When the decision came out, the Commissioners explicitly cited some of the arguments that we had made and language we had used</strong>. Other public interest groups and individuals intervened in the case and made similar arguments &#8212; but it was important to me and I had spent so much time on it… I just had this moment of: &#8220;Yes! They got it!!&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>We ended up winning the case</strong>. There&#8217;s some debate about how strongly they ruled in our favor, but they established a framework that was along the lines of what we were arguing for.</p>
<p>￼￼</p>
<figure id="attachment_54605" style="width: 736px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54605" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/12/the-commons-opens-up-the-world/theft-image-2/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/theft-image-2.png" data-orig-size="736,412" 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="theft-image-2" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/theft-image-2.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/theft-image-2.png" class="wp-image-54605 size-full" src="media/db77d0fd.theft-image-2.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/theft-image-2.png" alt="theft-image" width="736" height="412" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/16/theft/">From Theft: A History of Music CC BY-NC-SA 3.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<h3><strong>“Where&#8217;s the line between imitation and inspiration?”</strong></h3>
<p><strong>I believe the greatest threat to the Commons today is disproportionate copyright enforcement. </strong> That has a number of effects and attacks the Commons from multiple angles.</p>
<p>Copyright enforcement itself is of course fine, and we need it; artists and creators should have their work protected and get due compensation for it. But when copyright enforcement becomes <em>disproportionate,</em> things go off the rails. That&#8217;s where you end up with mis-ranked priorities &#8212; like placing some publishers’ royalties above freedom of expression or above access to information.</p>
<h3><strong><em>So much of creation, whether it’s music or film writing, is iterative. It&#8217;s based on the past.</em></strong></h3>
<p>Disproportionate copyright enforcement also stops new things from even being created in the first place, because so much of creation, whether it’s music or film writing, is iterative. It&#8217;s based on the past.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s this amazing graphic novel called <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/16/theft/"><em>Theft: A History of Music</em></a> about how music is based on imitation and iteration and inspiration. Where&#8217;s the line between imitation and inspiration?</p>
<p><strong><em>If modern-day copyright laws existed in the past, it’s possible things like jazz or blues wouldn’t even exist today at all. </em></strong></p>
<p><strong>They would have been sued out of existence.</strong> The <em>type</em> of music deemed “worthy” of copyright had a racialized aspect as well. A lot of Westernized classical music, for example, was protected because the melody was considered copyrightable. But other types of music – music that was more beats-based or rhythms-based and associated with African-American musicians – the courts found was <em>not</em> copyrightable. That appears to be based more on a cultural difference than something inherent in the music itself. <strong>So when you have that kind of selective enforcement, is it really about creators’ rights? Or is it actually about power and concentrating control?</strong></p>
<figure id="attachment_54606" style="width: 753px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54606" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/12/the-commons-opens-up-the-world/theft-image-cynthia/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/theft-image-cynthia.png" data-orig-size="753,960" 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="theft-image-cynthia" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/theft-image-cynthia.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/theft-image-cynthia.png" class="size-full wp-image-54606" src="media/375a409c.theft-image-cynthia.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/theft-image-cynthia.png" alt="theft-image" width="753" height="960" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">From <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/16/theft/"><em>Theft: A History of Music</em></a> CC BY-NC-SA 3.0</figcaption></figure>
<h3><strong>“Nothing in the world is equally distributed right now”</strong></h3>
<p>Access to information, freedom of expression, diversity, social progress, social, political, and economic equality &#8212; all of these things are advanced by a vibrant Commons. The Commons opens up the world. It opens different aspects of the world to different groups of people for whom it might otherwise be closed.</p>
<h3><strong><em>It&#8217;s only by removing unfair barriers that we will get to a better world.</em></strong></h3>
<p>That&#8217;s so important because nothing in the world is equally distributed right now. Everything is unfairly distributed &#8212; because you happen to be born into a rich family, say, or happen to be born in Canada. A vibrant Commons is where these things come out, and it provides a way to remove some of those unfair barriers. <strong>And it&#8217;s only by removing unfair barriers that we will get to a better world.</strong></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54573
title: Announcing Open Registration for CC Certificates
uri: Announcing-Open-Registration-for-CC-Certificates
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/14/announcing-open-registration-for-cc-certificates/
content:
<p dir="ltr"><img data-attachment-id="54575" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/14/announcing-open-registration-for-cc-certificates/c6720579-68dc-45ce-906b-57eaaab33d6f/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/C6720579-68DC-45CE-906B-57EAAAB33D6F.jpeg" data-orig-size="2224,639" 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="C6720579-68DC-45CE-906B-57EAAAB33D6F" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/C6720579-68DC-45CE-906B-57EAAAB33D6F.jpeg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/C6720579-68DC-45CE-906B-57EAAAB33D6F.jpeg" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54575" src="media/77a4f38a.C6720579-68DC-45CE-906B-57EAAAB33D6F.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/C6720579-68DC-45CE-906B-57EAAAB33D6F.jpeg" alt="Certificates-wordmark" width="2224" height="639" /></p>
<p dir="ltr">In response to the growing use of CC licenses globally, and the corresponding need for open licensing expertise, Creative Commons is officially launching the CC Certificate program today. Registration for the Certificate program is now open and details are available on the <a href="http://certificates.creativecommons.org/">Certificates website.</a></p>
<p>The CC Certificate provides an-in depth study of Creative Commons licenses and open practices – helping you become an expert in open licensing and the Commons. The program is offered both as a 10-week online course starting in July 2018 as well as a week-long, in-person bootcamp in 2019. In keeping with our values, we will openly license (CC BY) the Certificate content&#8211;making downloadable and editable file formats available for informal learning from our website by July 2018.</p>
<p>The CC Certificate uniquely develops participants’ open licensing proficiency and understanding of the broader context for open advocacy. Course content addresses copyright law, CC legal tools, and Commons values and practices. Currently geared for educators and librarians, the Certificate will soon be offered for additional audiences (such as government and GLAM).</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53709" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/12/certificates/img_20171002_111116/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116.jpg" data-orig-size="4048,3036" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Pixel&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1506942676&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.67&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;89&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008339&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="certs-team" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-1024x768.jpg" class="size-medium wp-image-53709 alignleft" src="media/9c08b0a0.IMG_20171002_111116-300x225.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-300x225.jpg" alt="certs-team" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-300x225.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-768x576.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-53x40.jpg 53w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-50x38.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-207x155.jpg 207w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-1200x900.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />Participants who successfully complete the Certificate program receive a digital Certificate (PDF) that recognizes specialization in open licensing and the Commons, and the ability help others understand and implement open licenses. Certificate recipients will be able to create new openly licensed resources, adapt and innovate on existing open materials – keeping their institution’s knowledge base relevant and up to date. Certificate recipients will also be equipped to meet open licensing requirements increasingly present in government and foundation grants and contracts.</p>
<p>We want to express our gratitude to our Beta cohort of 50 who helped us build, test, and refine the content, as well as Lumen Learning and Canvas for providing the instruction and platform support.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Course Registration is open! <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/?page_id=20">Sign up here</a>. We look forward to working with you.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54615
title: Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship and Memorial Fund Recipients Announced
uri: Bassel-Khartabil-Free-Culture-Fellowship-and-Memorial-Fund-Recipients
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/15/fellowship-memorial-fund/
content:
<figure id="attachment_54616" style="width: 381px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="54616" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/15/fellowship-memorial-fund/majdal-cc-by-ziad-tareq-hassan/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/majdal-CC-BY-Ziad-Tareq-Hassan.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="majdal &#8211; CC-BY Ziad Tareq Hassan" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/majdal-CC-BY-Ziad-Tareq-Hassan.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/majdal-CC-BY-Ziad-Tareq-Hassan.jpg" class=" wp-image-54616" src="media/73c6f800.majdal-CC-BY-Ziad-Tareq-Hassan.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/majdal-CC-BY-Ziad-Tareq-Hassan.jpg" alt="majd" width="381" height="254" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Majd Al-shihabi CC BY Ziad Tareq Hassan</figcaption></figure>
<p>The inaugural Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship was awarded today to Majd Al-shihabi, a Palestinian-Syrian engineer and urban planning graduate based in Beirut, Lebanon. The Fellowship provides operational costs and a stipend of $50,000USD to carry out work honoring the legacy of Syrian activist Bassel Khartabil. The announcement was made at the 2018 Creative Commons Global Summit by Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley and filmmaker Dana Trometer. In tandem with the launch of the Fellowship, Creative Commons announced the first three recipients of the Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund: Egypt-based <a href="https://858.ma/">The Mosireen Collective,</a> and Lebanon-based <a href="http://en.sharq.org/syrian-histories/">Sharq.org</a> and <a href="https://arabdigitalexpression.org/">ASI-REM/ADEF Lebanon.</a></p>
<p>The Fellowship will support Majd’s efforts in building a unified platform for Syrian and Palestinian oral history archives, as well as the digitizing and release of previously forgotten 1940s era public domain maps of Palestine. “Even though I never met Bassel, I am realizing that the projects and the communities that I have been involved in are influenced by his spirit of openness and collaboration,” says Fellow Majd Al-shihabi. “I hope that through my projects, I will propagate those visions for re-building our Palestinian and Syrian societies towards a fair and free future.”</p>
<p>“It has been extraordinary to see the range of projects and initiatives proposed for this first Fellowship honoring Bassel’s work,&#8221; offered Bassel’s widow, Syrian human rights lawyer Noura Ghazi. “Bassel was first and foremost a proud member and leader within Syria’s Creative Commons, open source and free culture communities. I would like to send my heartfelt thanks to everyone at Creative Commons for all the love and support they gave us throughout the hard years Bassel spent in a Syrian prison. I would like to congratulate Majd and the Memorial Fund recipients and I know Bassel would have been a great colleague and supporter of all involved. I wish you good luck with the summit and I regret not being able to be there with you.”</p>
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<p><strong>The Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship </strong>was made possible by the support and funding from organizational partners Creative Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, Mozilla, Fabricatorz Foundation, #FREEBASSEL, #NEWPALMYRA, Jimmy Wales Foundation, SMEX, and YallaStartup.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54200" style="width: 560px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54200" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/07/bassel-post/bassel_khartabil_safadi_-_creative_commons/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi_-_Creative_commons.jpg" data-orig-size="960,603" 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_Khartabil_(Safadi)_-_Creative_commons" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi_-_Creative_commons.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi_-_Creative_commons.jpg" class=" wp-image-54200" src="media/41b9386b.Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi_-_Creative_commons.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Bassel_Khartabil_Safadi_-_Creative_commons.jpg" alt="bassel-photo" width="560" height="352" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/4a1dbb0c.FileBassel_Khartabil_Safadi_-_Creative_commons.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bassel_Khartabil_(Safadi)_-_Creative_commons.jpg">Bassel Khartabil</a> by freebassel, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en">CC0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>The Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund </strong>is generously supported by Private Internet Access, the family of Bassel Khartabil, and individual donors.</p>
<p><strong>Inaugural Fellowship to focus on a vibrant platform for sharing oral histories and release of public domain maps of Palestine</strong></p>
<p>Majd Al-shihabi’s work as the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellow will focus on collaboration with archivists and oral historians in Lebanon and beyond to increase the accessibility and openness of Syrian and Palestinian oral history collections online. In tandem, Majd will work with local GIS and mapping communities in Lebanon to digitize and publish recently discovered print maps of Palestine from the pre-1940s, British Mandate era. These archival maps will help identify the location of long-since destroyed villages, landmarks, and communities in an open and freely-redistributable web platform, ensuring the perseverance of Palestinian history and culture.</p>
<h3><strong>Three recipients of Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund</strong></h3>
<p>The Fellowship was presented alongside three inaugural Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund grants, awarded to Egypt-based The Mosireen Collective, and Beirut-based organizations Sharq and ASI-REM/ADEF Lebanon (Arab Studies Institute-Research and Education Methodologies / Arab Digital Expressions Foundation). Grants are valued at up to $10,000USD and targeted at work or projects that will unfold through May 2019.</p>
