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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53443
title: Digital Rights Organisations Tell NAFTA Negotiators: Move Talks Out of the Shadows
uri: Digital-Rights-Organisations-Tell-NAFTA-Negotiators-Move-Talks-Out-of
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https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/18/digital-rights-organisations-tell-nafta-negotiators-move-talks-shadows/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today Creative Commons and over two dozen civil society and digital rights organisations released a </span><a href="media/947565ea.Transparency_Digital_Rights_and_NAFTA_Aug_18_2017.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/d/dc/Transparency_Digital_Rights_and_NAFTA_Aug_18_2017.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">letter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> raising concerns about the potential impact of the re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on access to information, digital rights, and the open internet. The letter was released this week because trade negotiators from Canada, Mexico, and the United States are meeting this week in Washington, D.C. for the opening round of the renewed negotiation process. In June we asked whether re-negotiating the agreement is </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/14/re-negotiating-nafta-opening-pandoras-box/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">opening Pandora’s Box</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the letter, we demand that negotiators immediately reform the trade negotiation process to make the proceedings more transparent, inclusive and accountable. We believe it is unacceptable that binding rules on intellectual property, access to medicines, and a variety of other trade-related sectors will be reworked within a process that is inaccessible and often hostile to input from members of the public.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We warn against making changes to the existing rules around intellectual property, noting that in most recent multilateral trade negotiations there has been a significant push to drastically increase copyright enforcement measures, lengthen copyright terms, and demand harsh infringement penalties without corresponding provisions to protect the interests of users of copyright works</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. But if intellectual property is to be addressed within NAFTA, it is critical that user rights are balanced alongside the extensive protections already granted to rights holders. There must be active and enforceable mechanisms to protect copyright exceptions and limitations, including fair use and fair dealing regimes. It’s critical that the negotiating parties resist extending copyright terms (which do nothing to promote the creation of new works). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the NAFTA talks unfold, we stand by our belief that these negotiations must be reformed to fully support a process that is transparent, inclusive and accountable. If negotiators wish to address copyright concerns, they should do so not by increasing protectionist measures that will benefit only small number of powerful rights holders. Instead, they should advocate for balanced, progressive provisions that empower new creators and users and protect the public good. </span></p>
<p><a href="media/947565ea.Transparency_Digital_Rights_and_NAFTA_Aug_18_2017.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/d/dc/Transparency_Digital_Rights_and_NAFTA_Aug_18_2017.pdf">Transparency, Digital Rights, and NAFTA</a> (English)<br />
<a href="media/4772021f.Transparencia_y_los_derechos_digitales_en_el_TLCAN.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/f/f6/Transparencia_y_los_derechos_digitales_en_el_TLCAN.pdf">Transparencia​ ​y​ ​los​ ​derechos​ ​digitales​ ​en​ ​el​ ​TLCAN</a> (Español)</p>
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<h3><b>Transparency, Digital Rights, and NAFTA </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We, the undersigned, are Internet freedom and public interest advocates drawn from all three nations party to this agreement, who are dedicated to the rights of all peoples to access cultural and educational resources, to enjoy a free and open Internet, and to benefit from open and needs-driven innovation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the United States, Mexico and Canada begin talks on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) this week, we write to share our concerns about NAFTA’s potential impact on the critical functions of the Internet and its potential to threaten access to information, the dissemination of news, cultural exchange and democratic organizing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First and foremost, we call upon the United States, Mexico and Canada to meaningfully reform trade negotiation processes to make them more transparent, inclusive and accountable. It is unacceptable that binding rules are created in a forum that is inaccessible and often hostile to input from members of the public. Specifically, we would like to see: public release of text proposals by governments before negotiations, with clear processes established for members of the public to comment on them; consolidated versions of negotiating texts published between negotiating rounds; locations and times of key meetings announced well ahead of time; and the establishment of consultative trade groups that are broadly representative of both business and public interest stakeholders with a commitment to conducting deliberations openly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Without these reforms, public trust in trade processes will continue to wane, and governments will face significant popular resistance to agreements based on process alone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also share concerns about the suitability of trade mechanisms to create prescriptive policies that govern Internet use, cultural sharing and innovation. In general, developments in technology happen quickly, and trade processes that do not keep pace with technological and social advancement may inhibit each of our respective governments from making necessary and appropriate changes to related rules, especially with regard to intellectual property regulations that impact our rights to culture and free expression.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With specific regard to including intellectual property rules in trade agreements, when these policies have been included in past agreements, we have seen that there is a significant push to drastically increase enforcement measures for rightsholders, lengthen copyright terms, and demand harsh infringement penalties, without corresponding provisions to protect the interests of users of copyright works.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We do not believe these types of rules belong in trade agreements, and given the ambitious timeline for a completed NAFTA renegotiation, the inclusion of prescriptive IP provisions will prove to be a stumbling block for governments seeking to create public consensus around a mutually beneficial agreement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, if intellectual property is addressed within NAFTA, it is critical that user rights are balanced alongside the demands of rightsholders: there must be active and enforceable mechanisms to protect exceptions and limitations regimes, fair use/fair dealing and the public domain. Parties should resist extensions in copyright terms that punish new artists and creators, and there should be no increased criminalization for digital rights management circumvention.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Further, any rules aimed at promoting the free flow of data across the Internet and reducing barriers to trade in digital products and services must preserve countries’ flexibility to robustly protect individual privacy and security, including the ability to place limits on cross-border data transfers or on the protection of trade secrets.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A renegotiated NAFTA should not be developed in secret, and must not lead to a rewriting of intellectual property rules that further tilts the balance away from the public interest or undermines the free, open and interoperable Internet.</span></p>
<p><strong><i>Signatories</i></strong></p>
<p>Electronic Frontier Foundation<br />
Creative Commons<br />
OpenMedia<br />
R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales<br />
Public Interest Advocacy Centre<br />
Derechos Digitales<br />
Just Foreign Policy<br />
Public Knowledge<br />
Media Alliance<br />
Engine<br />
Data Roads Foundation<br />
Public Citizen (Access to Medicines, Innovation and Information)<br />
Red Mexicana de acción frente al Libre Comercio (RMALC)<br />
Common Frontiers<br />
SPARC<br />
Voices-Voix<br />
May First/People Link<br />
Internet Archive<br />
SonTusDatos (Artículo 12)<br />
STRM<br />
Horizontal<br />
Authors Alliance<br />
Sierra Club Canada Foundation<br />
Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)<br />
National Family Farm Coalition</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53467
title: The European Commission should repeal extra rights for databases
uri: The-European-Commission-should-repeal-extra-rights-for-databases
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/30/european-commission-repeal-extra-rights-databases/
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<figure id="attachment_53468" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53468" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/30/european-commission-repeal-extra-rights-databases/circuit-board/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/circuit-board.jpg" data-orig-size="2048,1506" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;645N&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;120&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="circuit board" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/circuit-board-300x221.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/circuit-board-1024x753.jpg" class="wp-image-53468 size-large" src="media/a6112e55.circuit-board-1024x753.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/circuit-board-1024x753.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="618" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/circuit-board-1024x753.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/circuit-board-300x221.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/circuit-board-768x565.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/circuit-board-54x40.jpg 54w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/circuit-board-50x37.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/circuit-board-211x155.jpg 211w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/circuit-board-1200x882.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/drougge/7382892612/">Circuit board</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/drougge/">Carl Drougge</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1996 the European Union adopted the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Directive"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Database Directive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which aimed to harmonise the treatment of databases under copyright law and introduced the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right"><span style="font-weight: 400;">sui generis database right </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">for non-original databases. Sui generis database rights are separate from copyright. They protect the &#8220;sweat of the brow&#8221; of the person who has made a substantial investment in obtaining, verifying, or presenting the contents of a database.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2005 the European Commission released its first (and only) </span><a href="media/c9ee36ca.evaluation_report_en.pdf" data-original-source="http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/docs/databases/evaluation_report_en.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">evaluation report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the impact of the Database Directive. It found that there was no evidence that the sui generis right has improved EU competitiveness by increasing the production of databases. In contrast, the presence of the sui generis right has produced a confusing legal environment in which users do not know if (or how) their uses are subject to the sui generis right.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now the Commission is </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/commission-launches-public-consultation-database-directive"><span style="font-weight: 400;">asking for feedback</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on what to do with the Database Directive, in particular the sui generis protection. Creative Commons responded to the Commission’s survey, and you can read our answers </span><a href="media/1604711b.swers_from_CC_to_consultation_on_database_directive_Aug_2017.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/1/1f/Survey_answers_from_CC_to_consultation_on_database_directive_Aug_2017.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Database Directive has failed to give database producers that wish to make their databases available on an open access basis the choice to opt out of the sui generis protection or a way to communicate conditions for reuse. This has led to some recent projects (such as </span><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikidata</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Europeana</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) to simply sidestep the right altogether by releasing their data into the public domain using the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0 Public Domain Dedication</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, thus neutralising copyright and sui generis rights to ensure that their data is freely (re)usable. It should be noted that the most recent iteration of the Creative Commons suite (version 4.0 released in 2013) licenses sui generis database rights alongside copyright, but the extent of the use of the 4.0 licenses as a tool primarily to address the sui generis right is unclear.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve also worked with our partners at COMMUNIA to prepare a short </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/policy-papers/policy-paper-12-reaction-public-consultation-database-directive/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">policy paper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which echoes the recommendations we provided to the consultation. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Commission should repeal the sui generis database right and harmonize the limitations and exceptions for the copyright section of the Database Directive with the Infosoc Directive. If it is not possible to fully revoke the sui generis right, the Commission should amend the Database Directive to introduce a system whereby producers of databases must register to receive protection under the sui generis right. It should also expand the sui generis exceptions and make them mandatory. Finally, it should set a maximum term so that there cannot be perpetual extensions.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The sui generis protection in the Database Directive has caused more harm than good. It’s time for it to go. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53478
title: Invitation to Join: CC Open Education Platform
uri: Invitation-to-Join-CC-Open-Education-Platform
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-platform/
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<figure id="attachment_53485" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/6476689463/"><img data-attachment-id="53485" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-platform/6476689463_affd5e415b_z/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/6476689463_affd5e415b_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="6476689463_affd5e415b_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/6476689463_affd5e415b_z-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/6476689463_affd5e415b_z.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-53485" src="media/3d8d9113.6476689463_affd5e415b_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/6476689463_affd5e415b_z.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/6476689463_affd5e415b_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/6476689463_affd5e415b_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/6476689463_affd5e415b_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/6476689463_affd5e415b_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/6476689463_affd5e415b_z-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Open is Welcoming&#8221; by Alan Levine, CC0</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In early 2017, the Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) completed a consultation process of renewing and reorganizing itself to support a strong and growing global movement. The year-long process resulted in the CCGN </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/global-affiliate-network/network-strategy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Global Network Strategy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Part of the new strategy is to establish defined areas of focus, or “platforms,” which will drive CC’s global activities. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/global-affiliate-network/network-platforms/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Platforms</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are how we organize areas of work for the CC community, where individuals and institutions organize and coordinate themselves across the CC Global Network.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the spirit of openness and to effectively strategize, these platforms are open to all interested parties working in the platform area and adjacent spaces. That’s why Creative Commons invites <strong>you</strong> to join the CC Global Network Open Education Platform!</span></p>
<p><b>WHY join?</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stay connected to global actions in open education resources, practice, and policy.</span></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify, plan and coordinate multi-national open education, practices and policy projects to collaboratively solve education challenges with an amazing group of open education leaders from around the world.</span></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Secure funding (from Creative Commons and other funding sources) for the open education projects we collectively select.</span></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Contribute to global perspectives on open education to strengthen advocacy worldwide.</span></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Connect your country / region to global open education initiatives.</span></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be on the forefront in implementing Creative Commons&#8217; global network strategy.</span></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meet annually, in-person, at the Creative Commons Summit with </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">members of the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Open Education Platform to celebrate successes, share best practices, and plan for the next year.</span></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Explore, practice, and share innovative methods for inclusive and open engagement with educators, learners and governments around the world..</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>WHO should join?</b></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open education advocates working in the areas of open educational resources, open educational practices, and/or open education policy.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>WHAT are we working on right now? </b></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reaching the right people (you!) to build a strong open education platform.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Developing decision making and engagement structures.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Defining the goals and projects the CC Open Education Platform will pursue.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Joining the CC Open Education Platform is easy and free:</b></p>
<ul>
<li><b><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sign up for the email list: </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cc-openedu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cc-openedu</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></a></b></b></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sign up for IM (Slack or IRC):</span>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Slack: sign up</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: (it will send an invitation email), then sign up to the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/C2S2MFAJW"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#cc-openedu channel</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">IRC: to join the #creativecommons-openedu IRC channel, connect via Freenode.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<li><b><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Review and contribute to the platform </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-HPog_7pPUXrECzne1t6X7eKwo8TzpYBZ8iC8FfASoE/edit"><span style="font-weight: 400;">draft working doc.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></a></b></b></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Attend and participate in the monthly meetings.</span>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The next meeting</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">October 18: 8:00pm / October 19: 9:00am (PDT, UTC -7).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Note: every meeting has two different times &#8211; so everyone can attend one of the meetings during local daylight hours.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Please join the e-mail list and IM channel, introduce yourself, and we’ll see you at the next meeting!</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53472
title: European Parliament Must Protect Scientific Research
uri: European-Parliament-Must-Protect-Scientific-Research
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/07/european-parliament-must-protect-scientific-research/
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<figure id="attachment_53473" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53473" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/07/european-parliament-must-protect-scientific-research/2756494307_4018808b1b_o/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2756494307_4018808b1b_o.jpg" data-orig-size="3456,2304" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;unknown&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1201355106&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="2756494307_4018808b1b_o" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2756494307_4018808b1b_o-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2756494307_4018808b1b_o-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-image-53473 size-large" src="media/7f5b7a88.2756494307_4018808b1b_o-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2756494307_4018808b1b_o-1024x683.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2756494307_4018808b1b_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2756494307_4018808b1b_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2756494307_4018808b1b_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2756494307_4018808b1b_o-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2756494307_4018808b1b_o-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2756494307_4018808b1b_o-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2756494307_4018808b1b_o-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicmcphee/2756494307/">I tend to scribble a lot</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicmcphee/">Nic McPhee</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In June we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/02/dozens-organizations-call-european-parliament-redouble-efforts-progressive-copyright-changes/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">asked</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the European Parliament to redouble their efforts to make much-needed improvements to the EU copyright reform. We called on the Parliament to spearhead crucial changes that promote creativity and business opportunities, enable research and education, and protect user rights in the digital market. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite this strong ask, the direction of the copyright reform is getting worse, not better. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week Creative Commons and major organisations</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from the library, research, education, and digital rights community sent a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uuQOQzKtjJiH9DLh5GJreuL4-mj3PyCGDu_lJFAzmWw/edit#heading=h.5z6k7n5et72d">letter</a> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">to the European Parliament&#8217;s Legal Affairs Committee calling on it to protect open access and open science in the context of the Commission’s draft </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-directive-european-parliament-and-council-copyright-digital-single-market"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Additional signatories are encouraged to <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/fsgkY5MIDoaoIVlG2">join the letter</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of particular concern are two parts of the draft directive: Article 11 (press publisher’s right) and Article 13 (platform content filtering). We believe that these provisions will create burdensome and harmful restrictions on access to scientific research and data, as well as on the fundamental rights of freedom of information, directly contradicting the EU’s own ambitions in the field of Open Access and Open Science.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The press publisher’s right already poses a significant threat to an informed and literate society. Links to news and the use of titles, headlines and fragments of information could now become subject to licensing. The </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/2017/07/18/eu-research-committee-wants-gift-publishers-new-rights-restrict-access-scientific-research/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">extension of this controversial proposal to cover academic publications</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, as proposed by the Parliament’s Research Committee, significantly worsens an already bad situation. This type of arrangement is unequivocally harmful to access to scientific and scholarly information—most of which has already been paid for from by the public funds, and whose </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">raison d&#8217;être</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is to be read as widely as possible in order to contribute to the scientific enterprise. It flies in the face of open access publishing, whose authors have chosen to share their research outputs under permissive licenses for the benefit of all. And it directly conflicts with other provisions in the EU’s copyright reform meant to improve research processes and outcomes, such as the mandatory copyright exception for text and data mining.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Article 13 threatens the accessibility of scientific articles, publications and research data made available through over 1250 repositories that European non-profit institutions and academic communities. These repositories, which are essential for Open Access and Science in Europe, are likely to face significant additional operational costs associated with implementing new filtering technology and the legal costs of managing the risks of intermediary liability.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both Articles 11 and 13 should be removed from the proposal.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our letter also touches on other important issues such as the exception for text and data mining (Article 3) and the exception for educational purposes (Article 4). We ask the Legal Affairs Committee to improvement these and other Articles so they to provide better support for teaching, learning, and new forms of research.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can read the full letter below. </span></p>
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<h3><b>EU copyright reform threatens Open Access and Open Science</b></h3>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open letter to the members of the Legal Affairs Committee in the European Parliament</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We represent a large group of European academic, library, education, research and digital rights communities and we are writing to express our alarm at the draft Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, and in particular at the potential impact of Articles 11 and 13. We are concerned that these provisions will create burdensome and harmful restrictions on access to scientific research and data, as well as on the fundamental rights of freedom of information, directly contradicting the EU’s own ambitions in the field of Open Access and Open Science.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We therefore urge the Legal Affairs Committee to remove Articles 11 and 13 from the draft Directive. Furthermore, the Committee should ensure that Articles 3 to 9 support new forms of research and education and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">not work against them.</span></p>
<p><b>A U-turn on Open Science?</b></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We believe that increased digital access, data analytics and open information flows will increase innovation in Europe. The European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme similarly supports open access to scientific publications and research data as essential drivers of EU global competitiveness. The EU has set an example internationally with its extensive policy work, for example by including Open Access in one of its six European Research Area (ERA) priorities. Moreover in 2016 at the Competitiveness Council, all of Europe’s ministers of science, innovation, trade and industry committed to Open Access to scientific publications as the default option for publicly funded research results by 2020. Open Science is increasingly accepted by governments and industry as a means not only to accelerate innovation, but also to ensure faster access to information for citizens.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> However, several proposed elements of Articles 11 and 13 will prevent the EU from realizing the significant potential of Open Access and Open Science to promote scientific discovery and progress, and may thereby reduce the impact of European research worldwide. </span></li>
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<p><b>The Ancillary Right &#8211; Putting the brakes on knowledge-sharing and building walls around already open publications and data</b></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Article 11 already poses a significant threat to an informed and literate society. Links to news and the use of titles, headlines and fragments of information could now become subject to licensing. Terms could make the last two decades of news less accessible to researchers and the public, leading to a distortion of the public’s knowledge and memory of past events. Art. 11 would furthermore place EU law in contravention with the Berne Convention, whose Art. 2(8) excludes news of the day and ‘mere items of press information’ and ‘press summaries’ from protection.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The extension of this controversial proposal to academic publications, as proposed by the ITRE Committee, significantly worsens an already bad situation. It would provide academic publishers additional legal tools to restrict access, going against the increasingly widely accepted practice of sharing research. This will limit the sharing of open access publications and data which currently are freely available for use and reuse in further scientific advances. If the proposed ancillary right is extended to academic publications, researchers, students and other users of scientific and scholarly journal articles could be forced to ask permission or pay fees to the publisher for including short quotations from a research paper in other scientific publications. This will seriously hamper the spread of knowledge. The proposed ancillary right further conflicts with the Berne Convention’s Article 10(1), which provides a mandatory exception for quotation, as well as posing risks to freedom of speech.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Prior experiments with the press publishers’ right have also failed from an economic standpoint. No impact assessment has been carried out, no evidence produced, and no consultation conducted around the ramifications of extending Art. 11 to academic publishers.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In addition, academic publishers usually acquire rights to the works they publish when signing contracts with their authors. Publishers already have all the rights they need, thus ancillary rights don&#8217;t make sense.</span></li>
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<p><b>Filtering obligations &#8211; Undermining the foundations of Open Access</b></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The provisions of Article 13 threaten the accessibility of scientific articles, publications and research data made available through over 1250 repositories that European non-profit institutions and academic communities. These repositories, which are essential for Open Access and Science in Europe, are likely to face significant additional operational costs associated with implementing new filtering technology and the legal costs of managing the risks of intermediary liability. The additional administrative burdens of policing this content would add to these costs. Such repositories, run on a not-for-profit basis, are not equipped to take on such responsibilities, and may face closure. This would be a significant blow, creating new risks for implementing funder, research council and other EU Open Access policies.</span></li>
</ol>
<p><b>Text and Data Mining &#8211; The risks to scientific values</b></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Regarding Article 3, we welcome amendments that expand the exception for text and data mining (TDM) to allow anyone, including SMEs and society in general, to mine works to which they have legal access, regardless of the purpose. Furthermore, Article 3 should direct Member States to set up a secure facility to ensure accessibility and verifiability of research made possible through TDM. Under no circumstances should data structured for mining purposes be deleted &#8211; this is fundamentally contrary to good scientific practice. Finally, the exception should be protected from being overridden by contract terms, and technological measures should be prohibited that interfere with the exercise of the exception. Both protections are essential for the exception to function.</span></li>
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<p><b>Education, preservation and access &#8211; An enabling environment for Open Science</b></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Regarding Article 4, we believe that a robust exception to copyright for education should support broad access to and fair reuse of copyrighted content of all types in a variety of education settings, locally and across borders. The scope of the exception should cover digital and non-digital uses, including ‘scientific research’ purposes, alongside educational ones, and prevent rightholders from overriding the exception through contractual provisions or technological protection measures. Finally, the exception </span>should not depend on compulsory remuneration.</li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We also urge MEPs to take full account of the views of library and cultural heritage institutions regarding Articles 5-9 of the draft Directive, which aim at ensuring maximising the effective preservation of, and access to works for public interest, non-commercial purposes.</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We therefore urge the Legal Affairs Committee to remove Articles 11 and 13 from the draft Directive. Furthermore, we ask for the improvement of Articles 3-9 in line with the suggestions put forward by library, educational, research and cultural heritage organisations throughout the parliamentary process to provide better support for teaching, learning, and new forms of research.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The signatories support a balanced copyright law that promotes open access to research articles, publications and data, thereby continuing to contribute to further strengthening Europe’s research outreach and innovative capacity for the benefit of Europe’s research industry, including SMEs and society.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Original signatories</span></em></p>
<p>CESAER – Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research<br />
COAR – Confederation of Open Access Repositories<br />
Commons Network<br />
Communia Association<br />
Creative Commons<br />
C4C – Copyright for Creativity (C4C) Coalition<br />
EBLIDA – European Bureau of Library Information and Documentation Associations<br />
EIFL – Electronic Information for Libraries<br />
EUA – European University Association<br />
Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU<br />
IFLA – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions<br />
LIBER – Association of European Research Libraries<br />
RLUK – Research Libraries UK<br />
Science Europe<br />
SPARC Europe</p>
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<p><img data-attachment-id="51370" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/18/slack-announcement/cc-slack-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Slack-2.jpg" data-orig-size="976,418" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="cc-on-slack" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Slack-2-300x128.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Slack-2.jpg" class="aligncenter wp-image-51370 " src="media/85e3909b.CC-Slack-2.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Slack-2.jpg" alt="cc-on-slack" width="521" height="223" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Slack-2.jpg 976w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Slack-2-300x128.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Slack-2-768x329.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Slack-2-93x40.jpg 93w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Slack-2-50x21.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Slack-2-270x116.jpg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 521px) 85vw, 521px" /></p>
<p>Almost a year ago, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/18/slack-announcement/">we announced</a> that our community’s real time communications were migrating from IRC to Slack. As we pass 1,000 active users, we want to take a moment to give gratitude to our community for making it happen.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53556" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/14/lessons-learned-year-slack-1000-members-immeasurable-community-growth/active_users_slack/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/active_users_slack.png" data-orig-size="2366,1022" 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="active_users_slack" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/active_users_slack-300x130.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/active_users_slack-1024x442.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-53556" src="media/2c14a0cd.active_users_slack-1024x442.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/active_users_slack-1024x442.png" alt="active users" width="840" height="363" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/active_users_slack-1024x442.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/active_users_slack-300x130.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/active_users_slack-768x332.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/active_users_slack-93x40.png 93w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/active_users_slack-50x22.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/active_users_slack-270x117.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/active_users_slack-1200x518.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<h3><strong>1,000+ active users</strong></h3>
<p>More than 450 of our users joined Slack in our first month and a half, an incredible lift for us. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/09/a-month-of-slack/">Read more about our first month of Slack on the blog.</a></p>
<p>We’ve grown consistently since then, but our next big influx of community came this week, when our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-platform/">Open Education Platform</a> launched. #cc-openedu is now our most populous channel outside of #general and #announcements, with 167 participants collaborating daily in the channel. We expect an increasing number of people signing up in all our platforms with the launch of our exciting new <a href="http://creativecommons.org/network">Global Network Strategy.</a></p>
<p>Our community as a whole hosts 250 Weekly Active Users sending approximately 1,000 messages per day. However, certain days are definitely busier than others: after we sent out our invitation to our Global Summit attendees to join us on Slack, our engagement shot up to 1,700 messages in one day in April. The community is friendly and welcoming, and we try to say hello to every member who joins and posts!</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53557" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/14/lessons-learned-year-slack-1000-members-immeasurable-community-growth/people_saying_hi/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/people_saying_hi.png" data-orig-size="684,1164" 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="people_saying_hi" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/people_saying_hi-176x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/people_saying_hi-602x1024.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-53557" src="media/80f04340.people_saying_hi-602x1024.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/people_saying_hi-602x1024.png" alt="hello-to-new-friends" width="311" height="529" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/people_saying_hi-602x1024.png 602w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/people_saying_hi-176x300.png 176w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/people_saying_hi-24x40.png 24w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/people_saying_hi-29x50.png 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/people_saying_hi-91x155.png 91w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/people_saying_hi.png 684w" sizes="(max-width: 311px) 85vw, 311px" /></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3><strong>35 Public Channels</strong></h3>
<p>35 public channels feels like a lot of channels, but the number of access points allows members to hop into (and out of) any of our global communities or programs with ease. The many channels allow us to open up our work to the world and facilitate communication between a variety of users on <strong>six continents.</strong> (We&#8217;re not yet in Antarctica – anyone want to start a chapter?)</p>
