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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51092
title: Collaboratively generating more knowledge: Public Lab’s approach to citizen science
uri: Collaboratively-generating-more-knowledge-Public-Lab-s-approach-to
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/07/collaboratively-generating-knowledge/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Citizen science is the powerful idea that communities should be empowered to participate in the process of scientific inquiry, investigating the world around them and creating societal change in the process. One of the most prominent projects within the citizen and civic science movement is </span><a href="https://publiclab.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Lab,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a community of individuals using inexpensive DIY techniques to act locally on environmental concerns. At Public Lab, participants are empowered to revolutionize the research process: What would it look like if collaboration started at the earliest stages of research? How can communities be involved with scientific research at all levels?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From perfecting do it yourself spectrometer mapping to monitoring pollution emissions, Public Lab believes that environmental science can be everyone’s responsibility, and that collaboration should begin at the earliest stages of scientific investigation in order to change the way people see the world around them socially, politically, and environmentally.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Lab is free and open for everyone to get involved. </span><a href="https://publiclab.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find out more at their website.</span></a></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interview with Stevie Lewis (<em>Outreach Manager),</em><span> </span> Liz Barry (<em>Director of Community Development</em><span> )</span>, and Mathew Lippincott (<em>Director of Production)</em></span></i></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.75;">How does Public Lab view open science and citizen science as a pathway to participation in civic community?<br />
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Traditional science researcher-subject relationships remove people from the inquiry process. In Public Lab, local environmental questions are asked by people living nearby, and can be explored with tools that are low cost and easy to use. Practicing open source science increases not only the number of people who engage on environmental issues, but creates the space for everyone to explore, generate data, and define the outcomes they seek. Open science and citizen science put people in the center, empowering them with tools and resources to speak substantively about their environmental concerns.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51093" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://publiclab.org/notes/sarasage/08-08-2016/regional-barnraising-2016-a-few-thoughts-about-public-lab-s-work"><img class="wp-image-51093 size-full" src="media/c023c009.VV_Barnraising_Welcome.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/VV_Barnraising_Welcome.jpg" alt="Regional Barnraising CC BY-SA 3.0" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/VV_Barnraising_Welcome.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/VV_Barnraising_Welcome-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/VV_Barnraising_Welcome-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/VV_Barnraising_Welcome-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/VV_Barnraising_Welcome-207x155.jpg 207w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">From <a href="https://publiclab.org/notes/sarasage/08-08-2016/regional-barnraising-2016-a-few-thoughts-about-public-lab-s-work">Regional Barnraising</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA 3.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.75;">Open licensing is built into all the Public Lab&#8217;s projects. In what ways have you seen open source effectively foster collaboration through open processes and licensing?<br />
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open licenses set a basic expectation of sharing. Public Lab’s friendly community norms around sharing are backed with legal structures, so participants know that their authorship will be credited and downstream contributions will continue to grow the commons. When working with community groups, open licensing is the basis for community ownership and provides a sense of security. This transparency increases conversation and discussion, which reinforces the community’s ability to pursue long-term environmental justice outcomes.</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.75;">Why is &#8220;open&#8221; important to the Public Lab? How do you use openness to support scientific and educational communities?<br />
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Science is fundamentally about replication, and truly independent replication without openness is impossible. Closed licenses and proprietary hardware limit independent evaluation and access to knowledge. Openness has many aspects, however, and we see openness as about more than just licenses. Consider the accessibility of communications and data: Translating content out of difficult expert discourses expands the number of people who can interact with the issues and concepts. Accessible data, such as photographic monitoring, and other visual data, helps people to engage with results. So being open isn&#8217;t only about the science itself, but about making the process accessible.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51099" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://publiclab.org/notes/derekhoeferlin/05-09-2016/public-lab-river-rat-pack-st-louis-exhibition"><img class="size-large wp-image-51099" src="media/a8a575ff.public_lab-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/public_lab-1024x768.jpg" alt="From Public Lab River Rat Pack St. Louis Exhibition CC BY-SA-3.0" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/public_lab-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/public_lab-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/public_lab-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/public_lab-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/public_lab-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/public_lab-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/public_lab-1200x900.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">From <a href="https://publiclab.org/notes/derekhoeferlin/05-09-2016/public-lab-river-rat-pack-st-louis-exhibition">Public Lab River Rat Pack St. Louis Exhibition</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA-3.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><b>How does openness drive innovation within environmental science and other scientific work?<br />
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is exciting to see science today thinking a lot about openness at the publication stage with a push towards publishing full datasets and articles in the open access movement. However, there is even more work to be done at the pre-press stage. This is not just about “open source between scientists” &#8212; but a project to use the principles of open source from problem identification to publication. This helps to break down barriers between science practitioners and the public, to the benefit of both. In many fields there’s little or no open collaboration, especially with the public in other parts of the process. This has contributed to a wide gap between science practice and the public; a gap which keeps key environmental and pollution knowledge from communities which need it. </span></p>
<blockquote><p>When openness is the part of the focus, and communities are part of the entire process, we all work in the same space. This means that we can more easily share ideas, learn from each other, and collaboratively generate more knowledge.</p></blockquote>
<p><b>What kinds of projects have you worked on that have been particularly inspiring? Have you seen your work remixed or built upon by your community in any surprising ways?<br />
</b><a href="https://publiclab.org/tag/balloon-mapping"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Balloon</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and</span><a href="https://publiclab.org/tag/kite-mapping"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Kite mapping</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the project that launched Public Lab, continues to inspire. Our original case&#8211; making</span><a href="http://mapknitter.org/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">online photo maps</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of pollution sites (recent</span><a href="https://publiclab.org/notes/eustatic/01-16-2016/creosote-superfund-site-in-north-picayune-ms"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">example in Picayune, MS</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">)&#8211; has expanded to include</span><a href="https://publiclab.org/wiki/protest-mapping-by-oscar-brett"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">photography and videography at protests</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><a href="https://publiclab.org/notes/hagitkeysar/01-26-2016/decolonized-skies"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">enhancing public discussions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the qualitative</span><a href="https://publiclab.org/notes/clauds/04-28-2016/camp-code-how-to-navigate-a-refugee-settlement"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> experiences of place and dislocation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and new</span><a href="http://publiclab.org/tag/photo-rig"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">photography rigs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for panoramas and</span><a href="https://publiclab.org/notes/cfastie/07-26-2016/photos-to-3d"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">3D scans</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The</span><a href="https://publiclab.org/wiki/spectrometry"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">spectrometry project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has been through many variations, and builds. There are over 70,000 spectra from these and over 8,800 contributors:</span><a href="https://spectralworkbench.org/stats"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">https://spectralworkbench.org/stats</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Where originally this project aimed at exploring questions such as “can I tell if this sample contains petrochemical oils?”, people have built and used spectrometers that look different and explore all kinds of other questions such as</span><a href="https://publiclab.org/notes/ygzstc/04-30-2014/detection-of-olive-oil-adulteration-with-peanut-oil-using-visual-light-spectroscopy"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">food oil fraud</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the</span><a href="https://publiclab.org/notes/silverhammer/02-06-2014/detecting-pesticides-in-organic-and-conventional-raspberries-using-open-source-instrumentation"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">presence of organophosphate pesticides</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51103" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://publiclab.org/notes/clauds/04-28-2016/camp-code-how-to-navigate-a-refugee-settlement"><img class="size-large wp-image-51103" src="media/9aa77706.mansell-camp-code-18-1024x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-1024x1024.jpg" alt="Balloon Mapping the Camp Photo by Claudia Martinez Mansell CC BY-SA 3.0" width="840" height="840" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-768x768.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18-128x128.jpg 128w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mansell-camp-code-18.jpg 1360w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://placesjournal.org/article/camp-code/">Balloon Mapping the Camp</a><br />Photo by Claudia Martinez Mansell <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA 3.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.75;">What environmental challenges are you solving for with your community right now? How do you initiate projects?<br />
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Examples of some of the challenges people have been working through on Public Lab recently have included things like: How can I measure the size of a landfill in my community, and can I determine when it has reached its capacity? Can I monitor emissions from polluters with any body sensing methods such as visual or odor monitoring, and if so, what types of violations can I catch with these? How do I capture a pollution runoff event from a development or a facility? These challenges come into Public Lab from people who bring them to the website, the online forums, and in-person events.</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.75;">What&#8217;s coming up for the Public Lab?  How can people get involved?<br />
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a lot of exciting activity in Public Lab right now. We are working to bring structure and strength to the research culture of the community by creating systems for publishing assistance and tool versioning. There are also new ways to interact on Public Lab with the creation of activity grids on tool pages and a new “Question/Answer” feature that’s helping people to interact and share information. We also have a number of live spaces where people can collaborate, from our monthly</span><a href="http://www.publiclab.org/openhour"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">OpenHour</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, to the upcoming</span><a href="http://www.publiclab.org/barnraising"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Annual Barnraising</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Louisiana this coming November. Everything from building the questions and the knowledge base on Public Lab, to creating the website itself is an open process that people can get involved in. Join us online or in person! </span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/07/collaboratively-generating-knowledge/">Collaboratively generating more knowledge: Public Lab&#8217;s approach to citizen science</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51138
title: Why we’re fighting to protect noncommercial uses
uri: Why-we-re-fighting-to-protect-noncommercial-uses
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/09/why-were-fighting-to-protect-noncommercial-uses/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You may have seen our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/30/defending-noncommercial-uses-great-minds-v-fedex-office/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recent blog post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> explaining Creative Commons&#8217; involvement in a court case between Great Minds, a publisher of educational materials, and FedEx Office, the retail chain that provides on-demand copying and printing services.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To recap, Great Minds created educational materials under a U.S. federal government grant that required them to be shared under a Creative Commons noncommercial license (specifically, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-NC-SA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). Public school districts—those that did not have the means or resources to make the tens of thousands of copies of the publicly-funded materials needed for use in the classroom—paid FedEx Office stores to make copies of some of this material. The copies were to be used by the school districts noncommercially. Great Minds claims that because FedEx Office charged its typical fee to make these copies at the direction of the school districts for use in the classroom, it violated the CC license.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We&#8217;re following up here with a few words about why we&#8217;re getting involved in this particular case, and why we believe it&#8217;s important for us to do so. Put simply, we believe that any entity—whether it&#8217;s you or me or a public school district—should be able to pay a copy shop to make copies of a work that has been published under one of CC&#8217;s noncommercial licenses, in order to use those copies noncommercially.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We feel that Great Minds&#8217; interpretation in this instance is wrong. We also believe that this incorrect interpretation would dramatically reduce CC’s noncommercial licenses’ usability and usefulness. It would negate what Creative Commons—and more importantly, what innumerable users in our community—believes to be true about CC&#8217;s noncommercial licenses.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All around the world, people, companies, and institutions use our noncommercial copyright licenses to make their work available to the public for noncommercial use. They do so because they want to share and allow re-use of their work. There are uses that CC licensors clearly intend to allow and that licensees clearly expect to be granted through our noncommercial licenses. We strongly believe that one of those uses is the ability to have a company like FedEx Office make copies of that content so that licensees can make their own noncommercial use.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If this sort of use is not permitted by CC&#8217;s noncommercial licenses, then, in the real world, that means that anyone wanting to make copies of the content for noncommercial use must own a printing house, or a parcel delivery service if they want to send a hard copy by mail. We do not believe that this is a reasonable expectation or interpretation of the license. To keep the commons usable for all, we felt that we had to step forward on this case to help prevent a negative outcome.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For more on this case as it develops, please keep an eye on </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/blog/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">our blog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and follow us on </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=50927
title: Announcing the 2017 Creative Commons Global Summit
uri: Announcing-the-2017-Creative-Commons-Global-Summit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/08/announcing-2017-creative-commons-global-summit/
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<p>We’re pleased to announce that the next Creative Commons Global Summit will take place in Toronto, Canada from April 28-30, 2017. This vital event will gather a global community of technologists, academics, activists, creatives, and legal experts to work together on the expansion and growth of the commons, open knowledge, and free culture for all. Previous summits were held in Seoul (2015), Buenos Aires (2013), and Warsaw (2011). As one of the <a href="http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=e5c1dd32bd50b310VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&amp;vgnextchannel=c40132d0b6d1e310VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD">most multicultural</a> cities in the world, Toronto is a perfect location for this important meeting of the top minds in our field.</p>
<figure id="attachment_50930" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wowcckorea/21999154729/"><img class="wp-image-50930 size-full" src="media/c0299aea.21999154729_ac6d9529ed_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/21999154729_ac6d9529ed_z.jpg" alt="CC Korea, Global Summit 2015, CC-BY" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/21999154729_ac6d9529ed_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/21999154729_ac6d9529ed_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/21999154729_ac6d9529ed_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/21999154729_ac6d9529ed_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/21999154729_ac6d9529ed_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">CC Korea, Global Summit 2015, CC-BY 2.0</figcaption></figure>
<p>The Toronto summit will be a launchpad for the next phase of work for Creative Commons and its global communities. Earlier this year, we unveiled a new <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/01/20/lets-light-up-the-global-commons/">Strategic Plan</a>, which focuses on collaboration, vibrancy, gratitude, and usability as our key principles. This is our first summit since this announcement, where we expect to draw together nearly 500 participants from a variety of disciplines including policy and law, arts and culture, open education, GLAM, free culture, open science, open access, and technology. This event is for the global open community, broadly construed, and its focus all aspects of “open” work in education, free culture, open data and research, open knowledge, and more.</p>
<figure id="attachment_50931" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dtkindler/6155393730"><img class="size-full wp-image-50931" src="media/b5b2f75f.6155393730_af75c82c12_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/6155393730_af75c82c12_z.jpg" alt="David Kindler, CC Summit 2011, CC-BY" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/6155393730_af75c82c12_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/6155393730_af75c82c12_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/6155393730_af75c82c12_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/6155393730_af75c82c12_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/6155393730_af75c82c12_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">David Kindler, CC Summit 2011, CC-BY 2.0</figcaption></figure>
<p>Communities around the world are at the heart of our work. Without activists, advocates, professionals, and supporters around the world, Creative Commons would not be the globally recognized standard it is today. Our summits have historically kickstarted actions to help creators make connections and celebrate the commons, and the 2017 summit is poised to be our most successful yet.</p>
<p>We wholeheartedly invite you to join us in Toronto next April. For information about how to participate, please sign up for our special summit email list below. Thank you for your support.</p>
<figure id="attachment_50932" style="width: 533px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wowcckorea/22347342115/"><img class=" wp-image-50932" src="media/a2167714.22347342115_7d4b4ddca9_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/22347342115_7d4b4ddca9_z.jpg" alt="CC Korea, CC Global Summit 2015, CC-BY 2.0" width="533" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/22347342115_7d4b4ddca9_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/22347342115_7d4b4ddca9_z-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/22347342115_7d4b4ddca9_z-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/22347342115_7d4b4ddca9_z-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/22347342115_7d4b4ddca9_z-270x152.jpg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 533px) 85vw, 533px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">CC Korea, CC Global Summit 2015, CC-BY 2.0</figcaption></figure>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51101
title: Our Long Cherished Beijing Gathering
uri: Our-Long-Cherished-Beijing-Gathering
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/07/long-cherished-beijing-gathering/
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Asia Pacific Regional Meeting 2016 was held in Beijing, People’s Republic of China, From July 2 to July 3 which was hosted by CC China Mainland and attended by 19 representatives from 10 CC affiliates in the region with the support of CC. Liu Ping, one of the core members of the host team, shares her experience as the organizer of the event.</span></i></p>
<figure id="attachment_51102" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="media/cba0f280.FileCreative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_2.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_(2).jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-51102" src="media/ea574e69.eative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_2-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_2-1024x576.jpg" alt="Creative Commons Asia Pacific Regional Meeting 2016 Group Photo Photo by Nasir Khan Saiyat CC BY-SA 3.0" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_2-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_2-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_2-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_2-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_2-1200x675.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/cba0f280.FileCreative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_2.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_(2).jpg">Creative Commons Asia Pacific Regional Meeting 2016 Group Photo</a> Photo by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nasirkhan">Nasir Khan Saiyat</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en">CC BY-SA 3.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For all team members of CC China Mainland, to organize an international or regional meeting has been our long cherished wish. Finally in 2016, the year that marks the 10th anniversary of CC China Mainland, with the strong support of CC HQ and our Asia Pacific Coordinator SooHyun, and endeavors from all CC China Mainland volunteers, we made our dream of a Beijing gathering come true.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In early April, we got the encouraging and challenging news that the Beijing meeting would be in early July. After initial internal discussion, our small group of   a lawyer, teacher, web developer, photographer and marketing manager were willing to contribute from various aspects even though they were based in different locations &#8211; Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Wenzhou.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the capital city and a metropolitan, Beijing is well-known for its history, culture and diversity, It’s also a bit noisy considering more than 20 million population! We hoped our first  Beijing gathering would be impressive and exciting and show the other side of the capital to all participants. Based on this goal and limited budget, we chose National Judges College Beijing Branch near Yanqi Lake.. Located in Northeastern part of Beijing, the lake is a quiet, beautiful place far from the city center, where 2014 APEC Meeting was held.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51134" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-51134" src="media/81ae5928.40px-Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_106.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/640px-Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_106.jpg" alt="Creative Commons Asia Pacific Regional Meeting 2016. Photo by Nasir Khan Saiyat CC BY-SA 3.0" width="640" height="361" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/640px-Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_106.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/640px-Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_106-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/640px-Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_106-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/640px-Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_106-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/640px-Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016_106-270x152.jpg 270w" 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="media/726c185c.CategoryCreative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016">Creative Commons Asia Pacific Regional Meeting 2016. </a>Photo by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nasirkhan">Nasir Khan Saiyat</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en">CC BY-SA 3.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Attendees from Bangladesh, Japan, Mongolia, Philippines, Taiwan, India, Hong Kong, Indonesia and South Korea arrived in Beijing 1</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">st</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of July. CC China Mainland were excited to see all our colleagues from different countries and regions.The spirit of volunteerism was strong – a university student volunteered for airport pickup – a well done job!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On July 2, the regional conference started with affiliate updates in the morning. Representatives from each region gave an update over what happened since the last regional meeting. Apparently many interesting and meaningful actions were taken to either reinforce the concept of CC or to promote understanding and adoption of CC licenses.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the afternoon, international and regional issues such as affiliate network strategy discussion, regional website, and how to collaborate in open policy advocacy were covered. All of us agreed that being an important member of global CC family, we could and should do more in advocating CC. Also we spent some time for a license translation &amp; translation sprint, community building, fundraising, and technology related issues.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">3</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">rd</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of July’s meeting was dedicated to Chinese speaking affiliates. In addition to follow up some discussion from the previous day, the group shared ideas to resolve key issues they faced during their translation while discussing how the group could move the  4.0 and CC0 collaborative translation project move forward. In order not to miss the rare chance to enjoy the beauty of suburb Beijing, afternoon’s meeting location was changed from indoor to outdoor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thanks for everybody’s endeavors to make our Beijing gathering happen, especially our Asia Pacific Coordinator SooHyun. With these experiences, we hope we will be able to hold a global summit in near future with existing &amp; potential volunteers of CC China Mainland.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">More details about the event, meeting notes, and photos <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Asia_Pacific_Regional_Meeting_2016">are on the Wiki.</a></span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51149
title: OER at CC: A Back to School Update
uri: OER-at-CC-A-Back-to-School-Update
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/12/back-to-school/
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<figure id="attachment_51151" style="width: 746px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/open-education"><img class="wp-image-51151 size-full" src="media/24a84d35.open.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/open.jpg" alt="Photo by Jisc CC BY-NC-ND" width="746" height="355" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/open.jpg 746w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/open-300x143.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/open-84x40.jpg 84w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/open-50x24.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/open-270x128.jpg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by <a href="https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/open-education">Jisc</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ll notice a focus on our blog and social media this week: With millions of students around the world heading back to school, we thought we’d highlight some of the most exciting OER news from around the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To begin, we&#8217;re recapping the work from CC HQ to promote and facilitate the spread of OER. Working with open education leaders around the world, our community of educators has been busy and excited to be involved with a number of projects this year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some highlights from Cable Green, Director of Open Education at Creative Commons:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In September 2017, we’ll be at the UNESCO 2nd World OER Congress in Ljubljana, Slovenia. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re working with a team from UNESCO, the Commonwealth of Learning, the Hewlett Foundation, and the country of Slovenia on open education for governments regional consultations.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re writing an OER Policy brief for the </span><a href="http://thecommonwealth.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Commonwealth</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">a voluntary association of </span><a href="http://thecommonwealth.org/about-us#sthash.LjsCslfP.dpuf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">53 independent and equal sovereign states, t</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">o help governments </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">better </span><a href="http://thecommonwealth.org/about-us#sthash.LjsCslfP.dpuf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">understand OER, open licensing, and open policy.</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn more about the </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Certificate</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for Government, part of the Creative Commons Certificate program. (Stay tuned for exciting news from that project this week!)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/09/why-were-fighting-to-protect-noncommercial-uses/">Our posts</a> from the CC Legal and the Open Education community on </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/30/defending-noncommercial-uses-great-minds-v-fedex-office/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">defending</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the printing of NC licensed OER.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cable and others are co-writing an Open Licensing Playbook for Government, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">designed for government employees responsible for implementing open licensing policies to ensure publicly funded education resources are openly licensed. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re helping the Open Textbook </span><a href="http://research.cehd.umn.edu/otn/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Library</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> think through how to remix collections of OER (with different CC licenses) into open textbooks.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Where in the world can you find us?</span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://en.unesco.org/iduai2016/about-day"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The International Day for Universal Access to Information (UNESCO),</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> September 28, 2016</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://pcf8.oum.edu.my/page/home/index.php"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pan Commonwealth Forum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Malaysia, November 27-30, 2016</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The State of Digital Education: Engaging with Connected, Blended and Open Learning, Malta </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://futureready.org/seattle/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Future Ready Summits</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, United States, this fall</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are you doing for OER? Let us know! Tweet </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@creativecommons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a href="https://facebook.com/creativecommons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">post on our Facebook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to highlight your work for students and teachers globally. Welcome back, educators!</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51144
title: How can educators find and use OER in their classrooms?