<p><strong><img data-attachment-id="54617" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/15/fellowship-memorial-fund/mosireen-collective-logo-thumb/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mosireen-Collective-logo-thumb.png" data-orig-size="500,400" 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="Mosireen Collective logo &#8211; thumb" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mosireen-Collective-logo-thumb.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mosireen-Collective-logo-thumb.png" class=" wp-image-54617 alignleft" src="media/cf98b0ff.Mosireen-Collective-logo-thumb.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mosireen-Collective-logo-thumb.png" alt="Mosireen" width="318" height="254" />The Mosireen Collective: 858.ma Archive &#8211; </strong><a href="https://858.ma/">https://858.ma/</a></p>
<p>The Mosireen Collective is a volunteer media group born out of the rapid expansion of citizen journalism and cultural activism during the Egyptian revolution of 2011. Mosireen worked to film, document, edit and upload video works related to the revolution, and to train and organize video activists, as well as establish a physical space for meetings and screenings. Following the military coup of 2013, the Collective migrated its work entirely to the web and focused on the creation of 858.ma, a predominantly open source collection of 858 hours of filmed, indexed, and geo-located archival footage from within the Egyptian revolution.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="54619" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/15/fellowship-memorial-fund/mosireen-collective-cc-by-camera-phone/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mosireen-Collective-CC-BY-Camera-Phone.jpg" data-orig-size="630,380" 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="Mosireen Collective &#8211; CC BY Camera-Phone" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mosireen-Collective-CC-BY-Camera-Phone.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mosireen-Collective-CC-BY-Camera-Phone.jpg" class="wp-image-54619 alignleft" src="media/9a46cb5f.Mosireen-Collective-CC-BY-Camera-Phone.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mosireen-Collective-CC-BY-Camera-Phone.jpg" alt="mosireen" width="390" height="235" /></p>
<p>With support from the Memorial Fund, the Collective will expand and grow the online collection, and work to establish it as a “living,” growing, and responsive collection of video works. The Collective plans to launch new workshops and training for video activists, bring together other collections and collectors of video, engage new volunteers to archive and annotate works, and train them in the use of open-source video platform <a href="http://pan.do/ra">pan.do/ra</a> to help them upload their own footage.</p>
<p><strong><img data-attachment-id="54620" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/15/fellowship-memorial-fund/sharq-logo-badge-cmyk-outlines-cropped/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sharq-logo-badge-cmyk-outlines-CROPPED.png" data-orig-size="3396,3259" 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="sharq-logo-badge-cmyk-outlines CROPPED" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sharq-logo-badge-cmyk-outlines-CROPPED.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sharq-logo-badge-cmyk-outlines-CROPPED.png" class="alignleft wp-image-54620" src="media/c078e6be.sharq-logo-badge-cmyk-outlines-CROPPED.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sharq-logo-badge-cmyk-outlines-CROPPED.png" alt="sharq" width="206" height="198" />Sharq.org: Arab World Voices Library &#8211; </strong><a href="https://sharq.org">https://sharq.org</a></p>
<p>Sharq’s mission is to strengthen the ability of Arab citizens to hear and be heard, and to engage in honest and productive interactions. Sharq carries out this work primarily through the production of oral history collections that capture the stories and experiences of individuals across the Arab world. Sharq’s Managing Director, Reem Maghribi, is a journalist and communications professional who has focused Sharq’s project efforts around empowering citizens to gain skills for expression and debate, through publishing, training and cultural initiatives.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="54622" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/15/fellowship-memorial-fund/sharq-roller-10cm-crop-2/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sharq-Roller-10cm-CROP.jpg" data-orig-size="502,441" 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="Sharq-Roller-10cm CROP" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sharq-Roller-10cm-CROP.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sharq-Roller-10cm-CROP.jpg" class="wp-image-54622 alignleft" src="media/ed9e8866.Sharq-Roller-10cm-CROP.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sharq-Roller-10cm-CROP.jpg" alt="sharq" width="340" height="298" /></p>
<p>To date, Sharq has produced varied collections of hundreds of video and audio recorded oral histories from across the Arab region, all under CC license. Recent collections center on culture and society in Syria prior to 2011, human rights abuses during the Gaddafi era in Libya, and employment for Palestinians in Lebanon. The Arab World Voices Library will see Sharq’s wider collection of online, oral histories combined into a single, virtual library destination. Through workshops and online training, visitors from around the world will be invited to explore and help curate and grow the library for future generations.</p>
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<p><strong><img data-attachment-id="54623" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/15/fellowship-memorial-fund/adef-log-mark-800px-adef-svg/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ADEF-log-mark-800px-Adef.svg_.png" data-orig-size="800,522" 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="ADEF log mark 800px-Adef.svg" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ADEF-log-mark-800px-Adef.svg_.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ADEF-log-mark-800px-Adef.svg_.png" class=" wp-image-54623 alignleft" src="media/5076816e.ADEF-log-mark-800px-Adef.svg_.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ADEF-log-mark-800px-Adef.svg_.png" alt="adef" width="282" height="184" />ASI-REM / ADEF Lebanon: Youth Media Activists Camp &#8211; </strong><a href="https://arabdigitalexpression.org/">https://arabdigitalexpression.org/</a></p>
<p>The Arab Digital Expression Foundation builds spaces and fosters environments focused on digital expression, learning, skills development, and empowerment of Arab-speaking teenagers and youth to strengthen their engagement with society. ADEF promotes the creative use of media, art, and technology &#8211; with a strong focus on the promotion of open source and free culture tools and outputs &#8211; to increase the production and dissemination of Arabic knowledge and culture.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54624" style="width: 530px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54624" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/15/fellowship-memorial-fund/adef-yma-camp-2016-cc-by/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ADEF-YMA-Camp-2016-CC-BY.jpg" data-orig-size="1000,662" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Mohamed Hossny&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D7000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1473873108&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;M.H&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="ADEF YMA Camp 2016 &#8211; CC BY" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ADEF-YMA-Camp-2016-CC-BY.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ADEF-YMA-Camp-2016-CC-BY.jpg" class="wp-image-54624 " src="media/e5b0e418.ADEF-YMA-Camp-2016-CC-BY.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ADEF-YMA-Camp-2016-CC-BY.jpg" alt="yma-camp" width="530" height="351" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">ADEF Lebanon, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p>ADEF Lebanon has been conducting the Youth Media Activists Camp since 2014. The 10-day camps are an annual gathering place for exchange of knowledge and skills for up to 50 young participants representing collectives, student and social activists, media groups, technologists, and aspiring writers and journalists. Participants take an active role in designing and planning the camps, with an emphasis on developing skills and abilities central to collaboration, expression, and community-building. This year’s camps, partially supported by the Memorial Fund, will continue to mobilize and catalyze a new community of Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian social and political activists.</p>
<h3><strong>2018 CC Global Summit</strong></h3>
<p>The Memorial Fund and Fellowship recipients were announced at the 2018 Creative Commons Global Summit, the annual gathering of technologists, legal experts, academics, activists, and community members who work to promote the power of open worldwide. Held in Toronto, Ontario, the summit brought together over 450 participants this year.</p>
<p>Summit keynotes this year included Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, Katherine Maher, Director of Libraries at MIT, Chris Bourg, and Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Berkman-Klein Center. Other notable speakers include Lawrence Lessig, advocate for US democratic reform and Creative Commons founder. Yasmin Fedda, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker, presented exclusive footage from her film, &#8220;Ayouni,&#8221; which probes the fates of Bassel Khartabil and Italian Jesuit priest Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, two high-profile figures in Syria’s pro-democracy movement who were both forcibly disappeared in the early days of the Syrian revolution. Creative Commons’ CEO Ryan Merkley moderated a conversation with the filmmaker.</p>
<p>During the summit, Creative Commons also announced the launch of its new CC Certificates program, an in-depth course and certification program about Creative Commons open licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons, CC’s new Global Network outreach strategy to expand and grow a global community of affiliates and volunteers, and announced a landmark 1.4 billion works shared under CC licenses.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54636
title: Russian translation of 4.0 published
uri: Russian-translation-of-4-0-published
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/20/russian-translation-of-4-0-published/
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<p>We are happy to announce the official translation of the Creative Commons 4.0 license suite into Russian. Congratulations to the CC Russia team for the great job! The translation team consisted of Mr. Yuri Hohlov &#8211; Public Head; Mr. Alexander Evtyushkin – Expert; Ms. Louisa Rizmanova &#8211; CC Russia Project Manager; Mr Alexander Generalov &#8211; translator &#8211; from IIS; Mr. Michael Yakushev &#8211; Legal Head; Ms. Svetlana Vorozhbit; Mrs. Elena Voinikanis; Ms. Natalia Sorokina; Mr. Maksym Naumko; Mr. Vitaly Kalyatin. Special thanks to Mrs. Tatiana Ershova and Mr. Nikolay Dmitrik for reviewing the final draft.</p>
<p>The translation of 4.0 was performed after article 1286.1 of the Russian Civil Code came into effect, which created the definition of the open license under Russian law. Prior to that, the legal regime analogical to Creative Commons had never been defined. This new article benefited Creative Commons users, as well as the free software community. As copyleft licenses, such as GNU GPL, have a long history of translation into the Russian language, there was an effort in the translation process to put the 4.0 legal instruments into the context of the article 1286.1 of the Russian Civil Code and translation of the licenses used for free software.</p>
<p>Surprisingly, there were few issues arising from the lack of the Russian terminology. This new translation reflects the fact of maximum convergence between the Russian legislation on intellectual property and the contemporary documents in the copyright sphere.</p>
<p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.ru">View the new licenses.</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54640
title: A Thank You to Everyone Who Supported Diego and Open Access to Knowledge
uri: A-Thank-You-to-Everyone-Who-Supported-Diego-and-Open-Access-to-Knowled
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https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/23/a-thank-you-to-everyone-who-supported-diego-and-open-access-to-knowledge/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In December Diego Gómez </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/05/colombian-appellate-court-affirms-diego-gomez-not-guilty-sharing-research-paper-online/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">was finally cleared</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the criminal charges levied against him for sharing an academic research paper on the internet. The Tribunal de Bogotá—the Colombian appellate court—affirmed the lower court’s acquittal.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gómez is a scientist from Colombia who had been criminally prosecuted for the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/diego-gomez/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">last three years</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for sharing an academic paper online. When Diego was a student in conservation biology, he had poor access to many of the resources and databases that would help him conduct his research. He found and shared an academic paper so that others could read and learn from it. Gómez didn’t get permission to reshare the article, and subsequently was prosecuted for copyright infringement. He faced up to eight years in prison, along with a substantial monetary fine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A global campaign—</span><a href="https://www.karisma.org.co/compartirnoesdelito/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Compartir no es Delito (Sharing is not a Crime)</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—has been supporting Diego since 2014 – The campaign is now complete. But it’s important to recognize the incredible efforts of everyone involved. First, thank you to Diego for his courage and perseverance during the legal case against him. He continued to stand and fight under immense pressure, including financial uncertainty and the possibility that he would have to serve a prison sentence. Second, thank you to the incredible civil society organisations that immediately jumped into action to organise and collaborate in defense of Diego, and to show their support for open access to research. These efforts were led by the Colombian digital rights organisation </span><a href="https://karisma.org.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fundación Karisma</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with support from groups including </span><a href="https://www.derechosdigitales.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Derechos Digitales</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.eff.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Electronic Frontier Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://sparcopen.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SPARC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Creative Commons, and many others. Finally, thank you to the journalists, op-ed writers, crowdfunding supporters, and hundreds of individuals around the world who shared Diego’s story with friends, family, and the world through writing and social media. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diego’s case is over, but surely it won’t be the last time overzealous rights holders try to leverage copyright to suppress the sharing of scientific research meant to be shared with the public for the good of everyone. As we’ve said again and again, instead of prosecuting students for sharing knowledge, governments and communities should be encouraging the free exchange of scientific information by reinforcing positive norms around scholarship and collaboration, promoting open access to research, and eliminating out of control copyright penalties that serve no reasonable public interest purpose. Furthermore, we should encourage our governments to boost national legislation that promotes the release of public funded research results as open access.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you to Diego, and everyone who has supported this campaign and movement. You can read more about Diego’s case </span><a href="https://www.karisma.org.co/compartirnoesdelito/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and learn about open access </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/open-access/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54646
