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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51610
title: CC Tanzania’s Advocacy Training
uri: CC-Tanzania-s-Advocacy-Training
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/21/tanzania-awesome-fund/
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<p>This post from Aris Maro of CC Tanzania outlines their work in support of the<a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CCisAwesome"> Creative Commons Awesome Fund,</a> a series of small grants designed to help commoners work on projects that make their communities stronger.</p>
<p>Thank you to CC Tanzania for their advocacy work in providing valuable information as representatives of Creative Commons ideals. To learn more or get involved with CC Tanzania, please visit their <a href="https://twitter.com/cc_tanzania">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cc.tanzania">Facebook,</a> or <a href="http://cctz2013.blogspot.com/">blog.</a></p>
<p>All photos by Aris Maro, CC BY-SA.</p>
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<p>In September 2016, 30 Creative Commons Tanzania Affiliate Team members secured support from CC-HQ under the Awesome Fund and <a href="http://www.out.ac.tz/">Open University of Tanzania (OUT)</a> for an Advocacy Training to Lugalo Secondary School in Iringa region.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-51614" src="media/f88b1406.DSC_0630-1024x678.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0630-1024x678.jpg" alt="dsc_0630" width="840" height="556" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0630-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0630-300x199.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0630-768x509.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0630-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0630-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0630-234x155.jpg 234w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0630-1200x795.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-51613" src="media/3bfc1765.DSC_0601-1024x678.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0601-1024x678.jpg" alt="dsc_0601" width="840" height="556" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0601-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0601-300x199.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0601-768x509.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0601-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0601-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0601-234x155.jpg 234w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0601-1200x795.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>A 510 Kilometer drive started at OUT’s HQ Dar es Salaam, where we had a brief meeting with Prof. Deus Ngaruko; the Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic. It was a pleasure to have OUT’s Management blessings. Among other things, during the briefing, it was clear that our action had support from the university. The team assured the university management of their continued CC advocacy through the existing University networks in the country.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-51616" src="media/f01a0036.DSC_0684-1024x678.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0684-1024x678.jpg" alt="dsc_0684" width="840" height="556" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0684-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0684-300x199.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0684-768x509.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0684-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0684-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0684-234x155.jpg 234w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0684-1200x795.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>A team of six (6) Creative Commons Tanzania Affiliate members namely; Janeth Ngwilime, Ummy Ahmed, Naima Julius, Erasmus Rukantabula, Emmauel Thomas &amp; Aristarik Maro completed their one day trip via Mikumi National Park to Iringa region by meeting two newly affiliate members Mr. Dioscory Majaliwa and Mr. Mpeli Mwankusye who were local organizers of the event. It is pleasure to have these two energetic and focused brothers to the team. The team is growing bigger every year.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-51612" src="media/2a723790.DSC_0667-1024x678.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-1024x678.jpg" alt="dsc_0667" width="840" height="556" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-300x199.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-768x509.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-234x155.jpg 234w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC_0667-1200x795.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/21/tanzania-awesome-fund/">CC Tanzania&#8217;s Advocacy Training</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51742
title: Open Practices and Policies for Research Data in the Marine Community
uri: Open-Practices-and-Policies-for-Research-Data-in-the-Marine-Community
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/01/open-practices-policies-research-data-marine-community/
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 style="font-weight: 400;">summary of the event</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> we mentioned that the Institute fellows would be taking turns to write about their open policy projects. This week’s post is from Alessandro Sarretta from the </span></i><a href="http://www.ismar.cnr.it/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Institute of Marine Sciences</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (ISMAR), part of the Italian National Research Council.</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">2016 has been a great year for me both personally and professionally in understanding, embracing, and disseminating the culture of sharing open knowledge. One thing that really helped was my participation in the second </span><a href="https://openpolicynetwork.org/iol/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Institute for Open Leadership</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (IOL), held in March in Cape Town, South Africa. Creative Commons brought together </span><a href="https://alesarrett.github.io/IOL2/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">15 fellows from 14 different countries</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to learn and discuss about open knowledge, and to propose a specific open policy project to be improved and supported by the contribution of other fellows and mentors.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51746" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51746 size-large" src="media/2a48cc6f.25195563243_93741d05fd_k-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/25195563243_93741d05fd_k-1024x576.jpg" alt="Centenary Tree Canopy Walkway" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/25195563243_93741d05fd_k-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/25195563243_93741d05fd_k-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/25195563243_93741d05fd_k-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/25195563243_93741d05fd_k-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/25195563243_93741d05fd_k-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/25195563243_93741d05fd_k-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/25195563243_93741d05fd_k-1200x675.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/140868336@N03/25195563243/in/pool-2946428@N23/">Centenary Tree Canopy Walkway</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/140868336@N03/">Alessandro Sarretta</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a researcher in the field(s) of Coastal and Marine Environment and Geospatial Information, I&#8217;m constantly dealing with data. Data are the core of science, and research has to be based on sound and reliable data.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since at least 2002, there’s been a strong movement to allow online research outputs (referring principally to scholarly papers) to be published &#8220;free of all restrictions on access (e.g. access tolls) and free of many restrictions on use&#8221; (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Access movement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When talking about data, things usually get more complicated, and the open access community is still working to find the best way to allow open access to research data. One part of this requires working to convince both researchers and funders that this is the way to support better science.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the marine community there is already a solid history of common standards for metadata and formats. There are also various portals (e.g </span><a href="http://www.emodnet.eu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">EMODnet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="http://www.jerico-ri.eu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jerico</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) and projects (e.g. </span><a href="http://www.seadatanet.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SeaDataNet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) that exist for accessing a great variety of research data related to seas and oceans.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, data policies and licences that regulate access to data are, when available, usually custom-made, requiring the filing of specific forms before use. Oftentimes these custom licenses do not clearly address the reuse of data and information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The use of common, standard, open licences would help users to understand what they can do with the data. It would also ensure that the data providers would be able to easily share their products, with easy to understand conditions for reuse. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My goal as an IOL fellow is to inform relevant marine communities of the benefits of an open research data policy and, more specifically, to apply these principles to the practices within my institute—the Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR), part of the Italian National Research Council.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the deliverables for the Italian flagship project </span><a href="http://www.ritmare.it/en/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">RITMARE</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Italian research for the Sea), was to clearly define a data policy for the initiative. The </span><a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1235546.v2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">document</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (written in Italian) defines categories of data for which different moratorium periods apply for the release of data; for all data in the project, the document requires that an open license is applied, mentioning Creative Commons licences as one of the standard options, with </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as the recommended first choice.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_51747" style="width: 541px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51747 size-full" src="media/deb5973d.image00.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/image00.png" alt="fig 1" width="541" height="629" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/image00.png 541w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/image00-258x300.png 258w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/image00-34x40.png 34w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/image00-43x50.png 43w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/image00-133x155.png 133w" sizes="(max-width: 541px) 85vw, 541px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Fig. 1: Data Policy rules for the RITMARE project (from Paola Carrara et al., Facing data sharing in a heterogeneous research community: lights and shadows in the RITMARE project. <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4244375.v2">https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4244375.v2</a>)</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another way to help RITMARE researchers share their data—and also ensure they receive recognition for their scientific outputs—is by launching a grant program that will provide funding for researchers who wish to publish </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_paper"><span style="font-weight: 400;">data papers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. These grants will be provided to support the payment of the article processing fees required by open access data journals. The main requirement of the funding is that researchers must deposit their data in an open access data repository under a CC BY or </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> license.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are working on other initiatives that represent a bottom up, collaborative research approach. Among them, two are very well established and almost finalised. First, a repository is being developed that includes digital images of both historical and recent materials belonging to multiple typologies: a historical library, that includes books, photographs, manuscripts, etc. from the end of 16th century; a collection of maps from the 16th century, mostly devoted to the Adriatic Sea and the Lagoon of Venice; an algal collection including an historical section performed during the Second World War containing more than a thousand vouchers, and a modern collection in progress. All these materials will be released under a CC BY license through two main interoperable data portals based on open source infrastructures. Second, the data from six meteo-oceanographic buoys in the Adriatic Sea, has been recently organised in a common database containing time series related to various parameters. This data will be made available as under a CC BY license and will be published an open data in a research data repository.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, said in a speech on “</span><a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-15-5243_en.htm"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” that researchers should be able to rely on free access to research data—and that data needs to be “Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable” (“</span><a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">”). The Institute of Marine Science is embracing these principles by opening its data to the marine community and the wider society. While a comprehensive open data policy for the institute is not adopted, various initiatives are fully supporting this vision. We are making valuable data open and reusable using advances to technical infrastructures, standard formats, interoperable services, and Creative Commons licenses.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51749
title: How fast is your internet? How MLab uses CC0 data for the public interest
uri: How-fast-is-your-internet-How-MLab-uses-CC0-data-for-the-public-inter
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/30/mlab/
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<p><b></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though internet as infrastructure may have seemed radical only a short while ago, many technologists are now taking a different tack: as a vital part of modern life, access to reliable internet is essential to the development of a just and equitable society. Built in response to proprietary measurement datasets, <a href="http://measurementlab.net">M Lab</a> has assembled the world’s largest collection of open internet measurement data, all under a CC0 license.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A collaborative project from New America’s Open Technology Institute, Google Open Source Research, Princeton University’s Planet Lab, and many others, M Lab’s success stems from their insistence on open data and an open web, maintaining the tests that keep the web free and open. From researchers to consumers, MLab’s data is the backbone of the internet, an example of open collaboration that benefits consumers, researchers, and the future of the web. </span></p>
<p><b>To read MLab’s reports and try their tools, </b><b><a href="https://www.measurementlab.net/">visit the website.</a>  </b>Thanks to Chris Ritzo, Georgia Bullen, Alison Yost, Collin Anderson, and Stephen Stuart for their time in answering these questions.</p>