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/13/find-and-use-oer/
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<h2><strong>Let’s start the school year right!</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open education is at the core of our work and with many countries going back to school this week, we wanted to kick off our #backtoschool week some more practical advice about how you can use open educational resources in your classroom. From textbooks to courses to entire degree programs, the OER movement has your back with free, CC licensed materials that will help your students access and keep high quality, effective learning resources. Supporting OER means supporting maximum equity and access within education, allowing all students to learn with the up-to-date content, regardless of their economic background.</span></p>
<p>This post is for teachers and students who want to learn more, get going, and start using OER this year.</p>
<h2><b>Learn about OER</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The best place to start is at the </span><a href="http://www.oerstrategy.org/home/read-the-doc/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OER Strategy document,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a living document that tracks the progress of a global OER strategy. This document will help you think through what actions you might take to create, adopt and share OER this year. This </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/12TmZa8VLt49JLDWDZgjioWxtAP0S3_hc-KgGw0sivvQ/edit#"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OER for K-12 Educators</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> FAQ might also be helpful.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">OER must be </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">both</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> free (no cost) for anyone to access </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to legally modify (according to the</span><a href="http://www.opencontent.org/definition/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">5R activities</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute).</span></p>
<h2><b>Find others’ OER and reuse, revise or remix it</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Replace expensive textbooks with an open textbook your students can access, keep, and you can modify. Check out the </span><a href="https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Textbook Library</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a href="https://open.bccampus.ca/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BC Campus</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for a list of free, CC licensed textbooks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why start from scratch every time you need to create a lecture or assemble a slide deck? By using OER, faculty can easily supplement their lectures and learning materials with content that is already openly licensed and available for sharing. By sharing their own work as OER, faculty can maximize the impact and visibility of their scholarly work across the global learning community.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Openly licensed learning materials are easy to find and access, encouraging more independent and flexible learning opportunities for students. OER courses allow students to explore materials before enrolling, making them better prepared before they arrive in the classroom. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51147" style="width: 520px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-51147" src="media/5100a6fe.4371000818_59ac38f1e4_o.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/4371000818_59ac38f1e4_o.png" alt="Photo by opensource.com CC By-SA 2.0" width="520" height="292" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/4371000818_59ac38f1e4_o.png 520w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/4371000818_59ac38f1e4_o-300x168.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/4371000818_59ac38f1e4_o-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/4371000818_59ac38f1e4_o-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/4371000818_59ac38f1e4_o-270x152.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 520px) 85vw, 520px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by <a href="opensource.com">opensource.com</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC By-SA 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<h2><b>Share your work as OER</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using others’ OER is a great first step, and other educators will be thrilled you used their OER and improve it. But don’t forget &#8211; you create amazing learning resources for your students all the time as well. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you think other teachers, professors, and/or students could benefit from your good work? If yes &#8211; and you are willing to share &#8211; CC licensing your work is a snap. Many educators openly license their content on technology platforms like </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Flickr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">YouTube</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, but you can also use the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/choose/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons license chooser</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to put an open license on your work. See also: </span><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Marking_your_work_with_a_CC_license"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marking your work with a CC license.</span></a></p>
<h2><b>Give gratitude for OER</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When someone gives me a gift, I say “thank you” to express my gratitude. When you use someone’s OER, you are benefitting from the gift that author donated to the commons. Make sure you say “thank you” by giving credit &#8211; or providing proper attribution on </span><a href="http://simsjd.com/copyrightlibn/2010/12/16/good-practices-presentation-slides/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">slides</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and other materials. Check out CC’s <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_attribution">best practices for attribution.</a></span></p>
<h2><b>Conclusion</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We believe OER will replace much of the expensive, proprietary content used in academic courses – it’s only a matter of time. When OER becomes the default for learning resources, we can have a world in which the public has free, legal and unfettered access to effective, high quality education and research resources, and learning opportunities generating more equitable economic opportunities globally for all learners.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51159
title: “It upholds the dignity of mankind”: the power of OER in West Africa
uri: It-upholds-the-dignity-of-mankind-the-power-of-OER-in-West-Afri
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/14/jane-frances-agbu/
content:
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<figure id="attachment_51163" style="width: 297px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="media/a9c59d6d.FileNoun_logo_15188682875.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noun_logo_(15188682875).jpg"><img class="wp-image-51163 size-medium" src="media/a99861b2.Noun_logo_15188682875-297x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875-297x300.jpg" alt="National Open University of Nigeria Logo CC BY-2.0" width="297" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875-297x300.jpg 297w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875-768x776.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875-1014x1024.jpg 1014w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875-153x155.jpg 153w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875-128x128.jpg 128w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Noun_logo_15188682875.jpg 1186w" sizes="(max-width: 297px) 85vw, 297px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/a9c59d6d.FileNoun_logo_15188682875.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noun_logo_(15188682875).jpg">National Open University of Nigeria Logo</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC BY-2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
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<div>Open educator and <a href="https://openpolicynetwork.org/iol/">Institute for Open Leadership Fellow</a> Jane-Frances Agbu works as a senior lecturer in health science and coordinates the award-winning Open Educational Resources program at NOUN, the National Open University of Nigeria.  NOUN provides open and distance education to over 180,000 students in the region.</div>
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<div>Adbu has seen the benefits of open education firsthand as a teacher, an administrator, and an advocate for free education for all students.</div>
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<div><b>What does open education mean to you as an educator? How do OER increase access and equity in your institution? What has OER changed at your institution, if anything?</b></div>
<div>Open education means access, equity in education. It helps to reach the unreached and the marginalized (for example, those in conflict area, women in difficult situations, youth that must work but need to study at the same time). It is flexible and accommodating. It is the right education mode for the information and technology age. OER awareness is just two years in at my institution and we have been able to understand the creation and use of OER through collaborations and sensitization in this area. With OER, educational resources are shared, used, adopted, adapted free of cost. Lecturers now use OER to improve on teaching materials and personal research, students use OERs as additional knowledge for deeper insight in their courses. Institutionally, NOUN seeks to gradually share its body of courseware as OERs to further contribute to this noble ideal.</div>
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<div><b>How do you support OER at NOUN? How have you used your time at the Institute for Open Leadership to encourage better access to educational resources in your region and beyond?</b></div>
<div>I was the coordinator of NOUN-OER projects until July 2016, and I raised awareness in this area. <a href="http://www.oeconsortium.org/projects/open-education-awards-for-excellence/2016-winners-of-oe-awards/2016-oe-award-winners-special-categories/">This culminated in an award for my institution</a> in March 2016.</div>
<div dir="ltr">My contact and time with IOL has broadened my insight on open policy and I have used the knowledge gained to help draft an OER policy for my institution that was recently approved by the University Senate. This policy will help encourage better access to educational resources in my institution and beyond.</div>
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<div><b>How do you promote advocacy of open licensing in Nigeria and West Africa in general? What is your motivation for promoting open education in these regions? Why does OER matter to your region?</b></div>
<div dir="ltr">This is achieved through sensitization in this area and collaboration with other institutions. In December 2015, <a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/national_open_university_of_nigeria_launches_the_1st_west_african_university_oer_portal/#.V9Ft7D4rJPM">NOUN presented its OER initiative to the Federal government of Nigeria,</a> a way of advocating for others to come on board.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Advocacy around open licenses is geared towards opening-up knowledge for common good and this is needed in my region, the West African region, where most are in dire need of better quality of life.</div>
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<div><b>Have you worked directly with any students in Nigeria who have inspired your work? Are there any particularly exciting stories or data points that you&#8217;d like to share?</b></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>We are gradually understanding the beauty of open education, OERs and open license framework and our advocacy in this area has inspired many institutions and individuals around us. Perhaps my exciting story, aside from the award we got in this area, is a recent publication that further sharpened my understanding of the benefits of open education: <a href="http://www.oerafrica.org/system/files/12272/noun.pdf?file=1&amp;type=node&amp;id=12272">The Best of Two Open Worlds at NOUN.</a></span></div>
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<div><b>Open education is more than licensing. How do you inspire working open in your work and teaching?</b></div>
<div>Yes, it is more than licensing.</div>
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<div>It upholds the dignity of mankind. We need to be open-minded to understand and tap into the beauty of open education.</div>
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<div>For me, though trained in a conventional university system, I am glad that I can reach (and provide education) to more students by working in an open education system. I now publish in open access journals because that is how it should be in the first place. Research findings should be seen and utilized immediately and not shelved away in a concrete library. I also try to use open license in some of my personal materials so that students to easily adapt them without seeking permission. I also use open-licensed audio and videos to improve my teaching.</div>
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<div><b>With many students going back to school this week, what kind of advice do you have for students who want to inspire their institution to embrace OER? How can we spark a movement as open educators and students?</b></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>For my part of the world, OER is still in its infancy. OER, just like everything tagged &#8220;open&#8221; is sometimes misunderstood. For example, when NOUN started in 2003 as an open university, it met a lot of resistance, but learners are gradually embracing its unique opportunity that provided flexibility and access in education. So OER may have its initial resistance but once the beauty is understood through continued advocacy, champions will rise.</span></div>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51167
title: European Commission Copyright Proposal Leaves Users In The Dark
uri: European-Commission-Copyright-Proposal-Leaves-Users-In-The-Dark
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/14/european-commission-copyright-proposal-leaves-users-dark/
content:
<p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-51168" src="media/fc6045c9.dark-1024x659.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dark-1024x659.png" alt="dark" width="840" height="541" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dark-1024x659.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dark-300x193.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dark-768x494.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dark-62x40.png 62w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dark-50x32.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dark-241x155.png 241w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dark.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<h3><em>Copyright policy should benefit everyone, not just legacy rightsholders</em></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today the European Commission released its legislative proposal for changes to EU copyright law. The proposal has been introduced as a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="media/b559ec93.1-2016-593-EN-F1-1.PDF" data-original-source="http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2016/EN/1-2016-593-EN-F1-1.PDF">Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market</a>.</span></p>
<p><b>The Directive fails to deliver on the promise for a modern copyright law in Europe. </b></p>
<p>In an ideal world, the Directive would have provided for progressive policy changes to serve the goals of a unified digital marketplace across Europe. It would have jumpstarted economic activity, championed innovative digital technologies and services, and protected consumers and access to information. It would have expanded opportunities for European businesses, cultural heritage institutions, educators, and the research community.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is not the world presented to us by the Commission. Instead, the copyright proposal introduces protectionist measures for incumbent rightsholders while providing only lip service to Internet users, teachers, new businesses, and consumers. The proposal </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/30/leaked-european-commission-copyright-plans-ignore-public-interest/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">contains the same problems</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> we saw in the leaked impact assessment and draft directive, including:</span></p>
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<li>An ancillary copyright (aka “link tax”) for press publishers to extract fees from search engines for incorporating short snippets of—or even linking to—their content. This would undermine the intention of authors who wish to share without additional strings attached, including Creative Commons licenses.</li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">A copyright exception for education covering digital content that Member States can ignore if there’s a content licensing option available for the educational materials.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A limited exception for text and data mining available only to nonprofit research institutions. This will restrict the potential for text and data mining discoveries and innovation because it specifically excludes the private sector.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">A copyright exception for cultural heritage institutions to digitize their collections, but not put them online.</li>
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<li><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">A mechanism that would require Internet platforms to proactively monitor user uploaded content in order to identify and remove copyright infringing content.</span></b></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Commission’s proposal does not represent the interests of the public or the recommendations from tens of thousands of internet users, consumers, teachers, startups, and activists. It’s now up to the Parliament and the Council to reshape this flawed copyright proposal in a way that benefits everyone.</span></p>
<p><small>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@pgreen1983">Paul Green</a> via <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/mln2ExJIkfc">Unsplash</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a><br />
<a href="https://thenounproject.com/term/copyright/113918">Copyright symbol</a> by <a href="https://thenounproject.com/marekpolakovic">Marek Polakovic</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/">CC BY 3.0 US</a><br />
<a href="https://thenounproject.com/term/european-union/613909">European Union stars</a> by <a href="https://thenounproject.com/pronoun">anbileru adaleru</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/">CC BY 3.0 US</a></small></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51204
title: Lights, camera, web standards! Netflix releases algorithmic film “Meridian” under Creative Commons
uri: Lights-camera-web-standards-Netflix-releases-algorithmic-film-Me
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/16/netflix-releases-meridian-creative-commons/
content:
<figure id="attachment_51213" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-51213" src="media/194981e3.Netflix_thumbs-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Netflix_thumbs-1024x683.jpg" alt="Photo by Bryan Gosline CC BY-SA 2.0 " width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Netflix_thumbs.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Netflix_thumbs-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Netflix_thumbs-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Netflix_thumbs-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Netflix_thumbs-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Netflix_thumbs-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brymo/1369562203/">Bryan Gosline</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC BY-SA 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">While it will probably not be the next Netflix hit original, the twelve minutes of Creative Commons licensed content that make up </span><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80141336"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Meridian”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will have a major impact on the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) by sharing resources to make the open source standard <a href="http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/09/imf-open-standard-with-open-tools.html">Interoperable Master Format (IMF)</a> more usable across the web. The content is experimental and strange, but when developers get their hands on it, these twelve minutes may change the future of content distribution forever.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As <a href="http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/netflix-meridian-imf-tools-open-source-1201859416/">Variety</a> writes, “Netflix is using a Creative Commons license for the release of “Meridian,” which is new for an industry that isn’t used to sharing a lot of resources. ‘They are in the business of exploiting content, not of giving it away,’ [Chris Fetner of Netflix] said.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What this means is that in this global movie business, the SMPTE will find it easier to release subtitles and locally specific content for a global audience, releasing content faster and more accurately than ever before. Developers can access the</span><a href="https://media.xiph.org/video/derf/meridian/MERIDIAN_SHR_C_EN-XX_US-NR_51_LTRT_UHD_20160909_OV/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Meridian codex</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or work with Netflix’s hundreds of </span><a href="http://netflix.github.io/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open source projects</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to create a better IMF standard with the company.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This usage of the license is exactly the kind of usage we hope for: a more agile workflow through open licensing and a spirit of cooperation that creates better technical standards. By using the CC license for this project, Netflix is saying lights, camera, action to the dream of a more innovative world.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51198
title: A long-awaited new look for our website
uri: A-long-awaited-new-look-for-our-website
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/16/long-awaited-new-look-website/
content:
<p><a href="http://creativecommons.org"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51202" src="media/f8d863a7.the_growing_commons-1024x389.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the_growing_commons-1024x389.png" alt="the_growing_commons" width="840" height="319" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the_growing_commons-1024x389.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the_growing_commons-300x114.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the_growing_commons-768x292.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the_growing_commons-105x40.png 105w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the_growing_commons-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the_growing_commons-270x103.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the_growing_commons-1200x456.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the projects I knew I wanted to take on when I joined Creative Commons as CEO was a major website redesign. The CC site has always been a valuable source of information about our mission, our community, and the legal tools we offer. While there’s a lot of new things happening at CC, our website didn’t reflect that with an old design. Also, with 1.1 billion works in the commons, it’s sad not to show any of that vibrancy in our site. My goal was for Creative Commons to have a website that more clearly communicated what we do, reflected the commons back to our community, and also looked modern, clean, and beautiful.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m extremely happy to say that Creative Commons now has that website. Over the summer we soft-launched a brand new version of </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CreativeCommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Today, after several weeks of fixing bugs and tidying up content, we’re celebrating with a public announcement about the redesign to our partners, friends, and followers online.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Besides a much-needed aesthetic overhaul, you’ll notice that the new site more clearly outlines </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">our work across all fields</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, from arts and culture to education to science. Some other highlights include a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/blog/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">newly designed blog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and a dynamic section at the bottom of our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">homepage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that will keep you apprised of the wide array of incredible creative projects in the growing commons.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We worked closely with the Vancouver-based web firm </span><a href="http://affinitybridge.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Affinity Bridge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the new site, and I cannot say enough what a joy it was to collaborate with such a talented and insightful group. I’m also grateful to Matt Lee and Rob Myers for their efforts to bring the new site online, and preserve over a decade’s worth of content. A huge thank you to our community and members of the Creative Commons board and advisory board for all their feedback on the new design.</span></p>
<p>We’re not finished, of course. A website is a living, breathing thing, and we’ll continue improving and building ours out over time. The next phase of our work will include improvements to our fundraising infrastructure, and also the development of a WordPress template that our affiliates can customize for their own pages. It will build on the look and feel of the main site, but will make it easy for affiliates to set up their own pages without building new sites.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I hope you’ll find a few minutes to explore the new site, if you haven’t already. As you come across any bugs or issues that you think we should take a look at, please feel free to report them to us on </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.org/issues"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GitHub</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51189
title: Building an Institutional Open Access Policy In Nepal
uri: Building-an-Institutional-Open-Access-Policy-In-Nepal
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/19/building-institutional-open-access-policy-nepal/
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<p><i><span>In March we hosted the second Institute for Open Leadership. In our </span></i><a href="https://blog.creativecommons.org/2016/03/28/reporting-back-institute-open-leadership-2/"><i><span>summary of the event</span></i></a><i><span> we mentioned that the Institute fellows would be taking turns to write about their open policy projects. This week&#8217;s post is from Roshan Kumar Karn, a medical doctor at <a href="http://www.teachinghospital.org.np/">Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital</a> in Kathmandu, Nepal.</span></i></p>
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<p>I am Dr. Roshan Kumar Karn, a medical graduate from Institute of Medicine, Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital. I established an organization called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OANepal/">Open Access Nepal</a> as an affiliate chapter of <a href="http://sparcopen.org/">SPARC</a> and the <a href="http://www.righttoresearch.org/">Right to Research Coalition</a>. We are dedicated to promoting the policies and principles of Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data.</p>
<p>In March 2016, the second Institute for Open Leadership (IOL2) was a fantastic gathering organized by Creative Commons. I had the immense opportunity to attend this event, and the discussions that I had with the mentors and global participants still echoes in my thoughts.</p>
<p>After we launched Open Access Nepal in 2014, we&#8217;ve been advancing open access and open educational resources in Nepal through different events. IOL2 was the best podium for me to gain a better understanding about open licenses as well as use and re-use of open resources. This knowledge and experience has helped me to work on an open licensing policy within my institute, and at the ministry level.</p>
<p>After IOL2, Open Access Nepal took three approaches to advance open access to scholarly communication. One was to pursue the establishment of a Creative Commons affiliate in Nepal in order to raise awareness about the use and reuse of openly licensed resources.</p>
<h3>Institute of Medicine Open Access Contract with Faculty and Grantees</h3>
<figure id="attachment_51210" style="width: 176px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://jiom.com.np/index.php/jiomjournal"><img class="wp-image-51210" src="media/f77f8241.jiom-cover.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/jiom-cover.png" alt="jiom-cOpen Access Journal of Institute of Medicineover" width="176" height="260" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Open Access Journal of Institute of Medicine</figcaption></figure>
<p>The second approach was to develop an institutional policy that promotes research publications in open journals, thus advancing science, technology and innovation. As a medical doctor it was imperative for me to create a policy within my institute, which produces much of the medical research in Nepal. Most of the faculty and professors in my institute want to opt out of an open access approach, preferring a conventional model of publishing which restricts access to research and scientific publication. The consequence of this is that the next generation of students and early career researchers can&#8217;t get access to this research. Therefore, I worked with the administration to “give teeth” to open publishing practices by suggesting that promotion or contract renewal clauses contain a preference for open access publishing. We also made few changes in the wording of contracts signed between faculty, grantees, and the Institute of Medicine. After IOL2, we felt that the language of the contract needed to be stronger to ensure that it was mandatory for the faculty and grantees to publish their research in Open Access journals and deposit their research in the Central Open Access Repository of Nepal.</p>
<p><b>(The table below written in Nepali is the copy of promotion/contract renewal clause devised by my institute.)</b></p>
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<td valign="top" width="733"><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">५।२ </span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">बधुव</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">तथा</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">सम्झौता</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">सम्बन्धमा</span></span></span></td>
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<li><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">५।२।१ एस सन्स्थान बाट बधुव तथा सम्झौता नविकरन को लागि थाइ फकुल्त्य् सदस्य ले कम्ती मा ३</span></span></span><span face="Mangal, serif" style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">(</span><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">तीन</span></span></span><span face="Mangal, serif" style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">) </span><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">वटा र आस्थाइ फकुल्ती ले कम्ती मा २ </span></span></span><span face="Mangal, serif" style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">(</span><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">दुइ</span></span></span><span face="Mangal, serif" style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">) </span><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">वटा शाहीतिक प्रकाशन ओपेन अक्केस्स जोउर्नल</span></span></span><span face="Mangal, serif" style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">(Open Access Journal) </span><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">मा गर्नु पर्ने हुनेछ</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">५।२।२ सम्पूर्ण फकुल्ती ले जुन सुकै जोउर्नल मा आफ्नो रिसेअर्च् प्रकाशैत गर्न पाए पनि एस संस्थाबाट पौने अंक ति प्रकाशन हरु ओपेन अक्केस्स जोउर्नल </span></span></span><span face="Mangal, serif" style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">(Open Access Journal) </span><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">मा प्रकाशित भये मात्र पौने छन</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;"> र ति प्रकाशन को एक प्रती जोउर्नल अफ ईन्स्टिच्युट अफ मेदिसिन </span></span></span><span face="Mangal, serif" style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">(Journal of Institute of Medicine) </span><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">मा रखिने छ</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">५।२।३ सम्पूर्ण</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">प्रकाशनहरुमा</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">नयाँ</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">क्रेअतिवे</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">कोम्मोन्स</span></span></span><span face="Mangal, serif" style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">(Creative Commons)</span> <span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">को</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">लिएसेन्से</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">प्रयुग</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">हुने६</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">र</span> <span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">ती सँग सम्भन्धित अत्त्रिबुतिओन्स </span></span></span><span face="Mangal, serif" style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">(attributions) </span><span><span lang="ar-SA"><span face="Mangal" style="font-family: Mangal;">को प्रयुग हुनेछ</span></span></span></li>
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<p><b>Changes made in the clauses regarding promotion and contract renewal (Translated from Nepali into English)</b></p>
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<li>At least 3 research publications will be mandatory for the promotion of permanent faculty and 2 research publications will be required for contract renewal of temporary personnel for the first renewal and promotion.</li>
<li>Faculty members have the liberty to publish their research articles in any journal worldwide but a faculty will be eligible for the marks needed for promotion and contract renewal only if their research publication is openly available and a copy of that article is deposited in the Journal of Institute of Medicine (JIOM).</li>
<li>The materials covered by this clause must have an applicable Creative Commons License including proper attributions. The reuse of already present content will make use of the most current version of CC BY license.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Open Access Policy at the Ministry of Education</h3>
<p>The third approach will likely be the most impactful measure to advance openness in science and education: We are currently drafting an open access policy that will be presented to the Ministry of Education in Nepal. We have had a series of informal talks about the things that could be included (listed below) in the national policy to advance open access to scientific publications. These include:</p>
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<li>Open Access policies and principles</li>
<li>Formulation of open access policy guidelines/toolkit</li>
<li>Components of Open Access</li>
<li>Defining the availability of scientific publications in open journals</li>
<li>Use of open licenses along with proper attributions</li>
<li>Definite contract between grant recipient from the Govt. of Nepal and the appropriate dissemination of their research</li>
<li>Intellectual property rights</li>
<li>Open Access training to students, early career researchers, journal representatives and faculties</li>
<li>Use/Re-Use of existing open resources</li>
<li>Making resources openly available</li>
<li>Quality standards/assessment of grantees’ research</li>
<li>Measures of making open access sustainable</li>
<li>Awareness about Open Access, OER (local events, in campus programs, national level events)</li>
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<p>We are drafting a national policy to address all the above issues, in addition to other that will make &#8220;open&#8221; the default option in Nepal.</p>
<p>I am very grateful to Creative Commons, fellows, mentors, and the Open Policy Network for providing me this great opportunity to attend the IOL2. I look forward to any feedback and suggestions you have about my open policy project.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51217
title: Call for photographers! (US based)
uri: Call-for-photographers-(US-based)
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/19/call-for-photographers/
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<figure id="attachment_51218" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-51218" src="media/edcd523a.5454576686_b737c4fa31.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/5454576686_b737c4fa31.jpg" alt="On Thursday, February 17, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited the Judy Hoyer Early Learning Center at Cool Springs Elementary School in Adelphi, Maryland. HHS photo by Chris Smith, US Government work" width="500" height="332" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/5454576686_b737c4fa31.jpg 500w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/5454576686_b737c4fa31-300x199.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/5454576686_b737c4fa31-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/5454576686_b737c4fa31-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/5454576686_b737c4fa31-233x155.jpg 233w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/838a59bf.Center_at_Cool_Springs_Elementary_School_in_Adelphi_Maryland.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_Thursday,_February_17,_HHS_Secretary_Kathleen_Sebelius_visited_the_Judy_Hoyer_Early_Learning_Center_at_Cool_Springs_Elementary_School_in_Adelphi,_Maryland.jpg">On Thursday, February 17, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited the Judy Hoyer Early Learning Center at Cool Springs Elementary School in Adelphi, Maryland. </a> HHS photo by Chris Smith, US Government work</figcaption></figure>
<p>Are you a seasoned, professional US-based photographer with experience photographing in school settings? Do you use CC or CC0 licensing?</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">Tweet us your portfolio</a> or send it along to <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org">info@creativecommons.org.</a> We&#8217;re looking to build a list of photographers for our community to contact for projects, beginning with this specific ask.</p>
<p>Please stay tuned for more announcements!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51227
title: Musician Marisa Anderson looks for the new in the old
uri: Musician-Marisa-Anderson-looks-for-the-new-in-the-old
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/21/marisa-anderson/
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<figure id="attachment_51228" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-51228" src="media/4c66cf99.marisa_anderson-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/marisa_anderson-1024x576.jpg" alt="Marisa Anderson performs &quot;Chimes&quot; at the Into the Light album release show in Portland, OR. Photo by Jody Darby CC BY NC" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/marisa_anderson-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/marisa_anderson-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/marisa_anderson-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/marisa_anderson-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/marisa_anderson-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/marisa_anderson-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/marisa_anderson-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/marisa_anderson.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://vimeo.com/176885479">Marisa Anderson performs &#8220;Chimes&#8221; at the Into the Light album release show in Portland, OR.</a> Photo by Jody Darby CC BY NC</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I have been a fan of Marisa Anderson’s music since discovering her albums at the legendary Chapel Hill radio station WXYC, where my show usually ran from from 4-8AM.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At 4 in the morning in a windowless studio, the title of Anderson’s 2011 release “The Golden Hour” seemed apropos. I would listen to her virtuosic, dreamy fingerpicking through my headphones, fuzzy around the edges but always precise; Anderson’s playing is euphoric and timeless, grounded in the best of traditions while reaching its branches toward future plateaus. Feeling her music tangibly in the studio during those rapturous early morning hours, I felt the kind of intimacy with Anderson that only the best folk musicians can inspire, evoking the “high lonesome sound” that touches the listener at her core.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While Anderson is a successful independent artist who works with a variety of record labels including Mississippi and Chaos Kitchen, she has also worked with radio stations aligned with Creative Commons, such as WFMU and KBOO community radio in Portland. Anderson uses her work with these stations to augment her catalog, releasing “community-owned songs” for free on the internet, including the 2013 </span><a href="http://cotten-anderson7inch.bandcamp.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elizabeth Cotten split 7”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, released under a BY NC-ND license.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anderson’s music can be found on the </span><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Marisa_Anderson/Live_at_WFMU_on_Shrunken_Planet_April_28th_2012"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Free Music Archive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, on </span><a href="http://www.kboo.org/blog/2830"><span style="font-weight: 400;">KBOO</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and at a record store near you. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://marisaandersonmusic.com/">Anderson is currently on tour</a> through Europe</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the United States and generously answered these questions by email.</span></p>
<p><b>You are a student of American music as well as a musician yourself. How has your scholarship shaped the way you play and think about music and your craft?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In many cases when we say “American music” we are actually talking about music that arose in the southeastern United States as a result of the cultural collisions of the past 500 years. The melodies are hybrids, the songs were passed orally, and the words adapted to reflect the singer’s situation or to comment on current events of the time. This is particularly true for many religious and patriotic songs where the words were basically propaganda attached to a melody that belonged to another song.  For example, compare “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” to “John Brown’s Body,” or “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” to “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye.”</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think of myself as existing along a continuum, as being caught up in a conversation that moves backward and forward through time. Tradition is what we glean from the past and what we pass onto the future. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recording technology froze the folk process and tricked us into thinking that songs have fixed identities. I like to think that I’m picking up a conversational thread from another time, shining my own light on it, and passing it on into the future.</span></p>
<p><b>In 2013 you released an album of traditional and public domain songs. While most of these tunes are well-trodden territory for folk musicians, your renditions push on the boundaries of interpretation, creating a rich soundscape while still maintaining the songs&#8217; integrity. Why did you decide to release this album? What compelled you to interpret these songs in this way? Why public domain and traditional songs in particular?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2013 I was the artist-in-residence at KBOO community radio in Portland, Oregon. As KBOO is a community-owned radio station, for my residency project I decided to make a record of community-owned songs, or in other words, public domain songs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I chose to address songs that were already well known standards because I wanted listeners to approach the recordings with some degree of familiarity, to invite the audience into the project rather than use it as a platform to display some obscure knowledge. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I believe that common things in the world around us hold deep surprises, and that looking for the new often involves looking at the old.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using public domain material freed up the creative side of recording because my responsibility was to arrange and interpret music rather than compose it. I was able to dive deeply into the sonics of the record. This became really important because I was making instrumental versions of songs that contain lyrics and stories that are very familiar to many people. The melodies and chord changes for the songs I chose are simple and repetitious. The major challenge of the record lay in how to make compelling renditions of these simple forms without losing the essential identity of each song.  In other words, how was I to convey the emotional impact of the lyrics without singing, and without significant modification of the melody? I was looking for ways to serve the songs and enrich the melodies when I started working with more diffuse and textural sounds to fill out the emotional palette.</span></p>
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<p><em>&#8220;Battle Hymn of the Republic medley&#8221; from Live at WFMU on Shrunken Planet April 28th, 2012 by Marisa Anderson. Released: 2012. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0</em></p>
<p><b>You often work with independent radio stations like KBOO and WFMU to produce new music under Creative Commons licenses as well as release your work with traditional licensing arrangements under several labels including Mississippi and Chaos Kitchen. Can you talk about what sharing your work looks like in this context? How do you find inspiration in these two different modes of production?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Making and distributing a record is a physical process, with associated costs. Many people are willing to pay for the artifact, or even for a download. Today, when most music is accessible for free, I see these purchases as a modern form of the patronage system and I deeply appreciate people who choose to support my work in that way.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My records are largely improvised and often the version of a song that gets put onto the record is simply one of many versions. The songs change every time I play them and it’s nice to have an avenue for people to hear the evolution of a song that started as an improvisation, became fixed onto a record, and is released into the world through performance.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I appreciate that each arrangement has its value. I don’t feel ownership of a performance in the same way as I do for the actual composition or the physical artifact.  A performance, by its very nature, is a shared event which feels natural to me to release more freely into the world. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><b>What is it like to be a successful independent artist in 2016? Where do you find inspiration for your work? How do you find distribution in the age of the streaming service?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I feel like the luckiest person in the world that I can pay my bills by playing guitar and sharing what I create. It’s a tremendous privilege and one that involves quite a bit of strategy to stay afloat. I’ve found that the key for my survival as an independent artist is threefold: I keep my overhead low both personally and professionally and I do as much as I can for myself, which means at different times I’ve had to be my own booking agent, recording engineer, tour manager, etc. I also make sure that my income comes from multiple sources such as record sales, commissioned work, and performance fees.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I find inspiration in so many places! Sometimes inspiration comes in very concrete forms, from current or historical events or the juxtaposition of a modern viewpoint with a song from a different era.  At other times it’s very abstract: I often respond to natural processes, dreams or memories. I tend to work through aspects of my personal history through composition. I also can get really inspired by the quality of a sound, or by searching for a sound that just feels right.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Probably I don’t think enough about distribution. I have a few different methods that work well enough to get the music into the world and I just trust that the music will find its way to the ears of those who need it. I know how much I need to make in order to survive, and once that amount is secured, I’m a bit lazy. I’d rather be making music than chasing every last dime!</span></p>
<p><b>Would you consider releasing more of your work under Creative Commons? What benefits and drawbacks do you see with sharing legally on the Web?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m sure that more of my work will be released under Creative Commons or other free licensing structures. I like that more people can share in the music, and that anyone who want to trace my process or the evolution of one of my songs have an avenue to do so. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A friendly reminder: Our partners at the </span><a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Free Music Archive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are raising funds to stay afloat. If you are one of the 40 million people who benefitted from their work this year alone, please consider </span><a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/donate"><span style="font-weight: 400;">donating.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You’ll ensure that this important project lives on (and get a cool shirt!)</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51222
title: Giving away your art for FREE again??