title: 56 organisations tell EU legislator to delete the absurd link tax
uri: 56-organisations-tell-EU-legislator-to-delete-the-absurd-link-tax
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https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/24/56-organsiations-tell-eu-legislator-to-delete-the-absurd-link-tax/

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<p><a href="media/88d2cef6.Openletter-axelvoss-deletearticle11-english.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/2/2d/Openletter-axelvoss-deletearticle11-english.pdf"><img data-attachment-id="54647" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/24/56-organsiations-tell-eu-legislator-to-delete-the-absurd-link-tax/voss-letter-orgs/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/voss-letter-orgs.png" data-orig-size="1151,548" 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="voss letter orgs" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/voss-letter-orgs.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/voss-letter-orgs.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-54647 size-full" src="media/8fea8644.voss-letter-orgs.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/voss-letter-orgs.png" alt="" width="1151" height="548" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons and 55 organisations sent a </span><a href="media/88d2cef6.Openletter-axelvoss-deletearticle11-english.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/2/2d/Openletter-axelvoss-deletearticle11-english.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">letter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the head of the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee, MEP Axel Voss, urging him to remove the harmful and counterproductive press publishers right from the EU copyright reform docket.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last month, we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/29/head-copyright-committee-wants-deny-eu-creators-right-share/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> about the proposal floated by Voss that would take the already-harmful </span><a href="https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/extra-copyright-for-news-sites/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">press publishers right</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and make it even worse. This new right, laid out in Article 11 of the draft <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-directive-european-parliament-and-council-copyright-digital-single-market">Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market</a>, would introduce an additional right for news websites to extract fees from news aggregators for incorporating short snippets of—or even linking to—their content. Voss’ proposed changes assert that press publishers will receive—whether they like it or not—an “inalienable right to obtain an [sic] fair and proportionate remuneration for such uses.” This means that publishers will be required to demand payment from news aggregators. Such an inalienable right directly conflicts with publishers who wish to share freely and openly using Creative Commons licenses. Forcing publishers who use CC to accept additional unwaivable rights to receive payment violates the letter and spirit of Creative Commons licensing and denies publishers the freedom to conduct business and share content as they wish.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition, Voss proposed to </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/2018/03/29/mep-voss-doubles-worst-elements-article-11/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">expand the scope of beneficiaries</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of Article 11 to cover not only press publishers, but also news agencies. This could have the effect of inappropriately granting copyright-like protection to </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/16/public-domain-5-things-not-covered-copyright/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">facts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and compilations of basic information. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The coalition letter reinforces the pervasive danger to access to information, the right to link, and the development of a free and pluralist press.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Voss’ proposal must be rejected, and Article 11 should be deleted. An additional right for press publishers won’t support quality journalism or grow the digital single market. Instead, it will negatively affect access to information and the ability for publishers to share using the platforms, technologies, and terms beneficial to them.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54665
title: Mexican Senate passes changes to copyright law that would censor content online
uri: Mexican-Senate-passes-changes-to-copyright-law-that-would-censor-conte
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https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/27/mexican-senate-passes-changes-to-copyright-law-that-would-censor-content-online/

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<p><img data-attachment-id="54676" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/27/mexican-senate-passes-changes-to-copyright-law-that-would-censor-content-online/censorship/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/censorship.png" data-orig-size="478,475" 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="censorship" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/censorship.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/censorship.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54676" src="media/82c8695f.censorship.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/censorship.png" alt="" width="478" height="475" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digital rights organisations in Mexico are sounding the alarm after the Senate approved changes to the copyright law that would censor information online. The measures would allow for the preemptive removal of content without having to prove that a copyright infringement has actually taken place. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yesterday the Senate </span><a href="https://www.animalpolitico.com/2018/04/senado-aprueba-reforma-a-ley-de-derecho-de-autor-permite-la-censura-en-internet-acusa-r3d/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">approved</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the modifications to the Federal Copyright Law, with 63 votes in favor, 11 against, and 23 abstentions. The Senate voted with little internal discussion, and without the knowledge of or input from civil society organisations or the public. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Essentially, the changes to the law would permit courts—without holding a trial—to preemptively remove online content which is suspected to be an infringement of copyright, or even to seize equipment such as servers and routers that facilitate access to allegedly-infringing material. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This practice is unjustified and harmful to freedom of expression. Luis Fernando García from R3D </span><a href="https://r3d.mx/2018/04/26/madrugueteainternet-senado-busca-legalizar-la-censura-en-internet-por-derechos-de-autor/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">noted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the approved changes &#8220;clearly constitute a measure of prior censorship, in violation of article seven of the Mexican Constitution.&#8221; In addition, the law seemingly contravenes Article 13 of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Convention_on_Human_Rights"><span style="font-weight: 400;">American Convention on Human Rights</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (ratified by Mexico), which establishes that freedom of expression “shall not be subject to prior censorship” except for in specific circumstances—which does not include enforcement of copyright.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a very troubling development, with potentially massive negative implications to both access to information and due process of law. We’ll continue to work with our partners in Mexico to monitor and act on this issue.</span></p>
<p><em><a href="https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=censorship&amp;i=1688570">Censorship</a> icon by <a href="https://thenounproject.com/lucafruzza">luca fruzza</a> on The Noun Project, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/legalcode">CC BY</a>.</em></p>
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<p>[En Español]</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Organizaciones de la sociedad civil en México han hecho sonar las alarmas después de que el Senado aprobara cambios a la ley de derecho de autor que podría permitir la censura en línea. Estas medidas permitirían la remoción preventiva de contenido sin tener que comprobar que ha ocurrido una violación al derecho de autor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El día de ayer, el Senado <a href="https://www.animalpolitico.com/2018/04/senado-aprueba-reforma-a-ley-de-derecho-de-autor-permite-la-censura-en-internet-acusa-r3d/">aprobó</a> las modificaciones a la Ley Federal del Derecho de Autor con 63 votos a favor, 11 en contra y 23 abstenciones. El Senado votó con muy poco debate de por medio y sin el conocimiento o la participación de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil o del público.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">En esencia, estos cambios permitirían a las cortes, sin juicio, eliminar de forma preventiva contenido que, se sospeche, estaría violando el derecho de autor. Incluso permitiría el decomiso de equipo de cómputo como servidores y ruteadores que hayan sido utilizados en la supuesta infracción.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Esta forma de actuar no tiene justificación y es dañina para la libertad de expresión. Luis Fernando García, de la organización R3D <a href="https://r3d.mx/2018/04/26/madrugueteainternet-senado-busca-legalizar-la-censura-en-internet-por-derechos-de-autor/">comentó</a> que los cambios aprobados “constituyen claramente una medida de censura previa, en violación al artículo séptimo de la Constitución Mexicana”. Así mismo, la ley parece contravenir el Artículo 13 de la <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Convention_on_Human_Rights">Convención Americana de Derechos Humanos</a> (ratificada por México) la cual establece que la libertad de expresión “no deberá estar sujeta a censura previa” a excepción de en ciertas circunstancias dentro de las cuales no se encuentran las infracciones al derecho de autor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Este es un evento muy desafortunado que tiene implicaciones muy negativas hacia el acceso a la información y al debido proceso. Continuaremos trabajando con nuestros colaboradores mexicanos para monitorear el progreso de esta situación.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54680
title: “Build the Commons, so it is better for all”: CC Global Summit 2018
uri: Build-the-Commons-so-it-is-better-for-all-CC-Global-Summit-20
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/01/summit/
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<p>Like a Creative Commons event, this post will open and close with gratitude.</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone who attended, participated, tuned in, and raised their voices in support of the Commons this April, whether it was in Toronto with 435 other commoners or online through the stream and social feed.</p>
<p>From April 13-15, Commoners gathered for workshops, discussions, seminars, and plenaries about the future of the Commons, the network, and what’s next for our community of sharing. Through snow, raining ice, and bitter cold, we kept warm at the Delta Hotel with a full agenda and the collective excitement of seeing each other, many of us for the first time in a year. (Did we mention we’ll be in Lisbon next year?)</p>
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<p>The Summit opened with a packed breakfast for Summit newbies – more than 100 people came to eat and meet newcomers to the CC Community every morning. Arriving to find this year’s Uncommon Women coloring book on their seats and a snazzy new pin in their swag bags, attendees sipped their coffee as they enjoyed a variety of CC items.</p>
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<p>Like last year, the opening session began with an invocation by Whabagoon (Patti Phipps-Walker), an Ojibway indigenous elder, who recognized the tribal roots of the land and said “Miig-wetch” (thank you) for our gathering place. Later that day, one of our most popular sessions discussed indigenous cultural heritage and intellectual property and its challenges and futures. In a charged panel, practitioners and academics discussed the historic harm to traditional knowledge and the concept of “sharing” and discussed alternative forms of cultural heritage demarcations, such as Traditional Knowledge (TK) labels.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kicking off the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@creativecommons</a> coffee and <a href="https://twitter.com/uncommon_women?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@uncommon_women</a> book! At cc newbies breakfast with lovely new faces <a href="https://t.co/mxwx4DwXOp">pic.twitter.com/mxwx4DwXOp</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jane Park (@janedaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/janedaily/status/984768016264003584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>“Build the commons, so it is better for all”</h2>
<p>Wikipedia Executive Director Katherine Maher’s keynote and discussion on Friday asserted that free knowledge is inherently radical. She encouraged our communities to “lean into our values and our value,” and “build for the world we want to have.” Her keynote was a call to action for our communities to come together as a community of practice, resisting enclosures of knowledge and leaning into our collective power. &#8220;To be truly equitable, we need to acknowledge that the work is political,&#8221; she said. While for some, Open is a hobby or interest, for those at the margins, it can be inherently risky and difficult, a sentiment echoed by second keynote speaker Chris Bourg on Saturday.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/10/katherine-maher/">Read an interview with Katherine Maher.</a></h3>
<p>In the discussion that followed, Maher discussed the future of the “Big Open” movement with Ryan Merkley, CEO, and Mark Surman, of Mozilla. All focused on the need for the Open Internet as an antidote to the current, broken system of ad-based and surveillance economies. For Open movements, the pull of enclosure and corporate utilization of the commons without giving back represent what the speakers called “the tension of success.” “We need to make sharing reciprocal,” said Maher, bringing the discussion to the need for governance and full community participation. “Participation must be active, not exploitative. We’re building the commons for everyone, not just those who are already in it,” she said.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Sharing goes both ways: it asks for you to participate, not just consume. We want people to be active on internet” &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/krmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@krmaher</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/tX7y4s4iae">pic.twitter.com/tX7y4s4iae</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Zachary McCune (@zmccune) <a href="https://twitter.com/zmccune/status/984820417075408896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>State of the Commons</h2>
<p>Another highlight on Friday was the presentation of the first set of data from our annual State of the Commons report. These graphics, commissioned from designer <a href="http://www.amycollierdesign.com/">Amy Collier,</a> represented a sample of the full report designed by Affinity Bridge, which will be released this month.</p>
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<h2>“Lift up the people around you”</h2>