<p>In addition to our 1,000 members milestone, we’re nearing another important landmark: <strong>The CC Community has sent nearly 200,000 messages! </strong>We’re talking a lot between each other – more than 50% of our messages are sent via Direct Messages to develop our close-knit, relational culture of Community Builders.</p>
<p><a href="where-people-are-reading"><img data-attachment-id="53558" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/14/lessons-learned-year-slack-1000-members-immeasurable-community-growth/where_people_are_reading_year/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/where_people_are_reading_year.png" data-orig-size="2384,816" 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="where_people_are_reading_year" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/where_people_are_reading_year-300x103.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/where_people_are_reading_year-1024x350.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-53558" src="media/64d0549b.where_people_are_reading_year-1024x350.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/where_people_are_reading_year-1024x350.png" alt="where-p" width="840" height="287" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/where_people_are_reading_year-1024x350.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/where_people_are_reading_year-300x103.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/where_people_are_reading_year-768x263.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/where_people_are_reading_year-117x40.png 117w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/where_people_are_reading_year-50x17.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/where_people_are_reading_year-270x92.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/where_people_are_reading_year-1200x411.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p>To call out some of our favorite channels, #cc-openedu is acting as a catalyst and inspiration for other network-platform based communities, with more than 60 users regularly posting messages and a channel membership of 166. The #general and #announcements channels remain incredibly popular, with over 1,000 total members and 100 daily active users, as does, of course, #cc-animals, which provides all the cuteness from the commons. Want to learn more about how we work? #cc-culture-club has you covered! While most of our chatter is about the commons, we can also get silly in the #random channel.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53560" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/14/lessons-learned-year-slack-1000-members-immeasurable-community-growth/random_talk/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/random_talk-e1505406920533.png" data-orig-size="1917,985" 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="random_talk" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/random_talk-e1505406920533-300x154.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/random_talk-e1505406920533-1024x526.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-53560 size-large" src="media/eb5f3bfd.random_talk-e1505406920533-1024x526.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/random_talk-e1505406920533-1024x526.png" alt="random-talk" width="840" height="431" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/random_talk-e1505406920533-1024x526.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/random_talk-e1505406920533-300x154.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/random_talk-e1505406920533-768x395.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/random_talk-e1505406920533-78x40.png 78w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/random_talk-e1505406920533-50x26.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/random_talk-e1505406920533-270x139.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/random_talk-e1505406920533-1200x617.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>We’ve also been excited to see the growth of users in global communities like #cc-europe, #cc-canada, and #cc-arabworld.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53559" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/14/lessons-learned-year-slack-1000-members-immeasurable-community-growth/pleasant_chatter/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pleasant_chatter.png" data-orig-size="2278,1424" 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="pleasant_chatter" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pleasant_chatter-300x188.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pleasant_chatter-1024x640.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-53559" src="media/55865b61.pleasant_chatter-1024x640.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pleasant_chatter-1024x640.png" alt="pleasant chatter" width="840" height="525" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pleasant_chatter-1024x640.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pleasant_chatter-300x188.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pleasant_chatter-768x480.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pleasant_chatter-64x40.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pleasant_chatter-50x31.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pleasant_chatter-248x155.png 248w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pleasant_chatter-1200x750.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<h3><strong>A vision for community growth</strong></h3>
<p>Our adoption of Slack has seriously grown our capacity as a network and as a community. We’ve been able to use the platform to chat, connect, and collaborate across disciplines. Through Slack, we’re privileging accessibility and community in order to reach our goals as a connected, growing network.</p>
<p>Our next steps include possible Slack chats, more fun, (<a href="https://twitter.com/little_wow/status/907647870534381570">like these Slack awards,</a>) and frankly, who knows what else? Our community surprises us every day.</p>
<p>If you haven’t yet <a href="http://slack-signup.creativecommons.org">joined us,</a> please do! We’d love to meet you.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53565
title: Sign the Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
uri: Sign-the-Petition-Public-Money-Should-Produce-Public-Code
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/18/sign-petition-public-money-produce-public-code/
content:
<p><a href="https://publiccode.eu/"><img data-attachment-id="53566" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/18/sign-petition-public-money-produce-public-code/screen-shot-2017-09-15-at-10-55-50-am/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-15-at-10.55.50-AM.png" data-orig-size="472,641" 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="publicmoneypubliccode" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-15-at-10.55.50-AM-221x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-15-at-10.55.50-AM.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-53566" src="media/f4767ca3.Screen-Shot-2017-09-15-at-10.55.50-AM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-15-at-10.55.50-AM.png" alt="" width="322" height="437" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-15-at-10.55.50-AM.png 472w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-15-at-10.55.50-AM-221x300.png 221w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-15-at-10.55.50-AM-29x40.png 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-15-at-10.55.50-AM-37x50.png 37w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-15-at-10.55.50-AM-114x155.png 114w" sizes="(max-width: 322px) 85vw, 322px" /></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://fsfe.org/index.en.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Free Software Foundation Europe</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and a broad group of organisations including Creative Commons are supporting the </span><a href="https://publiccode.eu/"><b><i>Public Money, Public Code</i></b></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">campaign. The initiative calls for the adoption of policies that require that software paid for by the public be made broadly available as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Free and Open Source Software</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Nearly 40 organisations and over 6200 individuals have already supported this action by signing the open letter. </span><a href="https://publiccode.eu/#action"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can sign it too</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span>We know that publicly funded </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/08/04/obama-administration-should-require-sharing-of-federally-funded-educational-resources-under-creative-commons-licenses/"><span>educational materials</span></a><span> and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/07/28/its-time-to-movefastr-support-public-access-to-publicly-funded-research/"><span>scientific research</span></a><span> should be made available under open licenses for maximum access and reuse by everyone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span>The same goes for the digital infrastructure of publicly-funded software. Unfortunately, governments around the world tend to procure mostly proprietary software, and the restrictive licenses that come with it limits our rights as citizens to use (and improve) these tools funded through the public purse and developed for the public good.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><a href="https://publiccode.eu/#action"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make your voice heard today</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The campaign organiser will deliver the signatures to European representatives who are debating software freedom in public administration.</span></p>
<p><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/232524527" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" align="center" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><br />
<small><a href="https://vimeo.com/232524527">Public Money? Public Code!</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/fsfe">Free Software Foundation Europe</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</small></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53588
uri: Tratado-de-livre-comércio-União-Europeia-Mercosul-prejudicaria-os-di
title:
Tratado de livre comércio União Europeia-Mercosul prejudicaria os direitos dos usuários e o conjunto de bens comuns (commons)

url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/20/tratado-de-livre-comercio-uniao-europeia-mercosul-prejudicaria-os-direitos-dos-usuarios-e-o-conjunto-de-bens-comuns-commons/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hoje, a Creative Commons publicou uma </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/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">análise</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> do projeto de capítulo de propriedade intelectual do acordo de livre comércio entre a União Europeia e o Mercosul, que abarca diversos aspectos vinculados a direitos de autor e direitos conexos. Nós examinamos questões que seriam prejudiciais ao domínio público, à criatividade e ao compartilhamento, e envolvendo os direitos dos usuários na era digital.</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 é </span><a href="https://www.ip-watch.org/2017/03/22/watch-eu-mercosur-fta-negotiations-consequences-access-medicines/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 direitos de autor e direitos conexos.  As negociações para um TLC UE-Mercosul continuam em um momento em que vários dos países afetados &#8212; incluindo Argentina, Uruguai, Paraguai e até a União Europeia &#8212; encontram-se em um processo de revisão de suas próprias leis de direitos autorais.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Apenas alguns capítulos do projeto do TLC UE-Mercosul foram disponibilizados ao público. Em novembro de 2016, a União Europeia publicou uma </span><a href="media/83ba520f.tradoc_155070.pdf" data-original-source="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2016/november/tradoc_155070.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">proposta de capítulo sobre propriedade intelectual</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, que é a versão mais recente disponível publicamente. Organizações da sociedade civil e o público são geralmente excluídas de participar em &#8212; ou de até observar &#8212; as reuniões de negociação.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As negociações do TLC UE-Mercosul acontecem em um contexto de ampliação da construção de políticas de direitos autorais por meio de acordos de comércio multilaterais. Existem diversas negociações em curso, incluindo o </span><a href="media/83ba520f.tradoc_155070.pdf" data-original-source="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2016/november/tradoc_155070.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tratado Trans-Pacífico</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (TPP), a </span><a href="media/83ba520f.tradoc_155070.pdf" data-original-source="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2016/november/tradoc_155070.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Associação Econômica Regional Ampla</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (RCEP, na sua sigla em inglês), e a renegociação do </span><a href="media/83ba520f.tradoc_155070.pdf" data-original-source="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2016/november/tradoc_155070.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tratado de Livre Comércio da América do Norte</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (TLCAN).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cada um desses acordos inclui provisões que regulam a propriedade intelectual, e as recentes rodadas de negociação desses pactos comerciais mostram que, quando se põem  os direitos autorais em jogo, há uma pressão significativa para a incrementar drasticamente as possibilidades que têm os detentores de direitos de solicitar medidas de observância (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">enforcement</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">) de seus direitos, junto com pressões para aumentar os prazos de duração dos direitos autorais, e exigir sanções mais severas por infrações. Ao mesmo tempo que as demandas dos titulares de direitos são completamente atendidas, pouquíssima consideração é dada aos direitos do público. As limitações e exceções para os direitos autorais são minimizadas, ou sequer estão presentes. No texto em questão, é perceptível a mão invisível (e poderosa) da União Europeia, que deseja exportar as cláusulas mais benéficas para os detentores de direitos (como maiores prazos de proteção harmonizados), mas só quer permitir o mínimo absoluto quando se tratam de limitações e exceções (admitindo apenas a cópia temporária).</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>A extensão dos prazos de proteção dos direitos autorais é desnecessária e injustificada: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">O texto provisório do capítulo sobre propriedade intelectual propõe estender a duração da proteção do direito de autor para aqueles países que ainda não aderiram ao prazo de 70 anos após a morte (o chamado vida + 70). Aumentar a duração da proteção do direito de autor posterga o ingresso das obras no domínio público, no qual elas podem ser utilizadas por qualquer um para qualquer propósito. Também exacerba problemas relacionados ao longo prazo de proteção, como o problema das obras órfãs.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Os direitos dos usuários devem ser protegidos mediante a expansão das limitações e exceções: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">a proteção do direito de autor e as medidas de penalização sempre devem ser reguladas reconhecendo e defendendo os direitos dos usuários no ecossistema do direito de autor e direitos conexos. Mas o capítulo de propriedade intelectual não inclui salvaguardas similares às incluídas nos mais recentes acordos comerciais e nos acordos internacionais de direito de autor que promovem e protegem o equilíbrio.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>A remuneração obrigatória frustra as intenções de alguns licenciantes em Creative Commons: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">o capítulo de propriedade intelectual inclui uma cláusula que exigiria a remuneração obrigatória para os intérpretes e produtores de obras musicais. Essa provisão pode ser bem intencionada, mas interferiria com a operação de algumas licenças de Creative Commons ao requerer um pagamento mesmo quando a intenção do autor é compartilhar sua obra com o mundo de maneira gratuita.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Medidas de proteção tecnológica não devem limitar o exercício dos direitos dos usuários: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">o capítulo de propriedade intelectual inclui proibições à circunvenção de medidas tecnológicas de proteção para ter acesso a uma obra, assim como uma provisão que proibiria a criação e o compartilhamento de tecnologias que poderiam permitir a um usuário circunvencionar medidas tecnológicas de proteção. O problema é que essa provisão não leva em conta situações nas quais os usuários deveriam poder utilizar uma limitação ou exceção, mas não o podem fazer devido às proibições existentes para circunvencionar uma medida tecnológica.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Ordens judiciais preventivas contra infrações “iminentes” prejudicam a liberdade de expressão e a certeza jurídicas: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">o capítulo de propriedade intelectual introduz a ideia de que, por ordem judicial, tanto infratores quanto intermediários (o que inclui os provedores de serviços) poderiam ser obrigados a tomar providências para “prevenir qualquer infração iminente de um direito de propriedade intelectual”.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Negociações de acordos comerciais devem ser transparentes e envolver o público: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Negociações de acordos comerciais devem ser transparentes e participativas. E não o são. A confidencialidade demonstrada na negociação do TPP e de outros tratados de livre comércio têm deixado organizações como a Creative Commons e o público em geral em extrema desvantagem, na medida em que apenas poucos atores privilegiados convidados ao círculo fechado de negociação tiveram seus interesses plenamente considerados.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Para ler nosso documento de análise completo, clique </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;">aqui</span></a>.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/20/tratado-de-livre-comercio-uniao-europeia-mercosul-prejudicaria-os-direitos-dos-usuarios-e-o-conjunto-de-bens-comuns-commons/">Tratado de livre comércio União Europeia-Mercosul prejudicaria os direitos dos usuários e o conjunto de bens comuns (commons)</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53504
uri: El-tratado-de-libre-comercio-Unión-Europea-Mercosur-dañará-los-comu
title:
El tratado de libre comercio Unión Europea-Mercosur dañará los comunes y los derechos de los usuarios

url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/20/el-tratado-de-libre-comercio-union-europea-mercosur-danara-los-comunes-y-los-derechos-de-los-usuarios/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hoy Creative Commons publicó </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/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">un análisis</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> del borrador del capítulo de propiedad intelectual del acuerdo de libre comercio entre la Unión Europea y el Mercosur, que abarca varios aspectos vinculados al derecho de autor. Examinamos cuestiones que irían en detrimento del dominio público y serían perjudiciales para la creatividad, el intercambio y para los derechos de los usuarios en la era digital.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">La Unión Europea (UE) y el sub bloque regional de América Latina conformado por Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay (el Mercosur) han estado negociando un tratado de libre comercio (TLC) desde el año 2000. El TLC UE-Mercosur es </span><a href="https://www.ip-watch.org/2017/03/22/watch-eu-mercosur-fta-negotiations-consequences-access-medicines/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">expansivo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> y abarca el comercio en bienes industriales y agrícolas, cambios potenciales en </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">las reglas aplicables </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">a pequeñas y medianas empresas así como a las compras públicas y a las provisiones sobre propiedad intelectual tales como las patentes y el derecho de autor. Las negociaciones para un TLC UE-Mercosur continúan en un momento en que varios de los países afectados -incluidos Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay e incluso la Unión Europea- se encuentran en un proceso de revisión de sus propias leyes de derecho de autor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solo algunos capítulos de los borradores del TLC UE-Mercosur están disponibles para la revisión pública. En noviembre de 2016 la Unión Europea liberó </span><a href="media/83ba520f.tradoc_155070.pdf" data-original-source="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2016/november/tradoc_155070.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">un borrador del capítulo sobre propiedad intelectual</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, que es la versión más reciente disponible públicamente. Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil y el público son típicamente excluidas de participar en —o incluso observar — las reuniones de negociación.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Las negociaciones del TLC UE-Mercosur tienen lugar en un entorno donde un nivel creciente de políticas de derecho de autor están siendo creadas a través de acuerdos de comercio multilaterales. Hay varias negociaciones en marcha, incluyendo </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership"><span style="font-weight: 400;">el Tratado Trans-Pacífico</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (TPP),</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">y la renegociación</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (TLCAN).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cada uno de estos acuerdos incluyen cláusulas que regulan la propiedad intelectual, y las recientes rondas de negociaciones de estos pactos comerciales muestran que cuando se pone el derecho de autor sobre la mesa, hay una presión significativa para incrementar drásticamente las posibilidades que tienen los titulares de derechos de solicitar medidas de persecución y ejecución forzada de sus derechos, junto con presiones para aumentar los plazos de duración del derecho de autor y exigir sanciones más severas por infracción. Mientras que las demandas de los titulares de derechos son completamente atendidas, hay muy poca consideración para los derechos del público. Se minimizan las limitaciones y excepciones al derecho de autor o directamente no se contemplan. En el texto vemos la mano invisible (y poderosa) de la Unión Europea, que desea exportar las cláusulas más beneficiosas para los titulares de derechos (tales como plazos de protección más largos y armonizados), pero solo quiere permitir lo mínimo posible cuando se trata de limitaciones y excepciones (admitiendo únicamente la copia temporal). </span></p>
<ul>
<li><b>La extensión de los plazos de protección del derecho de autor es innecesaria e injustificada: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">el capítulo borrador sobre propiedad intelectual propone extender la duración del plazo de protección para aquellos países que todavía no adhieren al plazo de +70 post-mortem. Incrementar la duración de la protección del derecho de autor demora el ingreso de las obras al dominio público, donde pueden ser utilizadas por cualquiera para cualquier propósito. También exacerba problemas relacionados al largo plazo de protección, como el problema de las obras huérfanas.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>Los derechos de los usuarios deben ser protegidos mediante la expansión de las limitaciones y las excepciones: <span style="font-weight: 400;">la protección del derecho de autor y las medidas de penalización siempre deben regularse reconociendo y defendiendo los derechos de los usuarios en el ecosistema del derecho de autor. Pero el capítulo de propiedad intelectual no incluye salvaguardas similares a las incluidas en los últimos acuerdos comerciales y en los acuerdos internacionales de derecho de autor que promueven y protegen el balance en el derecho de autor.</span></b></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>La remuneración obligatoria frustra las intenciones de algunos usuarios de Creative Commons: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">el capítulo de propiedad intelectual incluye una cláusula que requeriría la remuneración obligatoria para los intérpretes y productores de obras musicales. Esa cláusula puede ser bien intencionada, pero interferiría con la operación de algunas licencias de Creative Commons al requerir un pago incluso cuando la intención del autor es compartir su obra con el mundo de manera gratuita.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>Las medidas tecnológicas de protección no deben limitar el ejercicio de los derechos de los usuarios:<span style="font-weight: 400;"> el capítulo de propiedad intelectual incluye prohibiciones para aquellos que eludan medidas tecnológicas de protección para obtener acceso a una obra, así como una cláusula que prohibiría la creación y el intercambio de tecnologías que podrían permitir a un usuario eludir medidas tecnológicas de protección. El problema es que esta cláusula no tiene en cuenta situaciones donde los usuarios deberían poder utilizar una limitación o excepción, pero no pueden debido a las prohibiciones existentes para evadir una medida tecnológica.</span></b></li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>Las órdenes judiciales preventivas contra infracciones “inminentes” dañan la libertad de expresión y la certeza jurídica</strong>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">el capítulo de propiedad intelectual introduce la idea de que una orden judicial podría ser impuesta tanto a los infractores potenciales como a los intermediarios (incluyendo a los proveedores de servicios de Internet) por infracción “inminente” a los derechos de autor que aún no han ocurrido.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>Las negociaciones de los acuerdos comerciales deben ser transparentes e involucrar al público</strong>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">las negociaciones de acuerdos comerciales necesitan ser transparentes y participativas. No lo son. El secretismo demostrado en la negociación del TPP y otros TLC dejaron a las organizaciones de la sociedad civil como Creative Commons y al público en general en una desventaja extrema, ya que solo unos pocos sectores privilegiados invitados al círculo cerrado de las negociaciones tuvieron sus intereses plenamente considerados.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pueden leer nuestro documento de análisis completo </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/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">aquí</span></a>.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/20/el-tratado-de-libre-comercio-union-europea-mercosur-danara-los-comunes-y-los-derechos-de-los-usuarios/">El tratado de libre comercio Unión Europea-Mercosur dañará los comunes y los derechos de los usuarios</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53506
title: EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Would Harm User Rights and the Commons
uri: EU-Mercosur-Trade-Agreement-Would-Harm-User-Rights-and-the-Commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/20/eu-mercosur-trade-agreement-harm-user-rights-commons/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today Creative Commons published a </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 the draft intellectual property chapter of EU-Mercosur free trade agreement. We examine issues that would be detrimental to the public domain, creativity and sharing, and user rights in the digital age. [The policy paper is also available in <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/">Spanish</a> and <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/">Portuguese</a>.] </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 a free trade agreement (FTA) since 2000. The EU-Mercosur FTA is </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. The EU-Mercosur FTA negotiations continue during a time when several of the affected countries—including Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and even the EU—are involved in a review of their own copyright rules.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Only a few chapters of the draft EU-Mercosur FTA have been made available for public inspection. In November 2016 the EU released a </span><a href="media/83ba520f.tradoc_155070.pdf" data-original-source="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2016/november/tradoc_155070.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">draft of the chapter dealing with intellectual property</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which is the most recent publicly available version. Civil society organisations and the public are typically excluded from participating in—or even observing—the negotiation meetings.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The EU-Mercosur FTA negotiations take place in an environment where an increasing level of copyright policy is being constructed through multilateral trade agreements. There are several current negotiations underway, including the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trans-Pacific Partnership</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (TPP) and the renegotiation of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement"><span style="font-weight: 400;">North American Free Trade Agreement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (NAFTA).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each of these agreements include provisions regulating intellectual property, and the recent negotiation of these trade pacts shows that when copyright is put on the table, there’s a significant push to drastically increase enforcement measures for rights holders, lengthen copyright terms, and demand harsh infringement penalties. While the demands of rights holders are fully addressed, there’s little consideration given to the rights of the public. Limitations and exceptions to copyright are downplayed, or not present at all. In the text we see the invisible (and powerful) hand of the EU, which wishes to export the intellectual property provisions most beneficial to rightsholders (such as harmonized longer terms), but only wants to permit the absolute minimum when it comes to limitations and exceptions (such as only temporary copying).</span></p>
<ul>
<li><b>Copyright term extension is unnecessary and unwarranted</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: The draft IP chapter proposes to extend the duration of copyright protection for those countries that do not already adhere to the life + 70 year term. Increasing the duration of copyright protection delays works from entering the public domain, where they may be used by anyone for any purpose. It also exacerbates related challenges, such as the orphan works problem. </span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>User rights must be protected by expanding limitations and exceptions<span style="font-weight: 400;">: Copyright protection and enforcement measures should always be tempered by recognizing and upholding the rights of users in the copyright ecosystem. But the IPR chapter doesn’t include similar safeguards introduced in the latest trade agreements and international copyright agreements that promote and protect balance in copyright agreements.</span></b></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Mandatory remuneration frustrates the intentions of some Creative Commons licensors</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: The IPR chapter includes a provision that would require remuneration for performers and producers of musical works. The provision may be well-intended, but 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></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Technical protection measures must not limit the exercise of user rights</strong><span>: The IPR chapter includes prohibitions to circumventing technological protection measures to gain access to a work, as well as  a provision that would prohibit the creation and sharing of technologies that could enable a user to circumvent technological protection measures. The problem is that it doesn’t take into account situations where users should be able to leverage a limitation or exception, but cannot due to prohibitions on circumventing a technological measure.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Precautionary injunctions against “imminent” infringements harms freedom of expression and the rule of law</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: The IPR chapter introduces the idea that an injunction could be levied against both potential infringers and intermediaries (including ISPs) for “imminent” copyright infringements that have not yet occurred.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Trade agreement negotiations must be transparent and involve the public</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Trade agreement negotiations need to be transparent and participatory. They are not. The secrecy demonstrated in the negotiation of the TPP and other FTAs left civil society organizations like Creative Commons and the broader public at an extreme disadvantage, as only a privileged few stakeholders invited into the closed negotiation circle had their interests fully considered.</span></li>
</ul>
<p>Read our extended policy paper <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/policy-advocacy-copyright-reform/eu-mercosur-trade-agreement-harm-user-rights-commons/"><span>here</span></a><span>. The text is </span><span>also available in <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/">Spanish</a> and <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/">Portuguese</a>.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53630
title: 2nd World OER Congress + 2017 Ljubljana OER Action Plan
uri: 2nd-World-OER-Congress-2017-Ljubljana-OER-Action-Plan
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/02/2nd-world-oer-congress-2017-ljubljana-oer-action-plan/
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<figure id="attachment_53639" style="width: 690px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53639" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/02/2nd-world-oer-congress-2017-ljubljana-oer-action-plan/en9a6855_1/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1.jpg" data-orig-size="4000,2666" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1505725041&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="EN9A6855_1" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1-1024x682.jpg" class="wp-image-53639" src="media/adb69e74.EN9A6855_1.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1.jpg" alt="" width="690" height="459" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1.jpg 4000w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EN9A6855_1-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Minister of Education, Science and Sport, Dr. Maja Makovec Brenčič. By: Slovenian Press Agency. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>30 ministers of education and 690 members of the open education community (140 of them virtual) from 111 nations convened in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the <a href="http://www.oercongress.org/">2nd OER World Congress</a> with the goal of mainstreaming open education to meet the education targets in the United Nations <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg4">SDG4</a>. In addition to the 3-day Congress <a href="http://www.oercongress.org/programme/">program</a>, there were <a href="http://www.oercongress.org/satellite-schedule/">21 satellite sessions</a> with presentations about artificial intelligence to copyright reform to regional OER networks. Creative Commons was excited to participate in sessions, give a keynote (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fpbdv1052v-EhFl9YIvVYv9XFv9mltp7Y0MIdtZ4oDE/edit#">text</a> / <a href="https://oer.mitv.si/asset/36MDmGfEjkQgEsQxd">video</a>), help draft key documents, and meet with ministers and other open education leaders from around the world.</p>
<p>This Congress comes after <a href="http://www.oercongress.org/events/regional-consultation/">six regional consultations</a> attended by 257 participants from 105 countries, and five years after the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2012/06/29/2012-paris-oer-declaration">1st World OER Congress</a> where UNESCO member states unanimously approved the <a href="media/e5df3b66.Paris20OER20Declaration_01.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/Paris%20OER%20Declaration_01.pdf">2012 Paris OER Declaration</a>.</p>
<p>The theme of the Congress: &#8220;OER for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: From Commitment to Action&#8221; &#8211; called for governments to take action. After extensive consultation with the global open education community, the <strong>2017 Ljubljana OER Action Plan</strong> (<a href="media/a37c2fe3.ljubljana_oer_action_plan_2017.pdf" data-original-source="https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/ljubljana_oer_action_plan_2017.pdf">English</a> /<span> </span><a href="media/6f9a9cea.ljubljana_oer_action_plan_2017_fr.pdf" data-original-source="https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/ljubljana_oer_action_plan_2017_fr.pdf">French</a>) was unanimously adopted. The attending Ministers further supported this call to action with a Minsters Statement (<a href="media/848fc624.oer_congress_2017_ministerial_statement.pdf" data-original-source="https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/oer_congress_2017_ministerial_statement.pdf">English</a><span> / </span><a href="media/98402c5d.oer_congress_2017_ministerial_statement_fr.pdf" data-original-source="https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/oer_congress_2017_ministerial_statement_fr.pdf">French</a>).</p>
<p>The 2017 Ljubljana OER Action Plan focuses on five areas for government action:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>1.</strong> Building the capacity of users to find, re-use, create and share OER<br />
<strong>2.</strong> Language and cultural issues<br />
<strong>3.</strong> Ensuring inclusive and equitable access to quality OER<br />
<strong>4.</strong> Developing sustainability models<br />
<strong>5.</strong> Developing supportive policy environments</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone who helped move the world to this moment! Now the hard work begins. Open education advocates, NGOs and IGOs need to help national governments and their ministries / departments of education to accomplish the &#8220;suggested actions&#8221; in each of these five areas.</p>
<p>Now is the time for governments to review their national and SDG4 education goals, and ask if their existing financial and procurement structures are optimized to mainstream open education. Now is the time for national governments to act:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/cpt10/opening-up-publicly-funded-resources.html">publicly funded educational resources should be developed and shared as openly licensed resources;</a></li>
<li>public institutions should control the copyrights to educational resources they purchase from vendors (thus allowing them to share these resources under open licenses);</li>
<li>public policies should support and incentivize educators to create, update and share OER; and</li>
<li>publicly developed and maintained ICT infrastructure should support all learners.</li>
</ul>
<p>The Creative Commons global network looks forward to working with our NGO and IGO partners to help governments realize the actions called for in the 2017 Ljubljana OER Action Plan.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s get to work.</p>
<p><strong>Additional Resources:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.oercongress.org/virtual/">Virtual OER Congress</a> (sign up to access <a href="https://oer.mitv.si/asset/7Ny2XDaQcACFyc474">videos</a>, etc.)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.oercongress.org/open-education-and-oer-slovenian-case-from-commitment-to-action/">Open Education and OER Slovenian case: From Commitment to Action</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.oercongress.org/congress-brochure-online/">Congress brochure</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.oercongress.org/congress/list-of-participants/">List of participants</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.oercongress.org/congress/speeches/">Speeches</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/OERcongress">OER Congress</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23oercongress">#OERcongress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/cpt10/">Cape Town + 10</a> (launched at the Congress)</li>
</ul>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53688
title: Landmark release of Termination of Transfer tool from Creative Commons and Authors Alliance
uri: Landmark-release-of-Termination-of-Transfer-tool-from-Creative-Commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/11/termination-of-transfer-tool/
content:
<figure id="attachment_53691" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://rightsback.org/"><img data-attachment-id="53691" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/11/termination-of-transfer-tool/tot_infographic-1024x380/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ToT_infographic-1024x380.png" data-orig-size="1024,380" 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="ToT_infographic-1024&#215;380" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ToT_infographic-1024x380-300x111.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ToT_infographic-1024x380-1024x380.png" class="wp-image-53691 size-large" src="media/8c024d0c.ToT_infographic-1024x380-1024x380.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ToT_infographic-1024x380-1024x380.png" alt="tot" width="840" height="312" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ToT_infographic-1024x380.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ToT_infographic-1024x380-300x111.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ToT_infographic-1024x380-768x285.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ToT_infographic-1024x380-108x40.png 108w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ToT_infographic-1024x380-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ToT_infographic-1024x380-270x100.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Creative Commons trademark; design by <a href="http://amycollierdesign.com">Amy Collier</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>For more than a decade, Creative Commons has developed and stewarded legal tools that give creators the opportunity to share their work on open terms. We have focused on tools that empower sharing at the moment of publication, leaving out an important group of creators: what about those who previously signed away their rights to their works long ago, but who now want to share on open terms under a CC license or renegotiate unfavorable publishing terms?</p>
<p>We are proud to announce version 1.0 of the Termination of Transfer tool (ToT tool), which will help inform creators about their ability to reclaim their rights. This newest legal tool – to be co-stewarded by Creative Commons and Authors Alliance – helps creators and authors learn about their ability to regain their rights in order to share. The ToT tool is our latest step in our mission to steward a vibrant commons through legal, social, and technical tools.</p>