<p><b> Why does Internet measurement matter? What is the ultimate goal of this project?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Measurement Lab’s goal is to provide an open, publicly available dataset and the platform on which to gather it. There have always been proprietary data sources about the quality of consumer broadband connections, but those were and are the intellectual property of companies like Ookla, Akamai, Google, and network operators themselves. New America’s </span><a href="https://www.newamerica.org/oti/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Technology Institute</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Google, and Princeton University&#8217;s Planet Lab formed a consortium to build a data collection platform that could host a common base of internet measurement experiments developed and vetted by the academic research community, be deployed globally, and over time provide what is now the largest open, publicly available internet measurement dataset in the world. Today we run over 100 measurement points around the world and collect an average of over 9 million tests per month worldwide.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> From a consumer perspective, are you getting the speed and quality of service you purchased from an ISP? Using a speed test or internet health test provides data to help answer that question. For regulatory agencies, measurement is a means of keeping state on broadband speeds, health, consumer protections, anti-competitive practices and more. For network operators, measurement is paramount to understanding how to provision infrastructure and services. For civil society groups and human rights advocates, it is a means of assessing disparities in accessing the internet, in the quality of available internet services, whether internet traffic is surveilled by state actors or others, and whether and where the internet is censored or blocked. The research community is also keenly interested in openly available internet measurement data, in order to understand and answer many of these issues, and in many cases how they might devise ways to make the internet function better.</span></p>
<p><b>How did you make the decision to use CC0 data? How does your organization support the commons?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">M-Lab uses a CC0 license on the data for experiments that we maintain or contribute to: NDT, Paris Traceroute and Sidestream. We don’t require researchers hosting other experiments to use the same license, but we do require data to be provided openly. In some cases M-Lab will agree to embargo data for an agreed upon period of time such that the researcher can be the first to publish on the data their test collects. But the most popular tests we maintain on our platform </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">are licensed with CC0 because we think that this data should be in the public domain, and using a CC0 license allows anyone to freely use it without restriction, particularly those in the academic community.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The choice to use a CC0 license goes back to our beginning. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The academic community interested in researching the internet needed a data source and couldn’t get that from private companies. Providing that data would have violated companies’ terms of service with their users, and even if it was legally possible, anonymizing it had been proven <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak">questionable, if not ineffective.</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Initiatives like </span><a href="https://planet-lab.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Planet Lab</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at Princeton University had made some progress toward the idea of a research platform that could be used to collect such data, but didn’t necessarily measure at the scale of the consumer internet. Instead the M-Lab core team engaged with academics, company reps and others to map out what an internet measurement platform might look like to support the work of the research community, that would situate infrastructure to measure the consumer internet, and would provide open data in the service of the public interest. This was the genesis of M-Lab. So from the very beginning we’ve always supported the commons. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The M-Lab core team engaged with academics, company reps and others to map out what an internet measurement platform might look like to support the work of the research community, that would situate infrastructure to measure the consumer internet, and would provide open data in the service of the public interest. This was the genesis of M-Lab. So from the very beginning we’ve always supported the commons.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><b>On your &#8220;About&#8221; page, you write that &#8220;transparency and review are key to good science.&#8221; Can you elaborate on that? How do you feel that your project participates in the scientific process to make the Web better for everyone?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">M-Lab was created as a platform to produce open data about the health of consumer internet connections. Everything from the submission of proposed tests to the hosting of resulting data mirrors the process of submitting a paper to an academic journal. M-Lab defines the parameters that an experiment must adhere to, and academic or regulatory researchers apply to host their tests with us. Applications are reviewed by an experiment review committee to confirm that the researcher has ethical approval from their Institutional Review Board, that the test they propose conforms to M-Lab’s data privacy policy, determines whether the test has overlap with existing tests, and assesses capacity of the researcher for long term support of the test. M-Lab wants to encourage ongoing longitudinal research, not one-off projects, and make the data available openly for broad analysis and research. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We regularly support researchers interested in secondary data analysis with documentation, sample queries and tools to access, visualize and use M-Lab data, and where possible we produce our own analysis and research. This support varies from individual researchers and graduate students, to civil society and research organizations, to national regulatory agencies. In the United States, the FCC’s contractor, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">SamKnows, uses the M-Lab platform to host a portion of the tests for the annual </span><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/general/measuring-broadband-america-open-methodology"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Measuring Broadband America</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> program. In Canada, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) hosts three M-Lab sites throughout Canada and has built their own </span><a href="https://performance.cira.ca/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">national data portal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> using M-Lab’s data which also integrates our test. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additionally, because our tests are open source, we support their integration into other websites, software, or other platforms. These developer integrations are key to our expansion and impact in new areas of the world and by new audiences. Most recently, Google’s Search team integrated </span><a href="http://software.internet2.edu/ndt/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internet 2’s Network Diagnostic Tool</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (NDT) as a top level answer in their Search product. When you search for “</span><a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=how%20fast%20is%20my%20internet"><span style="font-weight: 400;">how fast is my internet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” or similar, the Google version of our test can be run immediately in your browser.</span></p>
<p><b>What kinds of results have you seen that are particularly exciting, surprising, or troubling from this project? What steps can people take to improve the Web? How can they use your project to do so?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">M-Lab initially focused on providing the platform and data, leaving analysis to the research or regulatory community. As we’ve grown in size and interest, we have focused on building more accessible tools to run tests, visualize and download our data as well as support individuals and groups interested in using our data in their work. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The M-Lab team is also now working on our own research as well as supporting new inquiries into our data. In October 2014 the M-Lab research and operations team published a technical research report: </span><a href="https://www.measurementlab.net/publications/#isp-interconnection-and-its-impact-on-consumer-internet-performancea-measurement-lab-consortium-technical-report"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">ISP Interconnection and its Impact on Consumer Internet Performance</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The data in this report helped to inform the FCC and supported its historic ruling in favor of Net Neutrality in 2015. Our data and analysis showed clear indicators of congestion and bad performance at the Interconnection points between consumer ISPs and Transit providers. We&#8217;ve since presented it to the FCC, NANOG, and at numerous international network operator gatherings. Before the M-Lab report, interconnection wasn&#8217;t even on the FCC&#8217;s radar. We’ve also supported individual researchers interested in using M-Lab data, through our support email, but also directly. In 2015, M-Lab hosted two research fellows who examined our network performance data in new ways. One fellow examined the economic geography of access by using M-Lab data and US Census data. Another worked on a machine learning algorithm that identifies </span><a href="https://www.measurementlab.net/publications/#cusum-anomaly-detection"><span style="font-weight: 400;">anomalies in normalized M-Lab data</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, attempting to identify patterns in our data where known internet shutdowns had occurred.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anyone can use M-Lab&#8217;s public data, tools and open visualizations for free. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">M-Lab operates in the public interest- providing open data, open source tools, visualizations and documentation to support our own research, and yours. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">P</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">eople can test the speed and latency of their connection using our site: </span><a href="https://speed.measurementlab.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://speed.measurementlab.net/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We also have an extension for Google’s Chrome browser, </span><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/m-lab-measure/leijmacehibmiomcnpaolboihcdepokh"><span style="font-weight: 400;">M-Lab Measure</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, that allows you to schedule tests to be run regularly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because M-Lab data is open and all of our tests are open source, developers can integrate our data or our tests into their own applications, services, web-mashups and more. We provide source code, documentation, and implementation examples to enable you to leverage our data, tests and infrastructure.  learn more about the project and how to get involved in the project <a href="https://www.measurementlab.net">on our website</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and contact us for more information.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51701
title: FRANCOCAR: An Awesome Fund Project in West Africa
uri: FRANCOCAR-An-Awesome-Fund-Project-in-West-Africa
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/29/francocar/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51702" src="media/c2d2d7f4.img-20160929-wa0028-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img-20160929-wa0028-1024x683.jpg" alt="img-20160929-wa0028" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img-20160929-wa0028-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img-20160929-wa0028-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img-20160929-wa0028-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img-20160929-wa0028-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img-20160929-wa0028-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img-20160929-wa0028-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img-20160929-wa0028.jpg 1170w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>The <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/07/21/cc-is-awesome/">Creative Commons Awesome Fund,</a> a series of mini-grants intended to support our global communities, supported FRANCOCAR this year. FRANCOCAR is a range of events and activities in West Africa (Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Senegal) to promote open source software, digitization, and Creative Commons licenses.</p>
<p>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FRANCOCAR">#francocar</a> if you want to stay in the loop on future activities or check the <a href="http://afrozen.wordpress.com">blog.</a></p>
<p>All photos from <span>Mawusee Komla Foli-Awli, CC BY</span></p>
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<p>FRANCOCAR est un projet :</p>
<p>&#8211; de sensibilisation sur l&#8217;importance du contenu numérique<br />
&#8211; d&#8217;information et de formation sur les outils liés à la création de contenu<br />
&#8211; de promotion des licences Creative Commons qui facilitent la publication du contenu dans un cadre légal</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51706" src="media/0d43460c.Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-1024x889.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-1024x889.png" alt="screen-shot-2016-11-29-at-11-54-39-am" width="840" height="729" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-1024x889.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-300x260.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-768x667.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-46x40.png 46w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-50x43.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM-179x155.png 179w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-11.54.39-AM.png 1090w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>Il a été initié dans la cadre de l&#8217;appel à proposition de projets –Awesome Fund 2016- de Creative Commons.<br />
Il a été lancé en Octobre 2016 – Rencontres Nationales des Logiciels Libres à Cotonou (Benin).<br />
Il va d&#8217;Octobre à Décembre 2016 mais les activités pourraient aller au delà de cette période.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51709" src="media/fd25073a.atelier-jerry-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/atelier-jerry-1024x768.jpg" alt="atelier-jerry" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/atelier-jerry-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/atelier-jerry-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/atelier-jerry-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/atelier-jerry-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/atelier-jerry-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/atelier-jerry-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/atelier-jerry.jpg 1088w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>Les pays ciblés pour cette phase sont le Togo, le Benin, le Burkina Faso et éventuellement la Côte d’Ivoire et le Sénégal.</p>
<p>Les activités organisées dans le cadre du projet sont :</p>
<p>&#8211; le lancement Rencontres Nationales des Logiciels Libres 2016 à Cotonou (Octobre)<br />
&#8211; la première édition de &#8220;Sous Arbre à Contenu&#8221; à Lomé (contribution sur Wikipedia) (Octobre)<br />
&#8211; la participation à la Semaine des Cultures numériques à l&#8217;Institut Français du Togo (Novembre)<br />
&#8211; la première édition de &#8220;Sous Arbre à Contenu&#8221; à Cotonou (contribution sur Wikipedia) (Novembre)</p>