uri: Giving-away-your-art-for-FREE-again
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/20/giving-your-art-for-free/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51223" src="media/977f4a63.creative_commons-724x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/creative_commons-724x1024.jpg" alt="creative_commons" width="724" height="1024" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/creative_commons-724x1024.jpg 724w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/creative_commons-212x300.jpg 212w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/creative_commons-768x1086.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/creative_commons-28x40.jpg 28w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/creative_commons-35x50.jpg 35w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/creative_commons-110x155.jpg 110w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/creative_commons-1200x1697.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p>The artist <a href="https://hochstenbach.wordpress.com/">Patrick Hochstenbach</a> is a comic artist, programmer, and digital architect at University of Ghent libraries. Check out more of his work on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/patrick.hochstenbach/?hl=en">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hochstenbach">Twitter</a>.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51244
title: Copyright reform in Colombia should focus on supporting users’ rights
uri: Copyright-reform-in-Colombia-should-focus-on-supporting-users-right
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/22/copyright-reform-colombia-focus-supporting-users-rights/
content:
<p><img class="wp-image-51249 alignleft" src="media/50782f6b.copyrightwrench-1017x1024.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/copyrightwrench-1017x1024.png" alt="copyrightwrench" width="190" height="179" /><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today Creative Commons, CC Colombia, and over a dozen other CC affiliates and partners sent a <a href="media/5d78271c.etter_of_support_for_balanced_Colombian_copyright_law_reform.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/4/41/Letter_of_support_for_balanced_Colombian_copyright_law_reform.pdf">letter</a> to the Colombian government calling for user-friendly copyright reform. Colombia’s copyright law is being re-opened to come into compliance with the </span><a href="https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/colombia-tpa"><span style="font-weight: 400;">US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p>We believe that this is a timely opportunity to introduce positive changes to copyright that will support users and the public, such as adopting a flexible use exception like fair use. Our community looks forward to providing ideas and feedback during the reform process.</p>
<p><a href="media/5d78271c.etter_of_support_for_balanced_Colombian_copyright_law_reform.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/4/41/Letter_of_support_for_balanced_Colombian_copyright_law_reform.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Letter of support for balanced Colombian copyright law reform [English]</span></a><br />
<a href="media/f340c07a.oyar_una_reforma_equilibrada_al_derecho_de_autor_en_Colombia.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/b/b9/Carta_para_apoyar_una_reforma_equilibrada_al_derecho_de_autor_en_Colombia.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carta para apoyar una reforma equilibrada al derecho de autor en Colombia [Spanish] </span></a></p>
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The signatories below are writing to you regarding the proposed updates to copyright law in Colombia that will be introduced in order to implement the U.S.-Colombia Trade Agreement. We are concerned that these changes will only further tip the balance of copyright toward the interests of rights holders, while ignoring necessary protections for the public domain, as well as for users, consumers, and the general public.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We understand that the proposed changes would include increasing copyright terms  for some types of rights holders, and adopting an instrument to mirror the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. We urge the Congress to take this opportunity to provide for crucial balances to copyright that protect the rights of users. In the fast-changing digital and online environment, the Congress should consider introducing a flexible exception to copyright that echoes the regulation of countries that have adopted “fair use” or “fair dealing” exceptions.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">It has been our experience that to ensure the maximum benefits to both culture and the </span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">economy in this digital age, the scope and shape of copyright law need to be reviewed. Now is the time for the Congress to ensure that appropriate and necessary exceptions and limitations are updated in order to protect and support users, access to information, and creativity.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Colombia</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fundación Karisma</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">COMMUNIA International Association on the Public Domain</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Centrum Cyfrowe</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Peru</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Uruguay</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kennisland</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Netherlands</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Ireland</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Ukraine</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Indonesia</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Portugal</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons UK</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Australian Digital Alliance</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Chile</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Australia</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Nigeria</span></i></p>
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<p><small><a href="https://thenounproject.com/term/screwdriver-and-wrench/426544">Screwdriver And Wrench</a><span> by </span><a href="https://thenounproject.com/milindacourey10">To Uyen</a><span>, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/">CC BY 3.0 US</a><br />
<a href="https://thenounproject.com/term/copyright/60824">Copyright</a><span> by </span><a href="https://thenounproject.com/marekpolakovic">Marek Polakovic</a><span>, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/">CC BY 3.0 US</a></small></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51257
title: Announcing the CC Europe meeting!
uri: Announcing-the-CC-Europe-meeting
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/27/announcing-cc-europe-meeting/
content:
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51258" src="media/33cb6f51.14368844_1243538385688904_999680465894997889_n.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14368844_1243538385688904_999680465894997889_n.png" alt="cc-meeting" width="828" height="315" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14368844_1243538385688904_999680465894997889_n.png 828w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14368844_1243538385688904_999680465894997889_n-300x114.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14368844_1243538385688904_999680465894997889_n-768x292.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14368844_1243538385688904_999680465894997889_n-105x40.png 105w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14368844_1243538385688904_999680465894997889_n-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14368844_1243538385688904_999680465894997889_n-270x103.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p>Next weekend, 30 participants from 15 different countries will meet for a regional meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. In this packed weekend, we will work on a variety of subjects such as Copyright Reform during a School of Rocking Copyright session, OER and Open Science, CC Business models, Tech and Infrastructure, and we&#8217;ll also kick off the GLAM certificates project. Many thanks to the fabulous CC Portugal team for hosting us!</p>
<p>Stay tuned for a recap in the next few weeks.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51265
title: Embedding openness in everything we do: Freedom of the Press Foundation
uri: Embedding-openness-in-everything-we-do-Freedom-of-the-Press-Foundatio
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/29/freedom-of-the-press/
content:
<p><a href="http://freedom.press"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51272" src="media/e95e7201.fotp.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fotp.png" alt="fotp" width="800" height="383" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fotp.png 800w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fotp-300x144.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fotp-768x368.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fotp-84x40.png 84w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fotp-50x24.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fotp-270x129.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As connectivity continues to increase globally, more people than ever live in a ubiquitous and nonstop media environment. In light of these changes, the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s work has never been more important. Founded four years ago after the exposure of government collusion to create a financial blockade against </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikileaks,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the Freedom of the Press Foundation develops tools and processes to advocate for journalists to fight against censorship to call for more transparency and accountability in both government and media.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From technical tools that allow news organizations to support the privacy and security of their sources to their public work for a more engaged and political press, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has received international acclaim for their important work in both disrupting and supporting both traditional and alternative journalism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trevor Timm is the co-founder and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Learn more about how you can support their work at </span><a href="https://freedom.press/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">their website.</span></a></p>
<p><b>How does the Freedom of the Press Foundation work to create a more equitable world? How can openness drive significant change both in the press and the work of your organization?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our overarching mission is to protect and defend journalism that&#8217;s dedicated to transparency and accountability. A lot of that work revolves around government transparency and wanting to help journalists and whistleblowers connect in a more secure environment so that information that the public should know but the government&#8217;s keeping secret can eventually become public and we can force a more open and transparent government.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This happens in a variety of ways. We advocate for reforms to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freedom of Information Act.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We build tools like visual security tools to help journalists and sources communicate securely. We train journalists how to use encryption tools in the newsroom and we have a variety of lawsuits going on right now dealing with government transparency.</span></p>
<p><b>When you say &#8220;government transparency&#8221; do you mean specifically in the realm of journalism or do you work for transparency in other realms as well?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We certainly focus on [other forms of transparency]. For example, our two lawsuits right now involve transparency as relates to journalists specifically, but what we want to do is facilitate journalists to make government more transparent across different fields. While our specialty area definitely involves journalists themselves, the idea is that journalists are often the conduit for accountability inside government whether we&#8217;re talking about the environment or civil rights or healthcare. We want to make sure that journalists can do their job without interference to the best of their abilities.</span></p>
<p><b>You work a lot with encryption and privacy tools. How can organizations that are concerned with transparency be transparent and also work smart in terms of privacy and encryption?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are a few cases where privacy rights and free speech rights collide and these are difficult questions that I think a lot of people have strong opinions on. When we&#8217;re talking about the government, I think that they are held to a higher standard of openness than private citizens. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are generally in favor of strong privacy rights for private individuals, especially vis a vis the government, but when we&#8217;re talking about government officials it&#8217;s different. The apt term is the difference between secrecy and privacy. Government officials essentially work for the public and so they should be transparent as possible about what they&#8217;re doing behind closed doors. Unfortunately, a lot of officials in the United States government have an opposite view—that it&#8217;s okay to violate the privacy of private citizens but it&#8217;s okay for the government to keep information secret.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The biggest display of this is in the past few years has of course been the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Revelations"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Snowden revelations.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Edward Snowden worked with reporters to expose a government mass surveillance system that essentially nobody outside of government knew about. This meant that the government was essentially vacuuming up all sorts of information from private citizens yet keeping this information completely secret. We think that principal should be flipped on its head. That its the private citizens that deserve privacy and it’s the government that should be much more transparent about what they&#8217;re doing.</span></p>
<p><b>At Creative Commons, one of our tenets is to work open and to work transparent. How can open organizations support your work in privacy and encryption for journalists and for publishing and for creation?</b></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The principles of openness are embedded in everything we do. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, our high profile work on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecureDrop"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SecureDrop</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which is essentially a document submission system for news organizations that allows sources to securely send them documents and information. All of our tools are completely open source and free software. We think when you&#8217;re talking about security tools it&#8217;s incredibly important for the code to be completely open so that other outside experts can make sure that the tools are actually living up to their promises. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For us, Creative Commons licenses are incredibly important for the advocacy we do as well. All of our blog posts are licensed with Creative Commons licenses by default and it allows us to be able to get our message out a lot more broadly because different websites are allowed to essentially repost everything that we post on our website. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC allows our message to spread farther and we&#8217;re not losing anything by doing so. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When it comes to copyright and censorship, oftentimes we see ourselves as an advocate for news organizations to be more open licensed as well. Copyright claims can often lead to censorship in a lot of cases when information is clearly newsworthy and should be shared as widely as possible. While Creative Commons and Freedom of the Press Foundation are working on two different tracks, we certainly see those tracks as parallel.</span></p>
<p><b>How do you feel like other journalists and media outlets could use CC in their work?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think especially for non-profit news organizations, which there are more and more of these days, it&#8217;s more important for them to have their stories be read as widely as possible than it is for them to get clicks on a particular website. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By licensing stories with CC licenses, this is an incredible way to have your stories published on many more platforms and also retain the recognition and respect you get for producing journalism in this way.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I&#8217;m not sure how much news organizations think about this. Unfortunately, a lot of news organizations and their lawyers are often maximalist when they think about copyright solely because that’s the only way that they&#8217;ve ever done things. I hope that with more news organization’s disrupting the space that people will see that being copyright maximalists can actually be a detriment and not necessarily a help to getting the word out about the work.</span></p>
<p><b>Switching gears a bit, one aspect of the Freedom of the Press Foundation that&#8217;s particularly interesting is how you utilize crowd&#8217;s funding in your work to support other organizations. Do you feel like this model is extensible to other non-profits and do you feel like other non-profits can support each other in this way? How do you balance your own funding needs in conjunction with supporting other organizations?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That&#8217;s a really good question. I don&#8217;t think that crowdfunding is necessarily a long-term answer for sustaining news organizations that may employ dozens of people. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think it is a great way to (excuse the expression,) kick start an organization that may not have a lot of notoriety. It can give new organizations seed funding to get themselves on their feet and be the spark for growth in the future. But it is, quite honestly, very expensive to run a news organization, and crowdfunding can certainly be a supplement to a lot of what they do. But ultimately to be sustainable, other sources of funding are certainly needed, unless you&#8217;re talking about an organization that only has a handful of people working for it. I&#8217;m certainly a big believer in crowdfunding, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s the be all end all for solving monetary woes inside news organizations.</span></p>
<p><b>How do you work both within and outside traditional journalism by crafting tools that are used by mainstream media while still supporting an active and engaged alternative media?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think it&#8217;s an important balance to strike. We are huge fans of independent media and non-profit media. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There needs to be more voices that can be heard by millions and millions of people and the only way for that to happen is to get their name out there and have ordinary people show their support. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But on the other hand, as many problems as I have with legacy news organizations, a lot of them still do important work. I can list ten criticisms of The New York Times or The Washington Post, yet there are dozens and dozens of journalists who work at both those papers who are among the best journalists in the world and that the public would be much poorer off if they didn&#8217;t exist. When we&#8217;re talking about defending reporters’ rights, we want to make sure that we&#8217;re defending the rights of journalists at The New York Times and The Washington Post, but we will also want to make sure that we are defending the rights of independent media, individual bloggers, citizen journalists, and any organization that crops up that some people may be uncomfortable with, but that their rights are still protected as much as the most mainstream outlet out there.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51291
title: Securing the right to read for the visually impaired
uri: Securing-the-right-to-read-for-the-visually-impaired
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/30/securing-right-read-visually-impaired/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51292" src="media/bb888014.Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project.jpg" alt="braille-soon-coming-to-visual-libraries-project" width="1024" height="1024" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project-768x768.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Braille-soon-coming-to-Visual-Libraries-Project-128x128.jpg 128w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><small><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/create_up/3485756495/">Braille soon coming to Visual Libraries Project</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/create_up/">Claire Sambrook</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC BY-NC 2.0</a>.</small></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh_VIP_Treaty"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marrakesh Treaty</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—the international agreement to improve access to copyrighted works for the blind and visually impaired—goes into effect. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The treaty has been discussed at the World Intellectual Property Organization since 2008 and was signed in Marrakesh in June 2013.  It was finally ratified by the required </span><a href="http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/notifications/marrakesh/treaty_marrakesh_21.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">20 states</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> , and today, three months later, it goes into effect.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Countries that have ratified the treaty must provide for a domestic copyright exception law that allows for the creation of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works for visually impaired persons. In addition, the treaty permits the import and export of accessible versions of copyrighted works.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the World Blind Union, </span><a href="http://www.worldblindunion.org/english/news/Pages/The-Treaty-of-Marrakesh.aspx"><span style="font-weight: 400;">only 1-7%</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the world’s books are ever made available in versions accessible to the visually impaired. Copyright law has contributed to this problem because the default rules typically prohibit such adaptations. </span><br />
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty is a vital step to improve access to books and other copyrighted material for those who are blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled. These protections are long overdue; the right to read should be guaranteed for everyone.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51264
title: 2016 State of the Commons: Call for submissions
uri: 2016-State-of-the-Commons-Call-for-submissions
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/04/2016-state-commons-call-submissions/
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<figure id="attachment_51283" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-51283 size-full" title="Trollholmsund" src="media/9750f2d3.8382091621_8cbbcdb043_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/8382091621_8cbbcdb043_z.jpg" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/8382091621_8cbbcdb043_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/8382091621_8cbbcdb043_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/8382091621_8cbbcdb043_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/8382091621_8cbbcdb043_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/8382091621_8cbbcdb043_z-232x155.jpg 232w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/marfis75/8382091621/">Pinheads ( #cc )</a> by Martin Fisch / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since 2014, CC has published an annual </span><a href="http://stateof.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">State of the Commons report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that tracks the growth of CC-licensed content on the web. Last year, we reported a milestone of </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/12/08/state-of-the-commons-1-billion-creative-commons-works-2/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">1 billion CC-licensed works in the commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This year, we are shifting our reporting focus to align with our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/remix/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">new strategy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quantitatively, we will still report on growth of CC-licensed content for year-over-year comparisons. Qualitatively, we want to offer a meaningful reflection of the year by providing short, digestible impact stories tied to real creators around the world working in various mediums and domains to surface vibrancy and usability of the commons and its contributors. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>This is where you, our community, comes in.</strong> We are opening a public call for submissions of commons content, its creators, and the creative uses that have resulted. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The submission form is below and asks for the relevant details we need to start visualizing an impactful statistic tied to real use. Strong submissions include all three features of the Creative Commons story: 1) the creator/entity and the choice to openly license, 2) the user and the act of adapting and remixing, and 3) the resulting positive impact for a broader public.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The deadline for initial submissions is the end of the month: </span><b>31 October</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We’ll be shaping the best submissions with their contributors in November. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Please submit your idea below.</span></p>
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                            <h3 class='gform_title'>2016 State of the Commons Submissions</h3>
                            <span class='gform_description'>All submissions will be judged by the following three elements, in addition to the submission's fit into the overarching report narrative, which will be based on CC’s new strategy emphasizing commons discovery, collaboration, and advocacy. Strong submissions include all three features of the Creative Commons story: 1) The creator/entity and the choice to openly license, 2) the user and the act of adapting and remixing, and 3) the resulting positive impact for a broader public.