<p>The ToT tool empowers authors to learn more about whether and when <img data-attachment-id="53697" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/11/termination-of-transfer-tool/logos-1024x197/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/logos-1024x197.png" data-orig-size="1024,197" 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="logos-1024&#215;197" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/logos-1024x197-300x58.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/logos-1024x197-1024x197.png" class="alignright wp-image-53697 " src="media/f388f07d.logos-1024x197-1024x197.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/logos-1024x197-1024x197.png" alt="ccxauthorsalliancelogos" width="407" height="78" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/logos-1024x197.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/logos-1024x197-300x58.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/logos-1024x197-768x148.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/logos-1024x197-140x27.png 140w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/logos-1024x197-50x10.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/logos-1024x197-270x52.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 407px) 85vw, 407px" />they may have the right to terminate the licensing arrangements for their work that prohibits them from sharing. Authors who enter into publishing, recording or other types of agreements are routinely asked to sign away their rights forever. Fortunately, there is recourse under U.S. copyright law for taking back those rights in the future. While many of these transfer agreements last “for the life of copyright” (which in the United States generally means seventy years after the author dies!), the law takes into account that these terms can ultimately be unfair to authors and artists, and so provides a mechanism for regaining those rights. An early analysis by Mike Wolfe estimates that control over more than <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161031135851/http://public-interest-authorship.berkeleylawblogs.org/2016/08/23/quantifying-termination-possibilities-an-experiment-with-hathifiles/">2.5 million works</a> may be reclaimed by authors in the United States.</p>
<p>The tool is widely applicable beyond academia – anyone, including artists, photographers, scholars and scientists, can use this tool to understand more about rights they could have to regain rights they previously assigned away. While this tool is currently U.S.-based only, CC is developing a database of other country laws that enable authors and creators to similarly terminate or reclaim their rights.</p>
<p>One of the reasons why the tool is so remarkable is due to the complexity and technicality of the law. As Mia Garlick, CC’s first general counsel and the originator of the first ToT tool beta, noted in 2006, “the provisions are very complex and have not been frequently used [and] the termination provisions are currently so complex and technical that this tool can only serve an informational role.” When we relaunched the tool in 2015, we decided that while the tool would be primarily informational and US-based, the continued applicability of the legality would make it a worthwhile project for a global community. In 2016, we opened a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/25/introducing-termination-of-transfer-tool/">public comment period</a> for the tool.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="53693" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/11/termination-of-transfer-tool/arcadia-logo-logotype-yellow-on-white/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white.jpg" data-orig-size="3189,920" 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;1331025316&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="Arcadia Logo &#8211; Logotype yellow on white" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white-300x87.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white-1024x295.jpg" class=" wp-image-53693 alignleft" src="media/43fb374a.Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white-1024x295.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white-1024x295.jpg" alt="arcadia-logo" width="323" height="93" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white-1024x295.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white-300x87.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white-768x222.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white-140x40.jpg 140w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white-50x14.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white-270x78.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arcadia-Logo-Logotype-yellow-on-white-1200x346.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 323px) 85vw, 323px" />Even though the tool is now active, we’re still looking to improve it so that it is increasingly useful to all categories of content around the globe. Creative Commons and Authors Alliance are grateful to the <a href="https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/">Arcadia Fund</a>, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, for their generous support of the creation of the Termination of Transfer Tool. See our full list of personnel and thank-yous at <a href="http://rightsback.org/about">rightsback.org/about.</a></p>
<p>For more information and to try the tool, visit <a href="http://rightsback.org">rightsback.org. </a></p>
<h4><a href="http://authorsalliance.org/?p=3475">Read our joint press release with Authors Alliance.</a></h4>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53708
title: CC Certificates spring into action
uri: CC-Certificates-spring-into-action
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/12/certificates/
content:
<figure id="attachment_53709" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53709" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/12/certificates/img_20171002_111116/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/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://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-1024x768.jpg" class="wp-image-53709 size-large" src="media/93f5e137.IMG_20171002_111116-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-1024x768.jpg" alt="certs-team" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-1200x900.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">CC Certs Team by Creative Commons, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p>In order to better teach open tools and practices to communities around the world, Creative Commons has developed open educational resources and a certification program called the CC Certificate. CC’s Senior Counsel Sarah Hinchliff Pearson is now leading the project with a group of researchers, writers, and instructional designers. The project is funded by the Gates Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS).</p>
<p>The CC Certificate program is a training program that leads people through the basics about the organization, copyright law, and the CC tools. The goal is to equip people with the knowledge and skills they need to advocate for and support adoption of CC licensing in their work and creative pursuits.</p>
<p>There are a wealth of opportunities to tailor the certificate to specific audiences. Initially we’re focusing on two groups: academic librarians and educators. The certificate for these two segments will run as a 12-week online course on <a href="https://www.canvaslms.com/">Canvas</a>, facilitated by an instructor fluent in the issues and opportunities surrounding CC licensing and open collaboration. The majority of the content will cover the basics of copyright and open licensing, and participants will be expected to choose either the academic librarian or educator track because the final unit will be domain-specific. The content will include online discussions, quizzes, and learning activities throughout to help solidify concepts and allow learners to demonstrate their understanding. The course will be entirely online, but CC may eventually offer an optional in-person session as a capstone offering at the end of the course. Upon successful completion, students will receive a certificate from Creative Commons.</p>
<p>Of course, the underlying course content will be freely available to the public and CC-licensed, including text, images, and videos. The content covers Creative Commons as a whole – the organization, the tools, and the movement. We are treating this as a chance to tell the full story of what CC is and what we do. The materials include sections on the basics of copyright law, many of the ins and outs of CC licenses, practical information about how to use the licenses and how to use CC-licensed work, information about the values connected to use of CC, and case studies about what it looks like in the real world. For a full preview of the course topics, see the current syllabus <a href="media/0e483b2e.TOC-final.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/TOC-final.pdf">here.</a></p>
<p>The full beta test of the 12-week course will begin in January, with the official certification program launching after the <a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org">Global Summit</a> from April 13-15 in Toronto, Canada. We will be running one library-specific track and one education-specific track during the beta phase and will be asking participants to help us evaluate and shape the content. If you are interested in participating, please email sarah@creativecommons.org.</p>
<p>We expect the <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Global_Network_Strategy">CC Global Network</a> will play a crucial role in this program. In the future, we hope network members can be certified in order to help run the course in their parts of the world.</p>
<p>Over the course of the next year, we will be exploring customization of the project for three different audiences: GLAM professionals, lawyers, and governments. An early, abbreviated version of the certificate beta has already been delivered to more than 150 academic librarians in the US, with great success. We are anxious to expand the program to fit a greater variety of professions, and to work with and empower the future leaders of the commons. Any questions, comments, or suggestions? Get in touch with us via <a href="http://slack-signup.creativecommons.org">Slack</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/creativecommons">Twitter.</a></p>
<p>For even more CC content, please sign up for our <a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/newsletter">email list.</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53731
title: Open In Order To…Maximize Reuse Possibilities of Research
uri: Open-In-Order-To-Maximize-Reuse-Possibilities-of-Research
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/23/open-order-maximize-reuse-possibilities-research/
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<p><a href="https://action.creativecommons.org/open-access-week/"><img data-attachment-id="53744" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/23/open-order-maximize-reuse-possibilities-research/open-access-2-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1440,1080" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;GT-S7562&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1374412601&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.54&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0034602076124567&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="open access 2" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg" class="aligncenter wp-image-53744 size-large" src="media/f2966de2.open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1.jpg 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Access Week</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a yearly global event to raise broad awareness about the opportunities and benefits for open access to scientific and scholarly research. Open Access Week—now in its 8th year—mobilises action for progressive policy changes so that researchers and the public get immediate online access to the results of scholarly research and the right to use and reuse those results. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year’s </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/2017-open-access-week-theme"><span style="font-weight: 400;">theme</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is “Open In Order To&#8230;”—an invitation to answer the question of what concrete benefits can be realized by making scholarly outputs openly available.</span></p>
<h3><b>Support our efforts for Open Access – </b><a href="http://action.creativecommons.org/open-access-week"><b>sign up!</b></a></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For 15 years, Creative Commons licenses and legal tools have been used to share scholarly articles and data on more open terms than the standard “all rights reserved” copyright. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC licenses provide the legal machinery that helps communicate the rights to use and reuse open access research. According to the </span><a href="https://doaj.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Directory of Open Access Journals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> there are over 2.5 million CC licensed journal articles, with 1.5 million of those licensed under CC BY. CC licensed open access research can be translated into other languages, adapted for use as open educational resources in the classroom, or shared widely on other platforms that champion the spread of knowledge, such as Wikipedia. In addition to the licenses and public domain tools like CC0, CC-powered </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">open access policies and practices are being adopted in a variety of different settings, such as for government funded research.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the U.S., the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Access_to_Science_and_Technology_Research_Act">Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act</a> (FASTR) has been </span><a href="https://sparcopen.org/our-work/fastr/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reintroduced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in both the House and Senate.t’s. FASTR would require those agencies that fund $100 million or more per year in external research to provide the public with online access (within 6-12 months) to the scholarly articles that are created through that funding. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another development in the U.S. related to open access to publicly funded research and data is the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/18/bipartisan-legislation-ensure-open-access-government-data/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OPEN Government Data Act</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bill would ensure that federal government data is “open, available, discoverable, and usable to the general public, businesses, journalists, [and] academics.” The legislation would codify the Obama administration’s 2013 </span><a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/executive-order-making-open-and-machine-readable-new-default-government-"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Executive Order</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The bills, the text of which has now been attached to the National Defense Authorization Act (</span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2810"><span style="font-weight: 400;">H.R. 2810</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1519"><span style="font-weight: 400;">S. 1519</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), would require that “government data assets published by or for an agency shall be made available under an open license or, if not made available under an open license and appropriately released, shall be considered to be published as part of the worldwide public domain.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not only that, </span><a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Open-Access-Policy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">philanthropic foundations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NGOs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="media/b21e2af7.6783000PP00OFF0icy0Approved0April2.pdf" data-original-source="http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/992881468337274796/pdf/6783000PP00OFF0icy0Approved0April2.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">intergovernmental organizations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are using open licensing to share the research that they–or their grantees–are creating. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, the open access policy at the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation is </span><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/16/gates-foundation-open-access-policy-goes-effect-joining-others"><span style="font-weight: 400;">now in effect</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (as of January 1, 2017), meaning that researchers that receive money from the foundation must publish their scientific papers and data online under a CC BY license, with zero embargo when it goes live.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open access policies that promote the sharing of research and data under CC licensing is an increasingly important area for education and advocacy. We need to ensure that the outputs of publicly financed research are shared with the world under open licenses. This means that researchers, scientists, doctors, patients, and the public around the world will get get the access they deserve and need in order to be informed on current scientific research, learn about promising  medical innovations, and collaborate to solve problems. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow along with the Creative Commons </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/blog/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">blog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> this week, and be sure to tag and share your posts with the #OAweek hashtag.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53733
title: Open In Order To…Promote Knowledge Sharing, Not Criminalize It
uri: Open-In-Order-To-Promote-Knowledge-Sharing-Not-Criminalize-It
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/24/open-order-promote-knowledge-sharing-not-criminalize/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Access Week</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the yearly global event to raise broad awareness about the opportunities and benefits for open access to scientific and scholarly research. Open Access Week—now in its 8th year—also mobilises action for progressive policy changes so that researchers and the public get immediate online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and reuse those results. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year’s </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/2017-open-access-week-theme"><span style="font-weight: 400;">theme</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is “Open In Order To&#8230;”—an invitation to answer the question of what concrete benefits can be realized by making scholarly outputs openly available.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diego Gómez is a scientist from Colombia who for the last three years has been criminally prosecuted for sharing an academic paper online. When Diego was a student in conservation biology in Colombia, 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 online so that others could read and learn from it, just as he did. Gómez didn’t get permission to reshare the article, and subsequently was prosecuted for copyright infringement. He faced up to eight years in prison.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In May 2017 Gómez was </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/24/colombian-court-acquits-diego-gomez-criminal-charges-sharing-research-paper-online/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">acquitted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of criminal charges. But within days of the ruling, the author’s lawyer appealed the decision, meaning that even after several years of unnecessary (and expensive) criminal proceedings, Diego’s case continues to the appellate court. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why is a student being prosecuted for sharing knowledge? Does his potential punishment fit the crime? Can we claim to support the noble practices of teaching, learning, and scientific inquiry while permitting our laws to harshly punish the sharing of information?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 remedies 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;">A crowdfunding campaign was launched a few months ago to help defray the ongoing legal expenses. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The campaign—titled </span><strong><a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/compartir-no-es-delito-sharing-is-not-a-crime">Compartir no es delito: Sharing Is Not A Crime</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">has raised about $7000. You can still contribute!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The long reach of copyright inhibits access to information and obstructs fundamental user rights. From </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz"><span style="font-weight: 400;">suing a student for downloading academic journal articles</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to </span><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171006/09532538358/new-coalition-responsible-sharing-about-to-send-millions-take-down-notices-to-stop-researchers-sharing-their-own-papers.shtml"><span style="font-weight: 400;">issuing millions of copyright takedown notices to scholars for sharing their own research</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, large rights holders organizations continue to wield copyright law to punish those who attempt to do what comes naturally for them—sharing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If open access were the default for scholarly communication, there would be no cases like Diego’s. We could focus on closing the research practice gap between developed and developing countries, since the elevated costs for scientific databases are impossible to cover for developing countries in science practice. Academic research would be free to access and available under open licenses that would legally enable the kind of sharing that is so crucial for enabling collaboration and supporting a democratized scientific progress. Scientists like Diego shouldn’t have to risk severe penalties for helping colleagues access the research they need. When research is shared freely and openly, we all benefit. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow along with the Creative Commons </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/blog/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">blog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> this week, and be sure to tag and share your posts with the #OAweek hashtag.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53735
title: Open In Order To…Accelerate Research and Scientific Discoveries
uri: Open-In-Order-To-Accelerate-Research-and-Scientific-Discoveries
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/25/open-order-accelerate-research-scientific-discoveries/
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<p><span>It’s </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><span>Open Access Week</span></a><span>, the yearly global event to raise broad awareness about the opportunities and benefits for open access to scientific and scholarly research. Open Access Week—now in its 10th year—also mobilises action for progressive policy changes so that researchers and the public get immediate online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and reuse those results. </span></p>
<p><span>This year’s </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/2017-open-access-week-theme"><span>theme</span></a><span> is “Open In Order To&#8230;”—an invitation to answer the question of what concrete benefits can be realized by making scholarly outputs openly available.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yesterday we hosted group discussion via Slack chat on the timely topic of preprints—an important and growing practice within scholarly communication with major implications for open access publishing. You can view the full chat history in the #cc-openaccess channel on the </span><a href="https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Slack</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We are especially interested in how preprint servers are handling the issue of open licensing. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generally speaking, a </span><a href="https://figshare.com/articles/Open_Research_Glossary/1482094"><span style="font-weight: 400;">preprint</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a version of a manuscript that&#8217;s made available before peer-review and publication, distributed to receive early feedback. The discussions around preprints can be quite complex and </span><a href="https://f1000research.com/articles/6-608/v1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">vary between communities of practice</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Preprints are important because they are a mechanism for collaboration and could even speed up the process of research. As we learned during the Slack chat, apparently citations of preprints date back to </span><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3261"><span style="font-weight: 400;">at least 1922</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the chat, we asked how universities view preprints from a tenure and promotion standpoint. Do researchers get recognized for sharing work earlier as preprints? We know that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is </span><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/nih-enables-investigators-include-draft-preprints-grant-proposals"><span style="font-weight: 400;">permitting</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> researchers to submit preprints and draft research in asking for funding, and recommending the use of CC licensing to share such materials, where appropriate. There are some universities that are </span><a href="http://asapbio.org/university-policies"><span style="font-weight: 400;">taking into account</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the sharing of preprints in their hiring and promotion policies. And even though many institutions do not yet formally recognize preprints as contributing to their tenure review process, ASAPbio is tracking </span><a href="http://asapbio.org/preprint-info/preprint-stories"><span style="font-weight: 400;">stories</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that indicate that sharing preprints can help land a job. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We discussed how preprints </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/news/biologists-debate-how-to-license-preprints-1.22161"><span style="font-weight: 400;">approach open licensing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Do they allow it? Encourage it? Require it? What sorts of things do you think preprint authors should know about Creative Commons licensing? For the most part, it seems that CC licensed preprints work within the existing scholarly publishing system. There are some projects to track the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals_by_preprint_policy?t=1&amp;cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&amp;refsrc=email&amp;iid=eb63df6555ca4cfc8e619cc830bf65c2&amp;uid=487982741&amp;nid=244+293670920"><span style="font-weight: 400;">preprint policies of academic journals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Initially there was concern that commercial journals would refuse to publish an article if its preprint had been previously shared under a CC license, and some commercial publishers </span><a href="http://ioppublishing.org/authors/frequently-asked-questions-faq/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">do not allow it</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (or make it very difficult to do). But apparently publishers like the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) have subsequently </span><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/10/18/1716857114.full"><span style="font-weight: 400;">changed course</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—pulling back on their restrictive policy and permitting the publishing of preprints shared under CC licenses.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participants in the chat agreed that preprints should allow (but not necessarily require) Creative Commons licensing, and that the author should choose what they do with their work as the copyright holder. We were also pointed to an interesting blog post on the topic of </span><a href="http://blog.dhimmel.com/biorxiv-licenses/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">author licensing choices</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in preprints. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also talked about the potential for preprints to share other types of information outside of relatively advanced research papers. For example, data sets, research notes, and even code could be shared under the preprint model. One question pertinent to the sharing of these other types of content is the appropriate open license for doing so. For example, software should be shared as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software"><span style="font-weight: 400;">free and open-source software</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, not under a CC license. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, we wondered what the future holds for preprints within the scholarly publishing ecosystem. In a recent </span><a href="https://poynder.blogspot.com/2017/10/q-with-plos-co-founder-michael-eisen.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">interview</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, biologist and PLOS co-founder Mike Eisen said:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The most important thing to do now is to get publishers – commercial and non-profit – out of the process. The whole industry is unnecessary and needlessly cumbersome and expensive. We should all just publish in places like bioRxiv (assuming its software gets better and produces finished documents people are happy to read) and do all peer review post publication. There should be little or no money transacted in the process – the infrastructure should be subsidized so it’s free to both publish and access all the content.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The question is, are preprints the logical conclusion to this because they accelerate scientific research without the added baggage and cost of the scholarly publishing system? Some people agreed that the value that publishers bring is in the facilitation of peer review, curation of resources&#8211;not just making content available. Essentially, that publishing will become even moreso a service model across the publishing life cycle, and thus less of a tool that grants access (or restricts it). But of course, there are a lot of things that need to be addressed in concert, including the ongoing reliance of the scientific community on power branding of “high impact” journals, and also the challenges of academic promotion. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow along with the Creative Commons </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/blog/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">blog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> this week, and be sure to tag and share your posts with the #OAweek hashtag.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53737
title: Open In Order To…Guarantee Access to the Laws That Govern Us
uri: Open-In-Order-To-Guarantee-Access-to-the-Laws-That-Govern-Us
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/26/open-order-guarantee-access-laws-govern-us/
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<p><span>It’s </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><span>Open Access Week</span></a><span>, the yearly global event to raise broad awareness about the opportunities and benefits for open access to scientific and scholarly research. Open Access Week—now in its 10th year—also mobilises action for progressive policy changes so that researchers and the public get immediate online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and reuse those results. </span></p>
<p><span>This year’s </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/2017-open-access-week-theme"><span>theme</span></a><span> is “Open In Order To&#8230;”—an invitation to answer the question of what concrete benefits can be realized by making scholarly outputs openly available.</span></p>
<h3><b>Support our efforts for Open Access – </b><a href="http://action.creativecommons.org/open-access-week"><b>sign up!</b></a></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to advocating for open access to scientific research, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">we should also recognize the necessity for improving access to the laws, regulations, and standards that govern our societies and impact our lives everyday. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are several organisations working in this crucial area of open access. In March we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/03/law-free-law-projects-radical-approach-legal-transparency/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">highlighted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the work of the Free Law Project, an initiative “to provide free, public, and permanent access to primary legal materials on the Internet for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes to the benefit of the general public and the public interest.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public information advocate Carl Malamud has been fighting for years to make sure that the public has access to the law. His project </span><a href="https://public.resource.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public.Resource.Org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> focuses on digitizing and making accessible the works of the U.S. Federal Government, which by statute are mostly in the public domain. But Carl has received some staunch opposition to his work, particularly around the publishing of technical standards. Oftentimes these standards are created by private entities and then &#8220;incorporated by reference&#8221; into various public laws, such as fire codes. Malamud was </span><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170203/00341736620/federal-court-basically-says-okay-to-copyright-parts-our-laws.shtml"><span style="font-weight: 400;">sued</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by standards bodies for copyright infringement because he posted the standards online. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carl has also been actively challenging state-level rules that forbid the open publishing of the legal code. A few years ago he purchased a hard copy of the Georgia legal code, digitized it, and </span><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/public-records-activist-violated-copyright-by-publishing-georgia-legal-code-online/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">published it online</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In response, the state of Georgia sent a cease and desist to Malamud and an initial court ruling has sided with Georgia claiming that Malamud’s action infringed on the exclusive copyright of the state of Georgia. They sent a cease and desist to Malamud and Public.Resource.Org is appealing the ruling. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another longstanding impediment to open access to court case information is the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACER_(law)"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PACER</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> database. PACER stands for Public Access to Court Electronic Records; the website is an electronic public access service of United States federal court documents. PACER is a strange, antiquated, and to some, absurd website, charging users a fee of $0.10 for every document downloaded from its site. All of these materials are documents of public record as a part of the U.S. court system. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">RECAP (“PACER” spelled backwards) is a </span><a href="https://free.law/recap/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">clever browser plugin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> developed at Princeton in 2009 that captures documents that have already been accessed by a paying customer and displays them for free to subsequent searchers. However, there have also been a few class action court cases brought against the U.S. Government claiming that the PACER database fails to provide users with free access to judicial opinions, thus in violation of the E-Government Act of 2002. In a recent case, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">D’Apuzzo v. United States of America</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Civil Action No. 16-62769-Civ-Scola), a District Court judge </span><a href="media/f953dbb9.PACER-fee-order.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.almcms.com/contrib/content/uploads/sites/292/2017/09/PACER-fee-order.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">denied</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the government’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit.</span></p>
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title: Open In Order To…Fulfill Our Vision for Universal Access to Research and Education
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<p><a href="https://action.creativecommons.org/open-access-week/"><img data-attachment-id="53744" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/23/open-order-maximize-reuse-possibilities-research/open-access-2-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1440,1080" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;GT-S7562&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1374412601&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.54&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0034602076124567&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="open access 2" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg" class="aligncenter wp-image-53744 size-large" src="media/f2966de2.open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1.jpg 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p><em>It’s <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">Open Access Week</a>, the yearly global event to raise broad awareness about the opportunities and benefits for open access to scientific and scholarly research. Open Access Week—now in its 10th year—also mobilises action for progressive policy changes so that researchers and the public get immediate online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and reuse those results. </em></p>
<p><em>This year’s <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/2017-open-access-week-theme">theme</a> is “Open In Order To&#8230;”—an invitation to answer the question of what concrete benefits can be realized by making scholarly outputs openly available.</em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today we’re wrapping up another inspiring Open Access Week. We’ve talked about a variety of issues, including the continued </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/23/open-order-maximize-reuse-possibilities-research/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">adoption of open access policies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that require CC licensing in order to maximize reuse potential, the moral imperative to reform copyright so </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/24/open-order-promote-knowledge-sharing-not-criminalize/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">students aren’t prosecuted for sharing knowledge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the massive </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/2017/10/24/open-access-week-2017-open-order-kickstart-new-types-research/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">potential for preprints</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to accelerate research and scientific discovery, and the importance of </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/26/open-order-guarantee-access-laws-govern-us/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">improving access to the laws</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, regulations, and standards that uphold democratic societies. </span></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In April 2016, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I wrote the following in </span><a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/04/stealing-publicly-funded-research-isnt-stealing/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">WIRED</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><b>I get inspired when I think about what we’d be capable of if we agree to work together without restriction. This is humanity at its most powerful.</b></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since I wrote that piece, CC’s international community has surged ahead as a worldwide network of advocates through our </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/global-network-strategy/blob/master/GlobalNetworkStrategy-Final.md"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Global Network Strategy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We’ve launched the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/12/certificates/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificates Beta</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which will teach hundreds of librarians, educators, and more how to become expert advocates and practitioners for open licensing. We joined the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/04/22/vice-president-biden-taxpayer-funded-cancer-research-shouldnt-sit-behind-walls/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Cancer Moonshot Initiative</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at the White House, released a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/11/termination-of-transfer-tool/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">crucial new tool</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for authors to reclaim their rights, and collaborated with other leading organizations in the open movement, such as Wikimedia, Mozilla, Fundación Karisma, Communia Association, Authors Alliance, and SPARC (the organizers of OA Week).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the center of our work, we always ask: How can we help global</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> communities come together in service of collective goals? How do we unlock creativity and knowledge as public resources that everyone can use to advance the common good? How do we embed collaboration, inclusion, and equity into our approach?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If it wasn’t so well-established, the traditional model of academic publishing would be considered scandalous. Billions in research funding is provided by governments, foundations, and institutions to advance the public welfare, researchers and editors submit their work for free to journals, and still much of it is still locked behind paywalls. Much of the entrenched academic publishing system continues to withhold crucial access from the general public through embargos, paywalls, and excessive “processing fees” for open access licenses. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The moral case for open access is strong—scholarly publishing is going to have to change, and some of the most needed updates are already on the way—but I’m hopeful that publishers and the structures of academia that entrench their influence will pick up the pace. Some forward looking publishers are seeking new models, while a few holdouts are hanging on to lap up the last drops before the tap is turned off. Those who adapt and move with this rising tide can be tomorrow’s leaders. Those who don’t? Well, no one really misses Kodak. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before I met with former VP Joe Biden’s team at the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, we asked community members to tell us what open access for cancer research would mean to them. I expected to hear from doctors and patients. What shocked me was how many parents, husbands, wives, and children I heard from, who are desperately seeking knowledge to help their loved ones who are sick. We shared some of their stories on </span><a href="https://medium.com/@creativecommons/knowledge-is-the-most-valuable-thing-we-have-to-give-abcc90c29778"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Medium</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> last year, and they remain a moving reminder as to why I do this work, why I lead Creative Commons in this question of access, the basis of which is a fundamental human right to know.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is simply no moral case that justifies withholding access to knowledge that could advance discovery or alleviate suffering, especially when the public paid for it in the first place. The World Health Organization recognized the power of openness to create faster vaccines when it called for research sharing as Zika affected mothers and their newborn babies. But why not for all research done in the public interest? Nearly everyone has utilized the power of the internet to research an issue close to them—to learn more about their health or the health of a loved one, to prepare for a job interview, to receive and share news, or simply to learn something cool. There is amazing research happening all over the world—unlocking it is more than simply an issue of access, it is one of equality and human rights. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Movements have to be guided by their values, and while all too often, it becomes “us-versus-them”, sometimes it’s clear that change will require disruption, and the end of old empires. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons and other open access groups</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> c</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">hampion the “</span><a href="https://sparcopen.org/open-access/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” I’ll work with anyone who steps forward to achieve this goal, but like the looming end of big oil, it’s only a matter of time until change arrives. The question is how long we will allow these old models to continue before we force new systems to come into the mainstream? Perhaps our greatest living physicist, Stephen Hawking, released his PhD thesis under open access just last Sunday, saying, “Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the Mozilla Festival this weekend, I’m going to be speaking with my colleagues and friends Katherine Maher from Wikimedia and Mark Surman from Mozilla about specific areas where we can work better together in service of our common goals. But we can’t do it without you — our power is collective. We need you to join the movement, whether with us and with our allies to collaborate for impact.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m amazed at what this big, open movement has already achieved together. This year, the CC Global Network has been instrumental in supporting </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/12/contribute-diego-gomez-legal-defense-fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diego Gómez</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the Colombian student facing up to 8 years of jail time for sharing a single paper online, we have been a strong voice for </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/02/dozens-organizations-call-european-parliament-redouble-efforts-progressive-copyright-changes/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">copyright reform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the European Union, and we have taken on sweeping issues like </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/14/re-negotiating-nafta-opening-pandoras-box/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NAFTA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and an expansion of the public domain. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The work of open access needs to keep in clear view the ultimate goals of science and scholarship — a fundamental search for knowledge — that is now supercharged for sharing and collaboration to solve the world’s toughest scientific and social problems. I can’t wait to realize these goals together with you.</span></p>