<p>Merci à Creative Commons pour l&#8217;initiative et aux apports des uns et des autres (LMP LE LOGOS, SOGESTI, BLOLAB, ECOHUB, Institut Français du Togo).</p>
<p>Nous sommes ouverts à toute collaboration pour des activités allant de le sens des objectifs du projet.<br />
Vous pouvez lire les détails des activités sur http://afrozen.wordpress.com.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FRANCOCAR">#Francocar</a><br />
<a href="http://www.francocar.net">Francocar</a> site<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/projetfrancocar">Facebook</a><br />
<a href="francocar@googlegroups.com">Email</a></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51710" src="media/02fc800b.african_participants-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/african_participants-1024x768.jpg" alt="african_participants" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/african_participants-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/african_participants-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/african_participants-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/african_participants-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/african_participants-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/african_participants-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/african_participants.jpg 1170w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51658
title: Making Creative Commons Licensing Work In Indonesia
uri: Making-Creative-Commons-Licensing-Work-In-Indonesia
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/28/making-creative-commons-licensing-work-indonesia/
content:
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Below is an update from <a href="http://creativecommons.or.id/">Creative Commons Indonesia</a>, who recently worked with their national copyright office on proposed changes to law that will secure the ability of creators to use CC and other open licenses there. </span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In late 2014, Indonesia amended its copyright law to add several new provisions, including changes having to do with database rights, addressing copyright as an object in a collateral agreement, and making license recordation mandatory. The latter is something that could potentially be an issue with regard to the operation of Creative Commons licenses, as well as other open license in Indonesia.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“License recordation” means that licensors (even those publishing their works under Creative Commons) must report their licenses with the Indonesian Copyright Office. If a licensor does not comply with the requirement, the license that they applied on their work will not have any legal effect, and will not be enforceable against third parties. This provision is stated in</span><a href="media/08b207db.UU_28_2014.PDF" data-original-source="http://eodb.ekon.go.id/download/peraturan/undangundang/UU_28_2014.PDF"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Article 83 of Law Number 28 year 2014</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">license agreements has to be recorded by the Ministry in the general list of Copyright License Agreement with payable fees;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">License agreements which are not in compliance with the license agreement </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">criteria according to Article 82 cannot be included in the general list of Copyright License Agreement;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>If a license agreement is not recorded in the general list of Copyright </b> <b>License Agreement, such unrecorded license agreement will not have any legal effects, and thus not enforceable against third parties</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">More detailed provisions on license agreement recordal will be regulated under a Government Regulation.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Creative Commons Indonesia team realized that this provision could possibly complicate the applicability of open licenses under the copyright law. We know that creators publishing under CC do it because the licenses provide an easy and standard way to share creativity with the public, while at least retaining the right to be attributed as the author of the work. The updated Indonesian law would create an artificial barrier to sharing under CC, because it would require licensors to take an additional step in letting the Copyright Office know which of their works are under an open license. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We began to explore the possibility of requesting an exception to the rule for Creative Commons’ licensed works. When we found out that the discussion regarding the regulation had started, we visited the Indonesian Copyright Office. Our aim was to exclude open licenses from the license recordal mandate, ensuring the operation of Creative Commons and other open licenses as they are intended. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On May 23, 2016, we met with the Indonesian Copyright Office, where we were informed that there has been a discussion on the license recordal mandate by the drafting committee, and that open licenses would not be excluded from the license recordal obligation. On September 21, we had another meeting with the Office, where we were asked to provide a written explanation of the operation of open licensing, along with examples of CC licensed materials. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We returned a week later with a draft of our explanation and asked the Copyright Office for feedback and questions. The next day we filed the written request with the Office, and also gathered support from other Creative Commons affiliates by drafting a letter, in case our petition was rejected.. We planned to send out the letter of support from CC affiliates to the drafting committee as our backup plan.. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, on November 1, the Copyright Office informed us that Creative Commons licenses and other open licenses in use in Indonesia will be excluded from the license recordal mandate. The drafting committee agreed to exclude those from the regulation </span><b>because they understand that open licenses are often used in for non-profit purposes</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This decision will be included in the preamble of the government regulation, which is still in the drafting process, but will be finally enacted in December 2016 or January 2017.</span></p>
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<p><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></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51778
title: Solving some of the world’s toughest problems with the Global Open Policy Report
uri: Solving-some-of-the-world-s-toughest-problems-with-the-Global-Open-P
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/06/global-open-policy/
content:
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<p>Open Policy is when governments, institutions, and non-profits enact policies and legislation that makes content, knowledge, or data they produce or fund available under a permissive license to allow reuse, revision, remix, retention, and redistribution. This promotes innovation, access, and equity in areas of education, data, software, heritage, cultural content, science, and academia.</p>
<p>For several years, Creative Commons has been tracking the spread of open policies around the world. And now, with the new <a href="media/29d16a5e.StateofOpenPolicyFullReport_FINAL-1-1-1-1.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/StateofOpenPolicyFullReport_FINAL-1-1-1-1.pdf">Global Open Policy Report <strong>(PDF)</strong></a> by the <a href="https://openpolicynetwork.org/">Open Policy Network</a>, we&#8217;re able to provide a systematic overview of open policy development.</p>
<p><a href="media/29d16a5e.StateofOpenPolicyFullReport_FINAL-1-1-1-1.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/StateofOpenPolicyFullReport_FINAL-1-1-1-1.pdf"><img class="alignright wp-image-51783" src="media/147b3816.Screen-Shot-2016-12-02-at-5.57.09-PM-721x1024.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-02-at-5.57.09-PM-721x1024.png" alt="screen-shot-2016-12-02-at-5-57-09-pm" width="274" height="390" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-02-at-5.57.09-PM-721x1024.png 721w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-02-at-5.57.09-PM-211x300.png 211w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-02-at-5.57.09-PM.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-02-at-5.57.09-PM-28x40.png 28w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-02-at-5.57.09-PM-35x50.png 35w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-02-at-5.57.09-PM-109x155.png 109w" sizes="(max-width: 274px) 85vw, 274px" /></a>The first-of-its-kind report gives an overview of open policies in 38 countries, across four sectors: education, science, data and heritage. The report includes an Open Policy Index and regional impact and local case studies from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Latin America, Europe, and North America. The index measures open policy strength on two scales: policy strength and scope, and level of policy implementation. The index was developed by researchers from CommonSphere, a partner organization of CC Japan.</p>
<p>The Open Policy Index scores were used to classify countries as either Leading, Mid-Way, or Delayed in open policy development. The ten countries with the highest scores are Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, France, Kyrgyzstan, New Zealand, Poland, South Korea, Tanzania, and Uruguay.</p>
<p>The Index scores show that open data policies are the most common, while the rarest open policies are in the heritage sector. Our data also shows a clear correlation between the scope of policy and the level of its implementation. &#8220;The Open Policy Index is the first measurement tool that aims at cross-sector comparison of policies, at global scale. The 2016 edition is a prototype which we will be developing further in coming years. We would like to double the number of indexed countries to cover all those in which Creative Commons is active,&#8221; says CC Poland&#8217;s Alek Tarkowski, one of the leaders of the project.</p>
<p>In his introduction, Creative Commons Public Policy Lead Timothy Vollmer calls us to action, saying that with open policies we have the opportunity, the infrastructure, and the ability to &#8220;improve educational opportunities and help solve some of the world’s toughest scientific challenges.&#8221;</p>
<p>This report documents global achievements from teams all over the world. Each section was written by experts in open policy in their region. Kelsey Wiens, Project Manager for the Global Open Policy Report, emphasizes the importance of communities and open policy: &#8220;We need to leverage effective open policies with vibrant, active communities to embrace, embed, and enhance policies in addition to written statements. Without communities like Creative Commons and OPN, policies are simply paper, not actions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Our partners in collaboration are:</p>
<p>Carolina Botero – Karisma Foundation (Colombia)<br />
María Juliana Soto – Karisma Foundation (Colombia)<br />
Laura Mora – Karisma Foundation (Colombia)<br />
Tomohiro Nagashima – CommonSphere (Japan)<br />
Tomoaki Watanabe &#8211; CommonSphere (Japan)<br />
Alek Tarkowski – Centrum Cyfrowe (Poland)<br />
Kelsey Wiens – Currently CC Canada, formerly CC South Africa (Canada)<br />
Nicole Allen – SPARC (United States)<br />
Delia Browne – Australia National Copyright Unit (Australia)<br />
Baden M Appleyard – AusGOAL (Australia)<br />
Jessica Smith – Australia National Copyright Unit (Australia)<br />
Nancy Salem – Access to Knowledge for Development Center (Egypt)<br />
Editor: Isla Haddow-Flood (South Africa)<br />
Graphics: Atramento.pl (Poland)<br />
Survey Partner: CommonSphere (Japan)</p>
<p>We would not have been successful without the participation and support of the Creative Commons Affiliate Network. We give thanks to all who participated in the survey, interviewed for the case studies or provided research support.</p>
<p>This project was a part of the Open Policy Network grants made possible by a generous donation from the Hewlett Foundation and the Open Policy Network supported by Creative Commons.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51755
title: Inching Towards Open at California College of the Arts
uri: Inching-Towards-Open-at-California-College-of-the-Arts
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/08/inching-towards-open-california-college-arts/
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eric Phetteplace is a fellow from our first Institute for Open Leadership, held in San Francisco in January 2015. He is a librarian at California College of the Arts. </span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was a member of the inaugural </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/02/10/report-back-institute-for-open-leadership-meeting/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Institute for Open Leadership in 2015</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. I&#8217;m the Systems Librarian at </span><a href="https://www.cca.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">California College of the Arts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CCA), and my IOL project centered around </span><a href="http://vault.cca.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">VAULT</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the school&#8217;s digital archive, which I maintain. To quote from my original proposal:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the college has an excellent resource in its digital repository, VAULT, items are often visible only within a department; faculty hesitate to share even with the college community as a whole. What is more, this protective attitude trickles down to students in the form of assignment instructions. Faculty train the next generation of artists to lock down their creations rather than embrace sharing and remixing via the Creative Commons suite of licenses.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It has been two years since the IOL, and it is an ideal time to reflect on my project, what was accomplished, and what work remains to be done.</span></p>
<h2><b>Progress, Slow but Sure</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The prime takeaway from the Institute for Open Leadership for me related to increasing the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">understanding</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of open licenses and their benefits. As a librarian, most of my colleagues are not only aware of how important open content is, they actively advocate for it in the form of open educational resources and open access research. Librarians are inclined to sympathize with &#8220;open&#8221; as a concept, and are liable to have produced content licensed under a Creative Commons license or deposited materials in an open repository. But not everyone shares a nuanced knowledge of and appreciation for openness. The IOL, first and foremost, taught me how to clearly articulate what open means, and the tangible benefits it offers. This is evident in </span><a href="https://libraries.cca.edu/iol"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a presentation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> I gave to college administrators where I devote a great deal of time to contrasting Creative Commons licenses and dispelling myths about them. Providing examples and a space to clear up confusions was invaluable, even if my instincts told me to focus on the implementation and policy details at hand.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Secondly, the IOL helped me to identify allies and stakeholders. Obviously, as mentioned above, the libraries were a natural place to build support. However, I was also able to identify individual faculty members who were already utilizing and promoting Creative Commons content within their classes. I could better articulate the benefits of permissive licensing by putting myself in administrators&#8217;, students&#8217;, or faculty members&#8217; shoes, and framing the conversation around their needs. While my own stance tends towards &#8220;a healthy intellectual commons produces a healthy society&#8221;, that&#8217;s often not the most persuasive point to others. Students, for instance, are intrigued by the prospect of selling their Creative Commons works, or exploring the ways in which readily shareable works are better for self-promotion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the IOL helped me develop a strategy for spreading open content on campus, the progress has been rather slow. When I listed the barriers to my IOL project, a few were:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Misunderstanding or mistrust of open licenses</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Educational_Rights_and_Privacy_Act"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FERPA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and concerns around student privacy</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Personal lack of time/capacity</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We&#8217;ve made substantial progress on the first two items. People I talk to on campus are likely to have a positive opinion about Creative Commons and similar efforts, and view FERPA more as a limitation than an insurmountable obstacle. However, the final hurdle has been the most challenging: on top of my other obligations, which included a couple major system implementations recently, I&#8217;ve struggled to find time to advocate for open policies. It takes a continual fight to see improvements, yet since my initial presentation there&#8217;s been relatively little change to the student and faculty work in our repository.</span></p>