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51308
title: United Nations Report Calls for Open Access to Research to Improve Global Health
uri: United-Nations-Report-Calls-for-Open-Access-to-Research-to-Improve-Glo
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https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/06/united-nations-report-calls-open-access-research-improve-global-health/

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<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51309" src="media/580e3108.photo-1457694587812-e8bf29a43845-1024x683.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/photo-1457694587812-e8bf29a43845-1024x683.jpeg" alt="photo-1457694587812-e8bf29a43845" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/photo-1457694587812-e8bf29a43845-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/photo-1457694587812-e8bf29a43845-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/photo-1457694587812-e8bf29a43845-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/photo-1457694587812-e8bf29a43845-60x40.jpeg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/photo-1457694587812-e8bf29a43845-50x33.jpeg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/photo-1457694587812-e8bf29a43845-233x155.jpeg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/photo-1457694587812-e8bf29a43845-1200x800.jpeg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><small><a href="https://hd.unsplash.com/photo-1457694587812-e8bf29a43845">Photo</a> by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@mvdheuvel">Maarten van den Heuvel</a> on Unsplash, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</small></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last month the United Nations released a </span><a href="http://www.unsgaccessmeds.org/final-report"><span style="font-weight: 400;">report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with recommendations on how to improve innovation and access to health technologies. The panel’s charge called for it to “recommend solutions for remedying the policy incoherence between the justifiable rights of inventors, international human rights law, trade rules and public health in the context of health technologies.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of particular interest are the panel’s suggestions for managing intellectual property generated from publicly-funded research. From the </span><a href="media/795a6099.UNSG-HLP-Report-FINAL-12-Sept-2016.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.unsgaccessmeds.org/s/UNSG-HLP-Report-FINAL-12-Sept-2016.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Limiting access to academic discoveries can obstruct follow-on innovation and force taxpayers to pay twice for the benefits of publicly-funded research. Strong, enforceable policies on data sharing and data access should be a condition of public grants.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public funders of research must require that knowledge generated from such research be made freely and widely available through publication in peer-reviewed literature and seek broad, online public access to such research.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Universities and research institutions that receive public funding should adopt policies and approaches that catalyse innovation and create flexible models of collaboration that advance biomedical research and generate knowledge for the benefit of the public.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The recommendations clearly urge funders and universities to implement policies that ensure broad access to research publications and data produced through public grant monies. The policies should include provisions that clearly communicate liberal re-use rights to publications and data (for example by requiring CC BY for published articles and CC0 for datasets). It’s also crucial for the policies to address deposit and hosting options, training for grantees and program officers, and compliance requirements.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One aim of the United Nation’s </span><a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals/goal-3-good-health-and-well-being.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sustainable Development Goals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is “to achieve universal health coverage and provide access to safe and affordable medicines and vaccines for all.” Improving access to and re-use of publicly-funded scientific and medical research is an important step toward realizing this global goal.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51314
title: Cancer Moonshot Should Prioritize Open Access to Publicly-funded Research
uri: Cancer-Moonshot-Should-Prioritize-Open-Access-to-Publicly-funded-Resea
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/05/keep-pressure-cancer-moonshot/
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51315" src="media/ff64bd00.18FDG-Synthesis-1024x753.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/18FDG-Synthesis-1024x753.jpg" alt="18fdg-synthesis" width="840" height="618" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/18FDG-Synthesis-1024x753.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/18FDG-Synthesis-300x221.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/18FDG-Synthesis-768x565.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/18FDG-Synthesis-54x40.jpg 54w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/18FDG-Synthesis-50x37.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/18FDG-Synthesis-211x155.jpg 211w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/18FDG-Synthesis-1200x882.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><small><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/brookhavenlab/8102756474/">18FDG Synthesis</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/brookhavenlab/">Brookhaven National Laboratory</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">BY-NC-ND 2.0</a>.</small></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vice President Biden is leading the </span><a href="https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Cancer Moonshot Initiative</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which seeks to make ten years’ worth of progress on cancer research in half that time. We think an important part to finding cures is </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/22/open-access-research-critical-advance-progress-cancer/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">changing policy to improve access to cancer research</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our </span><a href="https://medium.com/cancer-moonshot/supporting-open-collaboration-for-cancer-cures-6e8a1d8b6c51#.apzvu9tsi"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recommendations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> include: </span></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Make open access the default for cancer research articles and data.</strong> All government-funded cancer research articles should be fully open and reusable, which means they must be published under an open license such as <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a>. Datasets should be shared in the public domain under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Take embargo periods on research articles and data to zero. </strong>All government-funded research articles and data should be made available<br />
immediately upon publication.</li>
<li><strong>Build and reward a culture of sharing and collaboration. </strong>Agencies funding cancer research should incentivize researchers to share their data and articles widely by actively rewarding this behavior in their promotion and funding processes.</li>
<li><strong>Share cancer education and training materials as open educational resources. </strong>Beyond research and data, there&#8217;s a huge opportunity to provide access to the best, most up-to-date, most effective cancer education resources for teaching and training medical professionals, developed in a collaborative environment.</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After collecting feedback from the public about actions that would speed up the probability of discovery for new cancer treatments and cures, the Blue Ribbon Panel </span><a href="media/06150e94.blue-ribbon-panel-report-2016.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative/blue-ribbon-panel/blue-ribbon-panel-report-2016.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">presented its report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the Moonshot team in September. It offers 10 recommendations for accelerating progress against cancer. The </span><a href="https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative/blue-ribbon-panel"><span style="font-weight: 400;">suggestions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are quite diverse and expansive, including </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nEKGmCtOA"><span style="font-weight: 400;">building a national cancer data ecosystem</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jZxZMxJQ2U"><span style="font-weight: 400;">intensifying research on the major drivers of childhood cancers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HF87ZtelM"><span style="font-weight: 400;">developing new cancer technologies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p>The Cancer Moonshot Initiative is now well-positioned to offer strong recommendations for progressive policy changes that will ensure that researchers have broad, open access to publicly-funded cancer research, datasets, and tools.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons has committed to provide open educational resources and tools that will support researchers, funders, medical professionals, professors, and patients as they build open and collaborative communities for cancer research. We will engage, educate, and support federal departments and agencies, cancer research centers, universities, nonprofits, and foundations that fund cancer research to adopt and implement open policies that require knowledge to be openly licensed and freely-available without restrictions or embargoes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulations to the Blue Ribbon Panel for pushing this important work ahead. Now it’s up to the Moonshot team to show its commitment to supporting innovative practices, projects, and policies that will lead to improved cancer treatments, and eventual cures.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/05/keep-pressure-cancer-moonshot/">Cancer Moonshot Should Prioritize Open Access to Publicly-funded Research</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51312
title: ‘School of Rock(ing) Copyright’ at the CC Europe meeting
uri: School-of-Rock(ing)-Copyright-at-the-CC-Europe-meeting
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/07/school-rocking-copyright-cc-europe-meeting/
content:
<p><i>This post was written by Natalia Mileszyk and Lisette Kalshoven of COMMUNIA.</i></p>
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51332" src="media/2c7b323d.teresa-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/teresa-1024x683.jpg" alt="teresa" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/teresa-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/teresa-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/teresa-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/teresa-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/teresa-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/teresa-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/teresa-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><small>Photo by Saša Krajnc, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>.</small></p>
<p>Last week at the Creative Commons Europe Meeting in Lisbon, <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/">COMMUNIA</a> organised a “School of Rock(ing) Copyright” workshop. Creative Commons affiliates from Poland, the Netherlands, and Portugal joined efforts in sharing knowledge about the current <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/09/14/europeans-deserve-better-copyright-reform/">European copyright reform</a>. We examined the political process for updating the copyright rules, and asked for help from other CC Europe affiliates in advocating for positive copyright changes. We were pleased to have around 15 participants from as many EU countries attend the session. Since we’re at a crucial stage within the European legislative process, we were eager to discuss the ins and outs on how we can create a better copyright for Europe.</p>
<p><b>Why does the CC community care about copyright reform? We all stand for creativity, innovation, access to knowledge, and development. Copyright can both boost or limit these goals, so we are actively involved to make progressive changes to copyright to benefit users, education, and the commons.</b></p>
<h3>What we presented at the workshop</h3>
<p>At the ‘school’ we focused on four different areas that people need to know about when engaging in advocacy for copyright reform in Europe. First, we provided a quick overview on ‘Brussels’ and how the different institutions such as the European Commission and Parliament interact. Second, we explained how the legislative process works. The Commission proposal is out, but it’s far from the end of the process! Third, we shared tactics and tips for getting involved in advocacy activities. These often seem obvious, but are very important when interacting with politicians. For example: never ask for anything people can’t give you, and come to the table with clear, concise suggestions. Few politicians have the time to read a 200 page research report, no matter how riveting we think it is! The fourth and last part of our workshop dug into a few key topics within the current copyright reform proposal, including areas such as cultural heritage, education, and research.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51335" src="media/9defe42f.lisette-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-1024x683.jpg" alt="lisette" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lisette-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><small>Photo by Saša Krajnc, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>.</small></p>
<h3>What’s in Commission’s proposed Directive on copyright?</h3>
<p>You can read the entire proposal <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-directive-european-parliament-and-council-copyright-digital-single-market">here</a>, and read COMMUNIA’s high level analysis about it <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/tag/copyright-reform/">here</a>.</p>
<p><b>In short, the Commission’s copyright proposal fails to meet the needs of citizens, educators, and researchers across Europe. Instead of strengthening the information economy, the proposal preserves a status quo defined in the analog age. In the process, it hinders education, research, and cultural expression.</b></p>
<p>The Commission’s proposal focuses on a wholly different goal: to minimize the impact of the fundamental changes brought about by digital technologies and the internet on legacy business models. Publishers get <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/08/25/eu-commission-yes-will-create-new-ancillary-copyright-news-publishers-please-stop-calling-link-tax/">an ancillary copyright that already has proven itself worthless in practice</a>. Access to most audio-visual content will continue to be hampered by geo-blocking (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCRG6BV0AYI">which the Commission had earlier committed to end</a>), and online platforms might be forced to collaborate with rights holders on censoring content that is shared by users on these platforms. The whole package lacks forward-looking, innovation-friendly measures that embrace digitization as an opportunity for users, creators, businesses, and public institutions in Europe.</p>
<p>During our workshop, we explored three aspects of the proposal in greater detail: 1) <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/09/06/commission-proposes-limit-text-data-mining-europe/">text and data mining</a> (with a limited exception that limits research to official institutions), 2) <a href="http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/copyright-reform-a-first-look-at-the-commission-s-plans-for-cultural-heritage-institutions">cultural heritage</a> (which does not solve the problem heritage institutions have with making their collections available online), and 3) <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/09/02/education-and-copyright-we-were-promised-an-exception-but-are-offered-licenses-instead/">education</a> (where the proposal overcomplicates the situation, making it even harder for teachers to focus on providing excellent education.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SgZEW18dZVyHSIxCeH1I7M1L7S_HWyrKaq-voVkLuqs/embed?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000" width="960" height="569" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<h3>We need more advocates to push for positive change</h3>
<p><b>Creative Commons is committed to <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/01/20/lets-light-up-the-global-commons/">advocating for a better copyright across the globe</a>, including Europe. Several affiliates at the School of Rock(ing) Copyright event stepped forward to help advocate for positive change. We need to engage in a variety of tactics, including educating MEPs about what’s at stake, responding to consultations on the copyright reform, and organising events and actions to raise public awareness. We look forward to collaborating even more with our fellow affiliates to make sure we get a copyright reform for Europe that’s fit for the digital age. </b></p>
<h3>What you can do now!</h3>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keep up-to-date with the European Copyright Reform process. Follow along with the </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">COMMUNIA blog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/communia_eu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/blog/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC blog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons"><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;">T</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ake part in the national consultations now being held in many Member States. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Check to see the consultation deadline of your national ministry responsible for copyright. Do your best to motivate other organisations to take part in the consultation.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Talk to your representatives within your national government, your European Parliament Representatives, and fellow advocates at other organisations. And remember, the most important is to make your voice heard about why this matters to you. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Share information with others. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s keep each other in the loop about our advocacy activities, meetings, and best arguments. You can also become a member of COMMUNIA </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">(highly recommended!) </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let us know</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engage with your local communities. Inform your friends and social groups about what’s at stake. Organise debate nights, salons, and share interesting resources.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think about how you want to engage: for the topics that you love, create a factsheet, organise a meeting, write happy (or angry) tweets to Commissioners. </span></li>
</ol>
<p>Making your voice heard is fundamental, the way you do it is up to you. Let us know how we can help!</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/07/school-rocking-copyright-cc-europe-meeting/">&#8216;School of Rock(ing) Copyright&#8217; at the CC Europe meeting</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://blog.creativecommons.org/?p=48387
title: Blender Institute’s Ton Roosendaal on open licensing and artistic success
uri: Blender-Institute-s-Ton-Roosendaal-on-open-licensing-and-artistic-su
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/12/blender-institutes-ton-roosendaal-open-licensing-artistic-success/

content:
<p>As the producers of the world&#8217;s <a href="https://www.blender.org/features/projects/">first open movie project,</a> Ton Rosendaal and his team at the <a href="https://www.blender.org/">Blender Institute</a> &#8220;work open&#8221; in every aspect of their production, from code to licensing to distribution. Blender, the free and open source 3D creation suite, supports makers of all stripes, from independent artists to small businesses.</p>
<p>A more in-depth profile of the Blender Institute will be released in the forthcoming book <em><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creativecommons/made-with-creative-commons-a-book-on-open-business">Made with Creative Commons</a>.</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.blender.org/institute/"><img class="wp-image-48389 alignright" src="media/fdcfeca0.ton_r.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ton_r.png" width="181" height="181" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ton_r.png 512w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ton_r-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ton_r-300x300.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 181px) 85vw, 181px" /></a></p>
<p><b>How did this film come together? What were its origins?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the Blender Institute studio, we&#8217;ve been making CC BY-licensed films since 2007. The first short films we made were mostly crowdfunded via the pre-sale of DVDs that offered the film itself, along with all of the assets and software that someone would need to remake the entire film. This was a huge success… we&#8217;ve always used our productions—and the revenues we derive from them—to improve Blender, our open source 3D creation tool.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2014 we decided to drop this funding model. DVDs didn&#8217;t sell well anymore, </span><b>nor is it very practical to use for data sets</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Instead we began uploading everything we made to a website—all the films, all of the sources for them, and 100 hours of training materials we&#8217;d made over the past several years. This is what we call the Blender Cloud. For just $10 per month subscribers can get access to everything on the site under CC BY, and we use the subscription revenues to produce new content and film continuously.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Caminandes Llamigos</em> was the third short film we produced thanks to Blender Cloud subscriptions. As usual, the goal with this project was to further improve Blender but also to have a large collection of CC BY content and tutorials to share with users online. People love funny films, and it&#8217;s a big inspiration to learn how to make them from the makers directly.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_48390" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-48390 size-large" src="media/7a70a197.llamigos-1-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/llamigos-1-1024x576.jpg" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/llamigos-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/llamigos-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/llamigos-1-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Still from Caminandes Llamigos, courtesy of Blender Institute</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The <em>Caminandes</em> series is based on director Pablo Vazquez&#8217; home country &#8211; Patagonia. Pablo loves funny crazy animals as well as short cartoons in the well known American &#8217;50s tradition.</span></p>
<p><b>How long did it take to make? What was the process of making it happen?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Writing and storyboarding started in October of last year. Production started in November and lasted 3 months. In February, we spent a month wrapping up the project by producing additional content, including making-of materials, asset downloads, and tutorials.</span></p>
<p><b>Why do you choose the specific CC licenses you use for your projects?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We almost exclusively use CC BY and CC 0 for our works. Offering our films and their source materials under a noncommercial license was never something we considered, as doing so makes sharing content with serious artists and professionals impossible or confusing. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open licenses are essential for sharing our films and their source material. CC BY and CC 0 make the asset collections usable for other projects. Also, for the kinds of training that we want to encourage, it&#8217;s essential to give students the right to build on top of our work in order to make new works, share those works, and show them in public.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><b>What do you hope people will do with this film? How do you want them to interact with it?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sharing is caring! As artists and makers, we want people to share our work so that lots of people see it. </span><b>Past versions of  <em>Caminandes</em> were copied to the Disney Channel with big success! </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The<em> Caminandes</em> characters are becoming quite well known now, and people have started using them in unexpected ways. We are happy about this.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_48391" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-48391 size-large" src="media/e179c780.01_02_A-1-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/01_02_A-1-1024x576.jpg" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/01_02_A-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/01_02_A-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/01_02_A-1-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Still from Caminande Llamigos, courr</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That said, looking back at 10 years of sharing animation film under CC, we are surprised that people haven&#8217;t been using the assets to create entirely new episodes or versions—and certainly not in the quality and quantity we did. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">You might think that &#8220;giving it all away&#8221; would cause you to lose everything because your great artwork now can be duplicated and used by everyone. Instead, we learned something else. Even when you share everything, including all your original sources, it still takes a lot of talent and skill and time and budget to make this sort of work. There&#8217;s no value for us in enforcing strict copyright limitations on the work.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/12/blender-institutes-ton-roosendaal-open-licensing-artistic-success/">Blender Institute&#8217;s Ton Roosendaal on open licensing and artistic success</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51392
title: Commons-friendly EU copyright at MozFest 2016
uri: Commons-friendly-EU-copyright-at-MozFest-2016
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/20/commons-friendly-eu-copyright-mozfest-2016/
content:
<figure id="attachment_51393" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-51393" src="media/0550caea.copyright-1024x790.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/copyright-1024x790.jpg" alt="Image via Communia" width="840" height="648" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/copyright-1024x790.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/copyright-300x232.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/copyright-768x593.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/copyright-52x40.jpg 52w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/copyright-50x39.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/copyright-201x155.jpg 201w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/copyright-1200x926.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/copyright.jpg 1222w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Image via <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/">Communia</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Curious about what’s going on with European copyright? Need a refresher on what the Commission’s new copyright proposal means for you? Don’t worry! We’re here to help!</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="media/d863679e.r_to_European_Member_States_on_Commission_Copyright_Proposal.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/3/36/Creative_Commons_Letter_to_European_Member_States_on_Commission_Copyright_Proposal.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read our letter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/14/european-commission-copyright-proposal-leaves-users-dark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">blog post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to encourage an improved proposal.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/14/european-commission-copyright-proposal-leaves-users-dark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Check out our summary of the proposal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from last month.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow our friends at Communia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and read their policy recommendations for a more humane copyright in the EU</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participate in </span><a href="http://changecopyright.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla’s #cczerohero campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by uploading your photos to </span><a href="https://flickr.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Flickr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with a CC0 license</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are able to come, the Creative Commons community will be at the </span><a href="https://mozillafestival.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla Festival</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in London from October 28-30.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Come find us! Tweet @creativecommons during the event or follow the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=mozfest&amp;src=typd"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#mozfest</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> hashtag to learn about how we’re coming together for copyright reform in the EU.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s be sure the changes to EU copyright don’t break the web. Stand with us and our partners if you believe it’s time to #fixcopyright.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51381
title: Isla Haddow-Flood on how Wikipedians are changing the narrative around Africa
uri: Isla-Haddow-Flood-on-how-Wikipedians-are-changing-the-narrative-around
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/19/isla-haddow-flood/
content:
<p><a href="http://wikiloveswomen.org"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51386" src="media/25ae7fca.wikiloveswomen_logo.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wikiloveswomen_logo.png" alt="wikiloveswomen_logo" width="705" height="375" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wikiloveswomen_logo.png 705w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wikiloveswomen_logo-300x160.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wikiloveswomen_logo-75x40.png 75w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wikiloveswomen_logo-50x27.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wikiloveswomen_logo-270x144.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Wikipedians are an integral part of the CC Community, and as a key Wikipedian in Wiki Loves Women, WikiAfrica, and Wiki Loves Africa, Isla Haddow-Flood&#8217;s work is a crux for that community.</p>
<p>Isla&#8217;s accomplishments with these projects are self-evident: a Wikipedian since 2011, she has been integral in illuminating the content gaps and voices of women, Africans, and other marginalized groups within Wikipedia. As the former project manager for WikiAfrica and current volunteer, Isla&#8217;s work seeks to create content for all Wikipedians around the world and raise up the voices of the many, rather than the few.</p>
<p><strong>Why is it important for more women to be involved with Wikipedia? What kinds of benefits does a more balanced gender dynamic bring to Wikipedia?</strong></p>
<p>A lot of research has been done into the systemic bias behind the skewed content on Wikipedia. This is especially profound in relation to both content about Africa and content about women. Only 16% of the biographies on the English Wikipedia are about women and on English Wikipedia alone there are, on average,100 times more geotagged articles relating to France than articles similarly geotagged to the continental space of Africa.</p>
<p>There has been similar research done on Wikipedia contributors. The demographic of voluntary contributors has obvious implications on the makeup of the content, and the earlier systemic bias of the content makes sense because only 25% of edits to subjects about the Sub-Saharan region come from within that region and that less than 20% of (all) Wikipedia contributors are female. One analysis of content shows that only 12% of biographies in sub-saharan Africa are about women.</p>
<p>When the the collective impact of content and contribution gaps from women and Africans are combined, it creates not just a gap but an abyss. Women in Africa are some of the most marginalized groups in the world and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that is meant to reflect the knowledge of all geographies, genders, interests, cultures and perspectives equally and this is not currently happening. The status quo will remain the same until people across Africa, especially women, see themselves and their reality truly and truthfully reflected – until they see they have an equal standing in the world and that they can be part of the global conversation and they see that Wikipedia is relevant to them, only then, will they can contribute their knowledge.</p>
<p><strong>Why are you involved with Wiki Loves Women, WikiAfrica, and Wiki Loves Africa? What kinds of projects or events have been the most exciting to organize?</strong></p>
<p>I have been a registered Wikipedian since 2011 and have been involved in supporting the WikiAfrica movement. WikiAfrica is an international project that encourages individuals, interested groups and organisations to create, expand and enhance online content about Africa.</p>
<p>As part of this movement I have partnered with people passionate about the Open Movement, including Florence Devouard, Iolanda Pensa, and Kelsey Wiens on a number of innovative projects in collaboration with several organisations. The interventions have been aimed at activating communities, capacitating volunteers, and encouraging the ‘liberation’ of content from organizations across Africa on to Wikipedia.<br />
Wiki Loves Africa is an annual photographic competition where people contribute photos or media of that year’s specific theme. This year is Music and Dance running from the 1st December 2016 to 31st January 2017. We’ve previously covered Cuisine (2014) and Cultural fashion and adornment (2015). Photography is one of the easiest ways to contribute to Wikipedia via Wikimedia Commons. It requires a good eye, an amazing subject, and an understanding of Creative Commons licences. It has been a successful project that sprung from the belief that there is so much to celebrate on a continent that is so visually and culturally rich.</p>
<figure id="attachment_51385" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="wikilovesafrica.org"><img class="size-large wp-image-51385" src="media/7a591b29.Ak55-Busy_afternoon-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ak55-Busy_afternoon-1024x683.jpg" alt="&quot;Another Busy Afternoon in Kenya,&quot; Zuraj Studio. 2015 Wiki Loves Africa Winner." width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ak55-Busy_afternoon-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ak55-Busy_afternoon-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ak55-Busy_afternoon-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ak55-Busy_afternoon-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ak55-Busy_afternoon-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ak55-Busy_afternoon-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ak55-Busy_afternoon-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ak55-Busy_afternoon.jpg 1599w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/4444adae.FileAk55-Busy_afternoon.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ak55-Busy_afternoon.jpg">&#8220;Another Busy Afternoon in Kenya,&#8221;</a> Zuraj Studio. 2015 Wiki Loves Africa Winner. CC BY-SA 4.0</figcaption></figure>
<p>The Wiki Loves Women project seeks to fill two major subject gaps – women and Africa. These gaps exist in content on these two themes, but also in terms of participation in the editorial level. It currently takes place in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.</p>
<p><strong>What compels you to keep doing this work?</strong></p>
<p>Because it is important, and because I love it! For a number of challenging reasons, Africa just doesn’t play in the same knowledge space that other regions do. This has to change, and with technology, it can. To do this,</p>
<blockquote><p>It is important for people from Africa to tell their own stories: changing the narrative, shaking up stereotypes and sharing what they want to think, and how they want to feel, about being African.</p></blockquote>
<p>And one way to do this is to share our complex, amorphous reality, both past and present, with the world on Wikipedia.</p>
<p><strong>How does Wiki Loves Women and Wiki Loves Africa bring the offline online?</strong></p>
<p>Both projects work at developing the community of volunteers around the content through training, events and contests.Wiki Loves Women has an amazingly varied array of events offline and online and interventions that the teams runs in the four countries that it is currently active in. You can see the range through the blog posts that are featured on our website.<br />
Every year for Wiki Loves Africa, we reinforce the outreach of the project by supporting focus countries. These countries introduce and train interested individuals to contribute by arranging launch events, photo-hunts, upload, and prize-giving events.</p>
<p>For both projects it is about developing people’s passion about the world they live in, their immediate surroundings, traditions and issues. It is also about widening their understanding of copyright and copyleft &#8211; and introducing them to the Open Movement, specifically to Creative Commons to provide a slow yet fun, exciting, and social immersion into the world of Wikipedia. We work closely with Wikimedia volunteers and Usergroups, who in turn work with the CC affiliates and Open Street Maps (where possible) across Africa to ensure that we are all helping each other, and in some cases our activities have supported affiliate development and growth in countries, such as in Ethiopia.</p>
<p><strong>How do you work with varying connectivity as well as offline community building for an online community?</strong></p>
<p>The issue about connectivity and data is a very real one. We have come up with a solution, WikiFundi, that is funded by the Orange Foundation and currently being developed. It should be rolling out to the community in early 2017. WikiFundi is an offline editable environment that provides a similar experience to editing Wikipedia online. WikiFundi allows for training on, and contribution to, Wikipedia when technology, access and electricity outages fail or are not available at all.</p>
<p>To celebrate the launch of WikiFundi, in early 2017 there will be the WikiChallenge African Schools that encourages schools in eight countries in Africa to compete by writing Wikipedia articles about their city, town, village, suburb or local landmark using the WikiFundi software. The competition is a fun introduction to writing Wikipedia articles and will add information about Africa to the global online encyclopedia. Wikipacks, that includes WikiFundi and training resources and information on Wikipedia and Creative Commons, will also be distributed to the Wikimedia volunteer groups in early 2017.</p>
<h3>Get involved!</h3>
<h4>Wiki Loves Women</h4>
<ul>
<li>Website: www.wikiloveswomen.org</li>
<li>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomen</li>
<li>Twitter: https://twitter.com/WikiLovesWomen</li>
<li>Goethe-Institut page: www.goethe.de/wikiloveswomen</li>
<li>On Wikipedia:<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Loves_Women</li>
</ul>
<h4>Wiki Loves Africa</h4>
<ul>
<li>Website: http://wikilovesafrica.org</li>
<li>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica</li>
<li>Twitter: https://twitter.com/wikilovesafrica</li>
<li>On Wikimedia Commons:<br />
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016</li>
</ul>
<h4>WikiAfrica Movement links</h4>
<ul>
<li>Website: http://www.wikiafrica.net/</li>
<li>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikiAfrica</li>
<li>Twitter: https://twitter.com/WikiAfrica</li>
<li>WikiFundi: http://www.wikifundi.org/</li>
</ul>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51369
title: We’re on Slack! Join us!