<p>Many participants attended the Uncommon Women session, where women leaders and allies in the movement discussed inclusivity and the need for more diverse voices in the movement. The Uncommon Women coloring stations throughout the event provided necessary connection and relaxation as well!</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I ran into <a href="https://twitter.com/amirad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amirad</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/amirad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amirad</a> at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a> !!!!! Thx <a href="https://twitter.com/uncommon_women?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@uncommon_women</a> <a href="https://t.co/O8nocwdskI">pic.twitter.com/O8nocwdskI</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Chris Lawrence (@chrislarry33) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislarry33/status/985246678507802625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Another gold nugget from the <a href="https://twitter.com/uncommon_women?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@uncommon_women</a> audience: Lift up the people around you, but also practice private and 1:1 affirmations. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a></p>
<p>&mdash; ccglobalsummit (@ccglobalsummit) <a href="https://twitter.com/ccglobalsummit/status/984877388411604993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>Humans of the Commons</h2>
<p>Throughout the Summit, more than 60 participants shared their stories at our podcasting popup “Humans of the Commons.” In a specially outfitted space, participants were interviewed by our partners at Loup about their experiences in the movement, their work, and their communities.</p>
<h3><a href="http://creativecommons.org/humans">View the first stories</a></h3>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;The more I learn about how technology impacts my life and the lives of people around me, the more curious I get&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/mozilla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mozilla</a>&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSamBurton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheSamBurton</a>  talks about how her work and hobbies drive her interest in digital rights at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a> Humans of the Commons Listen: <a href="https://t.co/g9IrKqwD8r">https://t.co/g9IrKqwD8r</a> <a href="https://t.co/SU0UYeiLCl">pic.twitter.com/SU0UYeiLCl</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Loup Design &amp; Innovation (@listening_loup) <a href="https://twitter.com/listening_loup/status/985534612238512128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>The Future of the Network</h2>
<p>During the Summit, our platforms, working groups, and network leaders met to discuss the future of their work. In the next year, the network will focus on recruiting, creating strong local teams, collaboration, and governance. In order to build collective, dispersed power, the network’s working groups and platforms in Open GLAM, Copyright Reform, Open Education, Community Development, Translation, and Communications met to discuss their future and next steps.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Great session on the future of the CC global network with <a href="https://twitter.com/atarkowski?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@atarkowski</a>  <a href="https://twitter.com/nicsuzor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nicsuzor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/claudio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@claudio</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanmerkley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ryanmerkley</a> and others.   Most valuable takeaway for me to think about change and new members as additive, not substitutional.  <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Meredith Jacob (@meredithjacob) <a href="https://twitter.com/meredithjacob/status/984815006985236480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<h3><a href="http://network.creativecommons.org">Join the network.</a></h3>
<h2>Get CC Certified</h2>
<p>On Saturday, Jennryn Wetzler, our new Assistant Director of Open Education, opened up registration for the Creative Commons Certificate program this summer. From her blog post: “The CC Certificate provides an-in depth study of Creative Commons licenses and open practices – helping you become an expert in open licensing and the Commons. The program is offered both as a 10-week online course starting in July 2018 as well as a week-long, in-person bootcamp in 2019. In keeping with our values, we will openly license (CC BY) the Certificate content – making downloadable and editable file formats available for informal learning from our website by July 2018.”</p>
<h3><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/14/announcing-open-registration-for-cc-certificates/">Read the announcement</a></h3>
<h3><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/">Register now</a></h3>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Excited about new project from <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@creativecommons</a>: CC Certificates for educators &amp; librarians. Also looking to make course content available CC-BY for informal learning <img src="media/b4175d07.1f64c.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.4/72x72/1f64c.png" alt="🙌" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="media/b4175d07.1f64c.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.4/72x72/1f64c.png" alt="🙌" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><a href="https://t.co/PSYmkI8brb">https://t.co/PSYmkI8brb</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Natalie Colaiacovo (@lilstairz) <a href="https://twitter.com/lilstairz/status/984889287421214720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Registration is now open for the <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@creativecommons</a> Certificate for Librarians and Educators. As one of the beta participants, I highly recommend this course. You can ask me about my experience too. See <a href="https://t.co/9TGrEFgVZV">https://t.co/9TGrEFgVZV</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/j21FdZyjUB">pic.twitter.com/j21FdZyjUB</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Regina Gong (@drgong) <a href="https://twitter.com/drgong/status/985162885687988226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>“Collaboration Moves at the Speed of Trust”</h2>
<p>MIT Library Director Chris Bourg’s wide-ranging keynote and discussion “Open as in Dangerous,” discussed the need to address the “dangerous” parts of our movements in Open, echoing Maher’s assertion that free knowledge is a political act. “The best librarians are radical,” she said, and not only have libraries “never been neutral,” they “have the potential to be agents of decolonization and social change.” Social justice was a key message in Bourg’s talk, which emphasized the need for open access to knowledge to produce better research, ultimately making the world a more just place. “Individuals who have access to knowledge can lead better and more empowered lives,” said Bourg. In her conclusion, she discussed how online risks mirror real world structural inequalities in their uneven distribution among those with less societal power. “&#8217;Open as in Dangerous&#8217; is about loss of control, of privacy. For marginalized people especially, the very danger of being open is the danger of being targeted for abuse,” she concluded.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/05/chris-bourg/">Read an interview with Chris Bourg.</a></h3>
<p>In the panel discussion that followed, Amira Dhalla of Mozilla, Amy Buckland of University of Guelph, and Bourg discussed the balance of Open, privacy, and sharing. Discussing the need to deemphasize dominant discourses in order to focus on meaningful collaborations that challenge hegemonic structures, the speakers emphasized relationships in subjects like web archiving, privacy, and decolonization in open projects. Intentionality was a key focus for the speakers, who come to Open from a variety of backgrounds. The conclusion of the discussion emphasized the need to build trust into systems, recognizing histories of oppression and colonization that continue to impact the structures of power that exist today.</p>
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<h2>“Out of that defeat, you were born”</h2>
<p>The packed room for Lawrence Lessig’s talk “From Unlocking Free Culture to Reviving American Democracy” listened, rapt, as he outlined his career from copyright to representational democracy. For Lessig, the Eldred defeat was the catalyst for his years of work on the role of big money in government and law, and his founding of Creative Commons in the process.</p>
<p>Like copyright, asserted Lessig, the fight for a more representational government is a fight for integrity. Unlike copyright, people are already convinced – the common view in the United States is that government is nonrepresentational. “Keep your values in sight,” concluded Lessig, after discussing his role as &#8220;digital Cassandra&#8221; in 2001 and the community’s failing of Aaron Swartz, Creative Commons co-founder. After a moving and inspirational talk, the audience’s appreciation of Lessig’s years of work to end systemic corruption was apparent as they rose in acknowledgment and support.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The complexities of civil disobedience versus copyright law <a href="https://twitter.com/lessig?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lessig</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit18</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@creativecommons</a> <a href="https://t.co/jtaWVRs4N4">pic.twitter.com/jtaWVRs4N4</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Matthew Rimmer (@DrRimmer) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrRimmer/status/985192747031150593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>Open Bazaar</h2>
<p>Makers at the CC Summit found their kin at the Open Bazaar, a space to meet and greet projects from around the commons. From Open Textbooks to 3D printing, projects from around the world were represented as part of the meet and greet format.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Having a great time at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CCSummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CCSummit</a> &#8211; come say hi to Brett and Casey at the Open Bazaar tomorrow, table 22! <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@creativecommons</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ccglobalsummit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ccglobalsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/NpZXqb6RTc">pic.twitter.com/NpZXqb6RTc</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Library Innovation (@HarvardLIL) <a href="https://twitter.com/HarvardLIL/status/984878432642355202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>Party for the People (of the Commons)</h2>
<p>At Boxcar Social, a hip bar on Toronto’s waterfront, Summiteers braved the snow and joined our Commons People Party, a welcoming space where they could warm up with wine, whiskey, and good company. The party featured a screening of Vincent Moon’s <em>Hibridos</em>, the multimedia documentary based on Moon’s travels in Brazil. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/40787085414/in/album-72157695719917625/">Read an interview with the filmmaker.</a></p>
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<h2>&#8220;Cultural goods are not treasure troves to be locked up by the people who can afford them.&#8221;</h2>
<p>Professor Ruth Okediji, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Berkman-Klein Center, gave the final, resonant keynote of the Summit, focusing on her work for a more just international copyright system. Dr. Okediji stressed the need for better policy to open up resources for equality internationally. She discussed her work on the Marrakesh Treaty, a copyright exception to support individuals with visual impairments, and connected it to the need for expanded exceptions and limitations and a better global copyright policy.</p>
<p>Copyright, she claimed, has become a means of control by the few to dictate the access of the many. “Authors want to be read,” she asserted, and said that the use of copyright as a means of control is “troubling.” In the panel discussion that followed, Dr. Okediji discussed the future of copyright with Teresa Nobre, CC Portugal Legal Lead, Michael Geist, Canadian Research chair at University of Ottawa, and Delia Browne, Australian National Copyright Director. In the discussion, they talked about the need for sustained engagement with copyright policy. In the words of Dr. Okediji, “We don’t win just by showing up at the end.” Copyright as a tool to empower citizens and create power through access was a theme in the discussion, which brought together some of the most important lawyers working on exceptions and limitations today.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Education is vital” Ruth Okediji responding to the copyright battle in Canada &amp; EU on panel w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/mgeist?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mgeist</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/tenobre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tenobre</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/deliabrowne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@deliabrowne</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a> <a href="https://t.co/xRZfGUj60u">pic.twitter.com/xRZfGUj60u</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Abby Cabunoc Mayes (@abbycabs) <a href="https://twitter.com/abbycabs/status/985538136489865216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>&#8220;The most fitting way to do justice to the legacy of Bassel Khartabil and his family, is to lift up the voices of those like him.&#8221;</h2>
<p>On Sunday, we announced the inaugural recipients of the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/15/fellowship-memorial-fund/?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitterfacebook&amp;utm_campaign=fellowship-announcement&amp;utm_content=">Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship and Memorial Fund</a> with our partners. After a statement from filmmaker Dana Trometer, a friend of Khartabil’s, the fellowship was awarded to Majd Al-shihabi, a Palestinian-Syrian engineer based in Beirut whose work focuses on oral history and the digitization of public domain Palestinian maps. The Fellowship was presented alongside three inaugural Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund grants, awarded to Egypt-based The Mosireen Collective, and Beirut-based organizations Sharq and ASI-REM/ADEF Lebanon (Arab Studies Institute-Research and Education Methodologies / Arab Digital Expressions Foundation).</p>
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<p>After the presentation of the awards, award-winning filmmaker Yasmin Fedda screened part of her upcoming film <em>Ayouni</em>, still in production, which will focus on the more than 10,000 disappeared people of Syria, including Khartabil. The film’s footage tells the tragic story of Khartabil and his wife, human rights lawyer Noura Ghazi, who has been fighting for justice since his disappearance in 2012.</p>
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<h2>“Realizing the full potential of the creative spirit that is demonstrated by the internet”</h2>
<p>Over lunch, participants enjoyed a “fireside chat” on the past and future of Creative Commons with Molly Van Houweling, Lawrence Lessig, and Claudio Ruiz.</p>
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<h2>Learn to think like a creator of open content</h2>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">During the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ter_burg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ter_burg</a> worked non-stop to take pictures of all the beautiful humans that were there to share and plan for the fights ahead. Thank you! &lt;3 <a href="https://t.co/nxNl9wx4LX">https://t.co/nxNl9wx4LX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Leo Arias (@yoelopio) <a href="https://twitter.com/yoelopio/status/985885988412182528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>As usual, the creativity of our community was on full display at this year’s Summit. From the whimsical swag to the gorgeous window displays of our community’s photos, we lit up the commons through photography, video, and even live theater – the Summit concluded with a performance of CC Portugal’s “Copywrong” play.</p>