<h2><b>CC-Licensed Archives</b></h2>
<figure id="attachment_51765" style="width: 997px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51765 size-full" src="media/9899cf0e.libraries-collection.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/libraries-collection.png" alt="VAULT library collection screenshot" width="997" height="623" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/libraries-collection.png 997w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/libraries-collection-300x187.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/libraries-collection-768x480.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/libraries-collection-64x40.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/libraries-collection-50x31.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/libraries-collection-248x155.png 248w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Screenshot of the library&#8217;s collection within <a href="http://vault.cca.edu/">VAULT</a>. The assets are licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">CC BY-NC</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the areas where the library has more control over the licensing and distribution of content is the college&#8217;s archives. The archives include both physical documents but also digital objects inside VAULT. The </span><a href="https://vault.cca.edu/hierarchy.do?topic=ed14365a-4935-67ae-0ed9-8dcf2750fdc8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Libraries&#8217; collections</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in VAULT totals over a thousand records, representing everything from historical photos of students from the 1960s to an accreditation report from this October. Since we are in charge of the acquisition and preservation of this content, it was relatively easy to discuss the implications of CC licenses with my library director, who was incredibly supportive of my IOL attendance. We promptly designed a licensing policy and added </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-NC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> licenses to all our public archives content.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Furthermore, I worked to increase the exposure of our archival content by ensuring our metadata records could be harvested and reused by other platforms. By configuring VAULT to publish data using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) standard, our content now appears in </span><a href="https://calisphere.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Calisphere</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—a digital library culled from many archives, libraries, and museums located in the state of California—as well as OCLC&#8217;s tremendous </span><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Worldcat</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> database that collects the holdings of libraries worldwide. These external search engines increase the exposure of our resources and make it easier for people who never heard of California College of the Arts, much less VAULT, to discover our archives. After all, open content isn&#8217;t really that valuable if no one knows of its existence. Even if all of VAULT was openly licensed, we would still need to increase its exposure such that it&#8217;s not merely a school-wide secret.</span></p>
<h2><b>A Culture of Open</b></h2>
<figure id="attachment_51768" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51768 size-large" src="media/2a99ce8d.ArtFem_CCA_2016_04-1024x682.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ArtFem_CCA_2016_04-1024x682.jpg" alt="Art+Feminism edit-a-thon at California College of the Arts" width="840" height="559" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ArtFem_CCA_2016_04-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ArtFem_CCA_2016_04-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ArtFem_CCA_2016_04-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ArtFem_CCA_2016_04-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ArtFem_CCA_2016_04-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ArtFem_CCA_2016_04-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ArtFem_CCA_2016_04-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Art+Feminism edit-a-thon at California College of the Arts, by Eric Phetteplace, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While my primary project of loosening the licensing restrictions of VAULT has only affected archival works, as an institution California College of the Arts has been improving its understanding of and support for openness. The libraries have started a few projects which relate to Creative Commons and open access to research. For instance, in each of the past two years we hosted an </span><a href="http://www.artandfeminism.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Art+Feminism</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Wikipedia edit-a-thon at a campus library. Wikipedia is one of the most prominent examples of Creative Commons content; it&#8217;s ubiquitous, a great topic for information literacy discussions, and the perfect place for students to add to the commons for the very first time. Unfortunately, Wikipedia also suffers from the topical biases that plague other encyclopedias and much of the Western academic canon: male historical figures and Anglo-European subjects are disproportionately represented. Thankfully, events like Art+Feminism exist to train new editors and to encourage people to contribute Wikipedia articles relating to female artists and feminism. We&#8217;re not only helping to balance Wikipedia’s topical coverage, but we&#8217;re also developing new, open content.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On a related note, the CCA Libraries have made a habit of participating in </span><a href="http://openaccessweek.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Access Week</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Open Access Week is a week devoted to raising awareness around the open access movement that promotes free access to scholarly content online. As part of our participation, we&#8217;ve posted informative notices around campus and on our website, created a </span><a href="http://libguides.cca.edu/open-access"><span style="font-weight: 400;">study guide</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and run small contests to encourage faculty to engage with open access. But what&#8217;s more: we&#8217;ve gone beyond simply advocating for open access content and informing our stakeholders about its value; we’re  actually distributing open content ourselves. Now we have a small but growing </span><a href="https://vault.cca.edu/hierarchy.do?topic=7b5be2a9-4c8a-406c-bb65-dfb51ca1feea"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Faculty Research collection</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in VAULT which provides a place for faculty and staff to post open access versions of their research works.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While these feats are modest, they signal a wider change around campus. Open has moved from being a subject of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">conversation</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to a subject of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">action</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Each year, the CCA libraries&#8217; activism expands gradually: we license more archival objects under Creative Commons licenses, we host more events surrounding open access scholarship and open content, and we see growing attendance and awareness. It will continue to be difficult to find the time the cause deserves, but we&#8217;re committed to participating in the open movement and improving our institution one step at a time.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51805
title: A simple and versatile resource for refugees: an interview with Refugee Phrasebook
uri: A-simple-and-versatile-resource-for-refugees-an-interview-with-Refuge
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/07/refugee-phrasebook/
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<p><a href="media/d3eb1a90.Logo-Phrasebook-03.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Logo-Phrasebook-03.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51806" src="media/d3eb1a90.Logo-Phrasebook-03.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Logo-Phrasebook-03.png" alt="logo-phrasebook-03" width="317" height="186" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Logo-Phrasebook-03.png 317w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Logo-Phrasebook-03-300x176.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Logo-Phrasebook-03-68x40.png 68w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Logo-Phrasebook-03-50x29.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Logo-Phrasebook-03-264x155.png 264w" sizes="(max-width: 317px) 85vw, 317px" /></a></p>
<p>Last year, after a series of attacks on refugee centers in Berlin, I saw a Facebook post circulating from my friend Paul Feigelfeld, an academic in Berlin. The post called on his community – academics, artists, translators, and activists – to take action to stop the continued attacks on asylum seekers in Europe. That post and others like it were the spark for <a href="http://refugeephrasebook.de">Refugee Phrasebook,</a> a CC0 open data project with hundreds of contributors. Taking shape over the past year, the book has spread all over Europe, attracting global press in <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tech-startups-refugee-crisis">Wired,</a> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=newssearch&amp;cd=3&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjvzpiLwuLQAhUDwiYKHXjIB6sQqQIIHygAMAI&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Feurope.newsweek.com%2Feuropes-refugee-crisis-seven-heartwarming-tales-around-europe-332534&amp;usg=AFQjCNHPRckGvZX0MbmDJhnsTe0FnV_zeQ&amp;bvm=bv.140496471,d.eWE">Newsweek,</a> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=newssearch&amp;cd=5&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjvzpiLwuLQAhUDwiYKHXjIB6sQqQIIJSgAMAQ&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stern.de%2Fpanorama%2Fgesellschaft%2Frefugee-phrasebook--berliner-helfen-fluechtlingen-mit-kostenlosem-woerterbuch-6434724.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNGxS7M_sVCJIfyjb0KQxH3EEoQkzA&amp;bvm=bv.140496471,d.eWE">STERN,</a> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=newssearch&amp;cd=11&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiy7sylwuLQAhUHWSYKHQWKDWU4ChCpAggZKAAwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.zeit.de%2Fteilchen%2F2015%2F09%2F08%2Fwir-muessen-reden%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNGR0Odu796k5Zsh966KqEOJqtVjzg&amp;bvm=bv.140496471,d.eWE">Die Zeit,</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=newssearch&amp;cd=12&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiUv739uOLQAhXIQiYKHTjbASs4ChCpAggcKAAwAQ&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fnetzwelt%2Fapps%2Frefugee-hackathon-hacken-fuer-fluechtlinge-a-1059595.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNHcQ9O8JbZN1e7z_IN-ftVKmwOu5g&amp;bvm=bv.140496471,d.eWE">Der Spiegel,</a> <a href="http://www.aec.at/prix/en/gewinner/#communities">as well as winning the Prix Ars Electronica</a> “Award of Distinction” for Digital Communities.</p>
<p>With 1.1 million asylum seekers in Germany, the need for language and education support is acute, and the Refugee Phrasebook helps meet that need. As both a physical and digital resource for refugees, the project has spread rapidly across Europe, and contributors are adding more languages, data, and phrases to continue to support an increasing number of refugees.</p>
<p>Refugee Phrasebook is accepting contributors who want to get involved and collaborate with organizations like the P2P Foundation, CC, and Wikimedia. <a href="http://refugeephrasebook.de">Visit their website</a> to contribute to their global knowledge community.</p>
<p><strong>What was the impetus for the Refugee Phrasebook? How did the project come about?</strong><br />
The urgency of the refugee situation in the summer of 2015 made it immediately clear that language aids were needed for both refugees and helpers. Infrastructure was bad, people had short battery life on their smartphones – if they had one at all – or no data plans to use translation apps, so along with many other small simple projects, a shared document with often used phrases for basic communication and central questions spread over several Facebook groups.<br />
It grew exponentially and was quickly transformed into a Google spreadsheet to make the data easier to expand and maintain. Hundreds of people contributed; there were anonymous contributors, brief contributors, and others on a more long term basis. People started creating the first print versions after only a few days and distributed them at train stations in Vienna or Berlin. It soon found its way to Lesbos, Idomeni, and even Norway. It spread very quickly and received a lot of positive feedback and support from private individuals and institutions like universities, art schools, and art institutions, who provided printers, design expertise, etc.</p>
<p><a href="media/3e43e87c.Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.53.04-AM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.53.04-AM.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51807" src="media/3e43e87c.Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.53.04-AM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.53.04-AM.png" alt="phrasebooks" width="1114" height="564" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.53.04-AM.png 1114w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.53.04-AM-300x152.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.53.04-AM-768x389.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.53.04-AM-1024x518.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.53.04-AM-79x40.png 79w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.53.04-AM-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.53.04-AM-270x137.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p><strong>How did the Refugee Phrasebook evolve from nascency to a global project of this size? What kinds of tools, both digital and physical, helped you scale the project so rapidly? How do you organize the data and translations?</strong><br />
The Google spreadsheets were shared only on Facebook at first, but soon it became clear that we needed more translators beyond the initial group based in Berlin. We created a website as a contact point for contributors, and thanks to Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V., we could also handle donations and provide an official donation receipt. As the media woke up to the topic, our website was also covered a lot, which helped to reach other initiatives.<br />
To coordinate the project, we mostly use Skype or Zoom calls, Etherpads, Slack, and Trello. In several hackathons, developers helped to improve the structure of the tables and how to display them on the site. But the main factors were a strong sense of urgency, the network effect of personal recommendations, and the data being open, which is still exceptional in this field.</p>