uri: We-re-on-Slack-Join-us
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/18/slack-announcement/
content:
<p><a href="http://slack-signup.creativecommons.org"><img class="aligncenter size-full 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="976" height="418" 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: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Today we’re excited to announce that we have migrated our real time communications from IRC to Slack. Slack is a free messaging and collaboration tool that operates much like IRC, but allows users to have public and private channels as well as direct messages. You can access Slack through the browser, the desktop app (for Linux, Mac OS, and PC,) or the mobile app on iOS and Android. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While IRC has been a good choice for us in the past, Slack is more mobile friendly and integrates with the workflows of users who are using Slack for other projects, creating a more robust (and chatty) community. <a href="https://open.edx.org/blog/open-edx-slack">In the words of Open edX,</a> who made a similar community decision last year, “Slack essentially presents a beneficial network effect: it is easier to integrate our Slack team into your workflow, rather than adding another tool.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition, Slack scores high for accessibility, public familiarity, and adoption. If you want, you can still get in touch with us via IRC. We built a bridge from IRC to Slack so you can continue hanging out in #creativecommons on Freenode if that’s where you feel most comfortable. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ll also continue to monitor the IRC channels for those who come looking for support.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This won’t replace our other methods of communication, like email lists and social, but it will give us a great tool to engage existing and new communities. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s important to us that we have an open space for collaboration, and we hope you’ll join and invite others as well.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We encourage you to join at</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/">https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/</a> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">(you’ll be automatically validated via your email), and come say hi in the <a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/general/">#general</a> channel. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ll be adding channels as communities form around particular topics or<br />
areas of interest, so please do start a conversation about what you want to<br />
see in our Slack organization.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Questions? Feel free to ping us on social or send an email to <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org">info@creativecommons.org.</a></span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51365
title: Help us make a giant leap against cancer: Biden presents five-year Cancer Moonshot plan
uri: Help-us-make-a-giant-leap-against-cancer-Biden-presents-five-year-Can
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/17/help-us-make-giant-leap-cancer-biden-presents-five-year-cancer-moonshot-plan/

content:
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<figure id="attachment_51366" style="width: 1049px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-51366" src="media/aed40161.cancer-moonshot.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cancer-moonshot.jpeg" alt="Graphical recording created at the Cancer Moonshot Summit on June 29, 2016. (Credit: StephScribes/White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force.)" width="1049" height="535" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cancer-moonshot.jpeg 1049w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cancer-moonshot-300x153.jpeg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cancer-moonshot-768x392.jpeg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cancer-moonshot-1024x522.jpeg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cancer-moonshot-78x40.jpeg 78w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cancer-moonshot-50x26.jpeg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cancer-moonshot-270x138.jpeg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Graphical recording created at the Cancer Moonshot Summit on June 29, 2016. (Credit: <a href="https://twitter.com/stephscribes">StephScribes</a>/White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force.)</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today Vice President Biden </span><a href="https://medium.com/cancer-moonshot/report-of-the-cancer-moonshot-task-force-executive-summary-e711f1845ec#.j0sf4habk"><span style="font-weight: 400;">announced a comprehensive plan for his Cancer Moonshot initiative</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which seeks to achieve a decade’s worth of progress on cancer research in five years. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As an invited participant in the Moonshot, we commend the Vice President’s radical approach to solving this crucial issue. In April, Biden referenced Ryan Merkley’s viral article 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;">, citing a need for better collaboration and the sharing of cancer data. Today’s announcement underscores the initiative’s commitment to open data, open access, and research. </span><a href="media/7d4aadc6.final-whcmtf-report-1012161.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/final-whcmtf-report-1012161.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “audacious, creative, and disruptive approaches”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and information sharing through crowdsourcing are a direct result of the advocacy work from the open community.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="http://medium.com/cancermoonshot"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cancer Moonshot report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> acknowledges existing challenges to making progress against cancer, including “a lack of open access and rapid sharing of research data and results.” Biden’s report recognizes the need for open collaboration, open access to research and data, and the need for education and incentives to change existing models.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/cancer-moonshot/supporting-open-collaboration-for-cancer-cures-6e8a1d8b6c51#.96jc1qwj9"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In June</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we made four recommendations to the Cancer Moonshot to accelerate the speed and probability for new cancer treatments and cures:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make open access the default for cancer research articles and data.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take embargo periods on research articles and data to zero.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build and reward a culture of sharing and collaboration.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Share cancer education and training materials as open educational resources.</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Biden writes, the Moonshot seeks to “unlock scientific advances through open publication,” including the creation of a </span><a href="https://gdc.cancer.gov/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Genomic Data Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which has already accumulated 32,000 patients in a few months. The Genomic Data Commons holds great potential for a more open data landscape and the number of people served has already proven its efficacy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At today’s presentation, Vice President Biden reiterated the importance of access to information about cancer for researchers, doctors, patients, and families. Further, he said that cancer has now reached an “inflection point,” and that the research and treatment system needs to be reimagined for the 21st century. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is crucial that this transformation involves reforms that truly support free, immediate open access to publicly-funded cancer research and data. We believe that open sharing and collaboration can begin to address many of the inefficiencies in the existing research and dissemination cycle that the report addresses and seeks to solve.<br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">As the Moonshot Initiative continues, we look forward to joining the many voices involved in order to ensure that we reach our shared goal: <strong>Eliminating cancer within our lifetime.</strong></span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51349
title: EU Member States Should Push To Improve Commission’s Disappointing Copyright Proposal
uri: EU-Member-States-Should-Push-To-Improve-Commission-s-Disappointing-C
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/14/eu-member-states-push-improve-commissions-disappointing-copyright-proposal/

content:
<p>Last month the European Commission released its <a href="media/b559ec93.1-2016-593-EN-F1-1.PDF" data-original-source="http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2016/EN/1-2016-593-EN-F1-1.PDF">proposed changes to copyright in the EU</a>. Unfortunately, the proposal <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/14/european-commission-copyright-proposal-leaves-users-dark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fails to deliver</span></a><a href="media/b559ec93.1-2016-593-EN-F1-1.PDF" data-original-source="http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2016/EN/1-2016-593-EN-F1-1.PDF"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the promise for a modern copyright law in Europe.</span></a></p>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-51000" src="media/7e9b35f1.final-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-300x300.png" alt="fix-copyright" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-768x771.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-1021x1024.png 1021w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-154x155.png 154w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-1200x1204.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-32x32.png 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-64x64.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-96x96.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final-128x128.png 128w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final.png 1222w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In an ideal world, the Directive would have provided for progressive policy changes to serve the goals of a unified digital marketplace across Europe. It would have jumpstarted economic activity, championed innovative digital technologies and services, and protected consumers and access to information. It would have expanded opportunities for European businesses, cultural heritage institutions, educators, and the research community.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Commission’s plan does little to advance these goals, instead making the European copyright framework more complex and unfit for the digital age. With the proposal from the Commission on the table, the legislative focus shifts to the EU Member States, the European Parliament, and the Council of the European Union. Several Member States are currently engaged in brief national-level public consultations in response to the Commission’s proposition.<br />
</span></p>
<p><b>Creative Commons </b><a href="media/d863679e.r_to_European_Member_States_on_Commission_Copyright_Proposal.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/3/36/Creative_Commons_Letter_to_European_Member_States_on_Commission_Copyright_Proposal.pdf"><b>published a letter</b></a><b> that outlines the primary areas of concern, discusses potential policy solutions, and offers continued support to Member States as they solicit public input that will inform the forthcoming legislative proceedings. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over 30 of our international affiliate teams and associated organizations are signatories to the letter. We are working with CC affiliates across Europe to provide feedback and ideas to the ongoing consultations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s work together to improve the Commission’s disappointing proposal. Now is the time for Europe to redouble its efforts to make positive changes to copyright that will benefit all stakeholders, including creators, users, and the public interest.</span></p>
<p><a href="media/d863679e.r_to_European_Member_States_on_Commission_Copyright_Proposal.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/3/36/Creative_Commons_Letter_to_European_Member_States_on_Commission_Copyright_Proposal.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Letter to European Member States on Commission Copyright Proposal [PDF]</span></a></p>
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<p><small><a href="https://thenounproject.com/term/screwdriver-and-wrench/426544">Screwdriver And Wrench</a><span> by </span><a href="https://thenounproject.com/milindacourey10">To Uyen</a><span>, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/">CC BY 3.0 US</a><br />
<a href="https://thenounproject.com/term/copyright/60824">Copyright</a><span> by </span><a href="https://thenounproject.com/marekpolakovic">Marek Polakovic</a><span>, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/">CC BY 3.0 US</a></small></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51415
title: Regain Control Of Your Work — Announcing the Termination of Transfer Tool (beta)
uri: Regain-Control-Of-Your-Work-Announcing-the-Termination-of-Transfer
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/25/introducing-termination-of-transfer-tool/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51418" src="media/45fc0b0a.OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1024x426.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1024x426.png" alt="oa_cc_banner_w_text_final" width="840" height="349" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1024x426.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-300x125.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-768x319.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-96x40.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-50x21.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-270x112.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1200x499.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s </span></i><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Access Week 2016</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Open Access Week is an annual week-long event that highlights the importance of sharing scientific and scholarly research and data. The goal is to educate people on the benefits of open publishing, advocate for changes to policy and practice, and build a community to collaborate on these issues. This year’s theme is </span></i><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/theme-of-2016-international-open-access-week-to-be-open-in-action"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">open in action</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In keeping with this year’s Open Access theme “</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/24/open-access-week-2016-drumbeat-open-action/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open in Action</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">”, Creative Commons and </span><a href="http://www.authorsalliance.org/2016/10/24/new-termination-of-transfer-tool/%20‎"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Authors Alliance</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">are pleased to announce a new tool that empowers authors to learn about whether and when they have the right to terminate licensing arrangements they have made with publishers that prevent them from sharing their works openly.  All authors who transfer copyright under U.S. law have this right under certain circumstances. While many of these transfer agreements last &#8220;for the life of copyright&#8221; (which in the United States 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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The tool, dubbed the Termination of Transfer Tool, is in beta form and now available for </span><a href="https://tot-feedback-public.creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">public feedback</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One early analysis estimates that control over more than </span><a href="http://public-interest-authorship.berkeleylawblogs.org/2016/08/23/quantifying-termination-possibilities-an-experiment-with-hathifiles/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">200,000 works</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> may be reclaimed by authors in the United States, but this is just a starting point. Anyone, including artists, photographers, scholars and scientists, can use this new tool to discover whether they have the right to take back rights they previously assigned away. While this tool is currently U.S.-based only, CC plans to internationalize it for use worldwide. Author </span><a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/people/profile.asp?ID=288"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sidonie Smith</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of University of Michigan tested the tool with us just prior to its release. Check out our</span><a href="https://vimeo.com/188770845"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> video</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> demo to learn more. Feel free to </span><a href="http://rightsback.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">test the too</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">l,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and contribute feedback via our </span><a href="https://tot-feedback-public.creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">public discussion forum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We’ll be taking feedback for the next month or so and hope to launch the final version of the tool in early December.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is just one of several new tools that Creative Commons will be launching in the next two years in support of authors and other creators who want to retain and regain control of their copyright. Watch this space for more information as we roll out betas of our reinvigorated </span><a href="http://labs.creativecommons.org/scholars/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scholars Copyright Addendum Engine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (SCAE) and a new tool still in very early development that will allow time-based movement to </span><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/4.0/Sandbox#Time-based_switch_to_more_freedom"><span style="font-weight: 400;">more freedoms automatically</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. All three of these tools will be internationalized in collaboration with our affiliates around the world, and are being developed in part through generous funding by the </span><a href="http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/about-arcadia/about-arcadia/.aspx"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arcadia Fund</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watch this space for more information. We look forward to receiving your feedback on this exciting new tool.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Happy Open Access week!</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51416
title: Open Access Policy In Practice: A Perspective from the Wellcome Trust
uri: Open-Access-Policy-In-Practice-A-Perspective-from-the-Wellcome-Trust
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/25/open-access-policy-practice-perspective-wellcome-trust/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51418" src="media/45fc0b0a.OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1024x426.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1024x426.png" alt="oa_cc_banner_w_text_final" width="840" height="349" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1024x426.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-300x125.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-768x319.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-96x40.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-50x21.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-270x112.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1200x499.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s </span></i><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Access Week 2016</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Open Access Week is an annual week-long event that highlights the importance of sharing scientific and scholarly research and data. Its goal is to educate people on the benefits of open publishing, advocate for changes to policy and practice, and build a community to collaborate on these issues. This year’s theme is </span></i><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/theme-of-2016-international-open-access-week-to-be-open-in-action"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">open in action</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Today we are exploring open access policy within philanthropy by interviewing Robert Kiley from the <a href="https://wellcome.ac.uk/">Wellcome Trust</a>. From brokering the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Principles">Bermuda Principles</a> for immediate sharing of DNA sequence data in 1996 to being the first funder to mandate open access to our funded publication in 2005, Wellcome has been at the forefront of open research for over two decades.</span></i></p>
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<p><b>CC: Can you describe the Wellcome Trust and your role within the organisation?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">RK: Wellcome exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re a global charitable foundation, both politically and financially independent. We support scientists and researchers, take on big problems, fuel imaginations, and spark debate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m currently on secondment from the Wellcome Library and am the Development Lead for Open Research. In this role I’m responsible for developing a strategy for the Wellcome Trust which will set out what we could do to move the needle in making research outputs findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable &#8211; the </span><a href="https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FAIR </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">principles. </span></p>
<p><b>The Wellcome Trust has had an open access policy in place for several years now, and other philanthropic grantmakers such as the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Ford Foundation have adopted similar policies that require open licensing for the outputs of grant funding. Can you describe the motivation behind the adoption of a CC BY open access policy for Wellcome funded research?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We </span><a href="https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/creative-commons-attribution-licence-cc"><span style="font-weight: 400;">believe</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the full research and economic benefit of published content will only be realised when there are no restrictions on access to, and re-use of, this information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When we first setup our open access policy in 2005, we simply required authors to agree that articles would be made available online. We didn’t specify an open license that needed to be used. Over time, we began to understand that requiring an open license would help realise the full benefits of the research. From a practical perspective, mandating an open license helps us communicate the access and re-use rights, thus making it easier for downstream users to understand how they can use it. We’d also seen that some of our research had been published on a commercial website and had been subject to a takedown from the rightsholder. By adopting an open licensing policy we could make sure that the research funded by Wellcome is widely available without these troubles. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Related to this, open licensing allows for our research to be share beyond the traditional publication channels, and can help reach audiences where they are. So, for example, an article studying the effects of, say, breastfeeding, published under open access licence, can be posted on other platforms like Facebook or Mumsnet in order to reach the communities who get their information there. This is made possible with an open license like CC BY. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Equally, openly licensed content can be translated without first seeking permission from the rights holder.  Again, this helps to increase the reach (and potential impact) of the research we fund.  </span></p>
<p><b>Following on from that question, do you have thoughts on the intersection of open policy adoption between private funders like Wellcome and public research funding bodies? Do you see learnings or best practices that could be exchanged between these various funders, and whether there are particular considerations that should to be addressed so that the research that comes out of each funding stream is maximally useful for those that need it?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In some ways it might be easier for private organisations like Wellcome and Gates to adopt progressive open access policies. But from the government perspective the argument for open access is clear. And in the UK, the CC BY requirement applies to all research funded through the </span><a href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research Councils UK</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (RCUK) when an APC is levied. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The government wants taxpayer-funded research to be openly reusable. It makes good economic sense, and can drive innovation and promote access to knowledge. </span></p>
<p><b>From CC’s point of view, we know that open licensing is only one aspect of a successful open access policy implementation, and that there are many other policy considerations and practicalities that need to be aligned. These include providing education and guidance for authors on publishing and licensing options, repository and deposit requirements, attaching metadata to promote search and discovery, data management, and policy compliance. Wellcome’s recent communication regarding publisher requirements seems to reflect a similar need for a holistic approach for OA policy implementation. Can you explain a bit more about these requirements, and why Wellcome decided to adopt them? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We make our Open Access funding available to institutions as block grants, and every year those institutions report back to us information on the outputs of that funding. We </span><a href="https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/wellcome-trust-and-coaf-open-access-spend-2014%E2%80%9315"><span style="font-weight: 400;">analyse the data</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, so we can determine how much an average APC charge was, and where the research was published. We’re also able to ascertain whether the institutions are following the requirements attached to the funding, for example whether an article was made available through in the relevant repository (</span><a href="https://europepmc.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Europe PMC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), whether the appropriate license was used, etc. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our analysis showed that in a number of cases where Wellcome was paying the fees, we weren’t getting what we paid for.  The the 2014-15 analysis showed that  around 30% of the papers were not fully compliant with our open access policy requirements. As a result, we recently created a set of </span><a href="https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/why-we-have-set-publisher-requirements"><span style="font-weight: 400;">publisher requirements</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which makes explicit the things we expect from publishers when Wellcome pays an APC. For example, publishers must commit to the ongoing responsibility of keeping the articles up-to-date, including noting corrections, substantial revisions, license changes, and retractions. </span></p>
<p><b>There are huge opportunities—and many challenges—regarding the transformation of scholarly communications in service of improving access to research that could help solve global health problems. Is there a particular project or policy aspect that Wellcome is most interested in pursuing related to this objective? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We recently launched </span><a href="https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wellcome Open Research</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a platform for our grantees to rapidly publish any output from their research. This includes everything from typical research articles and data sets to case reports, notes, protocols, and even negative results. The platform is built on the </span><a href="https://f1000research.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">F1000Research</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> publishing model, which works on a post-publication peer review system. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Articles are submitted to the platform and checked to verify authorship and pass other applicable considerations, such as ethics clearance, plagiarism detection and data availability. Once it’s passed these minimal checks, the article is formally published and is assigned a citation and DOI. Publication will typically happen within 5-7 days. After that, peer review begins. Everything is done in public, and the outputs are openly licensed—usually CC BY for articles, and CC0 for data.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wellcome is also supporting the work of ASAPbio (and others) to encourage the sharing of preprints in the life and biological sciences.  We believe that s</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">haring of preprints </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">provides researchers with a fast way to disseminate their work, establish priority of their discoveries, and obtain feedback. They also offer a more current understanding of an investigator’s work</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51400
title: Open Access Week 2016: A Drumbeat for ‘Open In Action’
uri: Open-Access-Week-2016-A-Drumbeat-for-Open-In-Action
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/24/open-access-week-2016-drumbeat-open-action/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51402" src="media/4473f459.OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1024x426.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1024x426.png" alt="oa_cc_banner_w_text_final" width="840" height="349" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1024x426.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-300x125.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-768x319.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-96x40.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-50x21.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-270x112.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1200x499.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today kicks off </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Access Week 2016</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Open Access Week is an annual week-long event that highlights the importance of sharing scientific and scholarly research and data. Its goal is to educate people on the benefits of open publishing, advocate for changes to policy and practice, and build a community to collaborate on these issues. This year’s theme is </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/theme-of-2016-international-open-access-week-to-be-open-in-action"><b><i>open in action</i></b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For nearly 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. In addition to the legal machinery that helps communicate the rights to use and reuse open access research, the movement around Creative Commons and open access has spread through academia, libraries, science, education, and public policy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What’s been going on in Open Access over the last year? Here’s a just a brief sampling:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC’s Ryan Merkley thinks </span><a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/04/stealing-publicly-funded-research-isnt-stealing/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">it’s ludicrous that the public gets such poor access</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the fruits of its massive taxpayer investments in publicly funded research. Articles in </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/apr/18/why-academic-journals-expensive"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Guardian</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/04/29/the-future-of-open-access-why-has-academia-not-embraced-the-internet-revolution/#3e7a4bb71bbf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Forbes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/06/what-is-open-access-free-sharing-of-all-human-knowledge/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ArsTechnica</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-science-of-the-tax-dollar-double-dip-1459379449"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wall Street Journal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> wondered the same. And Robert Darnton </span><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/new-hillary-library/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">calls on the new Librarian of Congress</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to champion open access to publicly-funded research in the U.S.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vice President Biden launched the </span><a href="https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Cancer Moonshot Initiative</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which seeks to make ten years’ worth of progress on cancer research in half that time. As part of that initiative, CC continues to call for </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/05/keep-pressure-cancer-moonshot/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">immediate open access to all publicly-funded cancer research and data</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Specifically, we offered </span><a href="https://medium.com/cancer-moonshot/four-things-we-can-do-now-to-unlock-the-cure-for-cancer-9c6759ce5b44#.xproxx7qp"><span style="font-weight: 400;">four things we can do now to unlock the cure for cancer</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The United Nations </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/06/united-nations-report-calls-open-access-research-improve-global-health/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">urged governments, universities, and funders to prioritize open access to research</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as a means to improve global health.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The European Union continues to </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/05/03/europe-moving-right-direction-support-open-science/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">push ahead</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in support of open science, and the Commission wants scientific data to be </span><a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1408_en.htm"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8216;open by default&#8217;</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as a requirement for future research grants.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Electronic Frontier Foundation launched the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/18/reclaim-invention-benefit-everyone/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reclaim Invention</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> project to push for reforms in university technology transfer practices. CC is supporting the project as natural complement to related open access and open education initiatives in higher education.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OASPA showed </span><a href="http://oaspa.org/oaspa-members-ccby-growth-2015-data/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">increasing growth</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of fully open access journals, and </span><a href="http://oaspa.org/best-practices-licensing-attribution-need-to-know/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">released</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> an informative guide on best practices in licensing and attribution.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">More research was published that showed that publishing under open access can </span><a href="https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e16800"><span style="font-weight: 400;">help researchers succeed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by increasing citations and media attention, inviting potential collaborators, and opening the door to future job and funding opportunities.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be sure to check out </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">openaccessweek.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for more information on this week’s campaign, and </span><a href="http://www.action.openaccessweek.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">make a commitment</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to put ‘open in action’. </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. We’ll be supporting Open Access Week with posts, interviews, and other activities. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here we go!</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51397
title: Our proposal to get the CC logo and icons into Unicode
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<figure id="attachment_51436" style="width: 768px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-51436 size-full" src="media/19bb601e.sets-computation-logic.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sets-computation-logic.jpg" alt="Open Logic Project / CC BY 4.0" width="768" height="404" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sets-computation-logic.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sets-computation-logic-300x158.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sets-computation-logic-76x40.jpg 76w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sets-computation-logic-50x26.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sets-computation-logic-270x142.jpg 270w" 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="http://www.lulu.com/shop/mike-brailer/cutetropolis-2017-calendar/calendar/product-22888032.html">Open Logic Project</a> / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>We&#8217;ve submitted a <a href="media/a89ad8d5.CC-Unicode-Character-Proposal_2016-10-17.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Unicode-Character-Proposal_2016-10-17.pdf">proposal</a> to get the Creative Commons logo, license, and public domain icons into Unicode (more specifically, the Universal Coded Character Set<span> or UCS).</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode">Unicode</a> is the industry standard for encoding characters into text, which means that virtually all text-based editors, or tools with text-based editors, enable those characters and symbols that have been encoded into the standard. Examples of encoded characters range from ancient Greek letters to the current day <span style="font-weight: 400;"> ©</span>, @, and universal<span> </span><span>♲</span> symbols.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re excited about our proposal for several reasons: if encoded, creators will easily be able to mark their CC-licensed works with icons in text; users will be able to provide attribution for CC-licensed works they use with icons; and, if nothing else, in developing the proposal we became better aware of the ubiquitous use of our icons across a diversity of media, contexts, and domains. (Thanks for your <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/785564376501723137">contributions of CC-marked physical media on Twitter</a>!)</p>