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<p>Photographer Sebastiaan Ter Burg’s openly licensed photos capture the faces and moments that made the Summit shine.</p>
<h3><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/">View them all</a></h3>
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<p>To close with gratitude, <strong>thank you.</strong> Thank you to the 435 attendees from 64 countries, the 192 speakers, the 26 volunteers, the staff, the programming committees, the sponsors, and the Commoners who traveled a collective 1.56 million kilometers to join together and share in our community. Until next year in Lisbon!</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">So much gratitude for everyone at the CC Global Summit this weekend. See if you can spot yourself in this video of great <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ccsummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ccsummit</a> moments by <a href="https://twitter.com/ter_burg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ter_burg</a>. <a href="https://t.co/F71OlFPAOz">https://t.co/F71OlFPAOz</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Creative Commons (@creativecommons) <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/985549172110655488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><i>All photos linked to source, most photos CC BY, Sebastiaan Ter Burg, except Keynote Drawings by Giulia Forsythe, CC BY and CC0</i></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54737
title: The Commons will unlock our country’s creative potential
uri: The-Commons-will-unlock-our-country-s-creative-potential
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/02/mohamedrahmo/
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<p><em>Mohamed Rahmo on how copyright reform will boost Morocco’s creative industries. </em><strong><em>Mohamed Rahmo is the catalyst for Morocco’s Creative Commons chapter and President &amp; CEO of madNess, a non-profit dedicated to promoting creative industries and innovation.</em></strong><em> Here’s an edited transcript of Mohamed’s story: </em></p>
<p><strong>The work we do as an NGO is to advocate on behalf of creative industries.</strong> We’re all about creativity for social impact. Our vision is to make Morocco a powerhouse in creative industries like graphic design, visual design, video making and video games, and to be a spotlight for creative industries in the world.</p>
<p>Mostly we work with creative people that quit their job and want to start freelancing, but are unsure how. We work with these people to structure their work, and we also have a large database of employers that need these people, like agencies or publishers, so that we can connect them together.</p>
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<p><em>A workshop at the </em><a href="https://www.bidaya.io/"><em>Bidaya</em></a><em> social incubator in Casablanca, bringing together videomakers and social entrepreneurs </em></p>
<p><strong>The other focus of our organization is advocacy. </strong>Here in Morocco the copyright act hasn’t been updated for 30 years, which is a shame. We want to advocate about the copyright act, because it’s directly related to creative work.</p>
<p>Take music, for example. If you want to print a CD here in Morocco, you have to pass through a crazy process of copyright. You have to pay a lot of money. A lot of people that want to make music here are very poor; even if they have the money to record, they don’t have the money to pay the copyright.</p>
<p><strong>If they are able to choose Creative Commons licensing, and Creative Commons becomes legal here, we are going to have a revolution in the content industry.</strong> Our goal for the next two years is to pass a law to organize Creative Common as a part of the general scope of copyright.</p>
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<p><em>madNess workshop exploring creative industries and green cities </em></p>
<h3><strong>Hacking the consumer mindset</strong></h3>
<p><strong>We created a project called CCCC,</strong><a href="http://www.therollingnotes.com/2017/11/27/cccc-creative-commons-content-creation/"><strong> “Creative Commons Content Creation.”</strong></a> We wanted to host a day where everyone would come together and start creating creative or free licensing or content, and then put it online for free under Creative Common licensing.</p>
<p>We want to “hack the mindset” of people and transform them from passive to more productive, in a way that’s respectful to their life and means of production. And to educate people about Creative Common in a practical way. Our hope is that this will help make our advocacy work and passing copyright reform easier.</p>
<p><strong><em>The real success is to use Creative Commons to change the mindset of people. </em></strong></p>
<p>Last year, one of the interesting things that happened for me at the Creative Commons Summit was learning about how others were able to pass laws or challenge copyright policies. And also to share ideas and curriculum. We received help from the New York Public Library, which gave us a curriculum for 3D printing workshops. That’s exactly what we need as an organization that designs education programs: to see how other people do it for copyright or open education.</p>
<h3><strong>“The culture of fun”</strong></h3>
<p><strong>What is it to share content through the Commons, and what is it to manage common things?</strong> We live in a common world. The city is the best invention or innovation humans ever came up with. Now we see how awareness around managing cities is rising. The future of the Commons and a common culture and common world and common philosophy — people are more aware about it.</p>
<p><strong>When you advocate for Creative Commons, you advocate for a direct transformation of your society. </strong>You push people to a culture of sharing and a culture of open. If we increase the number of people who share or are involved in sharing &#8212; even if they just share a smile with people in the morning when they go out &#8212; that means a huge change in society. That’s the impact of the Creative Common on my personal life and my work in general.</p>
<p>This is for me the biggest trait of the commons, though it may sound like a hippie answer: to love other people, to try to understand other people, to share. I come from the belief that the more we are thankful, the more we receive. Whenever I give to someone something, whether it’s material or ideas, the more I receive.</p>
<p><strong>And: it’s fun. I am an advocate of the culture of fun. </strong>I love fun. I love to have fun, because when you love what you do, and it’s fun, necessarily there will be a good result, because you enjoy doing your work.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54728
title: European Commission forging ahead to boost public sector information and open science
uri: European-Commission-forging-ahead-to-boost-public-sector-information-a
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the EU copyright reform teeters on the edge of </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/24/56-organsiations-tell-eu-legislator-to-delete-the-absurd-link-tax/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">turning into a complete disaster</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, last week the European Commission published a </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-revision-directive-200398ec-reuse-public-sector-information"><span style="font-weight: 400;">proposal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for a revision of the Directive on the reuse of public sector information (PSI Directive), and a </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/recommendation-access-and-preservation-scientific-information"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recommendation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on access to and preservation of scientific information. Both of these documents are a part of a </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/communication-towards-common-european-data-space"><span style="font-weight: 400;">package of measures</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> aiming to foster a common data space in the EU. Both are welcome additions, as they offer proactive steps to improve the re-use of public sector data and scientific research across Europe.</span></p>
<h3><b>Revision of the Public Sector Information Directive</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The PSI Directive first came into effect in </span><a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2003:345:0090:0096:en:PDF"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2003</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and required EU Member States to make public information and resources that they produce and collect reusable to the greatest possible extent and was broadened in </span><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:175:0001:0008:EN:PDF"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2013.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">  The Commission has already released a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2014/07/17/european-commission-endorses-cc-licenses-as-best-practice-for-public-sector-content-and-data/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recommendation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on using Creative Commons licenses such as CC BY and the CC0 Public Domain Dedication to share public sector information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-revision-directive-200398ec-reuse-public-sector-information"><span style="font-weight: 400;">revised proposal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> released last week would further expand the PSI Directive. The update would increase the availability of data by bringing new types of publicly funded data into the scope of the directive, including data related to transportation. It would also push to increase business opportunities by encouraging the publication of dynamic data via application programming interfaces (APIs), as opposed to publishing data in static and difficult-to-use formats such as PDFs. These are welcome changes.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of particular interest is the expansion of the Directive to cover research data. According to the proposal, research data is defined as “documents in a digital form, other than scientific publications, which are collected or produced in the course of scientific research activities and are used as evidence in the research process, or are commonly accepted in the research community as necessary to validate research findings and results.” The question of whether to expand the Directive to cover scientific research results was included in the public consultation by the Commission last year. We </span><a href="media/9e9a8490.PSI_directive_consultation_response_dec_2017.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/2/22/PSI_directive_consultation_response_dec_2017.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">agreed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that research resulting from public funding should be available free of charge and with unrestricted reusability. But since there’s several ongoing policies related to open access to research, we urged the Commission to ensure that policy efforts to improve access to publicly funded scientific research are complementary—and not in conflict with—each other.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A final important addition in the new proposed revision is a clarification that where databases fall under the scope of the PSI Directive, the public sector body responsible for the database may not use the Database Directive to prevent or restrict the reuse of documents. (Elsewhere we’ve argued that the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">sui generis</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> protection in the Database Directive </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/30/european-commission-repeal-extra-rights-databases/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">should be deleted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> altogether).</span></p>
<h3><b>New recommendations on access to and preservation of scientific information</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another interesting communication released last week was the </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/recommendation-access-and-preservation-scientific-information"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recommendation on access to and preservation of Scientific Information</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In the document, the European Commission reinforces the notion that access to and re-use of publicly funded research is a “crucial ingredient in advancing science and benefiting society,” and that “scientific information resulting from public funding should be accessible and re-usable with as few restrictions as possible.” We agree. The results of publicly funded scientific research should be made available under permissive open licenses (such as CC BY), or even put into the worldwide public domain using a tool like CC0.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Commission recommendations call on Member States to: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">set and implement clear policies for the dissemination of and open access to scientific publications resulting from publicly funded research, </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ensure that research funding institutions responsible for managing public research funding and academic institutions receiving public funding implement the policies, </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">set and implement clear policies for the management of research data resulting from publicly funded research, and</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">set and implement clear policies for reinforcing the preservation and re-use of scientific information (publications, data sets and other research outputs). </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both the revised proposal for the PSI Directive and the new recommendations to promote access and preservation of scientific information are steps in the right direction to expand the  re-use of public sector data and scientific research across Europe. They signal a push from the Commission to further integrate these related policies. It will be important that these policies are implemented with care and in consultation with stakeholders to “ensure the coherence and the complementarity between EU open access and open data policies.”</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54752
title: It’s a Recap of Recaps: Notes, Photos, and Blog Posts from this year’s CC Summit
uri: It-s-a-Recap-of-Recaps-Notes-Photos-and-Blog-Posts-from-this-year
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/04/global-summit-recaps/
content:
<figure id="attachment_54708" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54708" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/01/summit/40788379654_642417513f_z/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/40788379654_642417513f_z.jpg" data-orig-size="640,427" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="40788379654_642417513f_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/40788379654_642417513f_z.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/40788379654_642417513f_z.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-54708" src="media/1f3bafeb.40788379654_642417513f_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/40788379654_642417513f_z.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="427" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/40788379654/in/album-72157695724807975/">Photo by Sebastiaan Ter Burg, CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Here&#8217;s a roundup of recaps (or a recap of recaps? <img src="media/b45749bf.1f914.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.4/72x72/1f914.png" alt="🤔" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />) of this year&#8217;s CC Global Summit and tracks. Did you write about your experience? Take photos? Take notes? Let us know and we&#8217;ll add them to the post.</p>