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“No tool is better than the people”: CC artists in conversation on Collaboration, Community, and the Commons

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<figure id="attachment_53778" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img data-attachment-id="53778" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/30/no-tool-better-people-cc-artists-conversation-collaboration-community-commons/rhizome-event/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event.jpg" data-orig-size="1199,432" 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="rhizome event" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-300x108.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-1024x369.jpg" class="wp-image-53778 size-large" src="media/203ad47d.rhizome-event-1024x369.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-1024x369.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="303" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-1024x369.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-300x108.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-768x277.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-111x40.jpg 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-50x18.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-270x97.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event.jpg 1199w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://twitter.com/bella_velo/status/920796287192072193">&#8220;CC Artists in Conversation @Rhizome&#8221;</a> by Kelsey Merkley / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve been thinking about the role of Creative Commons in 2017, an era where much of digital sharing culture exists within walled garden platforms, with liking and commenting on insta-photos and sharing playlists that can only be streamed. In other words, the web has changed since CC initially launched in 2001, and we are grappling with what these changes mean for CC tools, originally intended to operate in spaces where download and remix were a given. The web is both open and closed, and CC-licensed content exists in both. In some spaces, like research and education, the value CC brings is still the same; CC tools are used to unlock knowledge and advance discovery and innovation. But what about when it comes to unlocking creativity in music, art, media, and emerging multimedia, such as VR, 3D, and software emulations? What value does CC provide in this changing landscape, and how can CC better provide this value?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We asked artists and researchers at the intersection of technology and social change to provide us with their insights last week at Rhizome, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting digital artists and fostering critical discussion about Internet culture. In a room full of artists, arts organizations, and open culture advocates, our featured speakers were:</span></p>
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<li><a href="https://carolinesinders.com/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caroline Sinders</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Digital Artist, BuzzFeed/Eyebeam Open Labs Fellow, Anti-harassment researcher at Wikipedia</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mandiberg.com/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael Mandiberg</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Artist working at the intersection of technology and social change, Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, Co-founder of the Art+Feminism Wikipedia</span></li>
<li><a href="http://carolinewoolard.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caroline Woolard</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Artist and founder of cultural equity platforms BFAMFAPhD.com and StudyCollaboration.com, Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Hartford</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We framed the conversation as an opportunity to gather fodder for CC’s next phase of work &#8212; CC is building a catalog of the commons and seeking to build services on top of this catalog via an API. As part of this project, we have the opportunity to build in features that simplify attribution, express gratitude, and perhaps most importantly, invite collaboration. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We invite you to provide your own thoughts to us in our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/get-involved/">Slack community</a> and/or <a href="https://creativecommons.org/contact">by email</a>. We’ll be hosting additional conversations in 2018. What should those conversations explore and where should they be? Let us know, and read on for a recap of our conversation.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_53780" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img data-attachment-id="53780" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/30/no-tool-better-people-cc-artists-conversation-collaboration-community-commons/rhizome-event-2/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-2.jpg" data-orig-size="1199,589" 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="Caroline Sanders" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-2-300x147.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-2-1024x503.jpg" class="size-large wp-image-53780" src="media/87c5f0ae.rhizome-event-2-1024x503.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-2-1024x503.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="413" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-2-1024x503.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-2-300x147.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-2-768x377.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-2-81x40.jpg 81w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-2-50x25.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-2-270x133.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rhizome-event-2.jpg 1199w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://twitter.com/bella_velo/status/920806192544280578">&#8220;Michael Mandiberg, Caroline Sinders, Caroline Woolard&#8221;</a> by Kelsey Merkley / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
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<p><b>In your experience working with CC licensed media, or more broadly any kind of open content online, what factors have most influenced your participation and contributions? </b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael made an important (and surprising for us) distinction between his view of what it means to CC license his work and put it out into the world, versus using CC licenses in connection with contributions to a project. In his experience, he had treated these as two very different acts: CC licensing his own work as an individual experience, whereas editing Wikipedia (a CC-licensed project) was a community act. The factors catalyzing creators to CC license a work versus wanting to contribute to a community project are very different in his experience. </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resulting learning for us: How can we bring these experiences more closely together? How can we make it more apparent that CC licensing a work is also a community act because it is a contribution to the commons?</span></i></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caroline S. homed in immediately on the community incentive, responding that what motivates her </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">is</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the community. For her, the community and how it’s governed factors into why and how she contributes. How welcoming is the community? How is it governed &#8212; by a community or by a proprietary platform? How safe do people feel in the space? Is the actual contribution part of an ongoing conversation, e.g. live editing? CC-licensing seems embedded in communities like Wikipedia as almost a political act, as users sign on to share and contribute according to a set of open values.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caroline W. surfaced an incentive that was both individual and communal, with the community act enhancing the individual experience:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I work collaboratively because thought happens in real time. I want to be in dialogue at all times with people I think are smart. You want to encounter difference at all times and encounter change slowly. It’s harder to work alone.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><b>What unexpected behavior or community norms have emerged “in the wild,” in spite of the best laid plans/designs? How have these instances informed your thinking and work going forward?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caroline S. said one unexpected result of making data sets open was the treating and thinking of data sets as “art,” aka digital communication and literacy bringing in a new phase of data literacy. And then further if the data does not represent certain groups, the consequences of using that data set are multiplied. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caroline W. agreed, saying, “No tool is better than the people,” and that any tool needs to be facilitated by a group of people in order to use the tool appropriately &#8212; and even then, one can’t fully control the results. One example of an unexpected result was the piloting of a barter network under the assumption that the community members would govern themselves as a commons. Ultimately, without any facilitation for the tool in place, members treated the network as a zero-sum game, reinforcing capitalist structures that had no original place in the design. To mitigate this, she believes that up front facilitation and a cultural shift that combines online with offline face-to-face meetings is key.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“No tool is better than the people.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael said the more open and collaborative a project is, the more unexpected the outcomes, especially with the micro-relationships underneath the collaborations. For example, he highlighted the now </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">infamous issue with the American Women Novelists subcategory</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that relegated women novelists to a different page than the main page featuring male writers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caroline S. said one way to mitigate such occurrences is to have a code of conduct, which would help to establish and articulate norms, and also help define bad behavior. Anytime you’re collaborating with people, this should be clearly defined (rather than simply presumed or implied), and it can be flexible, but still provide some sort of structure.</span></p>
<p><b>In response to the opportunity for CC generally</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the room chimed in with ideas, such as an analog of CC for codes of conduct, e.g. a community license, or some set of standardized rules. Caroline W. suggested conceptualizing art and design as “open access,” where, like Wikipedia, one could fork and debate edits, and version work as a way to involve the community in the work itself.</span></p>
<p><b>We closed the night with a question about sustainability, with regards to both the financial and social life of a project.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael pointed out that opening up a work inherently makes it sustainable, giving the project a life of its own years later when unintended uses are made of it. For example, a project he developed that involved lampshades for bicycles wasn’t ever adopted by the big manufacturers at the time, but now a derivative is being used on the back of helmets. The important thing is for his version of the project to have been self-sustaining long enough for someone else to take it and build on it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caroline S. said that the question for a sustainable community isn’t so much economic as social; it isn’t whether you are saving people money, it is whether you are creating things that make people feel better and want to get involved. She brought us all back to the meta point about our own research and insights into this field of online communities and behavior, and how outside of this event, the day-to-day work of a designer/researcher in this space is challenging because they have no insight into their counterparts’ research and work at commercial platforms. As such, CC gathering researchers and platform representatives together in the same room is valuable in and of itself! </span></p>
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title: Open Innovation in Education Study: Concepts and Business Models
uri: Open-Innovation-in-Education-Study-Concepts-and-Business-Models
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/06/oer-study-business/
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<p><img data-attachment-id="53822" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/06/oer-study-business/screen-shot-2017-11-06-at-1-12-22-pm/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM.png" data-orig-size="1201,354" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2017-11-06 at 1.12.22 PM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-300x88.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-1024x302.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-53822" src="media/88f7d8ef.Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-1024x302.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-1024x302.png" alt="brazil-covers" width="840" height="248" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-1024x302.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-300x88.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-768x226.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-136x40.png 136w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-50x15.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-270x80.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-1200x354.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM.png 1201w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>The Creative Commons (CC) community has an ongoing interest in how traditional and new business models interact with, leverage, and give back to the commons. To address this topic, CC published its book “<a href="https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/made-with-cc/">Made with Creative Commons</a>” to show the full spectrum of open business models using CC licenses. The authors’ goal was to answer what many creators consider one of the most important questions of the digital age: how do creators make money to sustain what they do when they allow the world to freely reuse their work?</p>
<p>Aligned with this work, Instituto Educadigital, a partner with CC Brazil, recently published “<a href="http://www.educadigital.org.br/estudocieb">Open Innovation in Education- Concepts and Business Models</a> (<a href="http://www.educadigital.org.br/estudocieb">Portuguese</a> / <a href="media/1c76fbe9.CIEB-Studies-2-Open-Innovation-in-Education.pdf" data-original-source="http://educadigital.org.br/estudocieb/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CIEB-Studies-2-Open-Innovation-in-Education.pdf">English</a>)”, a study authored by Priscila Gonsales and Débora Sebriam that explores how the open innovation movement can impact the educational marketplace. The study explores and addresses public policies that provide incentives for publicly funded digital resources, paths for companies to be financially sustainable, the role of private investment, and challenges for open innovation in education.</p>
<p>Open Innovation in Education explores how modern society &#8211; influenced by the digital revolution and widespread access to information &#8211; has often questioned the existing economic model. As opposed to the capitalist economy focused on competition for the sole purpose of profit, the concept of “economy of the common good” is based on collaboration, sharing and plurality. The term “open innovation” was first coined in the early 2000s by Professor Henry Chesbrough at Berkeley. The central idea behind open innovation is that innovation ceases to be something restricted to the private sphere of large corporations. Instead, it should be viewed as an action promoted by the engagement of multiple social actors, transparency and co-creation.</p>
<p>Open education shares common goals with open innovation. It has empowered educators and learners with increased access to knowledge, innovating pedagogical practices, and a culture of sharing. In order for open education to be adopted broadly in public education institutions, there needs to be engagement and dialogue between the State, the private sector, and civil society. To advance this mission, the world’s ministries of education and civil society education leaders recently met at the <a href="http://www.oercongress.org/">2nd World OER Congress</a> in Slovenia with the goal of mainstreaming open education to meet the education targets in the United Nations <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg4">SDG4</a>. The main output of the Congress &#8211; the 2017 Ljubljana OER Action Plan (<a href="media/a37c2fe3.ljubljana_oer_action_plan_2017.pdf" data-original-source="https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/ljubljana_oer_action_plan_2017.pdf">English</a> / <a href="media/6f9a9cea.ljubljana_oer_action_plan_2017_fr.pdf" data-original-source="https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/ljubljana_oer_action_plan_2017_fr.pdf">French</a>) called on governments to focus on five areas of action. #4 is “Developing sustainability models” &#8211; a call for governments to:</p>
<blockquote><p>… analyse their goals and needs in education to support the development, adoption, maintenance, distribution, and evaluation of OER. This may include mechanisms to support that work financially and revisiting structures for mainstreaming OER, possibly including adjusting procurement models or the way teachers are incentivised to work on OER. Support and action in particular from governments and educational institutions, is important for the realization of these actions.</p></blockquote>
<p>The challenge in the case of the private sector is to find viable business models that work with open education. Using reference cases of companies aligned with a collaborative economy, the study presents a viable model to evaluate financial sustainability under a different lens while examining more flexible and customizable products and services that generate value. As a result, more autonomy can be given to teachers when there is a better dialogue between public policies and social business initiatives resulting in innovative results.</p>
<p>This study shows the importance not only of thinking about innovative educational systems but also of considering innovation as something that goes beyond the technological device and that must be constructed in order to empower all actors in the education ecosystem.</p>
<h3><a href="media/1c76fbe9.CIEB-Studies-2-Open-Innovation-in-Education.pdf" data-original-source="http://educadigital.org.br/estudocieb/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CIEB-Studies-2-Open-Innovation-in-Education.pdf">Read the report</a></h3>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53863
title: TPP continues without the worst copyright provisions
uri: TPP-continues-without-the-worst-copyright-provisions
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/13/tpp-continues-without-worst-copyright-provisions/
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<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Civil society organisations including Creative Commons helped deliver a win against the restrictive IP terms of the TPP, which were developed secret and would have locked down content and restricted user rights.</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the last five years the Creative Commons community has been organising against the restrictive copyright provisions put forth in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trans-Pacific Partnership</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (TPP). We’ve written </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2014/12/11/48-civil-society-groups-demand-public-release-of-tpp-agreement-text/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">letters</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> demanding increased transparency, contributed to public events such as the </span><a href="https://www.rockagainstthetpp.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rock Against the TPP</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> concerts, and drafted an </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/policy-advocacy-copyright-reform/stop-the-tpp/trans-pacific-partnership-would-harm-user-rights-and-the-commons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">analysis</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the copyright-related aspects of the TPP. In that document we said, &#8220;there is no logical reason to increase the term of copyright: an extension would create a tiny private benefit at a great cost to the public.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to a </span><a href="http://dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/tpp/news/Pages/trans-pacific-partnership-ministerial-statement.aspx"><span style="font-weight: 400;">statement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> released Saturday, the ministers of the remaining countries negotiating the TPP have &#8220;agreed on the core elements&#8221; of the deal. Of particular interest are about 20 &#8220;suspended provisions&#8221; outlined in an </span><a href="media/d11324d4.annex-2.pdf" data-original-source="http://dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/tpp/news/Documents/annex-2.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">annex</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the ministerial statement. Most of the provisions in the chapter on intellectual property have been &#8220;suspended,&#8221; meaning they likely will be excluded from future negotiations. This includes the proposed 20 year increase in copyright term and the introduction of criminal penalties for circumventing technological protection measures. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ryan Merkley, CEO of Creative Commons, said, &#8220;The suspension of the IP section of TPP is a huge win for the public, delivered in large part because of activists around the world who opposed the secret agreement. They exposed the terms and ensured there were national debates and public debate.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The U.S. has been out of the picture since January 2017, when President Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement three days into his administration. Since that time, the name of the trade pact has been changed from TPP to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The gigantic agreement still contains sweeping provisions regarding environmental regulation, pharmaceutical procurement, labor standards, food safety, and many other things. For nearly the last decade, it has been developed and negotiated completely in secret.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The news about the CPTPP comes during an active time of trade agreement talks, particularly in light of the re-negotiation of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement"><span style="font-weight: 400;">North American Free Trade Agreement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (NAFTA), now being &#8220;modernized&#8221; by Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Concerning those talks, we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/14/re-negotiating-nafta-opening-pandoras-box/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">argued</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, &#8220;the NAFTA provisions having to do with copyright would do more harm than good if there’s not a significant shift in the balance in favor of the rights for users and the public to reflect the reality of today’s digital users.&#8221; A fundamental flaw with CPTPP, NAFTA, and nearly all other trade agreement negotiations is that they are entirely opaque to the population governed by them. In a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/18/digital-rights-organisations-tell-nafta-negotiators-move-talks-shadows/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">letter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to NAFTA negotiators, we demanded reforms to make the proceedings more transparent, inclusive and accountable. It is unacceptable that binding rules on intellectual property, access to medicines, and a variety of other trade-related sectors will be reworked within a process that is inaccessible and often hostile to input from members of the public.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All trade negotiations should be made through procedures that are transparent to the public and which include all stakeholders. Increased transparency and meaningful public participation will lead to better outcomes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The negotiations of the CPTPP seem far from over, and it’s important to note that the provisions mentioned in the annex are only suspended, not removed entirely. Civil society organisations and consumer watchdog groups should continue to monitor the negotiations. But for now, the freezing of the worst parts of the IP chapter is a breath of fresh air in the otherwise dark, dank cave of trade policymaking. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53870
title: Create Refresh Campaign: Stop the EU Copyright Censorship Machine
uri: Create-Refresh-Campaign-Stop-the-EU-Copyright-Censorship-Machine
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/15/create-refresh-campaign-stop-eu-copyright-censorship-machine/

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<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pQGwJwAgygc?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://createrefresh.eu/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Create Refresh</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> campaign is a new project to highlight the concerns of creators regarding the EU’s proposed changes to copyright law. Supporting </span><a href="https://createrefresh.eu/#who-we-are"><span style="font-weight: 400;">organisations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> include Creative Commons, Kennisland, La Quadrature du Net, and others. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Create Refresh </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">is “calling on creators to be part of a movement to defend their right to create. [The] ultimate aim is to inspire a new solution for digital copyright that protects all creators and their careers.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="media/18d6e2ad.Create-Refresh-Brief-7.pdf" data-original-source="https://storage.googleapis.com/purpose-create.appspot.com/1/Create-Refresh-Brief-7.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">initiative</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> focuses on Article 13 of the </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-directive-european-parliament-and-council-copyright-digital-single-market"><span style="font-weight: 400;">European Commission’s copyright proposal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which would require all online services that permit user-generated uploads to install filters that can automatically detect, flag, and censor copyrighted material before the content even hits the web. The provision would apply to websites such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr, and even noncommercial sites like Wikipedia.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Such a problematic requirement could be in conflict with other fundamental rights enshrined in existing EU law, such as the provision in the E-Commerce Directive that prohibits general monitoring obligations for internet platforms. Second, the content filtering mechanism would likely be unable to take into account other user rights, such as current limitations and exceptions to copyright. The proposal fails to establish rules that protect the ability of EU citizens to use copyright-protected works in transformative ways—such as video remixes. Or, as </span><a href="media/e4c1e1dd.stl-article13-faq.pdf" data-original-source="https://openmedia.org/sites/default/files/stl-article13-faq.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OpenMedia puts it</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “automated systems are incapable of making sophisticated judgements and will inevitably err on the side of censoring creativity and speech that is perfectly legal.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the next few months the remaining European Parliament committees responsible for the reform will hold their votes on potential amendments to the Commission&#8217;s original plan. This includes the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), and the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI). In addition, the <span>Council of the European Union—essentially, the EU Member State governments led </span>by the Estonian Presidency—has been floating proposed changes. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Create Refresh</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> comes to the same conclusion as CC and dozens of other civil society organisations calling for a progressive copyright that protects both users and the public interest in the digital environment: </span><b>Article 13 should be removed from the proposal</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creators interested in contributing to the campaign can apply for a </span><a href="https://createrefresh.typeform.com/to/qzVxED"><span style="font-weight: 400;">small grant</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to develop videos, artwork, or other creative works relating to Article 13 and freedom of expression. Check out </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Create Refresh </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">on their </span><a href="https://createrefresh.eu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="http://twitter.com/createrefresh"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://facebook.com/create.refresh"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or </span><a href="http://instagram.com/create.refresh"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53879
title: Trade negotiators: follow these rules to protect creativity, access to knowledge, users’ rights
uri: Trade-negotiators-follow-these-rules-to-protect-creativity-access-to
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/15/trade-negotiators-follow-rules-protect-creativity-access-knowledge-users-rights/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today over 70 international copyright experts </span><a href="http://infojustice.org/archives/39093"><span style="font-weight: 400;">released</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the </span><a href="media/662d6fb2.es-on-Copyright-Balance-in-Trade-Agreements-November-15-2017.pdf" data-original-source="http://infojustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Washington-Principles-on-Copyright-Balance-in-Trade-Agreements-November-15-2017.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington Principles on Copyright Balance in Trade Agreements</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The document, endorsed by Creative Commons, urges trade negotiators “to support policies like fair use, safe harbor provisions, and other exceptions and limitations that permit and encourage access to knowledge, flourishing creativity, and innovation.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The principles were collaboratively drafted at a </span><a href="https://openmedia.org/en/how-can-nafta-get-it-right-copyright-we-went-washington-dc-find-out"><span style="font-weight: 400;">meeting</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Washington, D.C. last month, with input from a wide range of legal academics and public interest organisations from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The principles are released to coincide with the fifth round of talks of the renegotiation of NAFTA, which takes place this week in Mexico City. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Signers lay out the following copyright principles to ensure consumers’ digital rights:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Protect and promote copyright balance, including fair use</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Provide technology-enabling exceptions, such as for search engines and text- and data-mining</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Require safe harbor provisions to protect online platforms from users’ infringement</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensure legitimate exceptions for anti-circumvention, such as documentary filmmaking, cybersecurity research, and allowing assistive reading technologies for the blind</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adhere to existing multilateral commitments on copyright term</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Guarantee proportionality and due process in copyright enforcement</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the lead up to the renegotiation of NAFTA, we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/14/re-negotiating-nafta-opening-pandoras-box/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">urged</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> negotiators not to expand the copyright provisions to create new (and likely more onerous) rules than those that already exist in the agreement. We said that if the copyright provisions must be reconsidered, a negotiating objective should at a minimum be to advocate for stronger protections for copyright limitations and exceptions; user rights should be granted a mandatory and enforceable standing alongside the rights of authors. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But no one (or more accurately, no one from any public interest or consumer rights organisation) knows what’s in the agreement. NAFTA, like TPP and other trade agreements before it, is being negotiated completely in the dark. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s safe to assume that copyright and other intellectual property rights will continue to be included in bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations, so it’s imperative that the negotiations be </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/18/digital-rights-organisations-tell-nafta-negotiators-move-talks-shadows/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">radically reformed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to make the proceedings transparent, inclusive and accountable. We believe it is unacceptable that binding rules on intellectual property, access to medicines, and a variety of other trade-related sectors will be reworked within a process that is inaccessible and often hostile to input from members of the public.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53882
title: U.S. Pushes Closer To Making Government Data Open By Default
uri: U-S-Pushes-Closer-To-Making-Government-Data-Open-By-Default
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/16/u-s-pushes-closer-making-government-data-open-default/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act (OPEN Government Data Act) has passed the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill’s text was included as Title II in the </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4174/text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (H.R. 4174). If ultimately enacted, the bill would require all government data to be made </span><a href="https://www.datacoalition.org/press-releases/open-government-data-act-passes-the-house-for-the-first-time/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open by default: machine-readable and freely-reusable</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Essentially, the legislation would codify the 2013 Executive Order on <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/executive-order-making-open-and-machine-readable-new-default-government-">Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According the bill </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">text</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘open Government data asset’ means a public data asset that is</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(A) machine-readable;</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">(B) available (or could be made available) in an open format;</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">(C) not encumbered by restrictions that would impede the use or reuse of such asset; and</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">(D) based on an underlying open standard that is maintained by a standards organization; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[and]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘open license’ means a legal guarantee that a data asset is made available</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(A) at no cost to the public; and</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">(B) with no restrictions on copying, publishing, distributing, transmitting, citing, or adapting such asset.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Along with the </span><a href="https://www.datacoalition.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Data Coalition</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://sunlightfoundation.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sunlight Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and dozens of other organisations, Creative Commons has been supportive of the push to make government data available under open licenses or in the public domain using the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0 Public Domain Dedication</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In an earlier </span><a href="media/d6f5a8a3.2017-OPEN-gov-data-act-support-letter-full.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/7/7d/2017-OPEN-gov-data-act-support-letter-full.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">letter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we said this legislation will allow the United States to remain a world leader on open data, ensure the value of this public resource will continue to grow as the government unlocks and creates new data sets, and encourage businesses, nonprofits, and others to invest in innovative tools that make use of open government data. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">H.R. 4174 was passed by a unanimous voice vote. Now the Senate will consider its counterpart to the House bill, </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2046/text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">S. 2046</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/16/u-s-pushes-closer-making-government-data-open-default/">U.S. Pushes Closer To Making Government Data Open By Default</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53908
title: How can we make the world a better place?