<p><strong>How do the physical and virtual interact in this project as both a virtual collection of data as well as a collection of physical booklets?</strong><br />
It continues to be interesting how virtual and physical realms overlap in this project. First, of course, there are very pragmatic practical problems that arise: how can we create a layout that fits as much information as possible in the best way onto as few pages as possible to keep costs down? Where can we print? This is always done differently: everyone can use the data and create and print their own booklets, or download existing print versions from our website, but often we collaborate with the people who need booklets, help raise money for printing costs, locate affordable printers, organize transport and distribution. Creating the phrasebook alone from data to print to distribution and usage is already an act of conversion and conversation.<br />
All these aspects give us valuable feedback on how to make things easier, where the data is inconsistent, what is lacking in terms of phrases, languages, information and so on. At the moment, we are working on making the conversion from language data in the spreadsheets to printed booklets easier, so people can simply select what they want and don’t have to go through tedious conversion processes. Refugee Phrasebook is a tool for places with the worst infrastructure, which is why it has also been used as insulation during cold weather and to kindle fires. It’s a simple and versatile resource. In this case, it can be helpful to burn books.</p>
<p><a href="media/1adfb732.Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.55.10-AM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.55.10-AM.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51808" src="media/1adfb732.Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.55.10-AM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.55.10-AM.png" alt="books in car" width="1122" height="568" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.55.10-AM.png 1122w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.55.10-AM-300x152.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.55.10-AM-768x389.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.55.10-AM-1024x518.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.55.10-AM-79x40.png 79w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.55.10-AM-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-11.55.10-AM-270x137.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p><strong>What kinds of outcomes have you seen from sharing the data under CC0? Has the use of CC been particularly relevant in terms of your work and what you are setting out to do?</strong><br />
Thanks to the open CC0, the translations could be used in several apps and other translation projects. Designers used it to create signs and other communication aides, local initiatives created custom print versions.</p>
<blockquote><p>Being able to adapt the content to a specific use was especially important for the camps, as refugees encountered different languages across Europe and often could only stay for a few days. In a situation that required urgency, we wanted everyone to be able to adapt and share the translations freely. We will continue to share content under a CC license.</p></blockquote>
<p>The next step is an automatic solution to create custom pdf files as well as more icons.</p>
<p><strong>What kinds of outcomes have you seen from this project, more generally? How have you balanced the project&#8217;s growth in terms of the usage of the physical and virtual assets as well as the ever expanding scope of a project such as this one?</strong><br />
The demand for print versions was a surprise at first, but electricity and wifi is often not available in refugee camps and shelters. A decentralized structure with independent and connected regional projects helped develop our community and supports the project&#8217;s growth. The printing of the phrasebooks is often organized locally. Updating the tables is a time consuming task, so feedback from helpers is an important motivation. In the last month, we saw the demand shift to the south of Europe, where current policies have moved refugees out of sight without providing substantial support. The need for shelter and welcoming culture has not diminished, and language support is only a very small part of what is necessary.</p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s next for the Refugee Phrasebook? How do you see it evolving?</strong><br />
Though it might be easy to start projects like this it can be harder to sustain them. At the moment we are focussing on consolidating the project while expanding the target language base to improve on translations of prominent but lesser known African languages like Tigrinya.<br />
The growing and changing data set has been included in various other projects from the beginning, often without us even knowing about it. The evening before Refugee Phrasebook received the Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in the category Digital Communities, we received an email that someone in Washington had used it in an app.</p>
<blockquote><p>It lives forth in apps, language learning cards, other aid websites, etc. and is a great example for open data and peer to peer.</p></blockquote>
<p>We do not see it growing and growing, but are looking to build it into a sustainable, stable resource that is easy to use, to expand and adapt into other projects. We hope to continue to develop the global community we have established through the phrasebook.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51824
title: A month of Slack: Growing global communities every day
uri: A-month-of-Slack-Growing-global-communities-every-day
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/09/a-month-of-slack/
content:
<p>About a month ago, CC moved its daily communications to Slack, the team messaging service popular with communities around the world. You can read more about our decision here.</p>
<p>What a month it’s been. We’ve seen our daily community grow to nearly 500 users, with an average of 110 people posting every day. We’ve also seen significant growth in the geographic range of our community, with dedicated channels for different regions like <a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/cc-europe/">#cc-europe</a> (55 members), <a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/cc-mena">#cc-mena</a> (20 members), <a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/cc-africa">#cc-africa</a> (22 members) <a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/cc-latinamerica">#cc-latinamerica</a> (19 members), and others. In many of these channels, communities are using their local languages to communicate and collaborate.</p>
<p>In addition, our IRC bridge has allowed users who prefer those tools to connect with each other without leaving their preferred tool, seeing the messages in our #general channel from their IRC clients.</p>
<p>One of the reasons our new tools have been so impactful is that they are free to use, registration is open to all, and we empower the members of our community to organize themselves. We’re making use of 21 Slack channels, and this system has made it simple for people to align around projects and themes. From <a href="http://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/cc-opened">#cc-opened</a> to <a href="http://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/cc-developers">#cc-developers,</a> you can select a community that supports your interests and give direct, real time feedback to your community members.</p>
<p>It should come as no surprise that commoners love chatting. We’re sending nearly 4,000 messages per week, with over 80% in public channels and direct messages to one another. We’ve also used Slack to send approximately 300 files, passing documents back and forth in order to collaborate on projects. In addition, channels like <a href="http://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/cc-music">#cc-music,</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/cc-reads">#cc-reads,</a> and <a href="http://creativecommons.slack.com/messages/cc-certificates">#cc-certificates</a> allow commoners to engage with each other to talk about specific subjects that matter to them.</p>
<p>CC has never had so much daily activity in our online communities. We’re excited to report that this experiment has been a positive experience, connecting people all over the world to each other, and to the commons.</p>
<p>We hope you’ll be a part of the conversation. <a href="https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/">Join us on Slack!</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51836
title: Announcing new staff to support CC’s global network
uri: Announcing-new-staff-to-support-CC-s-global-network
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/12/announcing-new-staff-support-ccs-global-network/
content:
<p>I’m thrilled to announce two new additions to Creative Commons’ full-time staff—Claudio Ruiz and Simeon Oriko. Both Claudio and Simeon will be taking on newly developed positions focused on supporting the growth of CC’s global network.</p>
<p>Expanding and strengthening the Creative Commons global network has been a primary focus of the organization since our most recent Summit in Seoul, South Korea. Most recently, we announced <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/08/announcing-2017-creative-commons-global-summit/">CC&#8217;s next global summit,</a> which will take place in Toronto at the end of April, and will bring together hundreds of community members from around the world to work on growing the commons. Leading up to the Summit, the CC community will be drafting its first collaborative global movement strategy. This effort follows an extensive <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Global_Network_Strategy#Research">research project</a> aimed at identifying the specific needs of community members. It will mean a big shift in how CC builds, enables, and works as a network and a global movement. And it will require strong leadership and support, which is why I am so pleased to bring on Claudio and Simeon into these new roles.</p>
<p><img class=" wp-image-51837 aligncenter" src="media/f525af39.claudio_photo-1024x682.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/claudio_photo-1024x682.jpg" alt="claudio_photo" width="553" height="368" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/claudio_photo-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/claudio_photo-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/claudio_photo-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/claudio_photo-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/claudio_photo-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/claudio_photo-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/claudio_photo-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/claudio_photo.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 553px) 85vw, 553px" /></p>
<p>In Claudio’s position as Director of Ecosystem Strategy, he will focus on supporting the development and implementation of the new global network strategy. He will collaborate with the CC global community to develop plans and recommendations for shifting Creative Commons to a more open, global, and inclusive organization, and a more powerful, impactful movement led by its community. Claudio is based in Chile and speaks Spanish and English. Read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aR4FpI61xQdz-iR12zQWK2rY12CUyIF_I4AlyIMRpkc/edit">Claudio’s full job description</a></p>
<p>As Network Manager, Simeon will provide daily support to affiliate teams, <img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-51838" src="media/755f3748.Simeon-Oriko_avatar_1480630738-300x300-1.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Simeon-Oriko_avatar_1480630738-300x300-1.jpeg" alt="simeon-oriko_avatar" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Simeon-Oriko_avatar_1480630738-300x300-1.jpeg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Simeon-Oriko_avatar_1480630738-300x300-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Simeon-Oriko_avatar_1480630738-300x300-1-40x40.jpeg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Simeon-Oriko_avatar_1480630738-300x300-1-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Simeon-Oriko_avatar_1480630738-300x300-1-155x155.jpeg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Simeon-Oriko_avatar_1480630738-300x300-1-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Simeon-Oriko_avatar_1480630738-300x300-1-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Simeon-Oriko_avatar_1480630738-300x300-1-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Simeon-Oriko_avatar_1480630738-300x300-1-128x128.jpeg 128w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />collect information about their work, make connections and introductions, and manage administrative needs. This is an essential role to facilitate everyday collaboration and connectivity in the network. Simeon is based in Kenya and speaks Swahili and English. Read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_YoIBcUQxw0GtZLOZ87szqXc-fKgEHOUWuPtQbw-1X8/edit">Simeon’s full job description</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p>Claudio and Simeon have been part of the CC community for many years and their work has been integral to the growth of our global network. For the Creative Commons movement to continue to grow and to flourish, ongoing and open communication between CC HQ and all the members of our community is a must. I couldn’t be happier to be able to make an investment in leadership that will support this communication and facilitate a new era of global engagement.</p>
<p>Please join me in welcoming Claudio and Simeon. If you have any questions about their work or about how to get involved in CC’s network, please send a message to <a href="mailto:network@creativecommons.org">network@creativecommons.org.</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51851
title: Reviving archives through remix: How a Dutch archival project is reinvigorating electronic music
uri: Reviving-archives-through-remix-How-a-Dutch-archival-project-is-reinv
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/14/revive/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51853" src="media/ae78b448.revive-1024x360.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-1024x360.png" alt="revive" width="840" height="295" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-1024x360.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-300x106.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-768x270.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-114x40.png 114w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-50x18.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-270x95.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-1200x422.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>What does it mean to listen to the past through a truly modern lens? This is the question the Dutch project <a href="http://revivethis.org/">re:vive</a> seeks to answer. Working with renowned electronic and experimental musicians such as <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lakker">Lakker,</a> <a href="http://www.rolyporter.com/">Roly Porter,</a> and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/bas-mooy">Bas Mooy,</a> the project from the <a href="http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/netherlands-institute-sound-and-vision">Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision</a> draws on global archives and museums to encourage legal, creative reuse of historic sounds.</p>
<p>In the words of Gregory Markus, coordinator at the institute, “Electronic musicians are probably the largest remix community in the world&#8230;DJs and electronic musicians usually are sound geeks who just love sound and they love learning and experimenting, and they’re the perfect match for audio archives.”</p>
<p>The perfect match between musicians and archives has turned into a prolific and fruitful project. This week, the project released <a href="https://fogmountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/010">another compilation</a> with a companion photo book, all in the public domain, which is available for download via <a href="http://www.fogmountainrecords.com/">Fog Mountain Records.</a></p>
<p><strong>What prompted this project? How have you defined the scope of what kinds of sounds and artists you want to work with?<br />