<h3>Blog Posts</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://blogs.ifla.org/lpa?s=creative+commons+summit">Recaps on the IFLA Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@lorraine_chu3n/copyright-as-a-colonizers-tool-lessons-from-the-2018-ccsummit-7677963d798a">Copyright as a Colonizer&#8217;s Tool – lessons from the 2018 #ccsummit</a> – Lorraine Chuen <a href="https://adigitalizar.org/2018/04/23/el-copyright-como-una-herramienta-de-los-colonizadores-lecciones-de-la-ccsummit-2018/">(en Español)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mppga.ubc.ca/mppga-alum-andres-delgado-ron-reflects-on-creative-commons-summit/">Andrés Delgado-Ron Reflects on Creative Commons Summit</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.coinspeaker.com/2018/04/17/reinventing-like-likecoin-shines-creative-commons-summit-proudly-empowering-creators-worldwide/">Reinventing the ‘Like’: LikeCoin Shines at Creative Commons Summit Proudly Empowering Creators Worldwide</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ipandetec.org/2018/04/18/cc-panama-en-el-creative-commons-summit/">CC Panamá participó en el Creative Commons Summit 2018</a>– Marjorie Merel</li>
</ul>
<h3>Track Recaps</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wFpHk3fvlW2Q0_F1Owkc5MsWuH29I-PN31ZXxHcL2aU/edit#">Open Education</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OSgp9knviHCP_jGT8lFadTYDyXeaFjVCfx_MRmBuV9M/edit?ts=5ade2622">User-Centered Commons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mwkV2vg5e_E3ZAf5glsBGzlT547kq5NSbmmv11Fb6BM/edit">Legal and Copyright Reform</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2018.sched.com/">Notes on individual sessions on this year&#8217;s schedule.</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks to Jonathan Poritz, Jane Park, and Tim Vollmer for recapping and to all the note takers throughout the Summit!</p>
<h3>Photos</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/">Sebastiaan Ter Burg</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/141296750@N06/sets/72157693944446411/">Marjorie Merel</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/calu777/">Carlos Correa Loyola</a></li>
</ul>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54765
title: CC Summit Builds Momentum for Strengthening Author Rights; Global Rights Back Resource Announced
uri: CC-Summit-Builds-Momentum-for-Strengthening-Author-Rights-Global-Righ
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/07/strengthening-author-rights/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="54766" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/07/strengthening-author-rights/img_0037-1/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_0037-1.jpg" data-orig-size="2224,927" 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="IMG_0037 (1)" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_0037-1.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_0037-1.jpg" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54766" src="media/43dfd75b.IMG_0037-1.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_0037-1.jpg" alt="rights-back-resource" width="2224" height="927" /></p>
<p>The Creative Commons <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org">2018 Global Summit</a> in Toronto brought together a diverse group of stakeholders to explore strategies for increasing author choices for managing their copyright, and included the announcement of the new <a href="https://labs.creativecommons.org/reversionary-rights">Creative Commons Rights Back Resource</a> (beta) that will provide authors worldwide with information about how to regain copyright previously assigned away.</p>
<p>To facilitate momentum on the tool, Creative Commons, SPARC Europe and Authors Alliance convened an in-depth workshop involving more than 60 attendees focused on <a href="http://sched.co/E8Fo"><em>Giving Authors Control: How to Retain and Regain Your Copyright</em></a>.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="54767" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/07/strengthening-author-rights/sparceurope_logo_fc_def_small/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SparcEurope_logo_FC_def_Small.png" data-orig-size="225,97" 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="SparcEurope_logo_FC_def_Small" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SparcEurope_logo_FC_def_Small.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SparcEurope_logo_FC_def_Small.png" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-54767" src="media/ea058fcf.SparcEurope_logo_FC_def_Small.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SparcEurope_logo_FC_def_Small.png" alt="sparc-europe" width="225" height="97" />Vanessa Proudman, Director of SPARC Europe, framed the workshop looking at the current context, goals and challenges with rights management. She shared <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t7O-Sv4F9RJ6su0P93rSCUHyK3F5iDoq/view">ten prerequisites</a> for making open the default, and talked of how the community might best enable open for academics and readers. Among other highlights, she provided an overview of funder and government mandates for open access and identified key goals and challenges to enable open.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="54768" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/07/strengthening-author-rights/authors-alliance_logo_black-on-white/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/authors-alliance_logo_black-on-white.jpg" data-orig-size="772,337" 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="authors-alliance_logo_black-on-white" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/authors-alliance_logo_black-on-white.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/authors-alliance_logo_black-on-white.jpg" class="alignleft wp-image-54768" src="media/d51e79e9.authors-alliance_logo_black-on-white.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/authors-alliance_logo_black-on-white.jpg" alt="authors-alliance" width="252" height="110" />Brianna Schofield, Executive Director of Authors Alliance, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZaWx4czAKpUNtTmmGSGrCFR_lpmk-Qam/view">highlighted and explained</a> existing legal tools that help authors make sound publication decisions and regain control of their works, sharing thoughts on the value of doing so in support of authors making their works available in the ways they want. She explained the complicated nature of termination rights that authors have in the United States and resources that Creative Commons and Authors Alliance have developed to help them navigate those provisions. Michael Wolfe, formerly of Authors Alliance and now at the University of California, Davis, gave a live demonstration of how the <a href="http://www.rightsback.org">www.rightsback.org</a> termination of transfer tool can help authors determine whether they have reversionary rights.</p>
<p>Diane Peters, General Counsel of Creative Commons, <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/peterspdx/cc-and-oa-summit-2018-toronto-peters">described CC’s work in open access</a> in support of a more vibrant and usable commons. She focused on work, generously funded by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, to develop improved authors addenda that authors can use to retain some rights to their scholarly articles when submitting to traditional, non OA publishers. She also announced the launch of a new legal tool under development and funded by Arcadia, the <a href="https://labs.creativecommons.org/reversionary-rights/">Rights Back Resource (beta)</a>. Authors and those who support them such as librarians will be able to consult the resource to understand reversionary and termination rights around the world.</p>
<p>Session attendees then broke into three working groups to conduct deep dives, exploring three important areas: knowledge gaps and what authors should know if they want to help change current open access practices by retaining rights; existing and future advocacy tools and campaigns that can affect real change in the OA ecosystem; and strategies for overcoming publisher obstacles to author tools. A complete list of resources, speaker presentations, and notes from the breakout working groups may be found <a href="media/b27c5952.Giving20Authors20Control2028Summit20201820resources29.docx.pdf" data-original-source="https://schd.ws/hosted_files/ccglobalsummit2018/84/Giving%20Authors%20Control%20%28Summit%202018%20resources%29.docx.pdf">here</a>.</p>
<h3><strong>What’s Next</strong></h3>
<p>The three organizations plan to continue coordinating their respective efforts on new and existing legal tools, outreach, education and advocacy. This will include focusing on tangible ways to push ahead on ideas generated during the CC Summit session.</p>
<p>Creative Commons also welcomes contributions to the new international <a href="https://labs.creativecommons.org/reversionary-rights/">Rights Back Resource (beta)</a>. We need experts to identify and contribute information about reversionary and termination rights around the world. Our goal is provide a comprehensive resource where authors can learn about rights they may have to retake control over publication rights to their works that they previously assigned away. Please join CC in this effort and <a href="https://labs.creativecommons.org/reversionary-rights/contribute/">contribute information here</a>.</p>
<p>We are also working on updates to the <a href="https://labs.creativecommons.org/scholars/">Scholars Copyright Addendum Engine</a> and the addenda templates found there. An open questionnaire will be published soon with the goal of learning more about the needs and preferred terms of addenda to be used by scholars, authors and academics.</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone who participated in our Summit session! We look forward to seeing your contributions.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54772
title: A Transformative Year: State of the Commons 2017
uri: A-Transformative-Year-State-of-the-Commons-2017
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/08/state-of-the-commons-2017/
content:
<p><a href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org"><img data-attachment-id="54773" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/08/state-of-the-commons-2017/a-transformative-year/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/a-transformative-year.png" data-orig-size="1844,744" 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="a transformative year" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/a-transformative-year.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/a-transformative-year.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54773" src="media/0de6f14d.a-transformative-year.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/a-transformative-year.png" alt="a-transformative-year" width="1844" height="744" /></a></p>
<p>At this year’s Global Summit, board chair Molly Van Houweling emphasized that Creative Commons’ vision was not necessarily limited to the internet, but instead acts in support of the creative spirit that is <em>enabled </em>by the internet. As we announce a landmark 1.4 billion works under Creative Commons licenses with this year’s <a href="http://sotc.creativecommons.org">State of the Commons</a> report, we are celebrating that creative spirit – the people and communities who work to enable the large scale global movement for the Commons.</p>
<p><a href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org"><img data-attachment-id="54774" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/08/state-of-the-commons-2017/facebook-images-01-2/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Facebook-images-01-1.png" data-orig-size="5125,2500" 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="Facebook images-01" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Facebook-images-01-1.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Facebook-images-01-1.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54774" src="media/6d2cc7db.Facebook-images-01-1.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Facebook-images-01-1.png" alt="growth of cc licenses" width="5125" height="2500" /></a></p>
<p>While Creative Commons provides tools and programs that enable sharing on the web – the licenses, legal work, and resources that we build and steward – that work is driven by a global community that works to enable a world that is more open and collaborative. Supported by our new community-driven network strategy, we provide support to projects and people with events, grants, and solidarity work on campaigns like Compartir no es Delito! (Sharing is not a crime!) and the fight for Net Neutrality.</p>
<p><a href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org"><img data-attachment-id="54775" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/08/state-of-the-commons-2017/compartir-no-es-delito/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/compartir-no-es-delito.png" data-orig-size="464,580" 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="compartir no es delito" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/compartir-no-es-delito.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/compartir-no-es-delito.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54775" src="media/6b6e86c3.compartir-no-es-delito.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/compartir-no-es-delito.png" alt="policy-sotc" width="464" height="580" /></a></p>
<p>People, projects, and programs make up the bulk of this year’s report, but the data also supports our vision of a more creative, open world. 1.4 billion works is 200 million more than last year, and that growth has accelerated compared to the previous two years. To provide concrete examples: The Metropolitan Museum released 375,000 pieces of content under CC0 in February 2017. PLOS counts 7,000 editorial board members and 70,000+ volunteer peer reviewers to release 200,000 pieces of content. Wikipedia, one of our closest allies and partner in the “Big Open”, hosts 42 million freely licensed pieces of content. Our search tool has responded to 1,500,000 queries, and our website has been visited 50,000,000 times. And that’s only a part of our impact.</p>
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<p>From our growing tech team to our usability initiative, we’re working smarter than ever to fulfill our organizational mandate of building a “vibrant, global Commons built on gratitude.” In order to compile this year’s report, we put out a call to our network to ask which people, country teams, and projects are making the biggest impact around the world. From Razan Al Hadid’s work to revive CC Jordan to Scann’s continued work for the public domain in Argentina, the Creative Commons community is made up of individuals working for a better world. (The fact that almost all the profiles are of women is just a happy accident for the UnCommon Women who carry the movement.)</p>
<p><a href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org"><img data-attachment-id="54777" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/08/state-of-the-commons-2017/uncommonwomen/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/uncommonwomen.png" data-orig-size="711,710" 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="uncommonwomen" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/uncommonwomen.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/uncommonwomen.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54777" src="media/fa26483a.uncommonwomen.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/uncommonwomen.png" alt="uncommon-women" width="711" height="710" /></a></p>
<p>This year’s highlights include the launch of the <a href="http://certificates.creativecommons.org">CC Certificates program</a>, the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/15/fellowship-memorial-fund/">Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund and Fellowship</a> (awarded at the Global Summit), the new <a href="http://rightsback.org">Rights Back Resource </a>for creators to reclaim their creative work, and stories from teams as far away from each other as Tanzania, Canada, and Uruguay.</p>
<p>As usual, we’ll be translating the report with a team of volunteers over the next month, and spots are still available! <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org">Please get in touch if you’d like to translate.</a></p>
<p>By uplifting the stories of our friends and colleagues, we’re demonstrating what happens when communities champion each other’s work, and how we model the world we want to see. The report’s data is always fun, but it belies the depth of the humanity that underscores the commons.</p>
<p>As I’ve said before, “Creative Commons is made of people,” and this report tells their stories. Thank you again for all your support, and be sure to share out your impressions with the hashtag #sotc.</p>
<p><a class="button primary arrow" href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org">Visit the report</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54761
title: Red Alert for Net Neutrality
uri: Red-Alert-for-Net-Neutrality