<p>We wanted to <a href="media/a89ad8d5.CC-Unicode-Character-Proposal_2016-10-17.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Unicode-Character-Proposal_2016-10-17.pdf">share the proposal (pdf)</a> to get your thoughts as our community, especially if we missed any examples of use you think we should have included for future iterations. We are still planning on submitting a separate proposal for Creative Commons <a href="http://unicode.org/emoji/selection.html">Emoji</a> – adding<span> CC icons to Emoji would put icon attribution in the hands of everyone with mobile devices – </span>so your feedback is valuable. More importantly, we would still like to know: <strong>how do you currently indicate the CC license on a work without Unicode? How would you like to be able to indicate the license on a work?</strong> See the form below to submit a quick response to these questions.</p>
<p>Lastly, you&#8217;ll note in the proposal that the CC logo and icons are governed by a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/policies/#trademark">trademark policy</a>, while most unicode characters are not. We address this point directly (<span>we don&#8217;t think encoding CC icons in Unicode would jeopardize our trademarks or that having a trademark policy clarifying their usage undercuts the purpose of having the icons encoded</span>), but we also welcome your questions and thoughts.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51482
title: ‘Open In Action’ Requires Continuity and Solidarity with Fundamental Copyright Reform
uri: Open-In-Action-Requires-Continuity-and-Solidarity-with-Fundament
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/28/open-action-requires-continuity-solidarity/
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51418" src="media/45fc0b0a.OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1024x426.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1024x426.png" alt="oa_cc_banner_w_text_final" width="840" height="349" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1024x426.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-300x125.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-768x319.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-96x40.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-50x21.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-270x112.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OA_CC_banner_w_text_final-1-1200x499.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s </span></i><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Access Week 2016</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Open Access Week is an annual week-long event that highlights the importance of sharing scientific and scholarly research and data. The goal is to educate people on the benefits of open publishing, advocate for changes to policy and practice, and build a community to collaborate on these issues. This year’s theme is </span></i><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/theme-of-2016-international-open-access-week-to-be-open-in-action"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">open in action</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today marks the conclusion of another productive, informative </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Access Week</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. There were dozens of in-person workshops, online webinars, blog posts, and other actions from institutions and individuals all over the world aiming to educate and advocate for a more open system of producing and sharing research. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Monday we took a look at the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/24/open-access-week-2016-drumbeat-open-action/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">increasing drumbeat</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> around improving access to publicly funded research. On Tuesday we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/25/open-access-policy-practice-perspective-wellcome-trust/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">published an interview</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with Robert Kiley of the Wellcome Trust, exploring the perspective of philanthropy in supporting open access publishing. Wednesday we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/25/introducing-termination-of-transfer-tool/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">launched a beta version</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of our Termination of Transfer Tool, a project that empowers authors to learn about whether and when they can regain rights from publishers in order to share their works on an open access basis. We also </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/26/supporting-diverse-community-scientists-scientist-erin-mckiernan-puts-open-action/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">published an interview</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with scientist and advocate Erin McKiernan about her work for open science. On Thursday we hosted a Twitter chat with members of the library and scientific community to talk about some of the problems with the current scholarly publishing system, and what we can do about it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s clear that our work and advocacy in open access can’t end today if we expect positive change in support of improved access to scientific and scholarly research. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley </span><a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/04/stealing-publicly-funded-research-isnt-stealing/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote in WIRED</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If it wasn’t so well-established, the traditional model of academic publishing would be considered scandalous. Every year, hundreds of billions in research and data are funded, in whole or in part, with public dollars. We do this because we believe that knowledge is for the public good, but the public gets very little access to the fruits of its investment. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a shame that our movement needs to argue with policymakers that the public should get access to research that it pays for. It’s a shame that instead of experimenting with an “open by default” approach to sharing scientific information, in much of policy and practice the status quo remains closed. </span></p>
<p><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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But open access is not just about working to flip the default from closed to open. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are increasing threats to access to information, education, and freedom of expression. Just last week in Uruguay, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/28/uruguay-14-people-convicted-making-copies-educational-resources/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">14 people were convicted and sentenced to prison</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for the crime of making copies of educational resources for noncommercial use. In Colombia, student Diego Gomez is being </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/09/show-support-diego-gomez-week/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">prosecuted for the crime of sharing a research paper online</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. A copyright “reform” proposal has been introduced by the European Commission, but many of its provisions </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/14/european-commission-copyright-proposal-leaves-users-dark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">do little to improve the rights of users and the public</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Instead, much of the proposal reinforces protectionist measures for incumbent rights holders, while providing only limited benefits for researchers, teachers, internet users, and consumers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The open access movement should cooperate and collaborate with related communities of action, including the important work to rebalance the underlying systems of copyright to benefit creativity, innovation, and access to knowledge.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’d like to thank SPARC for leading this week’s activities, Authors Alliance for their partnership on the Termination of Transfer tool, and the countless libraries, universities, advocacy organizations, and individuals who participated in Open Access Week.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51469
title: In Uruguay, 14 people convicted for making copies of educational resources
uri: In-Uruguay-14-people-convicted-for-making-copies-of-educational-resou
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<p><img class="wp-image-51249 alignleft" src="media/50782f6b.copyrightwrench-1017x1024.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/copyrightwrench-1017x1024.png" alt="copyrightwrench" width="190" height="179" /><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last week, </span><a href="http://ecos.la/UY/13/Sociedad/2016/10/24/8770/justicia-condeno-a-14-duenos-de-fotocopiadoras/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">14 people were convicted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by an Uruguayan judge for the crime of making copies of educational resources. The defendants, owners of copy shops located near the University of the Republic (Universidad de la República) in Montevideo, have been sentenced to seven months in prison, although the judge has conditionally suspended the imprisonment. The case began in 2013, when a major police operation </span><a href="https://derechoalacultura.org/2013/10/21/prohibido-estudiar/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">shuttered copy shops</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the area surrounding the University, confiscated photocopy machines, and detained 32 people.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to Uruguayan copyright law 9.739, all copying of works under copyright—even if there is no profit-seeking motive—are criminal offenses. Therefore, anyone who makes copies for study or to access culture can be indicted with a single complaint.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following the copy shop raid in 2013, the Uruguayan Student Federation presented a draft bill on educational and library exceptions to copyright. The proposed text would remove the criminal penalties for infringements that are not commercial in nature. The bill has been preliminary approved by the Parliament, but still needs to be finalized. As expected, collecting societies and the Uruguay Publishers Association oppose the bill, arguing that copyright exceptions will destroy creators.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Uruguay, along with a large group of social organizations, are </span><a href="http://www.creativecommons.uy/excepciones-a-la-ley-de-derecho-de-autor-documento-conjunto-de-organizaciones-sociales/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">urging legislators to give early approval</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the copyright reform bill, before more people like students, librarians, and internet users are convicted of making non-commercial copies of educational resources.</span></p>
<p><em>Jorge Gemetto is co-director of <a href="http://www.articaonline.com/">Ártica</a> and team member of <a href="http://www.creativecommons.uy/">Creative Commons Uruguay</a>. </em></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51414
title: Supporting a diverse community of scientists: How Erin McKiernan puts “Open in Action”
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https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/26/supporting-diverse-community-scientists-scientist-erin-mckiernan-puts-open-action/

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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s </span></i><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Access Week 2016</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Open Access Week is an annual week-long event that highlights the importance of sharing scientific and scholarly research and data. The goal is to educate people on the benefits of open publishing, advocate for changes to policy and practice, and build a community to collaborate on these issues. This year’s theme is </span></i><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/theme-of-2016-international-open-access-week-to-be-open-in-action"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">open in action</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p>
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<p>Scientist <a href="https://emckiernan.wordpress.com/">Erin McKiernan</a> practices Open Science with a capital &#8220;O.&#8221; She is a researcher, an advocate for scientific diversity, and an educator on a mission to make science more inclusive and supportive. Erin&#8217;s work has appeared in journals such as <em>Journal of Computational Neuroscience,</em> and she has written book chapters and articles for a variety of media, including <em>Scientific American</em> and <em>The Guardian.</em> Her Shuttleworth Foundation sponsored project <a href="http://whyopenresearch.org/">&#8220;Why Open Research?&#8221;</a> is a lighthearted, educational take on the importance of open access scientific research. Erin lives and works in Mexico, where she is <span>a professor in the Department of Physics, Biomedical Physics Program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.</span></p>
<p><b>You are an international researcher who advocates for open science, open data, and other open systems. What initially interested you about working in research and education outside of the mainstream academic publishing climate? What drives you to continue doing this work?</b></p>
<p>I first became interested in open access while working as an adjunct professor at the University of Puerto Rico. I worked at one of the smaller campuses and we had limited access to the scientific literature. Struggling to access articles on a daily basis really puts the problem in perspective. Even more frustrating was watching my students struggle to access the literature they needed for their classes and research projects. I saw how it hindered their learning. Around the same time, I joined Twitter and began to connect with people in the open advocacy space. Through reading their tweets and blogs, I learned more about open access and open science in general, and found a very supportive community.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the last four years, I have worked as an educator and researcher in Mexico, where we have similar problems with a lack of access to scientific information as those I saw while working in Puerto Rico. While I’m lucky to work now at a large public institution with relatively good access to the scientific literature, many other scientists and students in Mexico struggle every day to access the information they need. This, along with a belief that increasing transparency makes for better science, is what drives me to continue my open advocacy work.</span></p>
<p><b>The theme of this year&#8217;s Open Access week is &#8220;Open in Action.&#8221; How do you put &#8220;open in action?&#8221; How can other scientists and researchers put &#8220;open in action&#8221; through their research, teaching, and educational activities?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2014, I publicly pledged to publish my work only in open access journals. Since then, I have expanded this pledge and have committed to share not only my published articles but also my preprints, code, data, and laboratory notebooks when possible. <a href="https://emckiernan.wordpress.com/pledge/">You can find my full pledge here</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I understand not all researchers are comfortable with this level of sharing, especially at first, but I think all researchers can commit to simple actions. For example, you can upload author versions of your published articles to open repositories to ensure all your work is accessible regardless of the venue in which it was originally published. Around 80% of journals currently allow this type of self-archiving. Another simple action educators and researchers can take is to share their slide decks from classes or seminars on open platforms like <a href="http://figshare.com">Figshare.</a> As researchers take these simple steps and start to see the benefits, I hope they’ll be encouraged to take even bigger steps (like data sharing) in the future.</span></p>
<p><b>What can open advocates do to begin to fix scholarly publishing?  </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the best things advocates can do is lead by example. If you are a researcher and believe in the importance of open research, then share your articles, code, data, and tell people about your choices and successes. As people see you sharing and being successful, it will inspire them to do the same. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another thing advocates can do is help educate their students and colleagues. Ask your colleagues where they plan to publish and why they chose that venue. Tell them about open publishing options in their field. Do this respectfully — the idea is not to preach or push, but rather to give them options. Many researchers are happy to explore new, more open venues, but simply aren’t aware of the wide variety of platforms that exist for sharing their work.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, if you sit on employment, grant review, or promotion and tenure committees, speak out about how the current emphasis on journal-level metrics, like impact factor, is hurting researchers and not always rewarding the best science. Encourage these committees to look at article-level metrics instead, and to value the importance of open publishing and science communication.</span></p>
<p><b>Your project &#8220;Why Open Research&#8221; provides a long list of reasons why open publishing is good for researchers, their career, and the future of science. What are the some of the benefits you&#8217;ve seen personally from your work in open?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes, I built </span><a href="http://whyopenresearch.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why Open Research?</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as a fun and visual way to show researchers the benefits to them of sharing their work. In addition, together with an excellent group of collaborators in the open advocacy and research space, I also recently published an article in the journal </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">eLife</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> called </span><a href="https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e16800"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“How open science helps researchers succeed.”</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I would say the biggest way in which I’ve benefitted from openly sharing my work is increased visibility. I’ve been able to reach a larger audience that I would have if I published only in closed-access journals. People have reached out to me through my blog and Twitter to discuss my work, and even talk about potential collaborations. This increased visibility is particularly important for researchers in the early stages of their career, who are looking to build a name for themselves. I think open research has helped me do that. Another way I’ve benefitted is receiving feedback. I’ve put preprints out and received detailed feedback from others in the field that helped me improve my manuscripts before journal submission. In my view, the more eyes on my work before final publication, the better. Open platforms have helped me get more eyes on my work.</span></p>
<p><b>How can other researchers be better advocates for open science and open data? How can the scientific community come together to support each other in this worthy goal?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Again, it’s important to start with your little corner of the world. Begin by sharing your own work and speaking to your colleagues about your choices. Establish a set of best practices for managing and sharing data from your lab, use electronic notebooks that can be easily shared, tweet and blog about your research. Most importantly, teach your students to do the same. In this way, we ensure that the next generation of researchers sees open research practices as the default way of doing science rather than the exception to the rule.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The scientific community as a whole is diverse. We have people working all over the world, and under very different conditions. We have to be aware of these different conditions (limited or no access to high-speed internet, limited financial resources for research, institutions with varying levels of infrastructure), and think about how some of the solutions we propose for promoting open science and open data may be affected by these factors. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is important that researchers from these countries and institutions be given a chance to voice their specific concerns when we’re discussing how to move forward. Some of the most relevant and innovative solutions for improving science and science communication are likely to come from developing countries.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The open advocacy space is perhaps even more diverse, with not only researchers at a variety of institutions, but also librarians, scholarly communication experts, policy makers, publishers, etc. I think the most important thing we can do is keep talking, and create more spaces (conferences, conference calls, community events) where we can overlap and talk about the unique challenges facing each of our communities. </span></p>
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title: OER Symposium held by affiliate team at NDU in Lebanon
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<p>Creative Commons affiliate team at Notre Dame University—Louaize (NDU) in Lebanon held a two-day symposium on “Open Educational Resources (OER): Trends and Prospects” from September 15-16, 2016 as a part of their 2017 roadmap to create awareness and cultivate openness culture within the university . The symposium highlighted the University’s strategic commitment to the integration of openly-licensed educational resources in the teaching and learning process. The occasion also marked the one-year signing of the Affiliate Agreement between Creative Commons and NDU.</p>
<figure id="attachment_51505" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51505 size-large" src="media/87ee3298.Photo-Nov-02-1-35-50-PM-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-35-50-PM-1024x576.jpg" alt="CC Regional Coordinator for the Arab World. Ms. Zarif meets NDU President Fr. Walid Moussa" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-35-50-PM-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-35-50-PM-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-35-50-PM-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-35-50-PM-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-35-50-PM-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-35-50-PM-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-35-50-PM-1200x675.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Creative Commons Regional Coordinator for the Arab World. Ms. Zarif meets NDU President Fr. Walid Moussa</figcaption></figure>
<p>To commemorate the event, NDU hosted Naeema Zarif, Creative Commons Regional Coordinator for the Arab World. Ms. Zarif met NDU President Fr. Walid Moussa, who expressed the importance of capitalizing on recent trends in open education to broaden access, foster innovation, and alleviate student textbook costs.</p>
<figure id="attachment_51508" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51508 size-large" src="media/901366cb.L1060438-1-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/L1060438-1-1024x576.jpg" alt="Dr. Fawzi baroud and Ms. Naeema Zarif at the OER symposium" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/L1060438-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/L1060438-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/L1060438-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/L1060438-1-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/L1060438-1-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/L1060438-1-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/L1060438-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Dr. Fawzi baroud and Ms. Naeema Zarif at the OER symposium</figcaption></figure>
<p>During the symposium, Dr. Fawzi Baroud, Assistant Vice President for Information Technology, described the history of  NDU’s involvement with open education beginning with his own participation in the U.S. State Department sponsored Open Book Project in 2014 and the continued collaboration with Creative Commons to create awareness and devise capacity building projects for an optimal OER culture within the university. He also traced the University’s future trajectory with regard to OER and the role it will play in advancing OER in Lebanon and the region. Ms. Zarif went on to speak about CC licenses in a panel titled “Creative Commons Licenses and the Future of Open Education in the Arab World.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_51507" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51507 size-large" src="media/c4fca070.MBC_8140-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8140-1024x683.jpg" alt="Dr. Kamal Abouchedid, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8140-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8140-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8140-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8140-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8140-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8140-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8140.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Dr. Kamal Abouchedid, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities</figcaption></figure>
<p>The symposium’s second day (titled “NDU Student Attitudes toward the Use of OER”) focused on the piloting of OER in a university-wide English course targeting close to 600 students in more than twenty sections across three campuses. Dr. Kamal Abouchedid, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, highlighted the integration of OER as a strategic initiative at NDU and as a means of fostering open education.</p>
<figure id="attachment_51510" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-51510" src="media/7a362ecd.MBC_8181-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8181-1024x683.jpg" alt="Joining the discussion from Denmark via Skype, Dr. Ena Hodzik" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8181-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8181-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8181-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8181-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8181-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8181-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8181.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Joining the discussion from Denmark via Skype, Dr. Ena Hodzik</figcaption></figure>
<p>The design of the course was described by Dr. Sandra Doueiher, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of English. Joining the discussion from Denmark via Skype, Dr. Ena Hodzik spoke about the scholarship of OER, specifically about the issue of quality and utility in the integration of OER. Dr. Hodzik went on to explain that the student survey administered by NDU closely aligned with the major themes in the literature of OER.</p>
<figure id="attachment_51509" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51509 size-large" src="media/e335af3d.MBC_8168-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8168-1024x683.jpg" alt="Dr. Sandra Doueiher and Dr. George Abdelnour" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8168-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8168-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8168-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8168-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8168-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8168-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBC_8168.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Dr. Sandra Doueiher and Dr. George Abdelnour</figcaption></figure>
<p>Survey results were presented by Dr. George Abdelnour, Chair of the Department of English and Translation. The extensive survey sought student feedback on the use of OER based on general attitudes, effectiveness, quality, and learning outcomes of the resources used. By a 2 to 1 margin, he explained, students showed high levels of satisfaction and engagement with OER. The findings also showed a favorable inclination toward enrolling in courses using OER in the future.</p>
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title: Pondering the Future of Open Education in Nigeria
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/01/open-education-in-nigeria/
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<p><i><span>In March we hosted the second Institute for Open Leadership. In our </span></i><a href="https://blog.creativecommons.org/2016/03/28/reporting-back-institute-open-leadership-2/"><i><span>summary of the event</span></i></a><i><span> we mentioned that the Institute fellows would be taking turns to write about their open policy projects. This week&#8217;s post is from Dr. Jane-Frances Agbu from the <a href="http://www.nou.edu.ng/">National Open University of Nigeria</a>. We also<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/14/jane-frances-agbu/"> interviewed Dr. Agbu about her work</a> in September.</span></i></p>
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<p>My name is Dr. Jane-Frances Obiageli Agbu. I am from Onitsha, a small but vibrant town in the Eastern part of Nigeria in West Africa. I work with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). I was the Head of NOUN-OER unit from 2014 till July 2016. Currently, I am the Dean of Faculty of Health Sciences of NOUN, which gives me the opportunity to focus on OER-Health. I am also an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51491" src="media/e3bafa18.DSC_0309-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC_0309-1024x576.jpg" alt="dsc_0309" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC_0309-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC_0309-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC_0309-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC_0309-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC_0309-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC_0309-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC_0309-1200x675.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><small>Photo by Jane-Frances Agbu, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a>.</small></p>
<p>It is natural to view anything that is ‘open’ and ‘freely available’ with a sort of hesitation or anxiety. It is also natural to presume these types of resources to be of less quality because of our contemporary instinct that almost everything should be paid for, and that the more these materials are hoarded, the pricier they will be. The open movement, with its initiatives around ‘Open Education’, ‘Open Access’, and ‘Open Educational Resources&#8217;, can make many people very uncomfortable.</p>
<p>I embraced the concept and practices of Open Education in 2006 when I joined the National Open University of Nigeria. Back then, I was a mother of three very young, and I needed to work close to home. NOUN was just five minutes away from my home. It was a perfect situation, and with very minimal knowledge about open education, I applied and got a job there. At the time, NOUN then was just three years old. However, they offered robust training for new entrants in the open education space, since the concept and practice was relatively new in Nigeria.</p>
<p>My friends and colleagues, who were so used to the conventional face-to-face mode of education, were disappointed with me. They asked me, &#8216;What is &#8220;open&#8221; about the open university?&#8217; and said, &#8220;You should seek appointment in a &#8216;normal&#8217; university in order to be respected and advance your career&#8221;. these comments were both troublesome and motivating. I wondered whether I made a mistake joining NOUN, but a chance encounter in an elevator with one of our students got me thinking. He simply asked, &#8216;Do you work here?&#8217;, and when I nodded my head, he said &#8216;thank you for giving me the opportunity to work and learn&#8217;. It was heartwarming, and 10 years later I am happily still an advocate of open education.</p>
<p>I became more involved in the Open Educational Resources movement in 2013. It was another chance encounter because the invitation to the workshop that introduced me to OER was initially meant for a senior Professor at my University, but he was busy and I was asked to attend. The workshop took place in Abuja, Nigeria and was organized by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in collaboration with UNESCO and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). There, I met Abel Caine of UNESCO and Alex Gakuru of Creative Commons. Alex said something that really stuck with me: &#8220;We are Africans, we live communal lives, we cook together, we work together. It is in us to share, so why are we not sharing knowledge?&#8221; I was incredibly captivated with this statement, and I wrote a long proposal to my institution on the need to embrace OER. A year and half later, I was asked to champion OER within NOUN. With support from UNESCO, we were able to organize an OER workshop to educate policy makers, university faculty, and course content developers. In December 2015 we <a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/national_open_university_of_nigeria_launches_the_1st_west_african_university_oer_portal/#.WAzGp7wrJsM">shared our experiences</a> with the Federal government of Nigeria.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll see that my journey toward embracing open education and Open Educational Resources has not been a straightforward one, but it is a life that leaves me with smiles and appreciation. Mysteriously, it appears that some angels have crossed my path in this journey and further helped me to understand the beauty of opening up knowledge for common good.</p>
<p>While pondering on the palpable anxiety for the ‘open’ movement, let me share with you a bit more of my thinking:</p>
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<li>Naturally, with whatever knowledge we have, we want to be the &#8220;sage on the stage rather than a guide on the side&#8221;. This famous statement from Allison King brings back floods of memories for me. I can still visualize my former professors speaking eloquently in class, filling students with respect and awe. I felt anxious and wondered if I could ever get to be as knowledgeable as my professors. They were knowledge personified. But for me, open education has demystified this sort of reverence toward dissemination of knowledge. Open Educational Resources—with its five Rs (reuse, remix, repurpose, revise, retain) and the flexible license options of Creative Commons—has humanized and democratized teaching and learning. Surely there are some that still believe in sole ownership of knowledge. Those people will continue to feel threatened by the &#8216;open movement&#8217;, but we&#8217;ve seen the incredible opportunities of open education, and we&#8217;ll continue on our path.</li>
<li>Some are also hesitant to share knowledge because of fear of scrutiny. This of course is a natural instinct (no one likes to be criticised), but overcoming this shows that you view criticism as an avenue of learning and improvement. I think we will come to see that the costs of being &#8216;closed&#8217; are much greater than the costs of being &#8216;open&#8217;, and that in the long run &#8216;open&#8217; will be more personally gratifying, and help the most people.</li>
<li>Also, is it possible that this initial anxiety toward being more open is triggered by the desire for conformity? It is a lot easier to move with the popular opinion, while advocates of OER and other open initiatives are still in the minority. But we must realize that it takes courage to walk with the less-traveled crowd. And we will realize that we are not alone, and that there is an increasing support network of educators, students, and advocates to rely on and collaborate with.</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51492" src="media/a3fcdaff.IMG_20160314_110444-e1477832892878-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_20160314_110444-e1477832892878-1024x576.jpg" alt="img_20160314_110444" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_20160314_110444-e1477832892878-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_20160314_110444-e1477832892878-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_20160314_110444-e1477832892878-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_20160314_110444-e1477832892878-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_20160314_110444-e1477832892878-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_20160314_110444-e1477832892878-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_20160314_110444-e1477832892878-1200x675.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><small>Photo by Jane-Frances Agbu, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a>.</small></p>
<p>In March 2016, I was selected as one of the participants for Institute of Open Leadership (IOL2). I met other beautiful individuals that share a similar vision for &#8216;open&#8217;. In a lush garden up high in mountains of Cape Town, we shared our experiences, our projects, and open policy plans. The beauty remains with me as we continue to receive guidance from our mentors and share information amongst the IOL2 fellows.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51495" src="media/8868dcef.25919276701_f3825c9f8d_o.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/25919276701_f3825c9f8d_o.jpg" alt="25919276701_f3825c9f8d_o" width="864" height="648" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/25919276701_f3825c9f8d_o.jpg 864w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/25919276701_f3825c9f8d_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/25919276701_f3825c9f8d_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/25919276701_f3825c9f8d_o-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/25919276701_f3825c9f8d_o-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/25919276701_f3825c9f8d_o-207x155.jpg 207w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><small><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/42511880@N03/25919276701/in/pool-2946428@N23/">IOL2 Fellows + Mentors</a>, by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/42511880@N03/">Cable Green </a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a></small></p>
<p>Here are some useful links related to my work:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.oerafrica.org/system/files/12272/noun.pdf?file=1&amp;type=node&amp;id=12272">The Best of Two Open Worlds at the National Open University of Nigeria</a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://europa.eu/eyd2015/en/unesco/stories/embracing-philosophy-open-educational-resources">Embracing the Philosophy of Open Educational Resources</a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/14/jane-frances-agbu/">&#8220;It upholds the dignity of mankind&#8221;: The power of OER in West Africa</a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftA1ZXuoay0">OER for Teachers video</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/01/open-education-in-nigeria/">Pondering the Future of Open Education in Nigeria</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51528
title: CC Europe meetup in Lisbon
uri: CC-Europe-meetup-in-Lisbon
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/04/cc-europe-meetup-in-lisbon/
content:
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">In September 2016, Creative Commons Europe hosted a meeting for our European affiliates in Lisbon, Portugal.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">We would like to express our gratitude to the kind folks at <a href="http://www.cm-lisboa.pt/polo-cultural-gaivotas-boavista/escola-das-gaivotas">Escola Das Gaivotas</a> for hosting us, and to Teresa, Fatima, André, and Diogo from the CC Portugal team for being the best hosts ever!</span></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What happens when you put 30 passionate commoners accustomed to meeting only online in a lovely conference venue in an historic city? Lots of talking, group updates, big plans being made, old and new issues being tackled, great projects presented, and new designs of collaboration schemes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the end of September, 30 participants from 15 different European Creative Commons teams came together for a meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. CC Representatives from the UK, France, Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Ireland, Slovenia, Greece, Belarus, Ukraine, Austria, Belgium, and Romania joined the meeting, organized by CC Portugal.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51529" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-51529" src="media/33594b7e.Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.01.48-PM-1024x682.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.01.48-PM-1024x682.png" alt="The whole group poses together in Lisbon. Saša Krajnc, CC BY" width="840" height="559" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.01.48-PM-1024x682.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.01.48-PM-300x200.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.01.48-PM-768x512.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.01.48-PM-60x40.png 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.01.48-PM-50x33.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.01.48-PM-233x155.png 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.01.48-PM-1200x799.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.01.48-PM.png 1444w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The whole group poses together in Lisbon. Saša Krajnc, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From this meeting, we learned that the CC affiliate network is interested </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">(and involved) in much more than just licenses. CC teams are vital in new emerging “commons” activities, the sharing economy, 3D printing, open agriculture, open business models, and copyright reform. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some highlights of the meeting: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The School of Rock(ing) Copyright, an information sharing bootcamp on copyright reform organized by Communia, with support from CC’s </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/07/21/cc-is-awesome/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Awesome Fund</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. For a </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/10/07/school-rocking-copyright-cc-europe-meeting/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">full report on this session, see Communia’s website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We all stand for creativity, innovation, access to knowledge, and development. Copyright laws can either boost or limit these goals, so we are actively involved with making progressive changes to copyright to benefit users, education, and the commons. Having some non-EU affiliates with us as well offered an interesting perspective on the importance of training and support on copyright reform in other regions and other languages than English. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC business models with a presentation of </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/11/13/creative-commons-toolkit-for-business/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Portugal’s Toolkit for businesses</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and an overview of </span><a href="https://medium.com/made-with-creative-commons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC’s Open Business Model project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Open business models about more than using the commons for gaining profit.</span></span>
<figure id="attachment_51530" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-51530 size-medium" src="media/6783fd1d.Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.59-PM-200x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.59-PM-200x300.png" alt="Saša Krajnc, CC BY" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.59-PM-200x300.png 200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.59-PM-27x40.png 27w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.59-PM-33x50.png 33w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.59-PM-103x155.png 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.59-PM.png 650w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Saša Krajnc, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open business models are about allowing all actors gain a fair share (above and beyond monetary rewards) for their contribution to the commons. Exploring and supporting open business models can also work to tackle the related discrepancies that can possibly turn a flourishing commons into a closed, feudalistic environment. The use of CC can one aspect for creating open, regenerative, and distributed networks. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The kick off for the</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/04/05/open-community-call-help-us-build-creative-commons-certificates/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> CC Certificates project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> raises fascinating challenges for CC in terms of education and validation of information about CC. A certification mechanism will formalize many of our efforts to teach about open, which is a challenge for a network with such a grassroots ethos. The project has a </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">dedicated website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> where you can check for updates. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A ‘CC infrastructure’ session on what’s going on at tech and legal level. You can check the notes from this meeting </span><a href="http://here."><span style="font-weight: 400;">here.</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also discussed the Global Network Strategy and next steps for our European community, which we look forward to continuing to work on over the next months, particularly as we prepare for our Global Summit in April in Toronto.</span></li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_51531" style="width: 591px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51531" src="media/1605ea64.Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.42-PM-1024x680.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.42-PM-1024x680.png" alt="The whole group poses together in Lisbon. Saša Krajnc, CC BY" width="591" height="392" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.42-PM-1024x680.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.42-PM-300x199.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.42-PM-768x510.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.42-PM-60x40.png 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.42-PM-50x33.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.42-PM-233x155.png 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.42-PM-1200x797.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-6.02.42-PM.png 1304w" sizes="(max-width: 591px) 85vw, 591px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Saša Krajnc, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ll keep you updated as we continue our work for CC Europe in support of the commons. In the meantime, if you want to join the discussion, you can find us on </span><a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/cc-europe/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Slack!</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">PS If you are wondering about the marvelous artworks in the photos, they’re by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vhils"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vhils</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51516
uri: Making-data-and-tools-available-for-the-world-to-see-Arturo-Sanchez-o
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/02/atlas-cern/
title:
Making data and tools available for the world to see: Arturo Sanchez of CERN on why ATLAS uses CC0 data

content:
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arturo_Sanchez4">Arturo Rodolfo Sanchez</a>, a member of the </span><a href="https://home.cern/about/experiments/atlas"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ATLAS</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> community and outreach team, “The </span><a href="https://home.cern/about/accelerators/large-hadron-collider"><span style="font-weight: 400;">large hadron collider</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is running now at 13 TeV. This is an energy level never seen before in a collider.” This exciting development is built on the power of open science – at ATLAS, data sharing and an open, innovative approach to information collaboration has become a fundamental part of this important scientific community.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year, ATLAS </span><a href="http://home.cern/about/updates/2016/08/explore-lhc-data-new-atlas-educational-platform"><span style="font-weight: 400;">decided to release the data from 100 trillion proton-proton particles to the public under CC0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the first release of 8 TeV data. More than 3000 scientists from 174 countries work on ATLAS, and more are joining every day. At the CERN open data platform educational portal, scientists, educators, and science enthusiasts can access the work of thousands of scientists working together to hunt for the Higgs-Boson particle and other important scientific discoveries.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sanchez’s vision of science is open, and he believes that CERN’s is as well – working with Creative Commons, he describes a new kind of research organization built with the power of community. Though the 7000 ton ATLAS detector in the large hadron collider lives </span><a href="https://home.cern/about/experiments/atlas"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“100 meters below a small Swiss village,”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the data moves far beyond the confines of the institution, providing insights and experimentation to the entire world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This interview was conducted with the assistance of <a href="https://twitter.com/noamprywes">Noam Prywes,</a> a post-doctoral </span>fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital.</p>
<p><b>Why is open data and open science important to CERN? Why have you chosen to use CC0 for this dataset in particular? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Data, open software and open hardware are very important for us! It is part of our policy in the </span><a href="media/f9edf002.ATLAS-Data-Policy.pdf" data-original-source="http://opendata.cern.ch/record/413/files/ATLAS-Data-Policy.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ATLAS Collaboration</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the other </span><a href="http://opendata.cern.ch/collection/Data-Policies"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This is important for us because we are a scientific community and our main goal is to look for answers as humankind, not as an institution. We are also funded by taxpayers – CERN as an organisation and facility, and the experiments like ATLAS (</span><a href="http://home.cern/topics/large-hadron-collider"><span style="font-weight: 400;">part of the LHC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) use public sector funding. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Independently of the </span><a href="https://home.cern/about/member-states"><span style="font-weight: 400;">member country,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> most of them have as policy/law to publicly release any final result, publication, dataset, and conclusion that public funding research institutions generate. In ATLAS, we develop resources (datasets and tools) that can be used mainly for educational projects carrying out by ATLAS and not-ATLAS members. Of course, this is not a restriction! We don’t want to limit the use that a person (educator, scientific, artist, etc…) could have with the data.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51517" style="width: 690px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://home.cern/about/updates/2016/08/explore-lhc-data-new-atlas-educational-platform"><img class="size-full wp-image-51517" src="media/aadf9b33.opendata-gif_96.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/opendata-gif_96.jpg" alt="The &quot;Histogram Analyser&quot; allows to make data cuts and selections directly from the browser. (Image: ATLAS Experiment/CERN)" width="690" height="388" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/opendata-gif_96.jpg 690w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/opendata-gif_96-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/opendata-gif_96-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/opendata-gif_96-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/opendata-gif_96-270x152.jpg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The &#8220;Histogram Analyser&#8221; allows to make data cuts and selections directly from the browser. (Image: ATLAS Experiment/CERN)</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are a lot of people out there with many different ways of thinking, so who knows what can be possible or not possible with those resources? This is why we went for the CC0 license for the datasets released by ATLAS on its Open Data project. The same has been done by the CERN Open Data project. I can complement my answer by mentioning several projects from CERN or CERN groups: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://root.cern "><span style="font-weight: 400;">Root:</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A modular scientific software framework</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://opendata.cern.ch "><span style="font-weight: 400;">CERN Open Data project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for the release of experiment data and resources </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.ohwr.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ATLAS OpenData and educational resources</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, our platform! </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.ohwr.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CERN Open Hardware Project </span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://invenio-software.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Invenio</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="http://indico-software.org "><span style="font-weight: 400;">Indico</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Very successful projects born at CERN: and </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://openlab.cern"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Lab:</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Another training and educational project where public and private sector come together</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>What&#8217;s the relationship between your initiative and other open data and open access initiatives in scientific communities? How are you working together? Is there anything unique about your relationship to open access that&#8217;s different from other open science initiatives? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As you can see, the CERN community is keen on the involvement of a high number of people, countries, institutions and research fields involved. Therefore, any project that includes two or more groups working at CERN or in CERN-hosted experiments is already an international enterprise! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let me give you the ATLAS example: we are an experiment with ~3000 members coming from more than 120 universities around the world. Many of them are senior professors in their home institutions. Thousands of students can be or are already involved in ATLAS educational, training or outreach activities. This leaves us with the possibility of having a professor in a North American university using public data to write some code to train her new master’s student. At the same time, an ATLAS college in a German university is running a complete laboratory course in particle physics using the ATLAS public data together with a combination of public software and custom code. Meanwhile, a group of Latin-American ATLAS members are presenting public seminars and running exercises for high school students using public apps and public ATLAS data. </span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_51518" style="width: 800px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="media/8bea32ae.ATLAS_experiment" data-original-source="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment"><img class="size-full wp-image-51518" src="media/37281a61.CERN_Atlas_Caverne.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CERN_Atlas_Caverne.jpg" alt="ATLAS experiment detector under construction in October 2004 in its experimental pit; the current status of construction can be seen on the CERN website.[1] Note the people in the background, for comparison. Nikolai Schwerg CC BY-SA 3.0" width="800" height="600" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CERN_Atlas_Caverne.jpg 800w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CERN_Atlas_Caverne-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CERN_Atlas_Caverne-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CERN_Atlas_Caverne-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CERN_Atlas_Caverne-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CERN_Atlas_Caverne-207x155.jpg 207w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">ATLAS experiment detector under construction in October 2004 in its experimental pit; the current status of construction can be seen on the CERN website.[1] Note the people in the background, for comparison. <a href="media/8bea32ae.ATLAS_experiment" data-original-source="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment">Nikolai Schwerg</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA 3.0</a></figcaption></figure><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coming back to your question, we are working together with other communities and sharing as much as we can! Different communities in the high energy physics (HEP) sector have meetings and conferences to share their experiences, knowledge, and research with other teams. I don’t think there is anything unique in the way we are doing Open Data and Open Source, in fact, it is this constant feedback between communities that helps to find common frameworks, platforms and even ways to develop and deploy resources. Our community is global and our audience is global, but the approach is in fact local. It is important for us is to understand the difficulties and limitations in each region: it is not the same to teach HEP to students in the United States to those in Venezuela. The languages, resources, culture, and differences in the academic systems are now part of our fine tuning when writing projects and documentation.</span></p>
<p><b>Since CERN is so international, how do you choose how you release data and publish research? Is open access a more acute concern because of national boundaries? What about funding sources? Are there countries that demand open access as a precondition for money? Has that influenced scientists from different locales? </b></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The way to release data is in a worldwide common framework: on a web platform, with a lot of files to create the best documentation possible. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This last step is in fact the most difficult one, so, we run local trainings as well, with different audiences in order to get feedback and repair the holes and make the web and user interfaces better every day. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The fact that CERN is a multinational organisation with so many funding governments and institutions consolidate the openness of the research and the resources products of those. Many legal aspects are taking into account and I am do not know all the </span><a href="https://legal.web.cern.ch/licensing/software"><span style="font-weight: 400;">details,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> but the spirit is to share and be as useful as possible. </span></p>
<p><strong>CERN is in such an individual position in terms of the science it does, so what kind of innovative measures are you taking to publicize this science? How are you highlighting the work that scientists and communities are doing with the published data? </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have been working very hard in the communication side by using every possible media out there to communicate results, activities, tutorials, and even how physicists spend their time. This is done by the CERN community and included in each of the experiments now. Our presence in social media is strong (at least for a scientific community!) and more and more people are aware of what we do and why it is important. Students around the world come to visit CERN and the experiments, and </span><a href="http://atlas-live-virtual-visit.web.cern.ch"><span style="font-weight: 400;">some others visit the place virtually.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In the case of the data, the challenge right now is to use the power of the media and the web in order to explain how to use it. Developing easy but still powerful user Interfaces is the key! With a lot of energy and ideas we are trying to reach more people every day, even with the limited resources that we have. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am reaching the end with the beginning of this story – the ATLAS Open Data platform. In the outreach group we are learning and developing tools and protocols that help us disseminate the data publicly, trying to prove to ourselves and the members of the experiment that there is interest to use those datasets and resources by the international community. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our aim is getting more data out there! We want to make that data and tools available for the world to see.</span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51556
title: Election resources from the Commons: A guide for Election Day
uri: Election-resources-from-the-Commons-A-guide-for-Election-Day
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/08/election-resources-commons-guide-election-day/
content:
<figure id="attachment_51557" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/24237481935/in/dateposted/"><img class="size-full wp-image-51557" src="media/38a92f62.24237481935_92e3fccb02_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/24237481935_92e3fccb02_z.jpg" alt="Chuck Kennedy captured this scene at dusk as the President entered the Outer Oval Office with Shaun Donovan.&quot; (Official White House by Chuck Kennedy) United States Government Work" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/24237481935_92e3fccb02_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/24237481935_92e3fccb02_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/24237481935_92e3fccb02_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/24237481935_92e3fccb02_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/24237481935_92e3fccb02_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;Chuck Kennedy captured this scene at dusk as the President entered the Outer Oval Office with Shaun Donovan.&#8221; (Official White House by Chuck Kennedy) <a href="https://www.usa.gov/government-works">United States Government Work</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>In the unlikely chance you haven’t noticed, it’s Election Day in the United States. For the past few months, we’ve been sharing resources from the commons to help you get informed, get excited, and most importantly, get voting!</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Below are some of our favorite election related resources from this year from the commons:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our profile of Creative Commons political photographer </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/06/17/spotlight-gage-skidmore-political-photographer-2/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gage Skidmore</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7SMwipBlDwBPEwxq8QD8sw"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to Vote in Every State:</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A project by Vlog Brothers</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://gyftr.us/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get Your Friends to Register to Vote:</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by CC board member Ben Adida</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-to-deal-with-election-anger-try-a-little-tenderness-68319"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Conversation’s</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> CC-licensed news coverage</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://politicaladarchive.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internet Archive’s </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Political Ad archive</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://pkremp.github.io/report.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">An open source dataset of polling information</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from Pierre-Antoine Kremp</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ll miss</span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> President Barack Obama’s</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> often CC-licensed Flickr page</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wikipedia articles that list the political stances of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Hillary_Clinton"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hillary Clinton</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Donald_Trump"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Donald Trump</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coral Project’s open source </span><a href="https://bocoup.com/weblog/how-are-americans-feeling-about-the-election"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Tell our next president”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> feature to encourage voters to share their feelings about the election.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.emergencykitten.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emergency Kitten,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a website that delivers a CC licensed photo of a kitten every time the page is refreshed, which is a perfect antidote to election news fatigue.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open knowledge and intellectual freedom have been key issues this primary season. Creative Commons is proud to provide the tools to release the world’s knowledge through equitability and accessibility. We stand with the American people as they cast their votes today.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51544
title: Awesome Fund workshop to promote national culture and language in the Buryat Republic of Russia
uri: Awesome-Fund-workshop-to-promote-national-culture-and-language-in-the
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/07/awesome-fund-workshop-promote-national-culture-language-buryat-republic-russia/

content:
<p>This year, Creative Commons is running our first <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/07/21/cc-is-awesome/">Awesome Fund</a>, a series of small grants to promote the <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CCisAwesome">activities of our global community. </a></p>
<p>In October, <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Mongolia">CC Mongolia</a> ran a workshop to promote national culture and language in the Buryat Republic of Russia as part of their Awesome Fund grant. A full report on their activities can be found <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UrTOWn_kCkjBRxEkc_KAm2qj21hvRZQEHYIojcHB2QA/edit?usp=sharing">here,</a> and a short report by Batbold Zagdragchaa, CC Mongolia coordinator, is below.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in getting involved with our global community, join our<a href="http://slack-signup.creativecommons.org"> Slack</a> to find out more.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The project objective was to promote CC outreach among the national minority group </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buryatia"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Buryats</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, in Siberia, Russia. Buryats are ethnic Mongolians who comprise 30% of the population of the Buryat Republic. Young urban Buryats are becoming less proficient in their native language in favor of the Russian language. There is a need to promote Buryat culture, traditions and language. Using CC licenses and adopting principles of openness and sharing can enhance these activities.   </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51545" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-51545" src="media/12904880.Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.54.40-AM-1024x696.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.54.40-AM-1024x696.png" alt="Presenter at the CC Mongolia workshop CC BY" width="840" height="571" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.54.40-AM-1024x696.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.54.40-AM-300x204.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.54.40-AM-768x522.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.54.40-AM-59x40.png 59w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.54.40-AM-50x34.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.54.40-AM-228x155.png 228w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.54.40-AM-1200x816.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.54.40-AM.png 1256w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Presenter at the CC Mongolia workshop <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are some factors that can contribute to increasing interests and wider acceptance of CC licenses in Russia and in its Buryatia Republic. CC has been officially adapted into Russian legislation since October 2014. </span><a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The official websites of the Russian President</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the <a href="http://government.ru/en/">government</a> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, for example. In 2016, the government of neighboring Tuva Republic started using CC license in its web portals at </span><a href="http://gov.tuva.ru/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://gov.tuva.ru/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="http://opentuva.ru/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://opentuva.ru/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> . </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Mongolia organized a workshop on October 14, 2016 at Buryat State University in Ulan-Ude. Around 40 people including educators, students, web developers, and government officials participated in the event. CC Mongolia presentation comprised of two parts: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National OER program in Mongolia for 2014-2024 and its projects</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC license introduction and its use in Russia and worldwide </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the most of audience it was the first time they’ve heard about CC licenses. Several participants expressed their interest to learn more about CC licenses and their willingness to use it for their work. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the visit, also discussions were held about future potential projects, which can use open licensing and possibilities for public and private organizations to implement an open policy.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The outcomes of the workshop are: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Raised awareness about CC licenses and principles of openness and sharing will </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Promoted linguistic and cultural diversity </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Potential for future partnership for joint projects </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After the workshop, we will continue email communications about open access. In terms of language promotion, we hope in the future to collaborate with UNESCO affiliate institutes and preferably create a network similar to </span><a href="http://langoer.eun.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">EU’s LANGOER</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51546" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-51546" src="media/bf852a34.Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.56.33-AM-1024x698.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.56.33-AM-1024x698.png" alt="Presenter at the CC Mongolia workshop CC BY" width="840" height="573" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.56.33-AM-1024x698.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.56.33-AM-300x205.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.56.33-AM-768x524.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.56.33-AM-59x40.png 59w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.56.33-AM-50x34.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.56.33-AM-227x155.png 227w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.56.33-AM-1200x819.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-07-at-11.56.33-AM.png 1252w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Presenters at the CC Mongolia workshop <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51573
title: Announcing the official Polish translation of the CC 4.0 License
uri: Announcing-the-official-Polish-translation-of-the-CC-4-0-License
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/15/polish-translation/
content:
<p><a href="http://creativecommons.pl/2016/11/licencje-4-0-po-polsku/"><img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-51576" src="media/8b544844.CC-infografika-final-1-192x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CC-infografika-final-1-192x1024.jpg" alt="cc-infografika-final" width="192" height="1024" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CC-infografika-final-1-192x1024.jpg 192w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CC-infografika-final-1-56x300.jpg 56w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CC-infografika-final-1-29x155.jpg 29w" sizes="(max-width: 192px) 85vw, 192px" /></a>For a summary of the changes to the 4.0 license in Polish, <a href="http://creativecommons.pl/2016/11/licencje-4-0-po-polsku/">please see this post.</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are thrilled to announce our official translation of 4.0 into Polish. The translation process was time-consuming (Polish is a tricky language, believe us), but now all Polish speakers can benefit from the 4.0 licenses in their national language. The latest version has become increasingly popular in Poland (especially among public administration) since its release, but until now, we lacked translation of legal texts &#8211; not any more!  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Poland coordinated the translation process. The translation draft was prepared by the CC Poland legal team. The draft was put to public consultation from 30 July to 31 August 2016, and at the same time translation was sent directly to the people involved in the earlier translations of CC licenses, IP lawyers, librarians and representatives of cultural heritage institutions. Blogs, social medias and mailing list were used to inform about translation process. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you to the members of CC Poland involved in translation process:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marcin Serafin &#8211; lawyer, legal lead of Creative Commons Poland, a subject-matter expert in the legal translation process.<br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katarzyna Strycharz &#8211; lawyer, Creative Commons Poland, coordinator of the translation process responsible for managing the process of translation and communication among team members, contact with Regional Coordinators and CC Legal.<br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Natalia Mileszyk &#8211; lawyer, Creative Commons Poland, responsible for process of comments from CC Legal, final publication and contact with CC Legal<br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Filip Rak &#8211; volunteer in Creative Commons Poland, legal help in translation process.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We want to also thank for invaluable help, comments, and support to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alek Tarkowski (policy advisor Creative Commons, public lead in Creative Commons Poland), Klaudia Grabowska (Open Access Lead for Creative Commons Polska) and Kamil Śliwowski (project lead of Creative Commons Poland).</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51561
title: Curtain up on HowlRound, the theater knowledge commons
uri: Curtain-up-on-HowlRound-the-theater-knowledge-commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/10/howlround/
content:
<figure id="attachment_51564" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://howlround.com/"><img class="wp-image-51564 size-large" src="media/3d619783.Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-6.15.36-PM-1024x519.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-6.15.36-PM-1024x519.png" alt="screen-shot-2016-11-10-at-6-15-36-pm" width="840" height="426" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-6.15.36-PM-1024x519.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-6.15.36-PM-300x152.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-6.15.36-PM-768x389.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-6.15.36-PM-79x40.png 79w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-6.15.36-PM-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-6.15.36-PM-270x137.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-6.15.36-PM-1200x608.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Screenshot of the HowlRound front page. <a>CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>HowlRound was founded five years ago as the &#8220;knowledge commons&#8221; for the theater community to better include the voices of artists and creators working for inclusivity. The HowlRound organizers we interviewed, Jamie Gahlon, Vijay Mathew, Adewunmi Oke, and Ramona Ostrowski, exemplify the concept of the commons through their commitment to community action, creative output, and creating meaningful, lasting resources for artists and creatives working in theater and beyond.</p>
<p>HowlRound is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license and run through Emerson College in Boston. They gladly welcome contributors to their <a href="http://howlround.com/">Knowledge Commons.</a></p>
<p><b>Why a knowledge commons for the theater community? What prompted this project? Why did you decide to license the content via Creative Commons?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When we started HowlRound in 2011, the US nonprofit theatre field was suffering from an imbalance of resources and scarce and elitist access to information and knowledge. It felt like many conversations were happening in institutions behind closed doors and leaving artists out altogether. In order to know what was happening in the world of theatre outside of your own professional network, you had to be invited into elite conferences and festivals. We adopted the model of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production"><span style="font-weight: 400;">commons-based peer-production</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (best exemplified by Wikipedia) and the Creative Commons license as a practical way to usher in, amplify, and reveal the incredible ideas, conversations, and experiences of theatremakers across the country—no matter their previous social standing and access to resources in this microcosm. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also used commons-based peer-production and the Creative Commons license as a critique of and an antidote to the capitalistic values that many nonprofits ironically absorb as organizational behaviors: competition, creation of artificial scarcity, advancement at the expense of others, and individualistic self-advancement. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using and promoting the Creative Commons has been a way for us to community-organize our field around shared goals and concerns around collective advancement, and collaboration that benefits the whole. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><b> You produce a lot of content but you also host meetups, chat on Twitter, and provide other community events and actions. How do you balance the online community on your site with the in person aspects of your work?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The online platforms (</span><a href="http://howlround.com/journal"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Journal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><a href="http://howlround.com/tv"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> HowlRound TV</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the Twitter Chats, the forthcoming </span><a href="http://worldtheatremap.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">World Theatre Map</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) and the in-person convenings amplify each other; all follow the same model of commons-based peer-production. We see our online platforms and in-person work as complementary pieces of a whole. The agendas and content are shaped and managed by the same community of people who self-elect to participate. Our role as HowlRound staff is that of community organizers, facilitators, and systems designers. </span></p>