</strong>This project was inspired by seeing<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAgBvyDqOBE"> Matthew Herbert do a Boiler Room session from the British Library</a>. It made me think, if Boiler Room and Matthew Herbert, two of the coolest and most renowned names in electronic music, were excited to visit and celebrate an archive&#8217;s collection, who else would be interested? But I knew I wanted to run this project right. I wanted it to not just be a heritage institution trying to engage &#8220;creative&#8221; communities from the outside, I wanted it to be intertwined and accepted by the community. In my opinion, the only way to effectively and actively engage a community is to be a part of it. After bouncing ideas around between people involved in electronic music in Europe and the US, we developed a concept and framework and reached out to our first artists, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lakker">Lakker.</a> It has been incredible to see the response and excitement from so many different artists and fans. We keep learning and growing. Everyone is so encouraging and eager to contribute and help out that we actually can&#8217;t keep up!</p>
<p>When it comes to sounds we have two main criteria (in addition to being openly licensed!): The sounds must have context or a story. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s most exciting for me when it comes to archives: the stories and connections we find related to certain materials and the relationships the artists develop with this context. Some items have absolutely no metadata so we have to do some research but that’s also part of the fun. The sounds need to have enough sonic character so that they&#8217;re interesting to work with. Lots of openly licensed archival material like wax cylinders or old 78s have so much noise that they&#8217;re pretty useless for non-research purposes. Field recordings are most interesting sonically but not every archive has those or if they do they&#8217;re modern and still under a copyright.</p>
<p>When it comes to artists we have found ourselves in a niche of experimental electronic and techno but we&#8217;re open to everything!</p>
<p><strong>How do you find the public domain sounds, in particular for the Sample Packs? What kinds of sounds are your favorites?<br />
</strong>We tend to favor our own collections that we hold at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision because we have such extensive, openly licensed materials and the institute wants to keep that growing. But for other things, Europeana is a great tool if you know how to navigate it and then visiting various archive&#8217;s specific portals to see if they have content available online, openly licensed and for download. Few things are worse than finding material online for streaming, openly licensed that you can&#8217;t download. As noted above, field recordings are most interesting to work with from a sampling point of view because they&#8217;re so complex. But finding obscure 78s on the National Library of France&#8217;s portal, Gallica is always exciting!</p>
<figure id="attachment_51852" style="width: 561px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51852 " src="media/3a80632e.revive-cover-1024x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-1024x1024.jpg" alt="Rijksmuseum, Public Domain " width="561" height="561" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-768x768.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover-128x128.jpg 128w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/revive-cover.jpg 1080w" sizes="(max-width: 561px) 85vw, 561px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Cover of 010, Rijksmuseum, Public Domain</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>How do you choose the artists you want to work with? What is your method of working with artists to create projects?</strong><br />
We have a mix of people in the scene when it comes to artists. Working with these materials in a musical and conceptual manner is not for everyone- and it doesn&#8217;t have to be! We want to work with artists who will take this material, spend time with it and examine it in order to create a new work and own that work.</p>
<p>We come up with a curatorial theme and then work from there, reaching out to artists directly and personally. This project is close to our hearts – it&#8217;s not just a job anymore. I hope this puts us on the same level as the artists we work with whose music isn&#8217;t just their job, it&#8217;s their lives.</p>
<p>For some projects like the compilations we’ve done the process is based more on providing the sounds, footage, and images to allow artists to use their own experiences and knowledge to fill in the blanks and go crazy. But with the bigger sessions we’ve done we invite the artists to the Netherlands where they meet with researchers and academics to really get some context.</p>
<blockquote><p>RE:VIVE tries to straddle the worlds of PR/marketing stunt, community outreach and academia. It’s been refreshing to also see how excited and curious academics are about the project and how willing they are to share their knowledge.</p></blockquote>
<figure id="attachment_51854" style="width: 720px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51854 size-full" src="media/aff55ae4.lakker.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lakker.jpg" alt="Lakker presenting Struggle and Emerge at the Hague's REWIRE festival, April 2015. Photo by Rene Passet CC BY-NC-ND" width="720" height="577" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lakker.jpg 720w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lakker-300x240.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lakker-50x40.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lakker-193x155.jpg 193w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Lakker presenting Struggle and Emerge at the Hague&#8217;s REWIRE festival, April 2015. Photo by <a href="https://flic.kr/p/FXnAhQ">Rene Passet</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/&quot;">CC BY-NC-ND</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>How does licensing play into this project? You&#8217;re working with Public Domain sounds and licensing them under CC. How do you explain that to artists, collaborators, and the public?<br />
</strong>We don’t only work with PD material simply because there isn’t enough audio material. We use a lot of Creative Commons material so long as it’s not “non-derivative”. But the most interesting thing we’ve learned from this project is just how unaware many artists and labels are of Creative Commons. I remember having a meeting with the editor-in-chief of a large music editorial platform and he joked “is that still a thing? I remember it was big in 2008…”. Our first release was planned to be released under Creative Commons BY SA NC but at the last minute the label changed that. They said they’d love to investigate Creative Commons more but they’re already so busy trying to stay afloat that it’s not on the agenda so for the time being they’re sticking to All Rights Reserved.</p>
<p>When we ask artists or tell artists that their new works have to be released under Creative Commons they’re pretty open to it since it’s a special project but I don’t foresee anyone we’re working with adopting it as their norm. Artists are easier to convince than labels but labels need to see financial impact use cases etc.</p>
<p>The other big thing we’ve been confronted with about licensing and Creative Commons is that people just don’t understand it. All Rights Reserved is crystal clear. It’s going to be tough for RE:VIVE to change mindsets but we can at least talk to artists one at a time and let them know what’s up and what Creative Commons stands for, what it means for them and their work and why they should consider adopting it.</p>
<blockquote><p>Electronic musicians are probably the largest remix community in the world. They share music at an alarmingly fast rate with mixes and DJ-sets online all of which feature uncleared, copyrighted material, but most don’t care. They sample from everywhere and anywhere, they don’t clear these samples, they just hope that they don’t get caught. Most make so little money and have warped the samples to the point where they’re unrecognizable so they think they’ll never get caught. RE:VIVE can’t work in this manner because we are part of a public institution. We play by the rules and we want to play by the rules so that we can see what’s working and what’s not and initiate change at a policy level.</p></blockquote>
<p>There are a few collections we want to work with that are based in the US that are available for personal, non-commercial reuse, but it’s hard to approach music labels and say, “We want to use this collection, tell its story, and give it some attention because it’s incredible material&#8230; and there’s no commercial reuse so there’s no financial value in it for you.” If they could sell the music or press it to vinyl or stream it more doors would open and these collections hidden in corners of the web could get the love and attention we feel they deserve. But rights clearing takes time and money which artists, labels, and archives really don’t have.</p>
<p><strong>Do you see this initiative as translatable to other languages, record labels, and types of music? What other projects influence you? Where do you look for inspiration?<br />
</strong>I certainly hope it’s translatable. We’d love to see more archives get directly involved because we already have artists and labels lining up out the door. RE:VIVE is an initiative from an archive first and foremost and our job is to promote archives and reuse. We don’t want to just take content from the web and reuse it, we want the archives to get involved in the process, meet the artists, and impart their knowledge and love for their collections on them. If they can see the excitement we’ve encountered when bringing people to our depots, watching them explore the thousands of old record players, sifting through thousands of records. You really see the connection. DJs and electronic musicians usually are sound geeks who just love sound and they love learning and experimenting, and they’re the perfect match for audio archives.</p>
<p>Other labels and genres of music are definitely an option too! That’s the beauty of starting with audio and music. It’s so much easier to build on top of it with texts, images and footage.</p>
<blockquote><p>I like to refer to archives as one-stop shopping – they have sounds to sample, images for artwork, footage for music videos and context for inspiration. It’s fantastic and transferable to so many genres. We focus on sample based music so we can have the most direct reuse.</p></blockquote>
<p>In terms of other projects that inspire us? I am always inspired by our resident tour guide at <a href="http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/netherlands-institute-sound-and-vision">Sounds and Vision</a>, Rob de Bie. His love for sound and history of recorded sound and moving image is contagious, the British Library’s Cheryl Tipp and Will Prentice from the sound archive are also wonderful. The National Library of France’s Gallica portal, the Rijksmueum and National Archive of the Netherlands open collections remind me of all the possibilities. And then of course all the artists and labels we work with. But I think I get the most inspiration from my old friends in Iowa City who run a music festival and label called <a href="http://missioncreekfestival.com/">Mission Creek Music Festival.</a> Their love and support was so unyielding. They just saw that something was missing in the town and wanted to fill that gap but they did not want to do it in an isolationist way. They brought in everyone in the community and made everyone feel involved and supported. I cherish that and I think that emotional connection might be missing too often in projects. We try to channel that somehow!</p>
<p><strong>After this release, what&#8217;s next for your project? What do you hope to make and discover next?<br />
</strong>We have quite a few releases planned for the first half of 2017 already that we’re really excited about. What Sound and Vision, the institute that started the RE:VIVE project, hopes for is to set a leading example for other institutes much like the Rijksmuseum did with their public domain dump in 2013, which changed the game.</p>
<p>It’d be great to see more institutes open up or at least add clarity to their rights statements. Even just in the Netherlands we have so many stories we want to share I think we’ll be pretty busy for a while. We’re on the hunt for funding for these!</p>
<p>In a perfect world we’d love to get the point where doing a RE:VIVE session is the same as doing a Boiler Room session, a kind of right of passage for electronic musicians, but we have a lot of work to do to get there!</p>
<p>In the end though, if we can just get a few more people interested in their local archive and see the archives equally get engaged with their local arts scene then our job is done.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=189926330/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://fogmountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/010">010 by Fog Mountain Records</a></iframe></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51873
title: The top of the commons 2016: Favorites from our community of commoners
uri: The-top-of-the-commons-2016-Favorites-from-our-community-of-commoner
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/20/top-commons-2016/
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<p>2016 is almost at a close, and our global communities are as busy as ever. Around the world, diverse groups are working together to create meaningful connections and light up the commons. From announcements of new communities in <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/03/17/creative-commons-turkey-joins-cc-affiliate-network/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/03/17/creative-commons-turkey-joins-cc-affiliate-network/">Turkey</a> and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/22/introducing-cc-panama/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/22/introducing-cc-panama/">Panama</a> to the best in music, photography, and open education from communities around the world, we&rsquo;re pleased to present this year&rsquo;s best from the commons as chosen by our affiliates and staff.</p>
<h4><strong>FILIP STOJANOVSKI, CC MACEDONIA</strong></h4>
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/fosim/albums" target="_blank" data-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/fosim/albums">Vančo Džambaski</a> is a photoactivist who publishes tons of HQ HR photos via flickr using CC BY-NC-SA.&nbsp;He attends events, mostly organized by civil society, as well as protests and demonstrations, and publishes albums of selected photos from each event. His photos are then used by media both local and foreign (incl. Global Voices), as well as social media users, and on the long run, he provided photos from historical events for some books even. We are working on spreading the CC idea amongst activists and independent media as a way for them to increase visibility.</p>
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<dd>Our Art is Free of Charge! 02.06.2016 #ColorfulRevolution by Vančo Džambaski CC BY-NC-SA&nbsp;2.0</dd>
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<p>There are several nonprofit media outlets in Macedonia that use CC licenses (the first two are founded by Metamorphosis).</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://portalb.mk" target="_blank" data-href="http://portalb.mk">Portalb.mk</a> (leading news portal in Albanian language)</li>
<li><a href="http://meta.mk" target="_blank" data-href="http://meta.mk">Meta.mk</a> News Agency (independent news agency working in Macedonian, Albanian and English)</li>
<li><a href="http://civil.org.mk/" target="_blank" data-href="http://civil.org.mk/">CIVIL</a> &mdash; Center of Freedom (NGO working in different areas incl. election monitoring, who also produce a lot of news contents)</li>
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<h4><strong>JORGE GEMETTO, CC&nbsp;URUGUAY</strong></h4>
<p>From the CC Uruguay team we would like to share 2 Year End Lists. From the content of the lists you&rsquo;ll see that we love music and digitizing&nbsp;<img src="media/b1c5b8a6.1f600.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/72x72/1f600.png" alt="😀" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p><strong>Top CC Licensed Uruguayan Albums of 2016:</strong></p>