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/09/red-alert-for-net-neutrality/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today Creative Commons is joining dozens of organisations in the </span><b>Red Alert for Net Neutrality</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The action calls on individuals to </span><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/"><b>contact Congress</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with phone calls, emails, and tweets in support of the upcoming Senate vote on a Congressional Review Act resolution to block the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality. </span></p>
<h3><b>The open internet protections must be restored.  </b><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/"><b>Contact Congress now!</b></a></h3>
<p><span>The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act"><span>Congressional Review Act (CRA)</span></a><span> is a mechanism that gives Congress the power to reverse federal regulation by passing a resolution of disapproval. The CRA action must be taken within 60 legislative days of enactment of the regulation, and must meet a simple majority. Today Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) submitted a petition to force action on the measure, and a Senate vote could be taken as early as next week.</span></p>
<p><span>There are already 50 Senators lined up in favor of blocking the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality, but 51 votes are needed for the resolution to pass. Winning the Senate vote on the CRA will be essential for building momentum for the fight in the House. And advocates want to put net neutrality front and center with Congress and make them weigh in on this critical issue, especially considering the upcoming 2018 midterm elections. According to a December 2017 </span><a href="http://www.publicconsultation.org/united-states/overwhelming-bipartisan-majority-opposes-repealing-net-neutrality/"><span>poll</span></a><span>, 83% of respondents supported keeping the net neutrality rules, including 75% of Republicans, 89% of Democrats, and 86% of independents. Thousands of businesses already <a href="https://www.businessesfornetneutrality.com/">signed a letter</a> to support the CRA to save net neutrality.</span></p>
<p><span>There are over </span><a href="https://stateof.creativecommons.org/"><span>1.4 billion CC-licensed works online</span></a><span>, shared freely with anyone with access to the internet. We advocate for a strong digital commons of creativity and knowledge, but open content is only one piece of the puzzle. The open internet is central to so many aspects of everyday life—from accessing education and news, communicating with friends and family, enjoying diverse entertainment like movies and music, and collaborating on global projects like Wikipedia.</span></p>
<p><span>Several </span><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/fcc-must-defend-net-neutrality-repeal-in-court-against-dozens-of-litigants/"><span>lawsuits</span></a><span> are making their way through the courts, and </span><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/california-net-neutrality-bill-that-att-hates-is-coming-to-new-york-too/"><span>states</span></a><span> have been introducing their own bills to protect net neutrality. But now is the time to reach out to your Senators and tell them to support the upcoming CRA resolution to block the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality.</span></p>
<h3><b>It’s important to <a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/">act now to save net neutrality</a>. The Senate vote could happen soon. </b></h3>
<p>The FCC’s repeal of net neutrality is opposite of what the public wants. Instead of dismantling the rules, we should be protecting and extending reasonable consumer protections that kickstart creativity, fuel innovation, and improve access to information online.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54797
title: Access to knowledge is crucial to our well-being and survival
uri: Access-to-knowledge-is-crucial-to-our-well-being-and-survival
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https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/10/access-to-knowledge-is-crucial-to-our-well-being-and-survival/

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<p>When the Creative Commons community began discussing how to better engage with the world, my role changed – especially when we decided to restructure the CC Global Network last year. I assisted in the transition process from the old, obsolete program to the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/global-affiliate-network/network-strategy/">new global network structure</a>. We conducted interviews with members of our network as part of our “<a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/global-affiliate-network/faces-commons-research/">Faces of the Commons</a>” report, and I helped conduct the interviews in my region.</p>
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<p>I had clear expectations about what I would hear from the interviewees; I’ve worked with the Creative Commons affiliate team for many years, and I thought I knew them very well. But I was completely wrong. All of them had different perspectives about the CC movement and its value. There were some common challenges they were struggling with, but they often varied widely by country.</p>
<h6><strong><em>I got to see the diversity of the CC community and the beautiful individuals within it. </em></strong></h6>
<p>What was also very striking was that they all have a deep appreciation for this wonderful community. While they face a lot of challenges, and some had complaints about how we were doing the work, they really cherish the relationships and friendships they’ve made in the community.</p>
<p><strong>These experiences allowed me to see the diversity of the community itself and, at the same time, the value of the beautiful individuals within it</strong>. It was an exciting and inspirational experience. It’s so important to highlight individual contributions. We always wanted to do that, but before the “Faces of the Commons” report, we didn’t have enough concrete examples to show people <em>why</em> it was so important. I think the report can be the basis for future endeavors towards that goal.</p>
<h3><strong>Translating knowledge and creativity</strong></h3>
<p><strong>I became involved in the CC Korea community after watching Lawrence Lessig’s </strong><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity"><strong>TED Talk</strong></a><strong>.</strong> I was fascinated by it. I didn’t know anything about Creative Commons at the time, but I began to do research and learned there were many people doing the same thing in Korea. That’s how I became involved in the Creative Commons Korea community.</p>
<p><strong>At the time I was working as a full-time translator. I was so in love with languages and translation – I love meeting people from different places and learning about new cultures.</strong> I realize that translation is a derivative form of work, and I struggled to understand why certain content should be inaccessible to someone just because it has been copyrighted by someone else. Even if the author wanted to share the work, it’s still copyrighted and at risk of being potentially illegal in certain hands if shared. I didn’t know which approach to take when I used someone’s work in my translations.</p>
<h6><strong><em>Creative Commons made it clear that knowledge and creativity should not be restricted by a legal system that doesn’t make sense.</em></strong></h6>
<p><strong>I realized that it’s important to make knowledge and creativity accessible to as many people as possible if you want others to benefit from your work. </strong>It makes me feel less restricted and less limited when I do translation work and share a creative work with others.</p>
<p>I try to translate books with Creative Commons licensing because it shows the value of the licenses, and helps me collaborate with others. It also allows me to reach out to traditional publishers and give them information about alternative licensing options.</p>
<p><strong>This year I’m translating the book “</strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/made-with-cc/"><strong>Made with Creative Commons</strong></a><strong>” by Paul Stacey and Sarah Pearson. </strong>It’s about open business models, and contains interviews and analyses by Creative Commons staff. I’m interested in this project because I want to experiment with a new model. Instead of working with traditional publishers, I wanted to team up with people interested in publishing online, under Creative Commons licenses, doing independent publishing. My hope is to develop this into other projects in other languages.</p>
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<h3><strong>Knowledge as a human right</strong></h3>
<p><strong>When I think about what a vibrant Commons means, I like to use the analogy of a river. </strong>Keeping the Commons vibrant is like keeping the river in your neighborhood safe and clean, so that anyone can drink and make use of it. Everyone understands that access to safe water is vital to the health of the community.</p>
<h6><strong><em>In this digital era, access to information and knowledge is becoming critical to survival and the well-being of society.</em></strong></h6>
<p><strong>To me, supporting the Commons is like protecting the environment and protecting human rights. </strong>Restrictive copyright systems, capitalism, and monetization of knowledge and information have increasingly become threats. Building a vibrant and sustainable Commons-based ecosystem is directly related to the sustainability and well-being of individuals in the world. It creates the foundation for more knowledge and creativity that others can be inspired by and build upon.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54809
title: CC Certificate Updates: Let us know what you think!
uri: CC-Certificate-Updates-Let-us-know-what-you-think
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/15/certificates-updates/
content:
<figure id="attachment_54707" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54707" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/01/summit/39692632470_7bd84f7997_z/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/39692632470_7bd84f7997_z.jpg" data-orig-size="640,427" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="39692632470_7bd84f7997_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/39692632470_7bd84f7997_z.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/39692632470_7bd84f7997_z.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-54707" src="media/639f1f3e.39692632470_7bd84f7997_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/39692632470_7bd84f7997_z.jpg" alt="party" width="640" height="427" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/39692632470/in/album-72157695724807975/">Photo by Sebastiaan Ter Burg CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>For those of you who missed it in the flurry of the 2018 CC Summit announcements, we opened <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/packages/">registration</a> for the official CC Certificate last month. The CC Certificate is a training course on Creative Commons licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons. We launched the CC Certificate as a way to invest in advocates in open movements – to build and strengthen their open licensing expertise. Find out more <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/">here</a>. Our first round of classes in July are already sold out, but we still have space in our October classes. We’re working on outreach, translation, scholarships, and Certificate Instructor training courses, so watch for more announcements!</p>
<p>While these updates and advancements are exciting, we recognize the need for this program to grow quickly to meet demand. We plan to iterate on the Certificate offerings, regularly assessing content and process to better meet your priorities. We welcome your input!</p>
<p>If you are interested in any of the following opportunities to get involved, please sign up below.</p>
<ul>
<li>CC Certificate information listserv sign up: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_GcxcOSSg_KfvDt4gGUHEG0M9TkMcaEpDjKzwfnuRPGZb1g/viewform?usp=sf_link">here</a></li>
<li>Interest in beta testing additional CC Certificate tracks, such as GLAM, or the CC Instructor Training course: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSce-lMofYdbrDOJ_zb5mSQXrG_yNGUskuUkRI-dLXeK3WWPRA/viewform?usp=sf_link">here</a></li>
<li>Interest in hosting an in-person Certificate “bootcamp” training: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2IR0epY1w48S5Cgdr8R53ELkpTXWEyFQc-e3FQXAdU8MtcQ/viewform?usp=sf_link">here</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks for being a part of this process! We look forward to working with you.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54824
title: Update to our Privacy Policy
uri: Update-to-our-Privacy-Policy
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/25/update-to-privacy-policy/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="54292" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/?attachment_id=54292" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/legal_logo-1.png" data-orig-size="600,200" 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="legal_logo" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/legal_logo-1.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/legal_logo-1.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-54292 size-full" src="media/b6c50e7e.legal_logo-1.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/legal_logo-1.png" alt="legal-logo" width="600" height="200" /></p>
<p>Like the rest of the internet, it seems, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) that comes into effect today has given us a good opportunity to pause and do a comprehensive review of the ways in which Creative Commons collects and uses the personal information of its community. As an organization, our data processing activities are pretty minimal. But given our event planning, fundraising, and other core functions, we do collect and use some data on a regular basis. We have rewritten our privacy policy to make it easier to understand how, when, and why that data collection happens.</p>
<p>The full new policy is <a href="https://creativecommons.org/privacy/">here.</a> We have strived to make it simpler and more human-readable, all while ensuring it is as precise and legally robust as possible. (Just like our legal tools!) Substantively, the most significant changes are:</p>
<ul>
<li>We rewrote our privacy principles to better reflect the ideals that motivate CC’s current practices.</li>
<li>We provided a more detailed explanation of our analytics tools and the instances in which the information they gather may be tied to your other personal information.</li>
<li>We described our retention practices, which reflect CC’s recent effort to begin to streamline and centralize data storage practices internally.</li>
<li>We added a simple process for you to request to access the data CC holds about you.</li>
</ul>
<p>Most of CC’s data collection happens when you voluntarily and knowingly provide CC with data, for example, by signing up to join the CC Global Network or donating money to our programs. There are, however, three ways in which CC collects and uses some data indirectly: Google Analytics, fundraising analytics, and email analytics. Our privacy policy describes those processes and how to opt out if you choose to do so.</p>
<p>If you are already on our mailing list, we are not requiring you to opt back in to continue to receive CC email updates. We decided that measure was not necessary given that CC has been consistently strengthening its mailing list sign-up procedures over the years, up to the double opt-in mechanism we use now. As always, you should feel free to update your preferences or unsubscribe entirely at any time by going to <a href="https://creativecommons.us13.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=4051250396fe81f55034e2d49&amp;id=5b82643372">this link. </a></p>
<p>CC will continue to monitor privacy regulations around the world and look for ways to improve our privacy practices.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54816
title: CC Africa Community Collaborates on Continental Projects
uri: CC-Africa-Community-Collaborates-on-Continental-Projects
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/25/cc-africa-community-collaborates-on-continental-projects/
content:
<h3><strong>Happy Africa Day 2018!</strong></h3>