<p><b> What kinds of outcomes have you seen from the commons-based approach that you take?</b></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The democratization and disruption that these platforms have created has made highly visible space for a multiplicity of viewpoints, perspectives, and practices.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> It’s been truly revelatory in terms of generating a diversity of narratives about contemporary theatremaking that have been previously marginalized and unheard. People’s stake in and care of this commons is palpable. HowlRound has helped to incubate self-organized movements for equity and community advancement (the </span><a href="http://howlround.com/latina/o-theatre-commons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Latina/o Theatre Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a great example of commons-based practice in action). An orientation towards collective resources that can benefit not just a few, but many — is now our mainstream culture and narrative for this community.</span></p>
<p><b> What are you most excited about currently? Any collaborations that are particularly motivating or exciting to you that are upcoming?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are extremely excited about </span><a href="http://worldtheatremap.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The World Theatre Map</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a user-generated directory of the global theatre community, which will launch in mid-January 2017. Theatre artists, designers, practitioners, and administrators around the world can create profiles, see each other, and find out what kind of theatre is happening in real-time across the globe, and in their local communities. Our hope is that this map will foster connections and collaborations in the global theatre community in a way that hasn’t been done before. All in all, it’s our largest foray to date towards building a truly international knowledge commons for the theatre. It’s also a true test of the commons model—it will only be as valuable as the data and information the community puts in it. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51582
title: Open Education and Open Government in Chile
uri: Open-Education-and-Open-Government-in-Chile
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/17/open-education-open-government-chile/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51584" src="media/ccff7752.Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-11.34.30-AM-1024x615.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-11.34.30-AM-1024x615.png" alt="screen-shot-2016-11-15-at-11-34-30-am" width="840" height="504" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-11.34.30-AM-1024x615.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-11.34.30-AM-300x180.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-11.34.30-AM-768x461.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-11.34.30-AM-67x40.png 67w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-11.34.30-AM-50x30.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-11.34.30-AM-258x155.png 258w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-11.34.30-AM-1200x721.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-11.34.30-AM.png 1242w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><small>Presentation of Chile&#8217;s updated Open Government Action Plan by Werner Westermann, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a>.</small></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Werner Westermann is a fellow from our first Institute for Open Leadership, held in San Francisco in January 2015. He works at Library of the National Congress of Chile, and is involved in open education projects and advocacy in Chile and internationally.</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 2016 </span><a href="http://openedconference.org/2016/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Education Conference</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Open Ed) was an inspiring experience where I got the chance to meet individuals engaged in innovative and equitable open teaching and learning practices. I was happy to see that open pedagogy is now at the forefront of the OER movement – we see that creating and using OER is now a widely accepted way to improve educational outcomes. We also know that there’s a need to develop strong policies at all levels to promote and sustain OER efforts, especially in K-12 schools. To feed the policy rationale, more and different types of research need to be outlined, specifically those concerning efficacy and impact, which suited my </span><a href="https://openeducation2016.sched.org/event/7lnA?iframe=no"><span style="font-weight: 400;">contribution</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at Open Ed related to the </span><a href="http://roer4d.org/sp-9-oer-use-in-first-year-mathematics"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ROER4D project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> perfectly. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Ed also provided the opportunity to connect with Institute for Open Leadership mentors and fellows from both cohorts. It was perfect timing to share an update on our commitments in advocating for open policy. I’ve been working with the Library of the National Congress of Chile to consider adopting an open policy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After months of waiting, Chile released its </span><a href="media/e3ef5583.Chile_Plan-de-Accion_2016-2018.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.opengovpartnership.org/sites/default/files/Chile_Plan-de-Accion_2016-2018.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">3rd Action Plan 2016-2018 for the Open Government Partnership</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (OGP).  The plan outlines a commitment from the Library of National Congress of Chile entitled </span><b><i>&#8220;Open Educational Resources for Civic Education&#8221;</i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> where the following resources will be openly licensed (CC-BY):</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digital Citizenship Competence Framework: Conceptual definition of competencies organized in dimensions, described observable performance and level of achievement of each competency.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Curricular and Extracurricular Digital Citizenship Plans composed of:</span>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lesson plans and digital resources for the curricular subject of History, Geography and Social Sciences for the levels of 7th and 8th grade.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lesson plans and digital resources for an extra-curricular workshop for the development of cross-cutting fundamental objectives.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bank of Items for Online Evaluation System: A platform for public and permanent evaluation to measure the competences of digital citizenship.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teacher training module: Brief virtual training course (20 hrs.), designed for a self-instructional modality.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The inclusion of this open policy commitment in Chile’s OGP Action Plan is by far my biggest achievement so far in advocating for OER. I believe that the Institute for Open Leadership is a big reason for this success. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thanks to my mentor Nicole Allen and her work, I recognized OGP as a relevant platform to promote open education policy.  When I found out that the construction of Chile&#8217;s 3rd OGP Action Plan was going to be developed in part via a public consultation process, I made contact with the OGP officials in Chile related to the Secretary of the Presidency. Following the very clear pathway and recommendations set forth in the </span><a href="media/67ddd971.214-986-3-PB.pdf" data-original-source="https://oerknowledgecloud.org/sites/oerknowledgecloud.org/files/214-986-3-PB.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">paper written by Nicole and Jan Gondol</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, I presented the benefits and potential for OER and Open Education and described how it made sense within the OGP framework. Initially, the OGP representatives were very skeptical. But I had a productive conference call with Jan from Slovakia and Jennryn Wetzler from the U.S. State Department, who shared with me their experiences incorporating OER into their national OGP Action Plans. After that call I had a solid plan for action.   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was invited to contribute to Chile’s OGP Action Plan with an institutional commitment, but I had doubts on the effectiveness of raising awareness about OER using this platform. Since Chile’s process only accepted institutional contributions, I decided to take the risk and engage my institution through a Digital Citizenship project I’m currently involved with. I was able to participate in the OGP roundtables, which were attended by ministries, governmental departments, and civil society organisations. At that time, the meetings were heavily oriented to open data issues related to environmental and energy concerns. But at the same time, there was some interest to explore the relation between education and open government, so I was happy to talk about the benefits and potential of OER within their broader open government framework. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The participants in the roundtable were receptive to the idea of incorporating open education commitments under the umbrella of our national OGP Action Plan. Later, the OGP convened the Ministry of Education in Chile, and I got the chance to meet and speak with high-level ministry officials in order to explain and advocate for the benefits of OER. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I could have never championed the inclusion of open education policies within our OGP Action Plan without the helpful support of the Institute for Open Leadership and the Open Policy Network. I strongly believe that the visibility of the resources committed in Chile is a strong start for ongoing OER support.  On November 18, I will present the resources that we will be creating in a seminar hosted by the </span><a href="http://www.cplt.cl/consejo/site/edic/base/port/inicio.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Council of Transparency</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, one of the governmental departments participating in the OGP roundtables.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the institutional policy level, I would like to translate into Spanish the wonderful work done by IOL second-round fellows Amanda Coolidge and Daniel DeMarte, who this year drafted and released the </span><a href="http://policy.lumenlearning.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OER Policy Development Tool</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. I could see this tool coming in handy with progress within my own institution, along with the already translated resources such as the Commonwealth of Learning’s </span><a href="http://oasis.col.org/handle/11599/2388"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OER Policy Template</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="http://wikieducator.org/Directrices_para_Recursos_Educacionales_Abiertos_en_la_Educaci%C3%B3n_Superior/Inicio"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Guidelines for Open Educational Resources in Higher Education</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. These resources can help to guide and support any institution to build a OER policy, and I can&#8217;t wait to deploy them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s so much happening at the policy level in support of OER to improve teaching and learning. In 2017 there will be </span><a href="http://rcoer.col.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">regional workshops</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in preparation for the OER UNESCO World Congress that will be held in September. Let’s keep up the fantastic work started by the Institute for Open Leadership. Let’s continue to help each other (and decision makers too) with information, educational resources, solid arguments, and useful research to make productive policy changes within our institutions and governments. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51660
title: Creative Commons at WIPO: Supporting a more fair copyright for teaching and learning
uri: Creative-Commons-at-WIPO-Supporting-a-more-fair-copyright-for-teachin
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/24/creative-commons-wipo-supporting-fair-copyright-teaching-learning/

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<figure id="attachment_51665" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51665 size-large" src="media/58fd9648.CxizNcFW8AAE8Cg-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CxizNcFW8AAE8Cg-1024x683.jpg" alt="Delia Browne at WIPO" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CxizNcFW8AAE8Cg-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CxizNcFW8AAE8Cg-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CxizNcFW8AAE8Cg-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CxizNcFW8AAE8Cg-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CxizNcFW8AAE8Cg-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CxizNcFW8AAE8Cg-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CxizNcFW8AAE8Cg.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Delia Browne at WIPO. Photo by Stephen Wyber, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ">CC0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><small></small><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last week in Geneva, Creative Commons participated in the </span><a href="http://www.wipo.int/portal/en/index.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">World Intellectual Property Organization</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s (WIPO) bi-annual meeting of its </span><a href="http://www.wipo.int/policy/en/sccr/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">committee on copyright and related rights</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC has had “observer status” at WIPO since 2011, which means that it can attend the proceedings and at times offer written or oral feedback on activities of the committees. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WIPO’s agenda has included at least some discussions around limitations and exceptions to copyright for education and research—essentially, how to pursue a legal or normative mechanism that will improve access to and use of copyrighted works in service of teaching and learning. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While we continue our outreach and advocacy on open education policy and practice, we have always known that voluntary licensing schemes will never be a comprehensive solution. Nor should they be. Governments and others need to take a leadership role to enshrine within the exception and limitation framework the rights of those who teach and those who learn to take advantage of knowledge worldwide without fear of infringing. For this reason, CC believes that </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/policy-advocacy-copyright-reform/reform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fundamental law and regulatory reform is needed</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, regardless of the success of the CC licenses and their utility in promoting a more equal, just and fair society.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We support mandatory, flexible exceptions to copyright to sustain and empower education and research. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Delia Browne, National Copyright Director for Australian Schools and co-lead for Creative Commons Australia, attended the meeting on behalf of CC. She presented the statement below at the meeting. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also last week WIPO announced it would </span><a href="http://www.wipo.int/tools/en/disclaim.html#open_access"><span style="font-weight: 400;">adopt an open access policy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “in support of its commitment to the sharing and dissemination of knowledge, and to make its publications easily available to the widest possible audience.” Through this announcement, WIPO joins intergovernmental organization such as </span><a href="http://en.unesco.org/open-access/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UNESCO</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2012/04/10/world-bank-announces-open-access-policy-for-research-and-knowledge-launches-open-knowledge-repository"><span style="font-weight: 400;">World Bank</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the </span><a href="https://www.col.org/footer/cols-policy-intellectual-property"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Commonwealth of Learning</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in making their publications available under open licenses. We congratulate WIPO and these intergovernmental organizations, and call for other publicly-minded institutions to support open access and distribution of works they develop.</span></p>
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons – Statement in relation to Limitations and Exception on Education</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Friday 18 November 2016</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Presented by Ms. Delia Browne</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you Mr Chair. I speak today on behalf of Creative Commons, the global nonprofit organization that is dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We warmly welcome and congratulate the World Intellectual Property Organization new Open Access Policy which will make all of its publications available under Creative Commons Inter Government Organisation (IGO) licences. We welcome WIPO’s commitment to make its publications as widely accessible as possible and we were delighted to be represented here person to hear the public announcement by the WIPO on Wednesday.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also thank the Chair for the extremely helpful chart on Limitation and Exceptions for Education, which we will consider with great interest.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons believes that in the digital era, universal access to education is possible. To this end we are working extensively with governments, educational institutions, companies and individuals; sharing free licenses and legal tools that promote access to knowledge and information. Today:</span></i></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons licenses underpin millions of open access and open </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">educational resources, from academic papers through to quality educational videos and higher education courses. Governments, charitable and philanthropic organisations are increasingly requiring research to be openly licensed in return for funding support.</span></i></li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Creative Commons public domain mark is used to label millions of </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">out-of-copyright works shared on platforms such as Europeana. </span></em></li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Governments and organizations are proactively using the using the CC0 dedication on data sets, in order to remove copyright restrictions that would </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">otherwise hamper research</span></em></li>
</ul>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">All this material is easily discoverable by teachers, students, and self-learners, who are using it to study, research, build upon and distribute further, increasing the knowledge commons.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are proud of the opportunities provided by Creative Commons resources, but we understand that licensing alone is not, and never can be, the full solution. Creative Common’s licenses only apply to a fraction of necessary educational resources, works whose creators make a conscious decision to affirmatively openly license their work. And licencing, open or otherwise, cannot replace the essential work of educational exceptions and limitations.</span></i></p>
<p><b><i>Therefore Creative Commons supports mandatory, minimum standards for educational limitations and exceptions.</i></b></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We congratulate Professor Seng on his study on copyright limitations and exceptions for educational activities. While we understand that there is still further work to be done before all 189 member states’ legislation is reviewed, already three key point emerge:</span></i></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a broad agreement that education is an area where exceptions and </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">limitations are necessary; </span></i></li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a divergence on how to protect educational rights, and which exact rights are protected; </span></em></li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Many countries’ exceptions have not kept pace with technological advances – and while some older exceptions have managed to adapt to new technologies in areas where new rights holder rights have been introduced, such as technological protection measures, corresponding educational protections have not kept pace.</em></span></li>
</ul>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this context we thank the delegation of</span></i><a href="media/aacd203e.sccr_33_4.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_33/sccr_33_4.pdf"> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Argentina</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for their interesting proposal– focusing as it does on two crucial factors, uniformity and coordination. This aim &#8211; of ensuring minimum standards that could be used in a cross-border situations &#8211; is a necessity in the digital, globalized world. Creative Commons believes there is scope in further exploring how this proposal can support work on mandatory minimum standards to protect copyright limitations and exceptions.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We must ensure that fair access to educational materials is protected globally. We offer any assistance that may help in progressing this essential topic, and thank the committee for its work.</span></i></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51644
uri: Step-outside-of-the-status-quo-with-Maya-Zankoul-A-Lebanese-illustrat
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/23/maya-zankoul/
title:
Step outside of the status quo with Maya Zankoul: A Lebanese illustrator discusses her connection to the commons

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<figure id="attachment_51645" style="width: 199px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-51645 size-full" src="media/6b6042d3.Amalgam_vol2_maya_zankoul.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Amalgam_vol2_maya_zankoul.png" alt="Cover of Amalgam CC BY 3.0" width="199" height="279" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Amalgam_vol2_maya_zankoul.png 199w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Amalgam_vol2_maya_zankoul-29x40.png 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Amalgam_vol2_maya_zankoul-36x50.png 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Amalgam_vol2_maya_zankoul-111x155.png 111w" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 85vw, 199px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Cover of Amalgam <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Popular Lebanese illustrator, webcomic author, and blogger <a href="http://mayazankoul.com/">Maya Zankoul</a> spreads the message of the commons through her art, her design studio, and her video company <a href="http://wezank.com/">wezank.</a> Her first book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Amalgam-Maya-Zankoul/dp/8887847339">Amalgam,</a> was published in 2009 under a CC license. The book sprung from her popular web comic exploring life, work, and art in Beirut and beyond.</p>
<p>Zankoul&#8217;s work touches on the connection between cultures and her illustrations are shaped by her rich artistic world. Her newest book, Beirut – New York was published this autumn and can be <a href="http://mayazankoul.com/new-book-beirut-new-york/">purchased from her online shop.</a></p>
<p><strong>You self-published a successful book of your comics called Amalgam in 2009. Tell me about that experience. What led you to self-publish as well as license that work under a CC license?</strong></p>
<p>I published my first book a few months after starting my online comic blog. After seeing the reactions to the online comics, I was encouraged to publish them in a book. I contacted many publishers who felt that an illustrated book not targeting children would not be relevant for the local market, so I decided to self-publish. I knew there was an interest in the book from the blog following, so I decided to do it on my own. Because I was already publishing my work under Creative Commons on the blog, it made sense to keep this for the book as well.</p>
<blockquote><p>Publishing under Creative Commons allowed people to translate some of the work, to change the captions of the comics to come up with entirely different stories. It was a very interesting thing for me.</p></blockquote>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-51647" src="media/a4d75f7f.Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM.png" alt="screen-shot-2016-11-23-at-1-32-38-pm" width="611" height="614" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM.png 806w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM-768x772.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM-154x155.png 154w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.32.38-PM-128x128.png 128w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p><strong>Your new book, Beirut – New York explores the cultural similarities and differences between your home city of Beirut and the city of New York, which you visited last year. Why did you decide to make these 40 illustrations? What is the motive behind showing the similarities between these &#8220;highly incompatible cities?&#8221; What kind of response have you seen to the book so far?</strong></p>
<p>The idea came to me after coming back from a long overdue vacation during which I visited New York. I was going through some &#8220;post-vacation blues&#8221; and not in the mood to come back to daily life in Beirut. So I started thinking that we also have fun and cool things over here. And that&#8217;s when I started noticing all these similarities between these two cities. I made a list and decided to illustrate them because that&#8217;s how I&#8217;m most comfortable communicating my ideas. So far I&#8217;ve received great feedback about the book: many people are seeing Beirut with fresh eyes, or are interested to visit New York after seeing it. Although not the main motive, the book also shows that Beirut can be underrated by its citizens.</p>
<p><img class="wp-image-51646 aligncenter" src="media/f12f5a42.Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM.png" alt="Beirut – New York print by Maya Zankoul" width="597" height="597" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM.png 802w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM-768x768.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.18.09-PM-128x128.png 128w" sizes="(max-width: 597px) 85vw, 597px" /></p>
<p><strong>Why did you decide to license your popular webcomic under CC to begin with? Why do you stick with that license in light of your success?</strong></p>
<p>I was introduced to Creative Commons by a friend of mine, and I loved the idea of being able to share my work more freely under certain terms. That&#8217;s why I decided to publish my blog under CC. My favorite part about publishing under CC was seeing how my work was adapted by other artists, whether translated or used to illustrate a different idea than the original comic. It allowed my work to reach a larger audience and to have a life of its own!</p>
<p><strong>Since 2011, you&#8217;ve moved away from your comic work and started to work on other projects. What kinds of projects have you been working on, and how do you keep the spirit of the commons in your commercial work?</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;m still working in illustration, but most of my time is spent on commercial work, and I try to squeeze in some personal illustrations that I publish on my social media channels rather than the blog. I also co-founded wezank, a studio specialized in explainer videos. We worked on a series of videos explaining <a href="http://wezank.com/portfolio/creative-commons/">Creative Commons in Arabic through wezank.</a></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51648" src="media/957b6e16.Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.31.47-PM-1024x851.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.31.47-PM-1024x851.png" alt="screen-shot-2016-11-23-at-1-31-47-pm" width="840" height="698" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.31.47-PM-1024x851.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.31.47-PM-300x249.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.31.47-PM-768x638.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.31.47-PM-48x40.png 48w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.31.47-PM-50x42.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.31.47-PM-186x155.png 186w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.31.47-PM-1200x997.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-23-at-1.31.47-PM.png 1208w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><strong>How do you feel like your work as an illustrator unites people? How do you work to create a more equitable world through your illustration?</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>I find that my illustrations allow people to see things differently. It allows them to step outside the status quo.</p></blockquote>
<p>I get a lot of feedback from people who when faced with daily situations remember my comics. That for me is the best experience because it proves that my illustrations have touched people and left a little impact in their mind. The illustrations also bring people together over certain social topics in Lebanon that are not necessarily well represented in traditional media.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s been a long journey for CC Panama! As our newest official global community member, they have been growing their organization since 2014 and have emerged as a leading voice in the Central American knowledge commons. Their work spans many of the Creative Commons program areas, including open education, arts and culture, and advocacy.</p>
<p>The following account was written by the community to summarize the hard work it took to get this far. We&#8217;re proud to welcome CC Panama into our Global Network. ¡Bienvenidos!</p>
<p>All photos by <a href="https://twitter.com/cc_panama">CC Panama</a>, CC BY-SA.</p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Habemus Capítulo Oficial de Creative Commons en Panamá</h1>
<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-51637" src="media/8419cd1e.Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.19-PM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.19-PM.png" alt="cc-panama-official" width="429" height="166" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.19-PM.png 622w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.19-PM-300x116.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.19-PM-104x40.png 104w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.19-PM-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.19-PM-270x104.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 429px) 85vw, 429px" /></p>
<p>Después de un largo camino que comenzo en septiembre de 2014, Panamá cuenta con un capítulo oficial de Creative Commons en el pequeño país centroamericano. Este proyecto comenzó a tener vida, hace dos años cuando una ingeniera especializada en Innovación y una abogada especializada en Nuevas Tecnologías se cruzaron en el camino con la misma intención: compartir conocimiento y creatividad a través de herramientas digitales, gratuitas y legales y dar a conocer en la sociedad panameña, la filosofía de la organización.</p>
<p><img class="size-large wp-image-51636 aligncenter" src="media/bdfc2e51.Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.45-PM-1024x676.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.45-PM-1024x676.png" alt="couches-panama" width="840" height="555" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.45-PM-1024x676.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.45-PM-300x198.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.45-PM-768x507.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.45-PM-61x40.png 61w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.45-PM-50x33.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.45-PM-235x155.png 235w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.19.45-PM.png 1070w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>Ha sido muchas las actividades y logros que durante estos dos años, hasta el perfeccionamiento de nuestro grupo como capítulo oficial han sucedido y muchas las personas y organizaciones que han colaborado y creído en nuestro proyecto.</p>
<p>En noviembre de 2014 participamos junto a los capítulos de Creative Commons de Centroamerica (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador y Guatema) en el Campus Party El Salvador y en el cual tuvimos la oportunidad de conocer a Ryan Merkley, recientemente a su nombramiento como nuevo CEO de Creative Commons Internacional.</p>
<p>El añp 2015 estuvo muy lleno de actividades por nuestro grupo, comenzamos una serie de sesiones en centros culturales y espacios de trabajo compartido en la Ciudad de Panamá, en las cual reuniamos a gestores culturales, abogados, artistas, diseñadores gráficos y bloggers y les exponiamos un poco a cerca de ¿Qué son las Licencias Creative Commons y cómo se comen?</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-51634" src="media/1f455bf7.Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.32-PM-1024x771.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.32-PM-1024x771.png" alt="teaching-panama" width="840" height="632" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.32-PM-1024x771.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.32-PM-300x226.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.32-PM-768x579.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.32-PM-53x40.png 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.32-PM-50x38.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.32-PM-206x155.png 206w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.32-PM.png 1070w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-51635" src="media/4dc5fa15.Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.02-PM-1024x575.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.02-PM-1024x575.png" alt="teaching-2-panama" width="840" height="472" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.02-PM-1024x575.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.02-PM-300x168.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.02-PM-768x431.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.02-PM-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.02-PM-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.02-PM-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.02-PM-1200x674.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.02-PM.png 1250w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" />En esta gira por la ciudad de Panamá, conocimos a un grupo de cineastas panameños que nos invitaron a participar en un festival low cost de cine &#8220;Festival de Cine Pobre Panalandiaª y a la vez estaban en proceso de grabación de su primera película y tenían curiosidad a cerca del proceso de licenciamiento con CC de su obra, les explicamos un poco sobre el mismo y para nuestra sorpresa y unos meses después nos encontramos con que KENKE se convertiría en la primera película panemeña licenciada con Creative Commons.<br />
Igualmente medios de la localidad como el Panamá America y La Prensa nos entrevistaron para saber más sobre nuestra filosofía de compartir conocimiento a través de herramientas digitales gratuitas y de cómo promovíamos las mismas en nuestro país.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-51632" src="media/ee2f24c1.Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.53-PM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.53-PM.png" alt="news-panama" width="848" height="640" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.53-PM.png 848w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.53-PM-300x226.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.53-PM-768x580.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.53-PM-53x40.png 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.53-PM-50x38.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.20.53-PM-205x155.png 205w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>Y como no todas son historias bonitas; fue así como también tuvimos nuestra primera disputa legal, por la utlización de una foto de la Co-City Leader de ese entonces Mónica Mora, la cual subió en Flickr y fue utilizada por una revista de circulación nacional e internacional en su portada y atribuyendole la autoría a un tercero; el resultado fue una indemnización pecuniaria para la autora intelectual de la misma y una nota de rectificación en el siguiente ejemplar de la revista sobre la autoría correcta de la fotografía.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-51638" src="media/dc8f4455.Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.28.00-PM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.28.00-PM.png" alt="panama-mag" width="306" height="402" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.28.00-PM.png 672w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.28.00-PM-229x300.png 229w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.28.00-PM-30x40.png 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.28.00-PM-38x50.png 38w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-22-at-2.28.00-PM-118x155.png 118w" sizes="(max-width: 306px) 85vw, 306px" /></p>
<p>Colaboramos con una de las organizaciones ambientales más reconocidas del país &#8220;Almanaque Azul&#8221; en un proyecto financiado por el Gobierno Nacional y el Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), en el cual se ponían en la plataforma educativa &#8220;La Mochila&#8221; y compartían licenciadas con CC una serie de fotografías bajo derecho de autor de esta Agencia estatal de los Estados Unidos y que luego de un largo proceso de negociación entre el capítulo en formación de CC Panamá y STRI fueron cedidas a licenciarse con Creative Commons.</p>
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<p>Queremos agradecer a muchas personas que comenzaron este proyecto que por una u otra razón ya no están: Mónica Mora, Ana Cristina Muñoz, Randy Navarro, Davinia Uriel, Alejandro Pérez. A organizaciones que apoyaron nuestro eventos: Coworking PTY, Casco Station, Fundación Alemán Healy, Instituto NeoArte, Centro Cultural de España en Panamá, Casa del Soldado, MacroFest, Physical Modelos, Marie Claire Fontaine, Astrud Cordero. A las nuevas generaciones de Creative Commons en Panamá: Sandra Guerra, Nadia Ortíz y Mayra Victoria Ramos y a los creativos que acudieron a nosotros para licenciar sus proyectos con nosotros como José Jiménez Vega, Nos Gusta el Mar, Fundación Almanaque Azul, La Mochila y los que se nos quedan por fuera, esperen mucho más de CC Panamá en el 2017.</p>
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