uri: How-can-we-make-the-world-a-better-place
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/28/can-make-world-better-place/
content:
<p>What are the values that resonate the most for you in the Commons? Transparency? Innovation? Sharing? Gratitude? In today’s polarized political environment, how can we come together to champion values that we share, and make the world a better place?</p>
<p>I’ve repeated three truths to guide CC’s message, and I’d like to share them with you as this year comes to a close:</p>
<ul>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Everything is political</li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Pick big fights with your enemies, not small fights with your friends</li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Collective acts are our collective power</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_53910" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53910" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/28/can-make-world-better-place/three_tenets_ryan/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/three_tenets_Ryan.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="three_tenets_Ryan" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/three_tenets_Ryan-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/three_tenets_Ryan.jpg" class="wp-image-53910 size-full" src="media/b5d5b78a.three_tenets_Ryan.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/three_tenets_Ryan.jpg" alt="three-tenets-ryan" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/three_tenets_Ryan.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/three_tenets_Ryan-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/three_tenets_Ryan-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/three_tenets_Ryan-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/three_tenets_Ryan-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/albums/72157683167560985/">Photo by Sebastiaan Ter Burg,</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>These three concepts guide my work at CC – they’re how we build our communities through organized political action and how we pick our battles, from <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/02/dozens-organizations-call-european-parliament-redouble-efforts-progressive-copyright-changes?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=copyright">copyright and policy reform</a> to <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/open-access-week?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=oa-week" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open access</a> to <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/27/open-order-fulfill-vision-universal-access-research-education?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=universal-access" target="_blank" rel="noopener">universal access to research and education.</a><br />
But CC’s work is not only copyright policy and free content on the internet. Our community is where the real power of CC lives, and this year has shown that our work is only possible in collaboration with our <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://network.creativecommons.org?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=network">Global Network</a> of lawyers, academics, creators, copyfighters, librarians, educators, and makers of all types, in every sector. We’ve developed a <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://github.com/creativecommons/global-network-strategy?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=strategy">brand new collaborative strategy</a> to unleash that community, and we hope you’ll join us.<br />
To build that momentum, we announced a number of incredible partnerships this year, from our <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/07/met-announcement?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=met-announcement">landmark release of over 400,000 images with the Met Museum</a> to the unveiling of #NEWPALMYRA, a tribute to our late friend Bassel Khartabil. In August, <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/11/bassel-free-culture-fellowship?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=bassel">we joined with Wikimedia and Mozilla to fund a fellowship in his honor. </a></p>
<p><strong>The need for collective action has never been greater and our work never more encompassing – <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://donate.creativecommons.org?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=donate">that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m asking you to join us with a donation of any amount.<br />
</a></strong></p>
<figure id="attachment_53911" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53911" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/28/can-make-world-better-place/new-pal-pic/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/new-pal-pic.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="new-pal-pic" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/new-pal-pic-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/new-pal-pic.jpg" class="wp-image-53911 size-full" src="media/9c26fdfe.new-pal-pic.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/new-pal-pic.jpg" alt="new-palmyra" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/new-pal-pic.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/new-pal-pic-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/new-pal-pic-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/new-pal-pic-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/new-pal-pic-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/albums/72157683167560985">Photo by Sebastiaan Ter Burg, </a><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=sotc">This year has been a year of record growth in the commons</a>, but it’s also been a record year of growth for our movement. In April, we convened our biggest summit ever in Toronto. In collaboration with a 30 person volunteer program committee, we brought together 400 commoners from around the world, including <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/25/meetcc-voices-global-summit-scholarship-recipients?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=scholarships">100 scholarship recipients.</a> Five brilliant international women delivered memorable keynotes. In a time when good news feels hard to come by, our summit was a moment of hopefulness, gathering people from around the globe to share successes and discuss the future of our movement for equal access to knowledge. This year, we’ll be gathering from<a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://summit.creativecommons.org?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=summit"> April 13-15, 2018,</a> and we’d love to see you there.</p>
<figure id="attachment_53912" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="53912" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/28/can-make-world-better-place/badge-girls-summit/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/badge-girls-summit.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="badge-girls-summit" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/badge-girls-summit-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/badge-girls-summit.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-53912" src="media/eea33df4.badge-girls-summit.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/badge-girls-summit.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/badge-girls-summit.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/badge-girls-summit-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/badge-girls-summit-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/badge-girls-summit-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/badge-girls-summit-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/albums/72157683167560985">Photo by Sebastiaan Ter Burg, </a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Our movement is only growing stronger by the day, but we couldn’t have done it without your support.</strong></p>
<p>I’m filled with gratitude for our community and hope that you step up to join in the next phase of our work, including <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/30/no-tool-better-people-cc-artists-conversation-collaboration-community-commons?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=usability" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updating our tools and licenses</a> and launching our <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/12/certificates/?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=certs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC Certificates program</a> to train librarians, educators, and others on CC, copyright, and open culture. We’ll be announcing new legal tools, new community empowerment programs, and even more partnerships in 2018. We can’t wait to share it all with you.</p>
<p>PS We&#8217;ll be launching even more ways to donate monthly to the commons. Only $5 per month will ensure our work continues. <a style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://donate.creativecommons.org?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=donate">Can you join?</a></p>
<p><a class="button donate arrow" href="http://donate.creativecommons.org?utm_source=community-post&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=donate">Donate now</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53944
title: Help us lead the charge: An open appeal to support OER
uri: Help-us-lead-the-charge-An-open-appeal-to-support-OER
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/04/support-oer/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="53945" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/04/support-oer/open-education-cookies/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Open-Education-Cookies.jpg" data-orig-size="3264,2448" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1487940041&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Open-Education-Cookies" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Open-Education-Cookies-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Open-Education-Cookies-1024x768.jpg" class="wp-image-53945 alignleft" src="media/67de43a2.Open-Education-Cookies-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Open-Education-Cookies-1024x768.jpg" alt="cable-cookies-oer-eyes" width="272" height="204" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Open-Education-Cookies-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Open-Education-Cookies-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Open-Education-Cookies-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Open-Education-Cookies-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Open-Education-Cookies-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Open-Education-Cookies-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Open-Education-Cookies-1200x900.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 272px) 85vw, 272px" />The “journey to open” looks different for all of us. For some, it’s the realization that we can access, modify and share educational resources for free; for others it’s about fundamentally changing the way we think about student learning, pedagogy, and ownership and control of the resources we use in schools, colleges and universities. For many of us, the choice to go open is a reflection of our principles, politics and values.</p>
<p>My journey to open was an actual journey. When I started as the Director of eLearning for the Washington State Community Colleges, I toured the state listening to students’ stories about their journeys to a degree and a better life. In my travels, I discovered that many students had to make difficult decisions related to the cost of their education. Students told me were forced to decide between buying a textbook and taking one more class, paying for their child’s doctor’s appointment, or fixing a broken car. The students I met were falling behind because of the high cost of textbooks; they asked me “how can I succeed in my class if I can’t afford the required resources?” I made it my mission to change how we use public funds to build, license, maintain and share educational resources to ensure equal opportunity for all students, no matter their economic situation.</p>
<p>Education is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights. Because we can share digital open educational resources (OER) for near $0, I believe we have a moral and ethical obligation to do so.</p>
<p><a href="http://donate.creativecommons.org?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=cable-post">Will you chip in at $5 per month to ensure all students have the opportunity to learn?</a></p>
<p>As a taxpayer, I expect my government to ensure all publicly funded educational resources be openly licensed. People around the world expect the same &#8211; the public should have open access to the educational and research resources it funds.</p>
<p>This year, Creative Commons helped:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bangladesh national government draft an open licensing policy</li>
<li>European Union Erasmus+ program update to its open licensing policy</li>
<li>US Department of Education adopt an open license rule</li>
<li>Global Book Alliance integrate open licensing policies into its funding proposals</li>
<li>30 national ministries of education adopt the 2017 Ljubljana OER Action Plan at the 2nd World OER Congress</li>
<li>UN Environment Program draft an open licensing policy on research and educational resources.</li>
<li>US State Department publish its Open Licensing Playbook for Federal Agencies</li>
<li>The Commonwealth publish an “OER Policy Brief” for its ministers of education.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://donate.creativecommons.org?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=cable-post">Only $5 per month will help us ensure that all publicly funded educational resources are publicly accessible.</a></p>
<p>At CC, we’re leading the charge for Open Education together with our mighty group of 62015+ CC Open Education Platform members. We’re growing the number of open education leaders globally through training, mentorship and projects. For us, that means mainstreaming open education content, practices and policies, working with governments to make all publicly funded education resources openly licensed, co-leading the open education movement, and creating new production and procurement models that scale OER adoption.</p>
<p><a href="http://donate.creativecommons.org?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_campaign=YE_2017&amp;utm_content=cable-post">I’m passionate about changing the education landscape – can you contribute?</a></p>
<p>Governments, public education institutions, educators and students need to fight for universal, inclusive and equitable education opportunities for all.</p>
<p>Help us lead the charge.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53959
title: Colombian appellate court affirms: Diego Gómez not guilty for sharing research paper online
uri: Colombian-appellate-court-affirms-Diego-Gómez-not-guilty-for-sharing
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/05/colombian-appellate-court-affirms-diego-gomez-not-guilty-sharing-research-paper-online/

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<p><img data-attachment-id="53961" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/05/colombian-appellate-court-affirms-diego-gomez-not-guilty-sharing-research-paper-online/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_grises/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES.png" data-orig-size="1000,1000" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-300x300.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-53961" src="media/d96e23d7.diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES.png" alt="" width="447" height="447" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES.png 1000w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-768x768.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-32x32.png 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-64x64.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-96x96.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/diego_absuelto_segunda_instancia_GRISES-128x128.png 128w" sizes="(max-width: 447px) 85vw, 447px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yesterday we </span><a href="https://karisma.org.co/tribunal-de-bogota-confirma-fallo-biologo-diego-gomez-es-absuelto-de-los-cargos-por-violacion-al-derecho-de-autor/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">learned</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the Tribunal de Bogotá—the Colombian appellate court—has affirmed the lower court’s acquittal of Diego Gómez. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gómez is a scientist from Colombia who has 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 in Colombia, 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 online 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;">In May 2017 Gómez was </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/24/colombian-court-acquits-diego-gomez-criminal-charges-sharing-research-paper-online/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">acquitted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of criminal charges. But within days of the ruling, the article author’s lawyer appealed the decision, meaning that even after several years of criminal proceedings, Diego’s case continued to the appellate court. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yesterday’s decision confirms the lower court’s ruling. </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 action was spearheaded by Colombian digital rights organisation Fundación Karisma. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 remedies 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;">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=53940
title: One week left to save the Internet
uri: One-week-left-to-save-the-Internet
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/07/one-week-left-save-internet/
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<p><img data-attachment-id="53286" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/12/battle-net-day-action-save-net-neutrality/avatar-black/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/avatar-black.gif" data-orig-size="300,300" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="avatar-black" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/avatar-black.gif" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/avatar-black.gif" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53286" src="media/8f48b77b.avatar-black.gif" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/avatar-black.gif" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></p>
<h3><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/"><b>Act now to stop the FCC from rolling back fundamental protections for the open internet!</b></a></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Net neutrality is under attack&#8230;again. On the day before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai released a </span><a href="media/8ed1a2e2.DOC-347927A1.pdf" data-original-source="https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db1122/DOC-347927A1.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">draft plan</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that would repeal net neutrality in the United States. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Net neutrality</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the principle that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all online data the same, and not discriminate or charge different amounts for different audiences. Pai’s proposal—if passed—would completely repeal the </span><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-open-internet-order"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2015 rules</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> set by the previous administration’s FCC. This </span><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/16690870/fcc-repeal-net-neutrality-proposal-released"><span style="font-weight: 400;">means</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that internet service providers “will be free to experiment with fast and slow lanes, prioritize their own traffic, and block apps and services.” ISPs would be required to disclose when they are engaging in these types of activities. The FCC will vote on the proposal on 14 December. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In July we joined hundreds of organisations, thousands of online communities, and millions of internet users in calling on the FCC to protect net neutrality. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/07/12/battle-net-day-action-save-net-neutrality/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are over 1 billion CC-licensed works online, shared freely with anyone with access to the internet. The majority of these works are hosted on content platforms such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Internet Archive, Flickr, and Vimeo. What if you couldn’t access your favorite works because your ISP wants you to see instead content they’re getting paid to promote? What if the video that you created and uploaded online is slowed so others can’t watch it? We know that Creative Commons licensing is only one factor in a healthy open internet ecosystem. A strong digital commons requires universal access to basic digital infrastructure, and enforceable rules that promote fair competition and freedom of information.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The repeal of net neutrality rules in the United States would deal a massive blow to fundamental consumer protections, creativity and innovation, and information sharing online.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The threat to the open internet could not be more dire. </span><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/"><strong>Make your voice heard in support of net neutrality. Message and call Cong</strong><b>ress and attend an in-person protest on December 7. </b></a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=53939
title: Network Strategy: the transition towards a new model
uri: Network-Strategy-the-transition-towards-a-new-model
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/08/network-strategy-transition-towards-new-model/
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<p>In June <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/16/network-strategy-whats-next/">we shared </a>our community plan to implement the new CC Network Strategy, showing the benefits of a new international structure with an enhanced Chapter model, working together at a global scale with the Network Platforms, and a new governance structure to support the network.</p>
<p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/global-affiliate-network/">The Creative Commons network</a> has always been one of the critical pieces of the success of the CC licenses. At the outset, CC was mostly a legal project trying to reach a global audience of users and creators. Years later, our community required new ways of working together, with projects and advocacy and education playing a bigger role, and enhanced means of communication and collaboration as central to the community. The new Network Strategy, written collaboratively by community members, was the primary outcome of a process for change and adaptation begun at the CC Summit in Seoul, in October, 2015.</p>
<p>Implementing the strategy properly, with all the needed infrastructure, has been a big task. While the first network grew organically over many years, this one is being designed deliberately on concrete timelines. It has involved our web dev staff, legal review, communications, and lots of work from the Advisory Group team. It has been more complex than anyone thought, but we&#8217;re proud of what we&#8217;ve done to bring it together. We want to get it right for all of you, and we think we’ve done significant work that will serve the network well, and avoid problems in the future.</p>
<p><b>What we have done:</b></p>
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<li>We created a <a href="http://github.com/creativecommons/global-network-strategy">suite of documentation</a> for the Network Strategy transition.
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<li><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/global-network-strategy/blob/master/docs/Guide_for_vouching_applicants.md">A Guide for vouching applicants</a>. This document provides guidance about what to take into account at the moment of deciding to vouch for someone to join the Network</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/global-network-strategy/blob/master/docs/Guide_for_approve_new_members.md">A Guide for approving new members</a>. This guides members of the Membership Council regarding criteria for approving already vouched applicants.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/global-network-strategy/blob/master/docs/chapters-guidelines.md">Chapter Standards and Guidelines</a>. This document provides a more detailed explanation of how Chapters should organize, indicating standards, responsibilities, membership, and examples of what else a Chapter can do.</li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/network/charter/">An updated Charter</a>. Minor updates, but we improved the language of policies and established a better way to make future changes. We also created an official version available on the CC website.</li>
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<li>We built a brand-new network website and member application and management infrastructure. We have implemented <a href="https://buddypress.org/">BuddyPress</a> as a backend to manage members and their applications, and we have been creating brand new plugins to support the entire process of application, vouching and approval within the website. This has been a massive project for design and development. We expect this to be the &#8220;door&#8221; for people who want to be connected with the CC community in any capacity (including membership). So, we are creating ways to make people feel welcomed and driving them to different ways to be engaged with CC.</li>
<li>We massively updated Terms of services and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/privacy/">Privacy Policies</a>. This was an intended consequence of the new Strategy. We created brand new ToS for the Network website and also radically changed our entire Privacy Policy, not just to comply with the requirements of the whole memberships/vouching system, but also to update it after some years of use.</li>
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<p>All of this work is vital, but it has required us to stretch our original timelines. We will now open up memberships a bit later, and will as a result also extend the time before the first GNC meeting to allow chapters to form, meet, and select their representatives. What we are doing here is massive and will significantly grow the network. We&#8217;re grateful for all your work and energy. We want to do everything right, and we prefer to launch with everything in place and to be ready to communicate to the world what we are doing, inviting all to be part of this process.</p>
<p><b>What’s next:</b></p>
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<li>We are shifting the timelines. We are finishing the design and backend of the Network website by mid-December. We start communicating more broadly in December and early January, and will open membership on January 15th. The window for the first Chapter meeting will be in March 2018.</li>
<li><strong>The first Global Network Council meeting will be after the Summit</strong> — it will not be during the summit, as we had initially imagined. We will use the Summit to advance the core work of Network Platforms and Working Groups, which are open to everyone, for community discussions and chapter meetups, and to engage new members. We will also use the Summit to advance into conversations about governance and the Network. We plan to have the first GNC meeting by May/June 2018.</li>
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<p>The Global Summit will celebrate the CC Network and the affiliate teams that built the CC community we have today. It will be a great moment to celebrate what we achieved during all these years and what brings us together, as we move into the future. We expect this Summit to be a place to share ideas and strategies to improve -and fight for- the commons at a global scale.</p>
<p>The new timeline means we will have more time to prepare for this big change – more time to talk with your local peers, host more meetings and conferences, and maintain better and more impactful projects. From now to the Summit, we will continue supporting activities around the globe with our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/13/community-activities-fund/">Activities Fund.</a> We encourage you to keep advocating for openness in your communities and to consider joining the network as soon as we are &#8220;open&#8221; for members.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54027
title: The battle for the net continues after FCC erases net neutrality rules
uri: The-battle-for-the-net-continues-after-FCC-erases-net-neutrality-rules
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/15/battle-net-continues-fcc-erases-net-neutrality-rules/
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<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">An open internet is crucial for all creators, thinkers, and makers on the web</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As expected, yesterday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted along party lines to </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-vote.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">repeal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the </span><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-open-internet-order"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2015 Open Internet Order</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that ensured net neutrality in the United States. Without net neutrality, broadband providers like Comcast and Verizon will have free reign to block or discriminate against content or applications that are carried over their networks. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the preceding weeks, there was a huge outpouring across the web and in the streets in support of net neutrality. Creative Commons has always supported network neutrality. We joined thousands of organisations </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/07/one-week-left-save-internet/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">calling on everyone</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to make their voice heard to the FCC and Congress. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though this vote feels dire, the fight to protect the open internet isn’t over. Even with yesterday’s vote, there are still ways through Congress or the courts that could restore net neutrality in the U.S. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A free and open internet is an essential utility of everyday life and Creative Commons licensing is only one factor in a healthy open internet ecosystem. A strong digital commons requires universal access to basic digital infrastructure, and enforceable rules that promote fair competition and freedom of information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The FCC vote yesterday was a step in the wrong direction, and clearly antithetical to the wishes of the public. We stand in solidarity with countless internet users, creators, teachers, startups, and information-seekers who can only thrive with strong net neutrality protections. We’ll continue the fight for the open internet for all. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54032
title: A Tribute to Jay Yoon
uri: A-Tribute-to-Jay-Yoon
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/20/tribute-jay-yoon/
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<figure id="attachment_54033" style="max-width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54033" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/20/tribute-jay-yoon/jay_yoon_at_summit/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jay_yoon_at_summit.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="jay_yoon_at_summit" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jay_yoon_at_summit-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jay_yoon_at_summit.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-54033" src="media/8592914c.jay_yoon_at_summit.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jay_yoon_at_summit.jpg" alt="jay-at-summit" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jay_yoon_at_summit.jpg 640w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jay_yoon_at_summit-300x200.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jay_yoon_at_summit-60x40.jpg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jay_yoon_at_summit-50x33.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jay_yoon_at_summit-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/21586331544/">Jay Yoon presenting at the 2015 CC Global Summit in Seoul, South Korea,</a> Photo by Sebastiaan Ter Burg, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>One of the most admired leaders of the global Creative Commons movement is turning the page on his latest chapter of service to the commons. Judge Jongsoo (Jay) Yoon has completed his term as a member of the Creative Commons Board of Directors, where he has served since 2013. Jay will now continue to support CC as a member of our Advisory Council.</p>
<p>Jay is currently in private practice, having previously served as a presiding judge at the Seoul Northern District Court. His interests center on social and legal issues related to intellectual property rights, personal information, internet governance, and IT. As a volunteer for CC, Jay’s work was crucial to the founding of CC Korea, one of the strongest chapters in the network. In 2015, Jay and the CC Korea team hosted the CC Summit in Seoul – bringing together 300 members of the CC community for what was our largest gathering to date. The CC community is indebted to Jay for his tireless work translating CC licenses, advocating for openness and sharing, and – especially – leading and mentoring the next generation of commoners in Asia and beyond.</p>
<p>In the words of former CC Chair and CEO Joi Ito, &#8220;Jay is a vital part of the CC soul — from judicial expertise to rock-and-roll guitarist to tireless service to infinite hope, cheer and humor to community organizer to sharp legal mind. Jay is truly my hero and a dear friend and colleague.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_54034" style="max-width: 604px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54034" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/20/tribute-jay-yoon/hockey-staff/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff.png" data-orig-size="604,606" 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="hockey-staff" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff-300x300.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff.png" class="size-full wp-image-54034" src="media/7f33ae7e.hockey-staff.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff.png" alt="" width="604" height="606" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff.png 604w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff-150x150.png 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff-300x300.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff-40x40.png 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff-50x50.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff-350x350.png 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff-154x155.png 154w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff-32x32.png 32w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff-64x64.png 64w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff-96x96.png 96w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hockey-staff-128x128.png 128w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Jay is also a talented floor hockey player: The board beat the CC Staff in 2016’s staff vs board floor hockey game, Photo CC Staff, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>“There are a handful of my most cherished memories about Creative Commons,” adds CC founder Lawrence Lessig. “Watching CC-Korea launch is among those few. To watch not just the energy and joy of everyone, but the inspiration that Judge Jay gave everyone, made me feel for certain just how wonderful was the thing we’ve all helped build. I will always think of the inspiration and energy of Jay; I will always be jealous of the karaoke. And I will always be hoping for another excuse to visit and watch the happiness he spreads everywhere, and that we were so lucky to share.”</p>
<p>The board has prepared a tribute to Jay in English and Korean, which is below. From all of us: thank you, Jay, for your service, your leadership, and your friendship.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of Creative Commons, CC staff, and the worldwide CC network and community have benefitted invaluably from the enduring service, wisdom, and kindness of Director Jay Yoon,</p>
<p>WHEREAS, Jay was recruited to join the Creative Commons Board on account of his brilliance, warmth, modesty, and leadership, and has never failed to demonstrate those qualities;</p>
<p>WHEREAS, CC Korea, under Jay’s leadership, has taken on many creative and innovative projects, extended its interest into new and relevant areas, and welcomed the global CC community to Korea;</p>
<p>WHEREAS Jay has furthered the open education movement and supported a range of global CC initiatives, such as the OER copyright survey, translation of integral CC education documents, and the CC School of Open;</p>
<p>WHEREAS, Jay has inspired and mentored his colleagues to become visionary and committed members of the CC community, who serve as CC ambassadors in Korea and beyond;</p>
<p>WHEREAS, Jay is the embodiment of CC’s aspirations worldwide as an international organization, reach and inspiration, instilling joy in connection with sharing and collaboration, most demonstrably through his generous commitment and support in hosting the 2015 CC Global Summit in Seoul, Korea</p>
<p>WHEREAS, Jay exemplifies what is best about CC: collaboration, gratitude, excellence, and impact;</p>
<p>NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors does hereby express its heartfelt gratitude for Jay’s extraordinary efforts, for the inspiration he has provided to us and the entire CC community, for the example he continues to set for our work, and for his friendship.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Creative Commons 이사회, CC 직원들, 그리고 전세계 CC 네트워크와 커뮤니티 활동가들은 Jay의 끊임없는 헌신과 지혜와 배려를 통해 너무도 큰 도움을 받았습니다.</p>
<p>Jay는 현명함, 따뜻함, 겸손, 리더쉽을 높이 평가받아 CC 이사로 위촉되었으며 이사로 재직 중 언제나 그러한 자질을 보여주었습니다.</p>
<p>Jay의 리더쉽 하에, CC 코리아는 많은 창의적이고 혁신적인 프로젝트를 진행하고 또 그러한 관심을 새로운 관련 분야로 넓히기를 주저하지 않았으며 한국에 전세계 CC 활동가들을 초청하여 성공적으로 행사를 개최하였습니다.</p>
<p>Jay는 OER 운동을 확산해 나가고 OER 저작권 조사, 핵심 CC 교육 자료들의 번역, CC School of Open 프로젝트 등 CC에서 전세계적으로 추진한 다양한 국제 이니셔티브들을 지원하였습니다.</p>
<p>Jay가 스스로 귀감이 되고 때로는 조언을 아끼지 않음으로써 동료들이 CC 커뮤니티의 통찰력을 가진 헌신적인 일원이 될 수 있도록 하였고 이렇게 CC에 함께 하게 된 활동가들이 한국에서, 나아가 국제적으로도 CC를 알리는 사절이 되고 있습니다.</p>
<p>Jay는 국제 단체로서 CC가 전세계적으로 품고 있는 염원과 영향력과 영감의 표상으로, 공유와 협업에 담긴 기쁨을 전파해왔으며, 2015년 한국에서 CC Global Summit을 개최하면서 보여준 아낌없는 지원과 헌신을 통해 이점을 여실히 증명하였습니다.</p>
<p>Jay는 협업, 감사의 마음, 탁월함, 영향력 등 CC의 가장 훌륭한 요소들의 표본입니다.</p>
<p>이러한 이유로, CC 이사회는 이로써 Jay의 보기 드문 노력과, 그가 우리와 CC 커뮤니티 전체에 준 영감, 앞으로 CC 활동에 있어 계속 보여줄 본보기/모범과, 그의 우정에 대해 진심으로 감사를 표하는 바입니다.</p>
<p>아울러 이사회는 이로써 Jay Yoon을 CC Advisory Council 위원으로 위촉하여, 사임이나 해임, 그 밖의 다른 이유로 더이상 직을 수행할 수 없을 때까지 위원직을 수행하도록 의결하는 바입니다.</p>
<h3><strong>전 CC 이사들의 메시지</strong></h3>
<p>Larry Lessig:</p>
<p>“CC에 대해 소중하게 간직하고 있는 추억이 몇 가지 있는데, CC 코리아 출범 때의 추억이 그 중 하나다. 당시 들떠 있던 모든 사람들의 에너지와 기쁨 뿐만 아니라 Jay가 모든 이들에게 깊은 영감을 주는 모습을 지켜보면서, 우리 모두의 도움이 얼마나 멋진 결과물을 만들어 냈는지에 대해 확신을 느낄 수 있었다. 앞으로도 Jay가 주는 영감과 에너지를 늘 잊지 않고 생각할 것이고, 노래방의 흥을 늘 부러워할 것이다. 그리고 언제고 다시 한국을 찾아 그가 세상에 퍼뜨리는 행복을, 우리가 정말 감사하게도 나눌 수 있었던 그런 행복을 다시 볼 수 있는 기회가 있기를 늘 바랄 것이다.”</p>
<p>Joi Ito:</p>
<p>“Jay는 법률가적 전문성, 록밴드의 기타리스트, 지칠 줄 모르는 헌신, 무한한 희망, 에너지, 유머감각, 커뮤니티 지도자, 날카로운 법의식에 이르기까지, 여러 면에서 CC 정신의 핵심을 이루는 사람이다. Jay는 나의 영웅이자, 친애하는 벗이자, 동료다.”</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54037
title: Support the kind of journalism we need today
uri: Support-the-kind-of-journalism-we-need-today
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/21/support-kind-journalism-need-today/
content:
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<p>I&#8217;ve been a teacher of media and journalism studies since 1984 at Palo Alto High School, and I consider Creative Commons to be an essential part of every student&#8217;s education. CC helps students unleash the power of storytelling to change the world and provides them with a toolkit for remix and reuse. It&#8217;s my passion to help inspire students with these tools for change.</p>
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<div>Today we have ten publications (600+ students) for which students write stories about issues important to them. The publications focus on articles about music, art, travel, photography, foreign affairs, national affairs, sociology, psychology – just to mention a few. In addition, at Stanford some of my students have created<a href="http://www.moonshotthoughts.com./" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.moonshotthoughts.com./&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1513961973434000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGdnJ5BuNM8tiyUXPusjXURF2pc0A"> open journals</a>. We could not do what we do without CC. It provides the resources that allows my students to build upon. Here are two examples of websites from the school:</div>
<div><a href="https://issuu.com/c_magazine" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://issuu.com/c_&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1513961973434000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEF2VgLUIaJq48AwEM8SvjAszhyng">C Magazine</a> and <a href="http://verdemagazine.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://verdemagazine.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1513961973434000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG64lijUB89dBTEctwIQ4CySI0llA"> Verde Magazine.</a> They are all student produced. Students learn to respect copyright and share and build upon that which is CC licensed. It also provides important resources for the professional press on a daily basis.</div>
<div><img data-attachment-id="54038" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/21/support-kind-journalism-need-today/screen-shot-2017-12-21-at-12-07-34-pm/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-12.07.34-PM-e1513880115784.png" data-orig-size="974,841" 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="c-mag" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-12.07.34-PM-e1513880115784-300x259.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-12.07.34-PM-821x1024.png" class="aligncenter wp-image-54038 size-large" src="media/82384cf0.Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-12.07.34-PM-821x1024.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-12.07.34-PM-821x1024.png" alt="cmag" width="821" height="1024" /></div>
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<p>We want to show the world what CC can do for journalism in 2018, so I’m asking you: <a href="http://donate.creativecommons.org?utm_source=esther-blogpost&amp;utm_medium=blog">Will you step up at $5 monthly or $75 one time and become a CC aCCelerator?</a></p>
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<div>Courageous, well-researched, and timely journalism is desperately needed right now. We can’t write an algorithm to save our society — we’ll have to do it the hard way, by teaching and learning from each other and repairing the social fabric of trust through storytelling with integrity.</div>
<p>As Melody Kramer wrote last year in Poynter,</p>
<blockquote><p>I see Creative Commons licensing as a smart way to distribute local or national content when the goal is maximum impact, or an audience spreading word that your content exists&#8230;When material is published under the license, smaller newsrooms can republish articles or media like photographs in full. Or, they can build on, localize or extend the reporting in some way.</p></blockquote>
<p>We want you to join our global community and protect journalism by keeping it open – <a href="http://donate.creativecommons.org?utm_source=esther-blogpost&amp;utm_medium=blog">will you give $5 monthly to support? </a></p>
<div>Journalism can save our society, our communities, and the web, and CC tools help ensure those stories are carried as far as they can go, becoming a resource for everyone. I hope you’ll support Creative Commons, as their tools are so important to the kind of journalism we need today.</div>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54049
title: Propose a session for the 2018 Global Summit!