<p>Every year on 25th May, Africans join together to remember the launch of the Organisation for African Unity (now rebranded to African Union) on May 25, 1963 in Ethiopia.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54817" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54817" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/05/25/cc-africa-community-collaborates-on-continental-projects/img_3139/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_3139.jpg" data-orig-size="4032,3024" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 7 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1523819805&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="IMG_3139" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_3139.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_3139.jpg" class="wp-image-54817" src="media/7a6e5694.IMG_3139.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_3139.jpg" alt="cc-africa-community-summit" width="500" height="375" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">CC Global Summit 2018 African Participants &#8211; Simeon Oriko <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>For years, many CC members across the African continent have expressed interest in collaborating on African Creative Commons initiatives.</p>
<p>On the sidelines of the recent CC Global Summit in Toronto, the African participants gathered, proposed and discussed areas of collaboration. We agreed to develop and complete projects by December 2018 in the following four categories:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open Policy &#8211; Led by Elizabeth Oyange (CC Kenya) and Seble Baraki (CC Ethiopia)</li>
<li>Open Education Resources &#8211; Led by Aristarik Maro (CC Tanzania) and Hildah Nyakwaka (CC Kenya)</li>
<li>Arts &amp; Culture &#8211; Led by Mohamed Rahmo (CC Morocco) and Asma Al-Amin (CC Kenya)</li>
<li>Open Access &#8211; Led by Kamel Belhamel (CC Algeria) and Helen Chuma-Okoro (CC Nigeria)</li>
</ol>
<p>Some of these groups have already began working on their ideas:</p>
<ol>
<li>The Open Policy group is targeting a project at the African Union. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xUVxAFxauHwNw63TDnTdkBv-Zjd1sUFt7nJ4iIhTCus/edit">Details here</a>.</li>
<li>The Open Access group project <a href="https://github.com/CC-Openaccess-Africa-Initiative/journals">details are here</a>.</li>
</ol>
<p>In addition to these categories, Raphael Berchie (CC Ghana) and Simeon Oriko (CC HQ) will help to lead the creation of chapters across the continent. Obianuju Mollel (CC Tanzania/Canada) will coordinate follow up work across the four categories.</p>
<p>We welcome you to join us and contribute your skills and knowledge towards realizing the potential of these projects.</p>
<h3>How do you join in?</h3>
<p>Join the <a href="https://chat.whatsapp.com/6xTiJOdHBbDJpY1S58SwaH">CC Africa WhatsApp group</a> where many discussions on these and other topics are taking place. Also, join the <a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/C2NT629V4">CC Africa Slack Channel</a>.</p>
<p>Not on CC Slack yet? Sign up here to join: <a href="https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/">https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54849
title: Act now to stop the EU’s plan to censor the web
uri: Act-now-to-stop-the-EU-s-plan-to-censor-the-web
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/08/act-now-to-stop-the-eus-plan-to-censor-the-web/
content:
<p><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/"><img data-attachment-id="54850" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/08/act-now-to-stop-the-eus-plan-to-censor-the-web/eucensorhands-1024x512/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/EUCensorHands-1024x512.png" data-orig-size="1024,512" 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="EUCensorHands [1024&#215;512]" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/EUCensorHands-1024x512.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/EUCensorHands-1024x512.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54850" src="media/8a22883f.EUCensorHands-1024x512.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/EUCensorHands-1024x512.png" alt="" width="1024" height="512" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament is nearing a vote on the proposed reform of the EU copyright rules, time is running out to make your voice heard. The vote will take place on June 20. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The final copyright directive will have deep and lasting effects on the ability to create and share, to access and use education and research, and to support and grow diverse content platforms and information services. As it stands now, the copyright reform—especially Article 13—is a direct threat to the open web.  </span></p>
<p><a href="https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/censorship-machines/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Article 13</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the proposal that would require online platforms to monitor their users’ uploads and try to prevent copyright infringement through automated filtering.</span></p>
<p><b>If you’re in the EU go to </b><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/"><b>https://saveyourinternet.eu/</b></a><b> and tell Members of the European Parliament to delete Article 13 from the copyright directive. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">From the website:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Article 13 will impose widespread censorship of all the content you share online, be it a parody video, a remix, a meme, a blog post, comments on Reddit, a piece of code, livestreaming your gaming experience, or even a link in a tweet.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The filtering requirement violates fundamental rights enshrined in existing EU law, such as the provision in the E-Commerce Directive that prohibits general monitoring obligations for internet platforms. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One example of the negative consequences of Article 13 is that it will limit freedom of expression, as the required upload filters won’t be able to tell the difference between copyright infringement and permitted uses of copyrighted works under limitations and exceptions. Article 13 fails to uphold rules that protect the ability of EU citizens to use copyright-protected works in transformative ways. And it puts into jeopardy the sharing of video remixes, memes, parody, and code, even works that include openly licensed content. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now the European Parliament is the last line of defense that can put the copyright reform back on track—or at least remove the most harmful parts of the draft legislation, particularly Article 13. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To provide a little background, for the last several years </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the EU has been working on </span><a href="https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">revising its rules on copyright</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Ever since the European Commission released its </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/14/european-commission-copyright-proposal-leaves-users-dark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">lackluster draft Directive on copyright</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2016, Creative Commons and dozens of organisations have been engaging policymakers to make crucial changes in order to protect user rights and the commons, enable research and education, and promote creativity and business opportunities in the digital market. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A few weeks ago the ambassadors of the EU countries </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/2018/05/28/member-states-adopt-negotiation-position-side-rightsholders-attack-user-rights/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">agreed to a version</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of Article 13 that fails to address the biggest shortcomings of the Commission’s original proposal, and in a number of ways actually makes it worse.</span></p>
<h3><a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/"><b>Contact Members of the European Parliament now!</b></a></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Send your representatives an email, tweet, or phone call before June 20 and tell them you need copyright laws that protect an Internet where you can share news and culture with your friends and family, where you can expect to be treated fairly, and where your rights as EU citizens are protected. Tell them to delete Article 13.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54858
title: Lithuanian translation of 4.0 available for use
uri: Lithuanian-translation-of-4-0-available-for-use
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/12/lithuanian-translation-of-4-0-available-for-use/
content:
<p><figure id="attachment_54859" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54859" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/12/lithuanian-translation-of-4-0-available-for-use/500px-flag_of_lithuania-svg/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/500px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg_.png" data-orig-size="500,300" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="500px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/500px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg_.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/500px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg_.png" class="size-full wp-image-54859" src="media/b4d04063.500px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg_.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/500px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg_.png" alt="lithuania-flag" width="500" height="300" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">[Public domain or Public domain], <a href="media/372706e9.FileFlag_of_Lithuania.svg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Lithuania.svg">from Wikimedia Commons</a></figcaption></figure>The Lithuanian translation of the 4.0 CC licenses and CC0 is now completed. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.lt">Both the licenses and CC0 translation can be viewed on the Creative Commons website.</a></p>
<p>The 4.0 translations are much anticipated by local heritage institutions as an online tool for evaluation of validity of rights and labelling content in the process of creation. The possibility to link the users directly to CC licenses and tools in Lithuanian is particularly welcome.</p>
<p>The Lithuanian translations were written by volunteer lawyers from the CC Lithuania team: Jurga Gradauskaitė; Rėda Pilipaitė, Paulius Jurčys, and Olegas Juška. The process was supervised by Prof. Vytautas Mizaras from the Faculty of Law at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania.</p>
<p>The CC Lithuania team will proceed with seminars and notifications to let potential users know of the possibility to use 4.0 in their local language and to reinforce the message of the benefits of labeling and sharing content.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/12/lithuanian-translation-of-4-0-available-for-use/">Lithuanian translation of 4.0 available for use</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54874
title: Creative Commons Announces New Board Members: Delia Browne and Amy Brand
uri: Creative-Commons-Announces-New-Board-Members-Delia-Browne-and-Amy-Bra
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/19/creative-commons-announces-new-board-members-delia-browne-and-amy-brand/

content:
<p>Today, CC is pleased to announce the appointment of two new members of the Board of Directors, both prominent leaders and advocates in their fields. Congratulations to Amy Brand, Director of the MIT Press, and Delia Browne, National Copyright Director for the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) Education Council and Copyright Advisory Group.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54875" style="width: 270px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="54875" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/19/creative-commons-announces-new-board-members-delia-browne-and-amy-brand/amy2018/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Amy2018.png" data-orig-size="342,356" 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="Amy2018" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Amy2018.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Amy2018.png" class=" wp-image-54875" src="media/92c386c8.Amy2018.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Amy2018.png" alt="amy-brand" width="270" height="281" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Amy Brand, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Amy Brand</strong> is Director of the MIT Press, one of the largest university presses in the world, and an important figure in open access publishing. The MIT Press is well-known for its publications in emerging fields of scholarship and its pioneering use of technology. Brand’s career spans a wide array of experiences in academia and scholarly communications. She received her doctorate in cognitive science from MIT and has held a number of positions in scholarly communications, publishing, and open information access at MIT, Digital Science, and Harvard before returning to the press in 2015 to serve as director. She is an Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and serves on the boards of Crossref, Duraspace, Altmetric, and Board on Research Data and Information of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. She’s currently working on her first documentary film, on women in science.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54876" style="width: 359px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img data-attachment-id="54876" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/19/creative-commons-announces-new-board-members-delia-browne-and-amy-brand/14138577954_c9a8f898f0_z/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/14138577954_c9a8f898f0_z.jpg" data-orig-size="640,426" 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="14138577954_c9a8f898f0_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/14138577954_c9a8f898f0_z.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/14138577954_c9a8f898f0_z.jpg" class=" wp-image-54876" src="media/c7ca0b9e.14138577954_c9a8f898f0_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/14138577954_c9a8f898f0_z.jpg" alt="delia-browne" width="359" height="239" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">republica/Gregor Fischer, 08.05.2014 CC-BY-SA 2.0</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Delia Browne </strong>is a highly respected copyright lawyer and policy advocate who leads the <a href="http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/">National Copyright Unit (NCU)</a> providing specialist copyright advice to Australian Schools and Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutes with a focus on the rapidly changing digital teaching environment. A long time member of the Creative Commons Global Network, Delia is the Education Sector Lead of Creative Commons Australia and has attended every Creative Commons Global Summit since 2007 and she was an essential member of the community strategy team that authored CC’s Global Network Strategy. Delia is a strong advocate of the open education movement and has drafted a number of declarations and pieces of legislation including the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education and the Copyright Amendment on Disability Access and Other Measures Act 2017. She is a sought-after speaker and participates in many international conferences and think tanks on Copyright Law Reform and OER. She has represented Creative Commons at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and is dedicated to furthering the WIPO Limitations and Exception agenda particularly with regard to education. Delia is a co-founder and the President of <a href="about:blank">Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU)</a> and a board director of the <a href="http://www.digital.org">Australian Digital Alliance.</a> She is also a member of the editorial board of Media and Arts Law Review and has taught Intellectual Property at the University of New Wales, Griffith University and the University of Auckland (her alma mater.)</p>
<p>These two women are excellent additions to our Board of Directors, joining with CC to fulfill our vision for open access to knowledge and a vibrant, usable Commons powered by collaboration and gratitude. We look forward to seeing all that they accomplish in their new appointments.</p>
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