<p>1. <a href="http://musicalibre.uy/2016/01/02/mux/" target="_blank" data-href="http://musicalibre.uy/2016/01/02/mux/">Mux (by Mux)<br /></a>2. <a href="http://musicalibre.uy/2016/12/12/mapas-anatomicos/" target="_blank" data-href="http://musicalibre.uy/2016/12/12/mapas-anatomicos/">Mapas Anat&oacute;micos</a> (by Carmen Sandiego)<br />3. <a href="http://musicalibre.uy/2016/12/04/registros-akashicos/" target="_blank" data-href="http://musicalibre.uy/2016/12/04/registros-akashicos/">Registros akashicos</a> (by Pau O&rsquo;Bianchi)<br />4. <a href="http://musicalibre.uy/2016/07/18/flor-de-nadie/" target="_blank" data-href="http://musicalibre.uy/2016/07/18/flor-de-nadie/">Flor de Nadie</a> (by Los extranjeros)<br />5. <a href="http://musicalibre.uy/2016/11/11/carcasa/" target="_blank" data-href="http://musicalibre.uy/2016/11/11/carcasa/">Carcasa</a> (by Martes M&aacute;rtir)</p>
<p><strong>Top free software for digitizing public domain works:</strong></p>
<p>1. <a href="http://scantailor.org/" target="_blank" data-href="http://scantailor.org/">Scantailor<br /></a>2. <a href="https://github.com/Tenrec-Builders/pi-scan" target="_blank" data-href="https://github.com/Tenrec-Builders/pi-scan">Pi Scan<br /></a>3. <a href="https://github.com/tesseract-ocr" target="_blank" data-href="https://github.com/tesseract-ocr">Tesseract OCR<br /></a>4. <a href="https://www.imagemagick.org/" target="_blank" data-href="https://www.imagemagick.org/">ImageMagick<br /></a>5. <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfshuffler/" target="_blank" data-href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfshuffler/">Pdfshuffle</a></p>
<h4><strong>MUID LATIF, CC&nbsp;MALAYSIA</strong></h4>
<p>Most Open Music Collective: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/spacegambusexperiment/tracks" target="_blank" data-href="https://soundcloud.com/spacegambusexperiment/tracks">Space Gambus Experiment (SGE)<br /></a>Most Shared Creative Projects via Behance (with CC license): <a href="https://www.behance.net/flyingmouse" target="_blank" data-href="https://www.behance.net/flyingmouse">Chow Hon Lam<br /></a>Most Proactive Commoner: <a href="http://sinarproject.org/en" target="_blank" data-href="http://sinarproject.org/en">Sinar Project<br /></a>Emerging Commoner: <a href="http://www.malaysiadesignarchive.org/" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.malaysiadesignarchive.org/">Ezrena Marwan,</a> Malaysia Design Archives<br />Most Active Open Source Community &mdash; <a href="http://planet-oss-malaysia.blogspot.my" target="_blank" data-href="http://planet-oss-malaysia.blogspot.my">Malaysia Open Source Community<br /></a>Most Preferred Digital Libraries: <a href="http://library.oum.edu.my/oumlib/" target="_blank" data-href="http://library.oum.edu.my/oumlib/">Tan Sri Dr Abdullah Sanusi Digital Library,</a> Open University Malaysia and <a href="http://woulibrary.wou.edu.my" target="_blank" data-href="http://woulibrary.wou.edu.my">Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Library,</a> Wawasan Open University</p>
<h4><strong>HILMAN FATHONI, CC INDONESIA</strong></h4>
<p><strong>CC Indonesia&rsquo;s Most Open Events in 2016 Lists:</strong></p>
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<li>Media: <a href="http://creativecommons.or.id/2016/08/majalah-horison-akan-hadir-di-wikimedia-commons-secara-bertahap/" target="_blank" data-href="http://creativecommons.or.id/2016/08/majalah-horison-akan-hadir-di-wikimedia-commons-secara-bertahap/">Horison Magazine</a> Uploaded 264 Editions of their Magazines to Wikimedia Commons (Licensed with CC BY-SA)</li>
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<dd>Horison magazine cover July 1966, CC&nbsp;BY-SA</dd>
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<p>2. Socialization: <a href="http://www.wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Creative_Commons_Indonesia_2016/Laporan_Aktivitas" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Creative_Commons_Indonesia_2016/Laporan_Aktivitas">CC Indonesia&rsquo;s first Law Faculty Socialization in Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta</a> &mdash; CCID Activities Report Page Dated 15th of October 2016<br />3. OER: <a href="http://www.wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Creative_Commons_Indonesia_2016/Laporan_Aktivitas" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Creative_Commons_Indonesia_2016/Laporan_Aktivitas">A governmental institution &ldquo;Indonesian National Science Foundation&rsquo;s Scientific Documentation Center&rdquo;</a> (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia: Pusat Dokumetasi dan Informasi Ilmiah, abbreviated as PDII LIPI) have started an initiative to use Creative Commons on each research products they publish. &mdash; CCID Activities Report Page Dated 2nd of November 2016:</p>
<p><strong>Music: Top 5 CC Music Albums in 2016 Lists!</strong></p>
<p>1. <a href="http://yesnowave.com/yesno082/" target="_blank" data-href="http://yesnowave.com/yesno082/">Frau &mdash; Parasite Lottery (Digital/Vinyl 7&rsquo;&rsquo;)</a> (Yes No Wave Netlabel)<br />2. <a href="https://nanabarecords.bandcamp.com/album/landscape" target="_blank" data-href="https://nanabarecords.bandcamp.com/album/landscape">Peonies &mdash; Landscape (Compact Disc)</a> (Masashi Records)<br />3. <a href="https://kolibrirekords.bandcamp.com/album/phases-ep" target="_blank" data-href="https://kolibrirekords.bandcamp.com/album/phases-ep">Low Pink &mdash; Phases EP (Compact Disc)</a> (Kolibri Rekords)<br />4. <a href="https://rizkanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rr21-take-a-storyline" target="_blank" data-href="https://rizkanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rr21-take-a-storyline">Take &mdash; A Storyline (Cassette Tapes)</a> (Rizkan Records)<br />5. <a href="http://yesnowave.com/yesno083/" target="_blank" data-href="http://yesnowave.com/yesno083/">Dialita &mdash; Dunia Milik Kita (Digital/Compact Disc)</a> (Yes No Wave Netlabel)</p>
<p><strong>Regulation:</strong> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/28/making-creative-commons-licensing-work-indonesia/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/28/making-creative-commons-licensing-work-indonesia/">All Open License in Indonesia are freed from License Recordal Mandatory!</a></p>
<h4>JENNIE ROSE HALPERIN, COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER</h4>
<p><strong>My Favorite CC Profiles from this year:</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Re:vive&rsquo;s creative interpretations of archival music with top electronic musicians: </strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/14/revive/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/14/revive/"><strong>Reviving archives through remix</strong></a><strong>. </strong>This interview was interesting not only because the project itself is dynamic and wide-reaching, but also because Gregory Markus is a thoughtful representative for creative archival uses and reuse/remix.</li>
<li><strong>Agile uses of CC0 for information literacy in </strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/07/15/letters-for-black-lives/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/07/15/letters-for-black-lives/"><strong>Letters for Black Lives</strong></a><strong> and the </strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/07/refugee-phrasebook/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/07/refugee-phrasebook/"><strong>Refugee Phrasebook</strong></a><strong>.</strong> Letters for Black Lives remains one of our most popular interviews to date because the project spread so rapidly and is a topical and compelling story. The Refugee Phrasebook is equally inspiring and wide-reaching: Teaching language skills to incoming refugees is such a crucial project, and this is an excellent use of CC0 data to create an agile and effective spread of data and information.</li>
<li><strong>Most creative use of CC in nontraditional objects:</strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/07/27/makemypattern/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/07/27/makemypattern/"><strong> Make My Pattern</strong></a><strong>.</strong> This was one of the first interviews I did at CC, and it was so fun! Joost&rsquo;s project is so innovative and his adoption of the licenses is always changing for his audience. I love the way that he&rsquo;s thought through using CC on patterns and physical objects, as well as the way he discovered his community in &ldquo;sewcialism.&rdquo;</li>
<li>&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/23/caroline-woolard/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/23/caroline-woolard/"><strong>CC and the concept of the commons in fine art</strong></a><strong>: Caroline Woolard&rsquo;s artistic practice.</strong> I met Caroline at a lecture she gave at the Oxbow school last year and was bowled over by her thoughtful conceptual vision. She has a strong artistic viewpoint and her work speaks volumes to community creation and the concept of the commons.</li>
<li>&nbsp;<strong>Information activism and CC: </strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/29/freedom-of-the-press/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/29/freedom-of-the-press/"><strong>Freedom of the Press Foundation</strong></a><strong>. </strong>The work for press freedom has never been more important, and Trevor Timm&rsquo;s interview was prescient for the current moment, particularly as it concerns privacy and transparency in government and the press.</li>
<li>&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/23/maya-zankoul/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/23/maya-zankoul/"><strong>Creating cross-cultural connections:</strong></a><strong> Maya Zankoul&rsquo;s use of CC and illustration in Lebanon. </strong>My mom loved this profile of Maya Zankoul, a popular Lebanese blogger and illustrator. Her use of clever storytelling and beautiful illustrations invite people to step into her captivating and colorful world.</li>
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<h4><strong>IKAY HOLT, CC&nbsp;TURKEY</strong></h4>
<p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/03/17/creative-commons-turkey-joins-cc-affiliate-network/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/03/17/creative-commons-turkey-joins-cc-affiliate-network/">Turkey had its official launch in 2016!</a></p>
<h4><strong>KAMIL ŚLIWOWSKI, CC&nbsp;POLAND</strong></h4>
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<li>Favorite CC photographers: <a href="https://pixabay.com/pl/users/Tomasz_Mikolajczyk-106840/" target="_blank" data-href="https://pixabay.com/pl/users/Tomasz_Mikolajczyk-106840/">Tomasz Mikołajczyk,</a> CC0 (pixabay) teacher and amateur photographer, promotes CC0 among other teachers</li>
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<dd>Tomasz Mikołajczyk, CC0</dd>
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<li>Favorite CC things or objects: <a href="https://medialabkatowice.eu/projekty/katowickie-ikony/" target="_blank" data-href="https://medialabkatowice.eu/projekty/katowickie-ikony/">CC BY licensed icons and font inspired by city of Katowice</a> (Medialab Katowice)</li>
<li>Most inspiring commoners: <a href="http://www.superbelfrzy.edu.pl" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.superbelfrzy.edu.pl">Superbelfrzy (SuperTeachers)</a> informal and very popular group of influential teachers and their network of educational blogs, almost all CC BY or CC BY-SA,</li>
<li>OER resources:<a href="http://openlogicproject.org" target="_blank" data-href="http://openlogicproject.org"> OPEN-SOURCE, COLLABORATIVE LOGIC TEXTBOOK</a> (CC BY)</li>
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<h4><strong>MARIA JULIANA, CC&nbsp;COLOMBIA</strong></h4>
<p>Favorite CC photographer: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dagomezh/" target="_blank" data-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dagomezh/">Diego G&oacute;mez Hoyos.</a> Biodiversity pictures from Latin America</p>
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<dd>Diego Gomez, &ldquo;Hypsiboas rufitelus&rdquo; CC BY-NC&nbsp;2.0</dd>
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<ul>
<li>Most inspiring commoners: <a href="https://bogota.festivaldecine.cc/" target="_blank" data-href="https://bogota.festivaldecine.cc/">Festival de Cine CC Bogot&aacute;</a>, <a href="http://www.sibcolombia.net/" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.sibcolombia.net/">SiB Colombia</a></li>
<li>Best pieces of news about the commons: <a href="https://karisma.org.co/cokrea/" target="_blank" data-href="https://karisma.org.co/cokrea/">Memory of coKREA,</a> reflections about openness as a cultural value and <a href="http://internetactiva.net/?p=1303" target="_blank" data-href="http://internetactiva.net/?p=1303">C&oacute;mo ense&ntilde;ar la filosof&iacute;a de lo abierto</a> (Open Lessons in Spanish)</li>
<li>Important moments in copyright reform: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/22/copyright-reform-colombia-focus-supporting-users-rights/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/22/copyright-reform-colombia-focus-supporting-users-rights/">&ldquo;Copyright reform in Colombia should focus on supporting users&rsquo; rights&rdquo;</a> CC Community sends a letter to the Colombian government.</li>
<li>OER resources: <a href="https://karisma.org.co/cokrea/?page_id=1079" target="_blank" data-href="https://karisma.org.co/cokrea/?page_id=1079">CoKrea project</a> (OER in some rural areas in southwest of Colombia)</li>
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<h4><strong>MARICARMEN, CC&nbsp;PARAGUAY</strong></h4>
<p>Favorite CC photographer: <a href="http://www.yluux.com/" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.yluux.com/">Yluux</a></p>
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<dd>Elton Nunez, San Juan y San Miguel, CC BY NC-ND&nbsp;4.0</dd>
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<p>Favorite CC Music: <a href="https://eeeks.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" data-href="https://eeeks.bandcamp.com/">EEEEKs<br /></a>Favorite CC film: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aldGrhU177g&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" data-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aldGrhU177g&amp;feature=youtu.be">Al margen<br /></a>Most Open Music Collective: <a href="https://www.jamendo.com/artist/442377/fran-villalba" target="_blank" data-href="https://www.jamendo.com/artist/442377/fran-villalba">Fran<br /></a>CC things or objects: <a href="http://www.pol.una.py/cursosverano/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=75:robotica-e-impresion-3d-con-rodi-robot-didactico-inalambrico&amp;catid=13&amp;Itemid=101" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.pol.una.py/cursosverano/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=75:robotica-e-impresion-3d-con-rodi-robot-didactico-inalambrico&amp;catid=13&amp;Itemid=101">Rodi the robot<br /></a>Most Shared Creative Projects: <a href="http://blog.fotociclo.org/" target="_blank" data-href="http://blog.fotociclo.org/">Fotociclo<br /></a>Most Active Open Source Community: <a href="http://www.hacklabasu.org" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.hacklabasu.org">HacklabAsu<br /></a>Journalistic illustrations with CC: <a href="http://elsurtidor.co/" target="_blank" data-href="http://elsurtidor.co/">El Surtidor</a></p>
<h4><strong>CABLE GREEN, DIRECTOR OF OPEN EDUCATION, CREATIVE&nbsp;COMMONS</strong></h4>
<p><strong>Top OER blog posts of 2016</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Pondering the future of open in Nigeria: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/01/open-education-in-nigeria/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/01/open-education-in-nigeria/">Jane Frances Agbu of the National Open University of Nigeria</a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/13/find-and-use-oer/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/13/find-and-use-oer/">How can educators find and use OER in their classrooms?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/04/14/active-oer-beyond-open-licensing-policies/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/04/14/active-oer-beyond-open-licensing-policies/">Active OER: Beyond Open Licensing Policies</a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/01/cultivating-culture-knowledge-sharing/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/01/cultivating-culture-knowledge-sharing/">Cultivating a culture of Knowledge Sharing</a>, by Fiona McAlister</li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/05/09/open-textbooks-4-africa/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/05/09/open-textbooks-4-africa/">Open Textbooks 4 Africa</a> (and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/11/exploring-open-textbooks-improve-education-uganda/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/11/exploring-open-textbooks-improve-education-uganda/">exploring open textbooks in Uganda</a>)</li>