uri: Propose-a-session-for-the-2018-Global-Summit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/03/call-for-submissions/
content:
<p><a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org/proposals"><img data-attachment-id="54050" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/03/call-for-submissions/on-common-ground_-collaborate-and-participate/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/On-Common-Ground_-Collaborate-and-Participate.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="On Common Ground_ Collaborate and Participate" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/On-Common-Ground_-Collaborate-and-Participate-300x100.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/On-Common-Ground_-Collaborate-and-Participate.png" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54050" src="media/429f4c9a.On-Common-Ground_-Collaborate-and-Participate.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/On-Common-Ground_-Collaborate-and-Participate.png" alt="call-for-submissions-graphic" width="600" height="200" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/On-Common-Ground_-Collaborate-and-Participate.png 600w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/On-Common-Ground_-Collaborate-and-Participate-300x100.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/On-Common-Ground_-Collaborate-and-Participate-120x40.png 120w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/On-Common-Ground_-Collaborate-and-Participate-50x17.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/On-Common-Ground_-Collaborate-and-Participate-270x90.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p>The <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/proposals/">Call for Proposals</a> for the <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons Global Summit</a> is now open! The deadline for submissions is <strong>January 23, 2018 at 11:59PM</strong> in the submitter’s timezone.</p>
<p>The Creative Commons Global Summit (CC Summit) is an annual conference that celebrates the culture of sharing, providing a space for open communities to collectively grow a vibrant, usable commons, powered by collaboration and gratitude.</p>
<p>Before you submit a proposal, please:</p>
<ol>
<li>Read the <a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org/proposals">call for proposals</a> carefully and make sure your idea aligns with the summit theme, goals, tracks, and categories.</li>
<li>Decide on a title and short description for your session.</li>
<li>Decide on the type of session, the amount of time you’ll need, whether you will co-present, equipment, outcomes, and ability to tailor the session to a diverse audience.</li>
<li>You’ll also need to agree to openly license the session resources, and sign our <a href="media/cfaa7740.The_CC_Code_of_Conduct_28GS29.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/a/a4/The_CC_Code_of_Conduct_%28GS%29.pdf">Code of Conduct</a> and<a href="https://creativecommons.org/privacy"> Privacy Policy.</a></li>
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<p>All this information (and much, much more) can be found on the <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/proposals/">call for proposals</a> page for the CC Summit.</p>
<p>The 2018 CC Global Summit builds on Creative Commons’s renewed, strong, and growing network as a part of the global open movement. Many thanks to the 2018 Program Committee for their work on preparing this call for proposals..</p>
<p>We can’t wait to see what you propose and hope you will join us!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54062
title: Kicking off the CC Certificates Beta
uri: Kicking-off-the-CC-Certificates-Beta
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/08/kicking-off-cc-certificate-beta/
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<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="aligncenter size-large wp-image-53709" src="media/cf4945dd.IMG_20171002_111116-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-1024x768.jpg" alt="certs-team" width="840" height="630" srcset="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_111116-300x225.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_111116-53x40.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: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>Today marks day one of the beta version of the Creative Commons Certificates program, a project designed to provide people the skills and expertise they need to implement and advocate for open licensing around the world. We are thrilled to have 50 remarkable people from nearly 20 countries in the beta cohort. The group includes: university librarians, Wikipedians, digital rights activists, educators from all levels, lawyers, and more. This diverse cohort with varying expertise will help us shape the CC Certificate program for its official launch later in 2018.</p>
<p>The beta will be led by David Wiley, a long-time CC fellow and all-around expert on all things open. The cohort is divided into two tracks — one for educators and one for librarians. The program will be run as a private online course on Canvas. The course content includes a mix of reading, videos, quizzes, and creative assignments staggered over a 12-week period. We’ll also be asking the cohort to give us weekly feedback on the course, so we can improve it as we go. At the end of the 12 weeks, the cohort will be the first people officially “CC Certified.”</p>
<p>The CC Certificates program has been under development for more than two years and involved extensive work by many on the CC staff and beyond. Special thanks to Paul Stacey, David Wiley, Alan Levine, Kelsey Merkley, Olga Belikov, Kamil Śliwowski, Diane Peters, Eric Steuer, Cable Green, Rob Myers, Jennie Rose Halperin, and Ryan Merkley for their work and leadership. Special thanks to the Gates Foundation and Institute for Museum and Library Services for their project support.</p>
<p>And of course, thank you to all of you in the beta cohort for taking time out of your busy lives to participate in this process and help us make the CC Certificates program as good as it can be when we open it to the world.</p>
<p>For news about the CC Certificates program as we prepare the official launch, please <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/contact/newsletter/">join the CC Newsletter</a>.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54092
title: 5 Awesome Organisations Working to Protect and Expand the Public Domain
uri: 5-Awesome-Organisations-Working-to-Protect-and-Expand-the-Public-Domai
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<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek"><img data-attachment-id="54094" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/15/5-awesome-organisations-working-protect-expand-public-domain/copyright_week_2018/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018.png" data-orig-size="1200,600" 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="copyright_week_2018" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-300x150.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-54094" src="media/075dc2c7.copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png" alt="" width="840" height="420" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-300x150.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-768x384.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-80x40.png 80w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-50x25.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-270x135.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re taking part in </span></i><a href="https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright Week</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of the law, and addressing what’s at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s topic for Copyright Week is </span><b><i>Public Domain and Creativity: Copyright policy should encourage creativity, not hamper it. Excessive copyright terms inhibit our ability to comment, criticize, and reworkour common culture.</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons licenses help authors keep and manage their copyright on terms they choose. Our public domain tools, on the other hand, enable authors who want to dedicate their works to the worldwide public domain to do so (by using the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0 Public Domain Dedication</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), and facilitate the labeling and discovery of works that are already free of known copyright restrictions (by using the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/choose/mark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Domain Mark</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons cares deeply about the public domain, and we’re not alone. There are many incredibly impactful, important, and simply interesting organisations and projects out there working to highlight, protect, and expand the public domain. Here are just a few of our favorites!</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikipedia</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not only does Wikipedia provide the starting point for anyone who wants to learn about </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain"><span style="font-weight: 400;">what the public domain is</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, it’s also an excellent educational resource for Wikipedia editors (and anyone) to dive deeper into the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain"><span style="font-weight: 400;">theory, history, and country-specific rules</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> surrounding copyright and the public domain. </span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikimedia Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (the media repository that hosts the images, sounds, and videos you see in a Wikipedia article) contains thousands of public domain works, helpfully reviewed and tagged by editors. The Wikimedia Foundation has also been quite active in </span><a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/30/time-to-protect-pd/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">policy advocacy in defense of the public domain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.  </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internet Archive</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Everyone knows </span><a href="https://archive.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internet Archive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> because of the mighty </span><a href="https://archive.org/web/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wayback Machine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the sprawling web archiving tool that has saved over 310 billion (!) web pages so far—searchable by anyone. But you might not know that the Internet Archive is a </span><a href="https://archive.org/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">massive digital library</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—home to 11 million books and texts, 4 million audio recordings (including 160,000 live concerts), 3 million videos (including 1 million Television News programs), 1 million images, and 100,000 software programs. The archive contains likely tens or hundreds of thousands of public domain media files, and users can create an account and upload their own creative works and put them into the worldwide public domain using CC0. </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Communia Association</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Communia International Association on the Public Domain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a collective of organisations and activists working to strengthen and enrich the public domain (Creative Commons is a founding member). The current focus of the association is policy analysis and advocacy within the context the European Commission’s proposal for a new </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-directive-european-parliament-and-council-copyright-digital-single-market"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The current association </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">was created at the completion of the eponymous </span><a href="http://communia-project.eu/index.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">research network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, funded by the European Commission from 2007 to 2011. A major initiative of the project was the </span><a href="http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/manifesto"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Domain Manifesto</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, endorsed by more than 1500 organisations and individuals, as well as a </span><a href="media/45329a6d.the_digital_public_domain.pdf" data-original-source="https://communia-project.eu/communiafiles/the_digital_public_domain.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">book-length study</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the digital public domain, showcasing the major outputs of the research group. </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Domain Review</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Domain Review</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is an online journal that showcases works that have entered the public domain, “that vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restriction.” It was launched by Open Knowledge in 2011. The site includes dozens of long-form essays which “seek to offer insight and reflection upon public domain works and the oft overlooked histories which surround them.” The website also includes browseable collections of public domain media, and also publishes an annual </span><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2018/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“class of”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> series around the new year to highlight works of authorship which will enter the public domain at the stroke of midnight on January 1. </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Center for the Study on the Public Domain</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://law.duke.edu/cspd/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Center for the Study on the Public Domain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a research group started at Duke Law School in 2002. Its aim is “to promote research and scholarship on the contributions of the public domain to speech, culture, science and innovation, to promote debate about the balance needed in our intellectual property system and to translate academic research into public policy solutions.” The center was co-founded by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boyle_(academic)"><span style="font-weight: 400;">James Boyle</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">renowned copyright scholar and author who also was a founding board member of Creative Commons. In 2008 Boyle wrote a seminal work called </span><a href="media/dcc71c9a.thepublicdomain1.pdf" data-original-source="http://thepublicdomain.org/thepublicdomain1.pdf"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The center conducts legal and cultural research, and also has released several comic books on copyright issues, including </span><a href="https://law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bound By Law</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2017/02/16/theft-a-history-of-music/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theft! A History of Music</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thanks to the tireless work of these organisations, the commons continues to strengthen and grow, improving access to our shared cultural and creative works in the public domain. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54084
title: Is Copyright Term Extension Finally Done?
uri: Is-Copyright-Term-Extension-Finally-Done
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/15/copyright-term-extension-finally-done/
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<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek"><img data-attachment-id="54094" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/15/5-awesome-organisations-working-protect-expand-public-domain/copyright_week_2018/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018.png" data-orig-size="1200,600" 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="copyright_week_2018" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-300x150.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-54094" src="media/075dc2c7.copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png" alt="" width="840" height="420" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-300x150.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-768x384.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-80x40.png 80w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-50x25.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-270x135.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re taking part in </span></i><a href="https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright Week</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of the law, and addressing what’s at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s topic for Copyright Week is </span><b><i>Public Domain and Creativity: Copyright policy should encourage creativity, not hamper it. Excessive copyright terms inhibit our ability to comment, criticize, and reworkour common culture.</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright always </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/videos/building-on-the-past/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">builds upon the past</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The public domain is our shared cultural commons, a near limitless trove of creativity that’s been reused, remixed, and reimagined over centuries to create new works of art and science. The value of the public domain is impossible to overestimate. Contemporary copyright policy should strive to promote, and not diminish, a robust, accessible public domain. </span></p>
<h3><b>The legal public domain</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From a legal perspective, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain"><span style="font-weight: 400;">public domain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the space where no intellectual property rights exist. This means that works in the public domain may be used without any restrictions whatsoever. Works enter into the public domain in different ways. First, works whose copyrights have expired are in the public domain. In the United States, the length of the term of copyright is life of the author plus an additional 70 years. So, these old works (at least those published before 1923) are in the public domain.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Second, works can enter the public domain if authors put them there before the copyright expires. This is made possible by using the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0 Public Domain Dedication</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This tool allows anyone to waive their copyright and place a work directly into the global public domain—prior to the expiration of copyright. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Third, some works are in the public domain because they were never subject to copyright protection in the first place. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/16/public-domain-5-things-not-covered-copyright/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Things like facts and ideas are in the public domain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—they cannot be copyrighted. </span></p>
<h3><b>Forever minus a day? </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One common criticism of copyright policy are the incredibly long copyright terms—that is, the length which creators are granted an exclusive monopoly over how their works are used. It didn’t always used to be this way. When the U.S. passed its copyright act in 1790, the term was set at 14 years (with the possibility of another 14-year renewal). But slow since that time, copyright terms have increased in duration, and pretty much solidified at the international minimum term of life of the author + 50 years through the widespread adoption of the Berne Convention. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no good reason for copyright to last so long. In a 2009 </span><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1436186"><span style="font-weight: 400;">paper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, economist Rufus Pollock estimated the optimal copyright term to be about 15 years. And there have been legal challenges to copyright term extensions, such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eldred v. Ashcroft</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In that case, Lawrence Lessig argued (on behalf of publisher plaintiff Eric Eldred) before the U.S. Supreme Court that the 20 year copyright term extension enacted by the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act violated the Constitutional requirement that copyright should last for a limited amount of time because the Act retroactively extended copyright terms. Supporting Eldred was an amicus brief filed by leading economists, who said the costs of a term extension would outweigh the benefits, and </span><a href="http://www.lessig.org/2006/11/only-if-the-word-nobrainer-app/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">essentially calling Lessig’s approach a no-brainer</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.  Eldred eventually lost the case, and the copyright term in the U.S. remains at life of the author + 70 years. Jamie Boyle, a preeminent copyright scholar, director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and one of the founding board members of Creative Commons, recently </span><a href="http://www.recreatecoalition.org/podcast/copy-podcast-episode-11-pop-culture-public-domain/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">called</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the current length of our copyright term a “cultural disaster.” </span></p>
<h3><b>Stepping back from the precipice</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So what’s the current thinking regarding copyright terms around the world? To be sure, most of the damage has already been done. Due to international treaties like the Berne Convention and the development of entities like the World Trade Organisation, for most of the world, copyright law is quite similar, with copyright terms set typically at the life of the author + 50 years. But how are some countries approaching copyright term within their domestic copyright reviews? We just learned that Australia is </span><a href="http://digital.org.au/content/today-disability-access-amendments-copyright-act-come-force-1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">closing a loophole</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that in the past arguably would have permitted a perpetual copyright on unpublished works. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Canadian ministers responsible for its domestic copyright review have already indicated some </span><a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/12/bains-joly-copyright-review-letter/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">support of the public domain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, stating that an updated law </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“should ensure [&#8230;] that users benefit from a public domain.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And in the United States, powerful copyright interests in the music (RIAA) and movie (MPAA) industries </span><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-its-not-planning-another-copyright-extension-push/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">admitted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> they are uninterested in pushing for another copyright term extension. The 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act expires next year, meaning that once again content will enter the public domain in the U.S. at the beginning of 2019. Perhaps more surprising was the response from the Authors Guild—typically a copyright-maximalist organisation.  A spokesperson </span><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-its-not-planning-another-copyright-extension-push/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the Guild “does not support extending the copyright term, especially since many of our members benefit from having access to a thriving and substantial public domain of older works,” adding, “If anything, we would likely support a rollback to a term of life-plus-50 if it were politically feasible.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How is the issue being handled within other mechanisms for copyright policy making, such as bilateral and multinational trade negotiations? The situation is a bit of a mixed bag. While originally the Trans-Pacific Partnership called for a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/11/16/trans-pacific-partnership-would-harm-user-rights-and-the-commons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">20 year copyright term extension</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (for countries that do not already have a life + 70 term), once the U.S. pulled out of the treaty and the remaining member countries restarted negotiations, many of the more problematic copyright provisions (like the 20 year term extension) were </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/11/13/tpp-continues-without-worst-copyright-provisions/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">suspended</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from future talks. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There doesn’t seem to be much interest in suggesting a term extension within the context of the renegotiation of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NAFTA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, either. The U.S. is already at life + 70 years, and Mexico has an even longer term at life + 100. It’s become increasingly clear that Canada won’t be bullied into extending its copyright term via NAFTA. The New Democrat Party provided an </span><a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/12/canadian-trade-committee-warns-unbalanced-u-s-ip-demands-nafta/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">opinion</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, saying “The Canadian government should reject any proposal to extend copyright terms beyond its current term of 50 years after the author’s death, knowing that current Canadian copyright terms are already largely in compliance with international copyright treaties.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The EU-Mercosur trade agreement is another interesting case. Based upon a November 2016 draft of the intellectual property chapter, we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/20/eu-mercosur-trade-agreement-harm-user-rights-commons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">criticised</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the suggestion for a 20 year term extension for countries that don’t already have a life + 70 term. A more recent </span><a href="https://trade-leaks.org/mercosur-leaks/intellectual-property-rights-3/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">text</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> provides a bit more detail, making it clear that the EU is pushing for the increase, while the Mercosur nations prefer the international baseline of life + 50. The Mercosur bloc also suggested the addition of text that would promote collaboration between the member nations in “preserv[ing] a robust, rich, and accessible public domain,” and “cooperat[ing] with each other in identifying subject matters that have fallen in to the public domain.” The EU proposed text merely calls for a joint recognition of the “importance of the public domain.” But activists from the Mercosur nations are </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;">rightly concerned</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that any minor improvement regarding access to and preservation of the public domain should not come at the expense of forcing Mercosur countries into adopting a more restrictive copyright environment across the board. </span></p>
<h3><b>The turn of the tide: what happened?</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright policy making is subject to the same political machinations of most other legal, social, and cultural issues whose outcomes are the result of a struggle of power between competing interests. And for too long, the incumbent power in the copyright space laid with the gatekeepers of popular content—oftentimes corporations and their industry associations with deep ties to the politicians steering law and regulation around copyright (there’s a reason the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act also was called the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act”). So what’s changed now? Why aren’t we seeing these companies and their lobbying groups continue to pursue copyright term extensions? Why doesn’t copyright last “forever minus a day”? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a recent ArsTechnica article </span><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-its-not-planning-another-copyright-extension-push/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">argues</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “the rise of the Internet has totally changed the political landscape on copyright issues.” When the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was introduced in 2011, major websites like Wikipedia went dark to protest the potential negative effects of the legislation. Millions of people protested online and via social media. Essentially, the public didn’t let it happen. Policy making can be incredibly complex, and it’s difficult to ascribe a single reason why a particular piece of legislation comes out as it does. But one incredibly significant change we’ve seen over the last several years: new (and better organised) communities of users pushing for a free and open internet are making their voices heard in the political sphere. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The term of copyright is still far too long; life of the author + 50 years is nothing to write home about. But the simple fact is that there are communities of people who wish to work for a more fair copyright—and fight for better access to knowledge, fast and reliable technology and connectivity, and a robust shared public domain. This mobilisation should be continued and strengthened so creators, users, and the public interest can begin to take back the levers of policy to create a balanced copyright that truly rewards creators, and upholds the rights of users to access, reuse, and further contribute to our knowledge and creative commons. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54097
title: Secret negotiations, empty promises: Copyright policymaking needs sunlight for better outcomes
uri: Secret-negotiations-empty-promises-Copyright-policymaking-needs-sunl
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https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/17/secret-negotiations-empty-promises-copyright-policymaking-needs-sunlight-better-outcomes/

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<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek"><img data-attachment-id="54094" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/15/5-awesome-organisations-working-protect-expand-public-domain/copyright_week_2018/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018.png" data-orig-size="1200,600" 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="copyright_week_2018" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-300x150.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-54094" src="media/075dc2c7.copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png" alt="" width="840" height="420" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-1024x512.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-300x150.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-768x384.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-80x40.png 80w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-50x25.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018-270x135.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/copyright_week_2018.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re taking part in </span></i><a href="https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright Week</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of the law, and addressing what’s at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.</span></i></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s topic for Copyright Week is </span></em><b><i>Transparency: Whether in the form of laws, international agreements, or website terms and standards, copyright policy should be made through a participatory, democratic, and transparent process.</i></b></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons has been </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/trade-agreements/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">following</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the development of several multilateral trade agreements such as the renegotiation of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement"><span style="font-weight: 400;">North American Free Trade Agreement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (NAFTA), the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trans-Pacific Partnership</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (now known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement, or CPTPP), and the </span><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/eu-mercosur-association-agreement/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">EU-Mercosur Association Agreement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (EU-Mercosur). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These sweeping and complex agreements attempt to introduce trade regulations on a wide variety of products, including goods and textiles, agricultural products, and automotive parts. In addition, the agreements introduce provisions regarding environmental regulation, pharmaceutical procurement, intellectual property, labor standards, and food safety.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These trade negotiations typically contain copyright provisions that would affect the commons and the public domain, creativity and sharing, and user rights in the digital age. </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Secrecy ensures outcomes are serviceable to power</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A fundamental flaw with NAFTA, CPTPP, EU-Mercosur, and nearly all other trade agreements is that the texts and negotiating meetings are entirely opaque to the populations those agreements would cover. They are developed and negotiated in secret—at least from the perspective of the public and civil society. Sometimes industry representatives and other business interests are invited to view texts or give recommendations on proceedings, typically  after they’ve agreed to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) forbidding them from sharing the information with anyone else. </span></p>
<p><b>The draft text of a trade agreement is kept secret for a reason. If the public got a glimpse of what was in the document, they’d be totally opposed to it. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How does this play out? It means that  TPP was already complete and the text was published before we could accurately </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/policy-advocacy-copyright-reform/stop-the-tpp/trans-pacific-partnership-would-harm-user-rights-and-the-commons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">analyze (and rightly criticize)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the provisions inside. Civil society organizations like Creative Commons and the broader public have been put at an extreme disadvantage, as only a privileged few stakeholders invited into the closed negotiation circle have had their interests fully considered. And civil society increasingly has to </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;">rely on leaks</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in order to discover what is going on behind closed doors. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s not surprising then that we see that when intellectual property is put on the bargaining table, there’s a significant push to drastically increase enforcement measures for rights holders, lengthen copyright terms, and demand harsh infringement penalties. If incumbent industries and rightsholder associations are the ones getting access instead of the public, the objectives of the negotiators will align with those parties that have the ability to shape it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As we’ve </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/14/re-negotiating-nafta-opening-pandoras-box/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">written</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, this secretive copyright policy making process has a disconcerting effect: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the various international agreements that aim to harmonize copyright, individual nations continue to use multilateral trade pacts as an opportunity to add increasingly onerous requirements and further lock up copyrighted works. This kind of venue shopping harms the commons and users by creating a “ladder effect”: increased IP protections are negotiated between a few countries, and then used to pressure other nations to adopt, rather than conducting a fair, public, and international discussion.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a </span><a href="media/5c98a21d.Transparency_Digital_Rights_and_NAFTA_September_15.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/e/ec/Transparency_Digital_Rights_and_NAFTA_September_15.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">letter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to NAFTA negotiators at the restart of that process, we demanded reforms to make the proceedings more transparent, inclusive and accountable. We said that it is unacceptable that binding rules on intellectual property, access to medicines, and a variety of other trade-related sectors will be reworked within a process that is inaccessible and often hostile to input from members of the public. All trade negotiations should be made through procedures that are transparent to the public and which include all stakeholders. Increased transparency and meaningful public participation will lead to better outcomes.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">The lights are on, but nobody’s home?</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even though they rely on secrecy, , governments working on multilateral trade agreements realize they can’t keep the public out forever. Some have set up some sort of feedback mechanism to collect the views of stakeholders. For example, during the lead up to the re-negotiation of NAFTA, Creative Commons and thousands of other interested parties submitted comments to the </span><a href="media/2705cd25.ts_from_Creative_Commons_and_CC_Canada_to_NAFTA_Consultation.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/8/83/Comments_from_Creative_Commons_and_CC_Canada_to_NAFTA_Consultation.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Canadian</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="media/6d1b074e.TLCAN_-_Consulta_pC3BAblica_final.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/6d/TLCAN_-_Consulta_p%C3%BAblica_final.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mexican</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="media/8ad6a980.Comments_of_Creative_Commons_to_USTR20170006.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/a/a5/Comments_of_Creative_Commons_to_USTR20170006.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">U.S.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> consultations regarding the negotiating priorities and objectives. Are they listening? It’s not clear that any of our concerns (or those of like minded organisations working in the public interest) are reflected in the priorities published by the member governments (for example, see the </span><a href="media/545011d0.NAFTAObjectives.pdf" data-original-source="https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Releases/NAFTAObjectives.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">summary U.S. objectives</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The examples generalize beyond trade negotiations. The EU has downplayed input from the public regarding its review of the copyright rules, </span><a href="https://openmedia.org/en/european-commissions-decision-exclude-citizens-feedback-its-own-public-consultation-will"><span style="font-weight: 400;">discarding some</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/2017/01/18/evidence-based-copyright-policymaking-no-brainer/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ignoring others</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="http://copybuzz.com/editorial/eu-consultations-inherently-biased-members-public/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">demonstrating bias</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for professionally-written, pro-business, and English language responses. In the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was harshly criticized for a broken public consultation regarding its proposed rulemaking to repeal net neutrality, with evidence revealing responses from individuals who did not consent to it, and even </span><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/dead-people-among-millions-impersonated-in-fake-net-neutrality-comments/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">comments from dead people.</span></a></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lather, rinse, repeat</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At this point we feel like a broken record: the process of copyright policy making needs to drastically change in order to adequately take into consideration the rights of users and the public interest. It’s safe to assume that copyright and other intellectual property rights will continue to be included in bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations, so it’s imperative that the negotiations be radically reformed to make the proceedings transparent, inclusive and accountable. It’s absolutely crucial that negotiators lift the un-democratic and counterproductive secrecy that has pervaded most of the recent discussions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As </span><a href="media/5c98a21d.Transparency_Digital_Rights_and_NAFTA_September_15.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/e/ec/Transparency_Digital_Rights_and_NAFTA_September_15.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mentioned before</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we would like to see: public release of text proposals by governments before negotiations with clear processes established for members of the public to comment on them; consolidated versions of negotiating texts published between negotiating rounds; locations and times of key meetings announced well ahead of time; and the establishment of consultative trade groups that are broadly representative of both business and public interest stakeholders with a commitment to conducting deliberations openly.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/17/secret-negotiations-empty-promises-copyright-policymaking-needs-sunlight-better-outcomes/">Secret negotiations, empty promises: Copyright policymaking needs sunlight for better outcomes</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54127
title: Art and the Every Day with Mike Winkelmann (AKA beeple)
uri: Art-and-the-Every-Day-with-Mike-Winkelmann-(AKA-beeple)
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/18/art-every-day/
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<p>Beeple, AKA Mike Winkelmann, is a graphic designer, artist, and videographer whose popular video art and design work has largely been released free under CC. Every day for the past 10 years, Winkelmann has released a drawing online through his series of “Everydays,” which is now a personal archive of over 3000 CGI drawings and animations. His output is prolific in other genre as well – his hundreds of CC VJ loops are sought after by electronic musicians and artists looking for mashups.</p>
<p>Winkelmann’s short films have screened at a variety of festivals, and his Creative Commons illustrations and drawings have been used by artists such as Skrillex, Amon Tobin and Taïsto. He currently releases his work on Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label.</p>
<p>Discover more of Winkelmann’s work at <a href="http://beeple-crap.com/index.php">Beeple-Crap</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/beeple_crap/?hl=en">Instagram,</a> <a href="http://beeple.tumblr.com/">Tumblr,</a> and <a href="https://vimeo.com/beeple/about">Vimeo.</a></p>
<p><strong>You&#8217;re a successful artist in a variety of genre on a popular label, yet you consistently release free VJ loops and other material under CC. How do you balance the two modes of creating? Why do you release your work into the commons? Why did you start using CC to begin with?</strong></p>
<p>I think creating stuff and giving it away for free is something that just comes naturally to me for some reason. If there is something that I&#8217;ve worked really hard on, I want as many people to see it as possible so giving it away is the easiest way to facilitate that.</p>
<p>Of course, just like everyone else, I have a family and bills to pay and so I can totally understand wanting to charge money for personal work. For me though I&#8217;ve tried to draw a line between the freelance stuff that I do and purely personal work that allows me to still release things for free.</p>
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<p><strong>One of the arguments that skeptics sometimes deploy when talking about Creative Commons is, &#8220;Why would someone pay for this when they can get it for free?&#8221; How would you counter that assumption? What leads you to continue to use CC? How do you balance between free/attribution models and paid models as an independent artist?</strong></p>
<p>I think the topic of art valuation is a very interesting subject. I think in some ways it comes down to issues of supply and demand, but is also further complicated with digital assets that can be copied at no cost. I honestly don&#8217;t think there are really any &#8216;right&#8217; answers but personally I feel that there is room for both sides. While it is obviously true that most people will not pay for something that they can get for free, there exists a large amount of counter points to that argument on sites like Patreon where people give money free to people whose work they enjoy. I think sometimes people concentrate a little too much on trying to come up with some great business model when they should be focusing a bit more on their craft.</p>
<p>In terms of my own work, I don&#8217;t really have a paid model for the digital assets I create. All of the paid work I do is custom (freelance) work. At the moment I like having things be a but more cut and dry like that.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54128" style="max-width: 521px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54128" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/18/art-every-day/beeple/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple.jpg" data-orig-size="1280,1280" 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="beeple" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-300x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-1024x1024.jpg" class=" wp-image-54128" src="media/7358e120.beeple-1024x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-1024x1024.jpg" alt="" width="521" height="521" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-150x150.jpg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-300x300.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-768x768.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-350x350.jpg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-155x155.jpg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-32x32.jpg 32w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-64x64.jpg 64w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-96x96.jpg 96w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple-128x128.jpg 128w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/beeple.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 521px) 85vw, 521px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Miami&#8221; From Everydays by Mike Winkelmann, CC BY</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>You&#8217;re on your 11th round of &#8220;Everydays,&#8221; in which you complete an art project every day, resulting in over 3500 pieces of original art. What&#8217;s the impetus for this project? How has it changed in 11 years? What have you learned, and what would you do differently?</strong></p>
<p>I completed 10 years of everydays in May of last year without missing a day. The main goal of this project was to get better at art. When I first started out, it was to get better at drawing. After the first year of drawing I saw a huge improvement (while I was much better, I definitely still sucked) but saw this as a powerful tool to learn new techniques and continually improve.</p>
<p>Honestly I don&#8217;t think much has changed in 10 years. While I&#8217;ve seen a ton of improvements and benefits from the project, my skill set is really not even close to where I&#8217;d like it to be. I have so many different areas I&#8217;d love to focus more attention on so I don&#8217;t see stop anytime soon.</p>
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<p><strong>How has the rise of more visual, viral social media like Instagram and Facebook changed your work? How have you utilized other platforms as you&#8217;ve evolved as an independent artist?</strong></p>
<p>These platforms have been great for helping me reach an audience especially given the format of work that I do. Putting out a picture a day or short little VJ clips, these are very small, easily digestible pieces that are perfectly suited for these platforms so I feel like I&#8217;m pretty lucky to be making work that is a natural fit for these mediums. I feel like being adept at utilizing these platforms and understanding the nuances of the audiences with each is pretty key to gaining a following today. On the flip side, I also think it&#8217;s something that you can get &#8216;too&#8217; involved with and can be a bit of time hog. So I think you need to sort of find a balance between maintaining a presence on these platforms but not having it overtake your time.</p>
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<p><strong>What projects are you working on now that you&#8217;re most excited about? What kinds of projects are your favorite to work on?</strong></p>
<p>Lately I have been doing some VR and AR work that has been really exciting. These are obviously very new formats that don&#8217;t have a lot of set rules so people are sort of discovering these things as they go along. I am also continuing everydays, VJ clips and working a short film. So working across a pretty wide range of medium which in itself has been a lot of fun since I get bored pretty easily doing the same things.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54114
title: We are entering the Discovery phase of CC Usability
uri: We-are-entering-the-Discovery-phase-of-CC-Usability
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/18/entering-discovery-phase-cc-usability/
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<figure id="attachment_54115" style="max-width: 360px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img data-attachment-id="54115" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/18/entering-discovery-phase-cc-usability/giphy_tim/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/giphy_tim.gif" data-orig-size="360,240" 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="giphy_tim" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/giphy_tim-300x200.gif" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/giphy_tim.gif" class="wp-image-54115 size-full" src="media/3ff1fc54.giphy_tim.gif" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/giphy_tim.gif" alt="" width="360" height="240" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/videos/building-on-the-past/">Building on the Past</a> by Justin Cone / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the next few months, we will be talking to users and creators of CC images, text, and data as part of updating the usability of CC tools in 2018. For our purposes, we are defining CC usability as both enhancing the experience of sharing and collaborating with CC’s current toolset, and conceiving of new tools and features that unlock creativity and knowledge content. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can read more about our process and plan </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EIQLLsELWXH6NC6b5k80NSIzZTklXFnc6rkIjSM41Co/edit#"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To get involved, we would like to invite you to </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/proposals/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">submit a session proposal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the User-centered Commons track of the 2018 CC Global Summit in Toronto (April 13-15). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will also be hosting an evening of drinks and discussion on February 15 in Los Angeles to explore how </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons and open tools can increase the impact of emerging and immersive media and technologies for social good. You can learn more and <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cc-as-a-vehicle-for-social-change-in-emerging-immersive-media-tickets-42210298138">RSVP for that event here</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ll keep you updated with major developments through our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/blog/">blog</a>, <a href="https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org">Slack</a>, and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/get-involved/">social media</a>. In the meantime, you can ping me (jane at creativecommons dot org) with any questions, and follow me </span><a href="http://twitter.com/janedaily"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@janedaily</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s to an exciting year ahead!</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54154
title: Katherine Maher, Ruth Okediji, Chris Bourg to Keynote Creative Commons Global Summit
uri: Katherine-Maher-Ruth-Okediji-Chris-Bourg-to-Keynote-Creative-Commons
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https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/29/katherine-maher-ruth-okediji-chris-bourg-keynote-creative-commons-global-summit/

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<p>We’re super excited to announce our keynote speakers for the 2018 CC Global Summit from April 13-15 in Toronto. The open call for submissions just closed, with more proposals than ever before, and it’s shaping up to be another excellent, community-driven event.</p>
<p>This year’s keynotes feature three brilliant, world-changing women who are experts in their field and members of the Creative Commons community, working for free and open knowledge globally.</p>
<p><a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org/register2018">Registration is now open</a>. Last year’s event sold out, so don’t wait too long to get your ticket.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54155" style="max-width: 372px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="54155" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/29/katherine-maher-ruth-okediji-chris-bourg-keynote-creative-commons-global-summit/katherine_maher_cc_bio/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Katherine_Maher_CC_Bio.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,800" 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="Katherine_Maher_CC_Bio" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Katherine_Maher_CC_Bio.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Katherine_Maher_CC_Bio.jpg" class=" wp-image-54155" src="media/ef3975b8.Katherine_Maher_CC_Bio.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Katherine_Maher_CC_Bio.jpg" alt="katherine-maher-photo" width="372" height="248" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/58b5d01a.Katherine_Maher" data-original-source="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher">Photo by Victor Grigas, </a><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Katherine Maher is the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. She is a longtime advocate for free and open societies, and has lived and worked around the world leading the introduction of technology and innovation in human rights, good governance, and international development. Katherine has worked with UNICEF, the National Democratic Institute, the World Bank, and Access Now on programs supporting technologies for democratic participation, civic engagement, and open government. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Human Rights, a fellow at the Truman National Security Project, a member of the advisory board of the Open Technology Fund, and a trustee of the Project for the Study of the 21st Century. In her keynote, Katherine will discuss “The Big Open,” — how organizations can leverage their shared missions and strengthen the broader free and open knowledge ecosystem.</p>
<figure id="attachment_54156" style="max-width: 248px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="54156" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/29/katherine-maher-ruth-okediji-chris-bourg-keynote-creative-commons-global-summit/ruth-okediji/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ruth-okediji.jpg" data-orig-size="2646,3648" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 70D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1488973291&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="ruth-okediji" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ruth-okediji.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ruth-okediji.jpg" class=" wp-image-54156" src="media/944e3485.ruth-okediji.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ruth-okediji.jpg" alt="ruth-okediji" width="248" height="342" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Ruth Okediji, from <a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/11409/Okediji">Harvard Faculty Page.</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Ruth L. Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Berkman-Klein Center. A board member at Creative Commons, she is a leading expert on international IP law and international economic regulation. Last year, she published the book <em>Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions</em> with Cambridge University Press. She is the author of widely cited books on copyright and intellectual property and is regularly cited for her work on IP in developing countries. The recipient of numerous teaching, mentoring, and research awards, she is an editor and reviewer of the Journal of World Intellectual Property, and has chaired the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Law and Computers, its Committee on Intellectual Property, and its Nominating Committee for Officers and Members of the Executive Committee. She served as the Chief Technical Expert and Lead Negotiator for the Delegation of Nigeria to the 2013 WIPO Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities (Marrakesh VIP Treaty). In 2015-2016, Okediji was appointed to High Level Panel on Access to Medicines at the United Nations. Professor Okediji’s remarks will consider the state of International Copyright, the recently implemented Marrakesh Treaty, WIPO, and international copyright law and exceptions in her keynote.</p>
<p><em>Note: Professor Okediji was scheduled to keynote in 2017 and was not able to attend due to last-minute weather related travel issues. We couldn’t be happier to welcome her back this year.</em></p>
<figure id="attachment_54157" style="max-width: 378px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="54157" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/29/katherine-maher-ruth-okediji-chris-bourg-keynote-creative-commons-global-summit/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="chris-bourg" width="378" height="378" /><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>Chris Bourg is Director of Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also has oversight of the MIT Press. Chris is deeply involved with Open Access Initiatives, the future of research libraries, diversity and inclusion in higher education, and the role libraries can play in advancing social justice. Bourg’s<a href="media/a9d81dfd.FutureLibraries-PrelimReport-Final.pdf" data-original-source="https://future-of-libraries.mit.edu/sites/default/files/FutureLibraries-PrelimReport-Final.pdf"> Future of Libraries Task force</a> recommendations, released in 2016, will play a crucial role in advancing the discourse and vision for the future of libraries. Bourg sits on the board of the Digital Public Library of America and co-chairs the MIT Task Force on Open Access. Her keynote will address issues of Open Access to research, the balance of privacy and openness, and diversity and inclusion in the open community.</p>
<p>Thank you to our Summit Program Planning Committee for their outstanding and collaborative work in helping choose our keynotes. Don’t forget to <a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org/register2018">register</a> for this year’s summit!</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/29/katherine-maher-ruth-okediji-chris-bourg-keynote-creative-commons-global-summit/">Katherine Maher, Ruth Okediji, Chris Bourg to Keynote Creative Commons Global Summit</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54197
title: Creative Commons launches Memorial Fund Grants and Fellowship in Memory of Bassel Khartabil
uri: Creative-Commons-launches-Memorial-Fund-Grants-and-Fellowship-in-Memor
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/07/bassel-post/
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<figure id="attachment_54200" style="max-width: 621px" 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="621" height="390" /><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>Creative Commons is accepting applications for two new opportunities to continue the legacy and impact of Syrian Palestinian Open internet activist Bassel Khartabil.</p>
<p>The <strong>Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund,</strong> launched in August 2017 at the behest of his family, will provide grants between $1,000 and $10,000 to organizations, groups, and individual grantees working to advance collaboration, community building, and leadership development in the open communities of the Arab world. The Memorial Fund is accepting grant applications until <strong>March 24th.</strong> These grants will be awarded to individuals or groups whose work embodies the legacy and impact of Bassel Khartabil, and whose projects are deeply intertwined with Creative Commons’ core mission and values. Applicants from the Creative Commons Global Network and broader Open movement are strongly encouraged. Creative Commons gratefully acknowledges generous support for the Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund from London Media Trust, the family of Bassel Khartabil, and individual donors. Learn more at the following <a href="http://creativecommons.org/bassel-khartabil-memorial-fund">link</a>.</p>
<p>The <strong>Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship </strong>supports outstanding individuals developing open culture in their communities under adverse circumstances. This unique and life-changing fellowship is based on a one-year term, eligible for renewal, and includes a stipend of $50,000 USD as well as associated, supplemental funds to support other costs and overhead.</p>
<p>The fellowship is organized by Creative Commons, Mozilla, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Jimmy Wales Foundation, #NEWPALMYRA, Fabricatorz Foundation, and others. It seeks to catalyze free culture, particularly in societies vulnerable to attacks on freedom of expression and free access to knowledge. Special consideration will be given to applicants operating within closed societies and in developing economies where other forms of support are scarce. Applications from the Levant and wider MENA region are greatly encouraged. Creative Commons gratefully acknowledges generous support for the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship from the organizing partners as well as the family of Bassel Khartabil. More information and application is available at this <a href="http://creativecommons.org/bassel-khartabil-fellowship">link.</a></p>
<p>The fellowship and memorial fund are part of Creative Commons’ three-year commitment to promote the values important to Bassel&#8217;s work and life: open culture, radical sharing, free knowledge, remix, collaboration, courage, optimism, and humanity.</p>
<p>For more information or inquiries, please reach out to <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org">info@creativecommons.org</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54215
title: Creative Commons announces three new staff members
uri: Creative-Commons-announces-three-new-staff-members
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/12/new-staff-members/
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<figure id="attachment_54222" style="max-width: 900px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54222" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/12/new-staff-members/new_staff_feb2018-2/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/new_staff_feb2018-1.png" data-orig-size="900,300" 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="new_staff_feb2018" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/new_staff_feb2018-1.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/new_staff_feb2018-1.png" class="wp-image-54222 size-full" src="media/2d882c44.new_staff_feb2018-1.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/new_staff_feb2018-1.png" alt="" width="900" height="300" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Jennryn Wetzler (CC BY); Sophine Clachar (CC BY-NC-ND); Jay Walsh (CC BY-SA, photo by Lane Hartwell)</figcaption></figure>
<p>I’m excited to announce three new members of the Creative Commons team: <strong>Jennryn Wetzler</strong>, Assistant Director of Open Education; <strong>Sophine Clachar</strong>, Data Engineer; and <strong>Jay Walsh</strong>, Chief of Staff.</p>
<p>Jennryn joins us following her work at the U.S. Department of State, where she piloted open educational resources (OER) use for public diplomacy. There, she helped lead the development and implementation of open policies to ensure publicly funded resources are openly licensed. She also co-developed the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/20/state-department-publishes-open-licensing-playbook-federal-agencies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Open Licensing Playbook</a> to help government officers understand and properly implement open licensing requirements. Prior to that, Jennryn worked in Thailand and Niger, and learned how essential access to education is for international development. Jennryn has a Masters in Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs from American University’s School for International Service. At CC Jennryn will seek new ways to build and support the global open education movement, and will be our lead for the Creative Commons Certificate program. Jennryn lives in Mt Rainier, Maryland. Her work at CC kicks off March 5.</p>
<p>Sophine will be ramping up CC’s ongoing product work to build a more vibrant, usable commons, with a major focus on CC Search. She is a data engineer with over 10 years of experience. Before CC she worked on research projects relating to aviation safety and large-scale and complex aviation data repositories at the University of North Dakota. Sophine was a recipient of the Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Award which fostered the development of machine learning algorithms that identify anomalies in aircraft data. Sophine holds a PhD in Scientific Computing from the University of North Dakota. She resides in New York City.</p>
<p>Jay previously led communications at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, and recently headed up the global communications team at Riot Games in Los Angeles. His 16 years of communications and strategic planning experience span open source and free culture projects, gaming, public broadcasting, academia and the public sector. At the Wikimedia Foundation Jay spearheaded the organization’s debut efforts to increase global awareness of Wikipedia’s vast community of editors, and made strides in transforming the mainstream conversation about Wikipedia’s reliability and sustainability. As Chief of Staff, Jay will be working across CC’s staff to help focus and accelerate our projects and initiatives, build up our product development strategy and pipeline, and enhance our long term sustainability and operational planning. Jay studied Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. He currently resides in Sonoma County, California.</p>
<p>I am incredibly pleased to welcome these three new staff members to Creative Commons. We are poised for an impactful and exceptional 2018 with our small, global team. Welcome, Jennryn, Sophine, and Jay!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54252
title: Creative Commons’ Global Network: How we’re Growing
uri: Creative-Commons-Global-Network-How-we-re-Growing
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/23/global-network/
content:
<figure id="attachment_54256" style="max-width: 2048px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="54256" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/23/global-network/background-cc-network/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/background-cc-network.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="background-cc-network" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/background-cc-network.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/background-cc-network.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-54256" src="media/9742e67a.background-cc-network.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/background-cc-network.jpg" alt="people-around-table-cc" width="2048" height="1365" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/albums/72157683167560985">Sebastiaan Ter Burg,</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0">CC BY 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Today we are publicly opening the doors to our renewed Creative Commons Global Network. It’s been a two-year process that was initiated, driven, and designed by CC’s international communities. We’re very proud of our work together, and we’re looking forward to inviting a broader community to join us in new ways, from international groups for collaboration on topics like open education and copyright reform, to our upcoming Summit, to governance and leadership.</p>
<p>The CC network was originally focused on legal support and translation of the Creative Commons licenses. The network of over 85 CC affiliates around the world was an enormous success that made Creative Commons a global initiative with enormous impact. We provided a legal infrastructure for the open web and helped Creative Commons to reach millions of new users and creators with free legal tools to be used in their own context and local languages.</p>
<p>Over time, the broader community grew and expanded into new spaces, including creators, activists, scholars, librarians, academics and a wide range of users. Community interests grew to include free culture, the public domain, open content, open education, copyright reform and other policies, open data, and more. In 2013, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/version4/">we launched the 4.0 version of the CC license suite,</a> which eliminated the local country versions in favour of one international license. At that time, the only way to be part of the network was to be an official affiliate.</p>
<p>All of the momentum and activity created a tension between the formal network of affiliates and the broader expanding community who wanted to get involved, but had no structure or support for collaboration and collective action. We wanted to respond the needs of a vibrant and diverse community of contributors, and at the same time still provide the stewardship for the copyright licenses that are key for the open web. In 2015, Creative Commons approved our new organizational strategy, f<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/01/14/towards-a-vibrant-usable-commons/">ocused on building a vibrant, usable commons, powered by collaboration and gratitude</a>, which includes strengthening ties with the global community and a promise to enhance our voice at a global scale.</p>
<p>In 2015 the existing network began drafting a new strategy. Creative Commons conducted open consultations and potential new participants and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/global-affiliate-network/faces-commons-research/">commissioned original research</a> to understand how we could grow and be more inclusive. We worked together with affiliates from around the world to draft <a href="media/51b5776b.GlobalNetworkStrategy-Final.pdf" data-original-source="https://github.com/creativecommons/global-network-strategy/blob/master/docs/GlobalNetworkStrategy-Final.pdf">a new Global Network Strategy</a>, which was finalized at the 2017 Global Summit in Toronto.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no single recipe for success to have impact on a global scale. Our research showed that a strong CC network needs to make clear paths for engagement, create opportunities for new people to join and contribute, and offer opportunities to influence priorities and decisions. This new Strategy creates clear pathways in for new contributors, establishes a new way of working together, supports the work of contributors around the world, and helps us to collectively focus on priority areas.</p>
<p>Starting today, we are offering new ways of getting more involved with Creative Commons and its community.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>The Network Platforms</strong>. <a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/network-platforms">Platforms</a> are the way we work together. They are working groups that will create and communicate strategic collaboration to have a worldwide impact. The platforms are open to anyone willing to contribute and develop usable, vibrant and collaborative global Commons.</li>
</ol>
<ol start="2">
<li><strong>The Global Summit.</strong> The Global Summit is now an annual event. The Summit provides leaders, stakeholders, and the broader open web community an opportunity to drive the open movement forward, cross-pollinate ideas and expertise, and expand our impact. This year’s event will focus on empowering new contributors to get involved and have impact. You’re invited to <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">participate and join us in Toronto this April</a>.</li>
</ol>
<ol start="3">
<li><strong>Network Membership.</strong> We have created a membership model for those interested in formally participating in the decision-making and governance of the network. Membership is not required for participation in CC projects, and it is open to anyone with a track record as an active contributor to the CC movement that <a href="https://creativecommons.org/network/charter/">supports the Network Charter</a>. Members are organized nationally into chapters (e.g., CC New Zealand, CC El Salvador, CC Canada). <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org">Individuals can apply here.</a></li>
</ol>
<p>During the upcoming weeks, teams will start to establish their Creative Commons Chapters and organize locally for community actions at local and national scale. By the middle of 2018, we will host the first meeting of the Global Network Council, made up of delegates from each chapter, the main body for international network governance.</p>
<p>The new Global Network is the product of our community, and we are excited to join with you in increased participation and enhancement of the Commons.</p>
<p>Questions? Ask on <a href="http://slack-signup.creativecommons.org">Slack,</a> <a href="https://freenode.net/">IRC,</a> or ping us on social media.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54267
title: Time is running out for net neutrality
uri: Time-is-running-out-for-net-neutrality
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/27/time-running-net-neutrality/
content:
<p><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/onemorevote/"><img data-attachment-id="54268" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/27/time-running-net-neutrality/savenetneutrality/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SaveNetNeutrality.gif" data-orig-size="600,600" 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="SaveNetNeutrality" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SaveNetNeutrality.gif" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SaveNetNeutrality.gif" class="aligncenter wp-image-54268 " src="media/b2765bb7.SaveNetNeutrality.gif" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SaveNetNeutrality.gif" alt="" width="500" height="500" /></a></p>
<h3><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/onemorevote/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Act now and support the <em>#OneMoreVote</em> campaign to trigger Senate review of the FCC repeal</span></a></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In December 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted along party lines to </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-vote.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">repeal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the </span><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-open-internet-order"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2015 Open Internet Order</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that ensured net neutrality in the United States. Without net neutrality, broadband providers like Comcast and Verizon will have free reign to block or discriminate against content or applications that are carried over their networks. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last week the official notice of the repeal was </span><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/02/22/2018-03464/restoring-internet-freedom"><span style="font-weight: 400;">published in the Federal Register</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, meaning that now the clock is ticking. If Congress or the courts do not intervene before 23 April 2018 (60 days after the notice), net neutrality will be a thing of the past. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today we’re joining the </span><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/onemorevote/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">massive online campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that will flood the Senate with calls and emails. The goal of the action is to secure the final vote needed to pass the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution restoring net neutrality. If 50 votes are secured in the Senate, then the fight will shift to the House of Representatives.</span></p>
<p><b>Go to </b><a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/"><b>battleforthenet.com</b></a> <b>and contact Congress to stop the FCC’s dismantling of important net neutrality protections. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons has always supported network neutrality. We joined thousands of organisations </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/12/07/one-week-left-save-internet/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">calling on everyone</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to make their voice heard to the FCC and Congress. A free and open internet is an essential utility of everyday life –  Creative Commons licensing is only one factor in a healthy open internet ecosystem. A strong digital commons requires universal access to basic digital infrastructure, and enforceable rules that promote fair competition and freedom of information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The FCC repeal of net neutrality is clearly antithetical to the wishes of the public. We stand in solidarity with countless internet users, creators, teachers, startups, and information-seekers who can only thrive with strong net neutrality protections. We’ll continue the fight for the open internet for all.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54274
title: Tell the Canadian government to ignore Bell’s terrible idea to block websites
uri: Tell-the-Canadian-government-to-ignore-Bell-s-terrible-idea-to-block
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/28/tell-canadian-government-ignore-bells-terrible-idea-block-websites/

content:
<p><a href="https://act.openmedia.org/dontcensor"><img data-attachment-id="54275" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/28/tell-canadian-government-ignore-bells-terrible-idea-block-websites/dontcensormapleleaffacebook1200x1200/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DontCensorMapleLeafFacebook1200x1200.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,1200" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="DontCensorMapleLeafFacebook1200x1200" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DontCensorMapleLeafFacebook1200x1200.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DontCensorMapleLeafFacebook1200x1200.jpg" class="aligncenter wp-image-54275" src="media/461f592c.DontCensorMapleLeafFacebook1200x1200.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DontCensorMapleLeafFacebook1200x1200.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="500" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this month Bell and a group of Canadian telecommunications and media companies submitted a proposal that asks the Canadian government to identify websites engaged in content piracy and compel internet service providers to block access to those sites.</span></p>
<p><span>Specifically, the </span><a href="media/383fc7ca.FairPlayCanadaCRTCReport2018-01-29EN.pdf" data-original-source="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a68f49af6576e4326f50337/t/5a6f33bd24a694fb93a51111/1517237184069/FairPlay+Canada+CRTC+Report+2018-01-29+EN.pdf"><span>proposal</span></a><span> asks the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to set up an “Internet Piracy Review Agency.” The agency would be responsible for identifying websites that are “blatantly, overwhelmingly or structurally” involved in piracy. After the sites are identified, internet service providers would be notified and required to block access to those sites.</span></p>
<p><span>Today, a coalition of over 25 organisations—led by digital rights NGO OpenMedia—launched a campaign asking Canadians to </span><a href="https://act.openmedia.org/dontcensor"><span>voice their opposition</span></a><span> to Bell’s plan. Says OpenMedia: “This radical proposal will lead to legitimate content and speech being censored, violating our right to free expression and the principles of Net Neutrality, which the federal government has consistently pledged support for.”</span></p>
<p><span>Michael Geist, the Canadian law professor, has been writing extensively (</span><a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/tag/bell/"><span>11 blog posts and counting</span></a><span>) about the potential harms of the proposal. He described Bell’s plan as having a </span><a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2018/02/canadas-sopa-moment-crtc-reject-bell-coalitions-dangerous-internet-blocking-plan/"><span>similar negative effects</span></a><span> as the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act"><span>SOPA</span></a><span>/</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act"><span>PIPA</span></a><span> legislation floated in the U.S. a few years ago. Geist says, </span><span>“the CRTC should not hesitate to firmly reject the website blocking plan as a disproportionate, unconstitutional proposal sorely lacking in due process that is inconsistent with the current communications law framework.” We agree.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why is this the wrong approach? </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Canada already has strong rules against copyright infringement, and an existing mechanism for copyright holders to go to court and get a takedown order. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Bell proposal seems to </span><a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2018/02/case-bell-coalitions-website-blocking-plan-part-5-inevitable-expansion-block-list-standard-piracy-sites/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">make up its own definition of piracy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> because it doesn’t reference any current Canadian legislation. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s up for debate whether the CRTC actually has the expertise to conduct this sort of piracy review. CIPPIC </span><a href="media/a9b05fb1.Cippic.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/5/50/Cippic.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">observes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the proposal “calls upon the Commission to undertake a new role under which it will be obligated to make legal determinations under the Copyright Act, a role far removed from the Commission’s area of expertise and one with which the Commission has not had significant historical experience.”</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There could be overblocking of sites that have significant non-infringing uses, such as torrent sites that track and share open source software, openly licensed creative works, and works in the public domain. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s </span><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kz5ba/does-canada-even-have-a-huge-piracy-problem-fairplay-website-blocking"><span style="font-weight: 400;">little evidence</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that piracy in Canada is as bad as suggested by BellI. As OpenMedia notes, “the most effective way to stop piracy is to provide affordable, user-friendly services that give people access to the content they want, when and where they want it.”</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>What you can do</b></p>
<p>OpenMedia is aiming to submit 50,000 comments into the CRTC by the end of the day of action—February 28. Here’s what you can do:</p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://act.openmedia.org/StopCanadaCensorship"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Submit a comment to the CRTC now using OpenMedia’s easy tool, now</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or, go to the </span><a href="https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/CommentForm/Default-Defaut.aspx?lang=e&amp;EN=201800467&amp;ET=A&amp;S=O&amp;PA=T&amp;PT=A&amp;PST=A&amp;FN="><span style="font-weight: 400;">CRTC&#8217;s website and file your comment directly</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then, ask your friends to speak out, share this link, </span><a href="https://act.openmedia.org/StopCanadaCensorship"><span style="font-weight: 400;">act.openmedia.org/StopCanadaCensorship</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and/or take to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?m2w&amp;u=https://act.openmedia.org/DontCensor?src=fb"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=On%20Feb.%2028%20we%20stop%20censorship%20in%20Canada.%20Join%20us%20to%20stand%20against%20a%20@Bell-led%20dangerous%20proposal%20to%20give%20the%20government%20%23censorship%20powers.%20%23DontCensor%0D%0Ahttps://act.openmedia.org/dontcensor%0D%0A"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Share this site, </span><a href="http://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15svQBWri_5d5GAaV3Ol-PiGNxj5HB1in"><span style="font-weight: 400;">change your profile pictures and write status updates</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> asking your friends to stand up to Bell&#8217;s censorship scheme.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span>Use this tool to </span><a href="https://unfairplay.ca/"><span>tweet the companies directly</span></a><span> that have signed on to this dangerous proposal.</span></li>
</ol>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=54262
title: Los Angeles: CC and a panel of VR experts tackle the issue of social change in emerging media
uri: Los-Angeles-CC-and-a-panel-of-VR-experts-tackle-the-issue-of-social-c
url: https://creativecommons.org/2018/03/01/los-angeles-event/
content:
<p><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/257671397" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><em>Watch or listen to the recording on <span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/creativecommonsvideos/ccandvr">Vimeo</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4e482oZgdU">YouTube</a>, or <a href="https://soundcloud.com/wearecc/cc-as-a-vehicle-for-social-change-in-emerging-immersive-media">Soundcloud</a>.</span></em></p>
<p><span>On February 15, Creative Commons hosted an evening of demos, discussion, and drinks in Los Angeles called, “</span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cc-as-a-vehicle-for-social-change-in-emerging-immersive-media-tickets-42210298138#"><span>CC as a Vehicle for Social Change in Emerging &amp; Immersive Media</span></a><span>.” With 200 guests registered, the evening featured demos of three virtual reality social impact projects. They were:</span></p>
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<li><b>&#8220;Bronze, Brass, Jazz&#8221;</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Maya Santos &amp; Joel Quizon, Form Follows Function) </span><i><span>“a 360 VR animation that evokes the spirit of late night jam sessions at breakfast clubs, and fabled stories about jazz great Charlie Parker, from his memorable stay at the Civic Hotel (1st and San Pedro) to a brief residency at the Finale Club (230 1/2 East First Street).”</span></i></li>
<li><b>&#8220;Walking With Grace&#8221;</b><span> (Maya Santos &amp; Joel Quizon, Form Follows Function) </span><i><span>“a 360 virtual reality documentary, Walking with Grace highlight places and streets of Little Tokyo through the perspective of Grace Chikui, a blind woman and long-time resident.”</span></i></li>
<li><b>“NOTES ON BLINDNESS”</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Alethea Avramis, Atlas V.) </span><i><span>“Arte Experience presents Notes On Blindness, a VR journey into a world beyond </span></i><i><span>sight. In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, John Hull became totally blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began documenting his experiences on audio cassette. These original diary recordings form the basis of this project, an interactive non fiction using new forms of storytelling to explore his cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.”</span></i></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following the demos, participants gathered for a panel discussion with VR creators and producers moderated by <a href="http://www.tft.ucla.edu/2016/09/steve-anderson/">Steve Anderson</a>, Professor of Digital Media at UCLA, whose research sits at the intersection of VR, social impact, and open systems. Speakers were Maya Santos (Creative Director, </span><a href="http://www.fffmedia.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FORM follows FUNCTION Media</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), Joel Quizon (Producer, </span><a href="http://www.fffmedia.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FORM follows FUNCTION Media)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="http://www.aletheaavramisfilm.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alethea Avramis</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Creative Producer, </span><a href="http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/european-vr-pioneers-launch-atlas-v-sundance-new-frontier-1202632490/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Atlas V.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), and </span><a href="http://www.storytechimmersive.com/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brian Seth Hurst</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (President and Chief Storyteller, StoryTech Immersive). Speakers addressed questions such as:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you think about emerging media and tech (like VR, AR, etc., and culture/tech more generally) what is the thing you could do with it that is most </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">useful</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">impactful</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">? What is the thing that you could do that is the most </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">delightful</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unlike most forms of entertainment, the whole point of VR is collaborative &#8212; to co-create the experience through your engagement. In this (seemingly) infinitely expandable universe of creativity, how do you see the Creative Commons concepts of inviting collaboration, reuse, and remix applying?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who ultimately owns the experience? How do you bring people into the process to more actively/fully engage with the media (beyond being an agent in the experience)? Does experience require making/doing?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this industry where there is no standard (yet), what is the opportunity for Creative Commons as a system of rights? What about as a system of values?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Where do you predict VR/AR trending next? </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those in the audience included representatives from various companies at the intersection of VR and social impact, including </span><a href="https://vr.google.com/daydream/impact/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daydream Impact</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a new program from Google offering nonprofits free VR guidance and tools to create social impact stories. For the full discussion, including a Q&amp;A with the audience, follow the links to the recordings above! </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">More photos of the event are available at Creative Commons’ <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/albums/72157693782005585">Flickr page</a>. Thank you to everyone who came out!</span></p>
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title: CC0 now available in Simplified and Traditional Chinese Languages!
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<p>We are pleased to announce publication of the official translation of the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication into Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Nearly 1.2 billion people (around 16% of the world&#8217;s population) speak some form of Chinese as their first language, so the availability of CC0 in Simplified and Traditional Chinese will bring huge potential benefits.</p>
<p>Representatives from CC China Mainland, CC Hong Kong, and CC Taiwan gathered during the CC Global Summit in Seoul in Oct 2015 and decided to initiate their collaborative effort to translate both 4.0 and CC0 into Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. This accomplishment wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work and dedication among the teams working on the translations, involving lots of email exchanges, many rounds of conference calls, and two face-to-face meetings made possible by grants from Ford’s International Institute of Education. The group also invited feedback and contribution from other teams such as CC Singapore and CC Macau, which support populations who speak Chinese languages in their local communities.</p>
<p>On December 5, 2015, the first face-to-face meeting was held at the University of Hong Kong, with the generous support of CC Hong Kong, including Ying Chan and Ben Cheng (CC Hong Kong Public Leads), Haggen So and Benjamin Zhou. Attended by Chunyan Wang from CC China Mainland and Yihsuan Lin from CC Taiwan, who had been playing a critical role in the translation efforts in their respective team, the meeting was an important milestone in the collaborative translation project which led to drafts of the two different Chinese versions of the CC0 public domain dedication, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.</p>
<p>The second translation meeting was held July 2-3, 2016, in Beijing, in conjunction with the <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016">CC Asia Pacific Regional Meeting</a> hosted by CC China Mainland and attended by 19 representatives from 10 CC affiliates in the region. During this intense workshop session, the group collaborated on the final cross-checking of the draft translations created by the translation teams from CC China Mainland and CC Taiwan.</p>
<p>The group received feedback on their first drafts through a public consultation in July 2016, after their second face-to-face meeting in Beijing. CC China Mainland and CC Taiwan announced the two drafts and received feedback from their local communities through their mailing lists, websites, and social media. Face-to-face meeting is still critical to the success of this kind of collaborative volunteer effort, especially among members with their own unique challenges regardless of their geographical proximity. Creative Commons thanks the Ford Foundation for its generous support to make the two meetings happen.</p>
<p>We are deeply appreciative for the hard work of and thorough feedback from all who contributed to the success of this project, and special thanks to Ben Cheng, Tyng-Ruey Chuang (CC Taiwan Project Lead), Cheng-Jen Lee, Lucien Lin, Yihsuan Lin, Haggen So, Beibei Sun, Ally Wang, Chunyan Wang (CC China Mainland Project Lead), Xingzhi Xin, and Yi Zheng for their outstanding contribution, dedication and commitment. Personally, I am truly honored to work with all who shared their skills, wisdom and insight with patience and care throughout the process, particularly Diane Peters (Creative Commons General Counsel). Congratulations to all!</p>
<p>For details on this project, please visit this <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Chinese_-_Traditional_and_Simplified">wiki page</a>.</p>
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title: Hibridos: A portal to the spirit of Brazil
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<p>As a vision of the sacred, Vincent Moon’s <a href="http://hibridos.cc">Hibridos</a> project melds text, music, and ritual through a breathtaking series of films produced in collaboration with his partner Priscilla Telmon. Traveling Brazil over three years, Moon and Telmon pursued the divine through their art, becoming increasingly immersed in culture, ritual, and community. The result is a multilayered piece that includes video, music, performance, text, “trans-cinema,” and exhibition. Moon and Telmon recently screened the film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and produced a number of “live” or “trans” cinema events featuring sacred music from around the world.</p>
<p>Moon first rose to prominence through his Creative Commons licensed <em>Take Away Shows</em> series, which illuminated global indie music in an intimate, cinema verité style – his work radically breaks down distance between documentarian and the traditional notion of subject. With Hibridos, Moon puts his ethos of radical sharing and relationship building at the center of his cinematic vision – the films are evocative, adventurous, and intense. Shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license, the Hibridos project is freely accessible through its online portal and on <a href="https://vimeo.com/hibridosbrazil">Vimeo.</a></p>
<p><strong>Can you talk about your particular interest in ritual and sacred music?</strong><br />
I started the Take Away Shows from my Blogotheque a long time ago, which was an online project where we were filming mostly indie rock music, and I eventually got tired of that kind of music. I discovered other forms of music which seemed to me way deeper, on many levels. Not only musically but also on what they were engaging in terms of culture, history, and especially the invisible. More than sacred music, it was my relationship to the invisible, this quest to explore, not following any academic kind of research – trying to explore other cultures in an artistic way, not representing them but trying to approximate myself with them in a sense. It&#8217;s a very personal work. You could see it as an archive, but I see it as an experimental take on reality.<br />
The Creative Commons license is a very much at the core of my own way of doing those recordings. I do not see them as fixed, I see them as still living and changing and the idea that people can use those recordings is very much at the core of my own research in spirituality. I do find it very spiritual actually, the way that we allow people to touch and to change. In nature, there is no property, there is always constant change and mutations.</p>
<p><strong>Why did you choose the particular license you chose?<br />
</strong>I chose that license because I&#8217;m interested in what it means to really start from the beginning.</p>
<blockquote><p>How can we see the digital age as a completely new way of living together? It&#8217;s not a tool; it&#8217;s a new paradigm that we have to integrate.</p></blockquote>
<p>And I do not see our society doing this at all. I think we&#8217;re treating the digital age as sort of like an extension of an old, ancient society of living together. That&#8217;s too bad. We have to go way deeper into our way of creating. How and where can we go together if we all apply such a license? How can we get out of the business related to art forms?<br />
I use BY-NC-SA because I do not like the idea that anybody could make any commercial use of my work. And the noncommercial factor comes from the fact that I&#8217;ve been recording people for free – I just give them the recordings. I don&#8217;t do this for money.</p>
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<p><strong>As a French filmmaker in Brazil, how do you balance your own outsiderness with recording and also with releasing these recordings online, particularly within the French tradition of patrimoine and ethnographic film?<br />
</strong>I do not see myself as an ethnographic filmmaker. I don&#8217;t see myself even as a filmmaker. I&#8217;m experimenting with the tools of recording and the tools of sharing. The fact that I&#8217;m using a camera is just one detail within a larger vision. We do not live in the same form of society we used to live in even 20 years ago. I think culture is problematic, because we&#8217;re extremely focused on this idea that we are actually separated, particularly in our globalized Westernized society, so I think of reality in terms of separation from the realities of others.<br />
This is great when it comes to defending diversity and sharing incredible, fantastic knowledge of different traditions. But this is not great when it comes to building physical and invisible walls in between us, in the way we relate to the other.<br />
How can we overcome this? How can we overcome the idea of identity? To not only see it from a political point of view? Most of our vision of the world these days is only informed from a very materialistic, political point of view, which is not the way of the people I record. They do not see the other, in the way that Western culture has been inventing the other.<br />
We should allow people to be more free in creating, allowing all those energies to circulate much more freely – it&#8217;s like liberating spirits.<br />
I learned a lot while being with indigenous people – I think that their revision of reality is completely new, and it&#8217;s very, very beautiful to realize this.<br />
I’m trying to create an exchange by using my own tools. But at the same time, trying to create that exchange away from any commercial relationship, away from any manipulative interchange approaches. I feel that all the recordings I&#8217;ve been making actually help people. That&#8217;s the goal, the first thing. Give the recordings to them. It&#8217;s a gift exchange. It&#8217;s an ancient way of living together.</p>
<p><strong>Lewis Hyde writes in </strong><strong><em>The Gift</em></strong><strong> that gifts are cyclical, that they come back to you culturally– that it&#8217;s an ancient form of relating to other people.</strong><br />
Absolutely. It&#8217;s like with the potlatch. What allows our new tools in a sense is to renew that ancient type of relationship with the other. This is very beautiful, and we have to dive into it as much as possible. I try to complete my own personal research there by doing a lot of what I call live cinema or performances, and it&#8217;s quite new for us. It is basically a live improvisation based mostly on ritualistic music. And sometimes we invite some of those people that are a part of it. For example, last year in Morocco, we invited for five days some Sufi Brotherhood in Fes, and they invited us to an incredible healing transritual in a house, and then two days later, we created this show, where we were showing the images we recorded by mixing the images live, and they were also coming over this speaker. They were creating a new layer over their own ritual, and it was amazing! It was completely breaking down this distance that we create all the time, especially in terms of representation of music. I&#8217;m very excited about bringing back the sacred everywhere. So we brought the guys on stage, and they fucking nailed it. It turned out to be another ritual. Some people fell in trance again.</p>
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<p><strong>You work in a variety of media, not only film and live performance, but also music and exhibition. How does trans-cinema and live cinema fit into the Hibridos project, and also your projects going forward? And how does your work lend itself to that kind of cross-media or trans-media representation?</strong><br />
I&#8217;m excited to explore all different forms – to talk about the power of images on our society. And I think it&#8217;s so very important to mention, especially when you start to talk about trends or so-called trends in cinema, that our society has turned into a society that is so obsessed by its own images, and reality is actually created by our image, which is dangerous. The way we treat images and the way we share images is very poor and very damaging, damaging a lot the way we see reality. Images are extremely powerful because they deform reality. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening now.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s reality? It&#8217;s a subjective experience. You make the right images, let&#8217;s say, but what I&#8217;m excited about are images that are trying to work around the idea of beauty and you might end up making a better society – a more beautiful one. It sounds very simple but it&#8217;s exactly how it works. So basically, what we&#8217;ve been trying, especially with Hibridos, is to celebrate in a sense, all those different forms of rituals to show the beauty, incredible magic in them, and to share this for free. We&#8217;ve been making many films – 94 films. It&#8217;s crazy. It&#8217;s ridiculous in a way. It&#8217;s a sacrifice. We did it with our own money and without any production companies. I still have no idea what&#8217;s going to happen with it now. Our desire to use trans-cinema is very much based on the idea that images have a very strong impact. What about images of rituals? What about images of bodies in trance? What kind of impact can they have?<br />
I&#8217;m excited about reintegrating the trance into the bodies of the viewers. It&#8217;s an experiment. It&#8217;s not easy and it&#8217;s not easy for everybody. A lot of people don’t feel free in front of these images and they put this on certain idea of manipulation of culture of the image of the others. We actually believe that’s what our society needs. Trance and trance bodies – we need to get out of our own brain. We need to let it go. We need to get to an assent that there is something superior. I&#8217;m not going to use the word God or anything. There is something very superior, spiritual in nature. We have to regain humility, and to regain this humility, we need to pass by the trance state. I absolutely believe so. I&#8217;m absolutely certain because I had this experience. I did my own. I went to a ritual and I tried to participate as much as possible. I tried to get out of my brain, get out of my intellectual relationship to reality. And it was a life-changing experience. And a very much needed one. But I do not believe that everyone can go there. Of course not. We have to be subtle, very subtle. We are trying to present it as sort of a documentary type of experience, but it&#8217;s not, absolutely not in any way. Especially the live-cinema. It&#8217;s much more about trying to reach the energy of the ritual and bring it to people would never go there, who might see it through a distance.</p>
<p><strong>Your films do have an extremely intimate quality.</strong><br />
I&#8217;m very interested in breaking down any distance. There is no distance because my desire is to do the exact opposite of putting myself at a distance, to write or to study. It&#8217;s not our take. Our take is actually to break down a distance, to go very, very, very close, and when you see the feature film, especially on a big screen, it&#8217;s almost suffocating at some points. It has a strange type of quality because it&#8217;s very close. You never breathe, and you&#8217;re in it all the time, constantly.</p>
<blockquote><p>After making many films, I still had no idea what I was doing, and little by little I have a bit of a different vision, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so close, to create that feeling. But that&#8217;s also because we are there, we are in it. It vibrates more, and we love that, and we want that.</p></blockquote>
<p>We want to vibrate more with them. We want to respect them and for me, that&#8217;s the only way of respecting, is getting closer, not stepping backward, stepping really forward to one another. And I&#8217;ve always done that everywhere I went. In the center of places, just feel at home, because that&#8217;s the best way to do it. That&#8217;s the greatest thing.</p>
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<p><strong>What are the next projects you have planned? What&#8217;s next for Hibridos? Where do you see this project going and where do you see your next project?</strong><br />
What we&#8217;re excited about is that we&#8217;ve been able to produce all the material, and now that it is freely available it can circulate and disseminate.</p>
<blockquote><p>I trust the curiosity of the people. We just try to let it go. Hopefully, some people are gonna find it and then they&#8217;re gonna use it and then they&#8217;re gonna share it, and others will make things with it. This is a project to make other projects, right? So hopefully, it&#8217;s going to inspire people in many different ways.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Hibridos project is mostly online. It&#8217;s not the entire project, which is a web project, but basically sort of like the ground of the house and now, we&#8217;re finding the water and putting up the roof. But basically, the roof is made of other experiences. We&#8217;re gonna experiment. Research and consciousness, that&#8217;s what it is about.</p>
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<p><strong>Thinking about my own first encounter with Hibridos, which was on my laptop, I&#8217;m curious to know what your thoughts are on the difference between encountering the project on a smaller screen versus these large scale immersive experiences you create?</strong><br />
One complements the other. At some point you have to acknowledge the fact that you are not really the owner of anything. Basically you just believe, trust, that people might encounter the films here or there. Things are very organized in the invisible. Things are supposed to happen the way they happen. It’s destiny – some people have to encounter this project, and they will, but I&#8217;m not gonna force it. There&#8217;s no need.<br />
Someone may end up seeing this on their laptop one night because someone sent them a link. People could be researching their next trip to Brazil, and suddenly they bump into this. Or people might come see a show tonight because they take a look at what&#8217;s in town and they see us by accident. Many things, but it&#8217;s all accidents. It&#8217;s all made of little accidents, tiny accidents – which we feel are not really accidents at all. And that&#8217;s the beauty. It&#8217;s a game with reality. You play your role. You just play it the best you can, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to do.<br />
There has been sacrifice, complete sacrifice, but we&#8217;re very happy. We&#8217;ve been researching, filming, recording, editing, publishing things about beauty. What people do with those rituals are amazing. That&#8217;s the core of the project. It&#8217;s the heart of everything.</p>
<p><strong>What kinds of differences did you find across the country, from urban to rural?</strong><br />
I would not really define urban and rural differences like that. Every place is always very different and some places might be much more populated by people that would have a poorer economic background than others. That might change a lot of what their relationship with spirituality is, but we&#8217;ve really been exploring in lots of different places, urban, rural, jungle, forest, the sea.</p>
<blockquote><p>What we need these days, especially artists, we need to be inspired to create new forms — call it culture if you want. We create new forms of being together and Brazil is the most inspiring place for me in that regard. I learned so much, so much about myself as well.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now we&#8217;re ready to move onto other projects with this absolute certitude that we have to experiment. That&#8217;s the only way to go.</p>
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<p><strong>Would you talk about some of the rituals and some of the ways you engaged?</strong><br />
They are all so different and all so complementary. I&#8217;m really researching deeply on spirituality and I think you&#8217;ll find spirituality as well in religion sometimes, not always.&#8221;<br />
All of those places we went to, we&#8217;ve been trained to look for those little encounters with the invisible. We just published some new films of rituals that are already online. Especially there is in this last batch of films, there are a few from Fraternidade Kayman. It is amazing – complete hybrids. That&#8217;s sort of like what Brazil taught us a lot, that you can experiment<br />
The evolution of rituals is creating new forms of rituals all the time. It&#8217;s normal, and it&#8217;s magical.<br />
We have to break down those barriers, to break down the idea of identity. We&#8217;ve been trying to question our own identity. I think lots of those rituals are really guarded by the people who have the money to make the films. We&#8217;ve been very curious, and especially we wanted to represent people who are not represented, to give them a voice, to show them in their beautiful life.</p>
<p><em>This interview has been condensed and edited.</em></p>
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