<li>Isla Haddow-Flood on <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/19/isla-haddow-flood/" target="_blank" data-href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/10/19/isla-haddow-flood/">How Wikipedians are changing the narrative around Africa</a></li>
</ol>
<h4><strong>LIA HERNANDEZ PEREZ, CC&nbsp;PANAMA</strong></h4>
<ol>
<li>CC Film: <a href="http://kenkepelicula.com/" target="_blank" data-href="http://kenkepelicula.com/">http://kenkepelicula.com/</a></li>
<li>CC Artist: <a href="https://josejimenezvega.com/" target="_blank" data-href="https://josejimenezvega.com/">https://josejimenezvega.com/</a></li>
<li>CC Projects: <a href="http://www.lamochila.com.pa/" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.lamochila.com.pa/">www.lamochila.com.pa</a></li>
<li>CC Ilustrations: <a href="http://nosgustaelmar.com/" target="_blank" data-href="http://nosgustaelmar.com/">http://nosgustaelmar.com</a></li>
<li>Our CC Lawyers: <a href="http://www.legalitabogados.com/" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.legalitabogados.com/">www.legalitabogados.com</a></li>
<li>CC Community: <a href="https://floss-pa.net/" target="_blank" data-href="https://floss-pa.net/">https://floss-pa.net/</a></li>
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<h4><strong>KEITHA BOOTH, CC NEW&nbsp;ZEALAND</strong></h4>
<p><strong>Top 5 CC sites for New Zealand</strong></p>
<p>Geonet. Lists NZ earthquakes in real time. Had 250 million hits on 14 November 2016, the day of New Zealand&rsquo;s recent 7.8 magnitude Kaikoura Earthquake. All content CC BY licensed. Look at <a href="http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/2016p858000" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/2016p858000">http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/2016p858000</a></p>
<p>Land Information New Zealand Data Service. Lists all public data released, including maps and aerial images. All content CC BY licensed. Look at <a href="https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/3529-kaikoura-earthquake-02m-aerial-photos-2016/" target="_blank" data-href="https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/3529-kaikoura-earthquake-02m-aerial-photos-2016/">https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/3529-kaikoura-earthquake-02m-aerial-photos-2016/</a></p>
<p>Koordinates.com. Publishes tens of thousands of open government datasets for central, regional and local government in NZ and internationally. Provides detailed metadata including CC licensing.</p>
<p>Digital New Zealand. Search engine for New Zealand culture, connecting people to over 30 million digital items from 200 content partners. Active advocate for CC licensing. Go to <a href="http://www.digitalnz.org/" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.digitalnz.org/">http://www.digitalnz.org/</a></p>
<p>Collections Online, Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand). Offers 30,000 high resolution images, including over 14,000 under a CC BY NC ND licence, allowing legal re-use for &ldquo;homework, on your blog, print it and hang it on your wall&rdquo;. Also offers 17,000 images with No Known Rights restrictions. Go to <a href="http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/" target="_blank" data-href="http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/">http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/</a></p>
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<dd>This year&rsquo;s winner of the GIF IT UP contest, created by Jeff Gill and Kristen Carter using material from Europeana.</dd>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51885
title: The 2017 CC Global Summit: Sharing and the Commons – What’s Next?
uri: The-2017-CC-Global-Summit-Sharing-and-the-Commons-What-s-Next
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/21/2017-cc-global-summit-sharing-commons-whats-next/
content:
<figure id="attachment_51887" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-51887" src="media/e7734a16.6153035729_7d0710310f_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z.jpg" alt="Photo by Kristina Alexanderson. CC Summit 2011, Warsaw" width="640" height="424" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z-300x199.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z-234x155.jpg 234w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Kristina Alexanderson. CC Summit 2011, Warsaw, CC BY 2.0</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re proud to announce that summit </span><a href="http://goo.gl/dDxBc7"><span style="font-weight: 400;">registration is now open</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, along with our call for community submissions. Please consider joining us, whether you are a longtime contributor, or new to the CC community. Hope to see you </span><b>28-30 April, 2017</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at the beautiful new Delta Hotel in Toronto! Please help us spread the word.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Summit Program Committee has been working hard to deliver an awesome Summit in 2017. This dedicated group is from a variety of countries and backgrounds and has developed the 2017 theme &#8211; “</span><b>Sharing and the Commons: What’s Next?</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">”. The committee has also set our summit program goals:</span></p>
<p><strong>To define sharing and the Commons for the next generation</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>What pressing challenges and/or threats does the Commons currently face?</li>
<li>What issues need the network’s focus and support in the next two years, particularly given our shift in focus toward meaningful human collaboration?</li>
<li>How do we strengthen, expand, and celebrate our ties to the creators of the culture that makes the Commons visible and real to people?</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>To shift the focus to people, moving beyond licenses to enhance collaboration and sharing</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Shift to a truly networked and open collaborative model</li>
<li>Shift focus to people of the Commons over content of the Commons</li>
<li>Shift beyond license adoption to include Commons collaboration and sharing</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>To discuss the future of the Creative Commons network and grow the CC movement</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>We will discuss and reach consensus on the new network strategy and structure proposed by the Network Strategy Steering Committee</li>
<li>We will establish collaborative tracks that allow anyone to join the conversation</li>
<li>We will invite creators and users to actively participate and engage with issues that go beyond content licensing</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are creating the summit program with your collaboration. If you’re interested in contributing to the program, please answer our </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezm8y2pheNlsP4Tserougy8ht1PITIyvT3GTBUJzDCb1ansg/viewform"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Call for Submissions</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">w</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">i</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">t</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">h</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">i</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">d</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">e</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">a</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">s. We welcome ideas from affiliates, partners, supporters, and anyone else you know who might help us design a great event. You can submit your own ideas, or just help us get the word out. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’d love to hear how you’ll bring your ideas to life at the Summit. Deadline for submissions is </span><b>27 January, 2017</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p>Questions? Please contact <a href="mailto:summit@creativecommons.org">summit@creativecommons.org.</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51896
title: A Conversation with the Conversation: transforming journalism with a CC license
uri: A-Conversation-with-the-Conversation-transforming-journalism-with-a-C
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/22/conversation-conversation-transforming-journalism-cc-license/

content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51898" src="media/3f4f80bc.The_Conversation_logo-1024x81.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The_Conversation_logo-1024x81.png" alt="the_conversation_logo" width="840" height="66" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The_Conversation_logo-1024x81.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The_Conversation_logo-300x24.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The_Conversation_logo-768x61.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The_Conversation_logo-140x11.png 140w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The_Conversation_logo-50x4.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The_Conversation_logo-270x21.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The_Conversation_logo-1200x95.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>Independent, open, not-for-profit news sources can help safeguard against the spread of misinformation, particularly on the viral web.<a href="https://theconversation.com/"> The Conversation</a> takes their role as journalists, researchers, and academics seriously. As an international nonprofit producing strong independent journalism, their aim is brings important academic research to the Web through editorial curation and collaboration.</p>
<p>Launched in 2011 in Australia, the Conversation has expanded into six editions around the world, and their content has been published in a multitude of publications including Slate, Newsweek, Time, and the Guardian. Maria Balinska, US Editor, credits their use of the CC BY-ND license as integral to this success. In the words of their editorial board, &#8220;steal our stories,&#8221; and visit <a href="https://theconversation.com/">the Conversation&#8217;s</a> website for more information.</p>
<p><strong>At a moment where fake news seems to be on everyone&#8217;s mind, how are you using open licensing and curation to combat misinformation?</strong></p>
<p>We start by producing evidence- based explanatory journalism from academic researchers who have studied for years – if not decades! – the topic they are writing about. All data, references and quotes in the articles are linked to the original sources so that readers can look at the material themselves. Authors sign a disclosure statement that outlines any funding or affiliations that might be relevant to the piece they have written. All this to say that verification, transparency and accountability are at the heart of our model and <a href="https://theconversation.com/us/charter">our charter</a>. We see open licensing as a very effective means to combat misinformation – it’s not just about disseminating the ideas and the stories we publish to as many different audiences as possible, it also showcases our distinctive approach to journalism.</p>
<p><strong>You encourage readers to share, remix, and reuse your content, or to &#8220;steal your stories.&#8221; How do you think that&#8217;s influenced the popularity and spread of your content? How have you seen that put into action so far?</strong></p>
<p>We see this approach as key to our success. It helps us with large media companies – we have a legal framework that says here&#8217;s the content, you can use it, and these are the conditions (and we don&#8217;t have to spend months negotiating with their legal departments to create separate licenses). It also helps us with small websites where we can provide them with quality content that they couldn’t afford to create themselves. In the month of November, for example, we had over six million reads of our content through CC.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51897" src="media/5569fb06.TCUS-republishers.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-republishers.jpg" alt="tcus-republishers" width="960" height="540" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-republishers.jpg 960w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-republishers-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-republishers-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-republishers-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-republishers-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-republishers-270x152.jpg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><strong>In a popular article on Poynter, Melody Kramer writes, &#8220;I see Creative Commons licensing as a smart way to distribute local or national content when the goal is maximum impact, or an audience spreading word that your content exists.&#8221; Do you agree with that statement? Have you found that to be true in your own work?</strong></p>
<p>We would definitely agree. CC licensing means our articles are republished on average 12 times and can be consumed by CNN.com and Quartz readers as well as by subscribers to papers in Kokomo, Indiana and Corsicana, Texas and online sites of every ideological slant.</p>
<figure id="attachment_51899" style="width: 345px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class=" wp-image-51899" src="media/ce48c290.TCUS-staff-photo-December-2016-768x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-staff-photo-December-2016-768x1024.jpg" alt="The Conversation US staff" width="345" height="460" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-staff-photo-December-2016-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-staff-photo-December-2016-225x300.jpg 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-staff-photo-December-2016-30x40.jpg 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-staff-photo-December-2016-38x50.jpg 38w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-staff-photo-December-2016-116x155.jpg 116w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-staff-photo-December-2016-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TCUS-staff-photo-December-2016.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 345px) 85vw, 345px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The Conversation US staff</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>How does your work translate globally? Have you found different kinds of responses to your work in other countries or languages where you publish? What made this growth possible over the last few years?</strong></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve been translated, among other languages, into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Japanese, sometimes by large media companies and sometimes by someone who is excited about the freely-available information and wants to share it.</p>
<figure id="attachment_51900" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-51900" src="media/5493dee4.Screen-Shot-2016-12-21-at-5.40.04-PM-1024x487.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-21-at-5.40.04-PM-1024x487.png" alt="The Conversation AU Front Page" width="840" height="399" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-21-at-5.40.04-PM-1024x487.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-21-at-5.40.04-PM-300x143.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-21-at-5.40.04-PM-768x365.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-21-at-5.40.04-PM-84x40.png 84w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-21-at-5.40.04-PM-50x24.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-21-at-5.40.04-PM-270x128.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-21-at-5.40.04-PM-1200x571.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The Conversation AU Front Page</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>How do you bridge academic discourse and the fast pace of the internet news cycle? Why do you think this is important to readers, and how have you seen it reflected in your readership and republication?</strong></p>
<p>The beauty of the Conversation model is the close editorial collaboration between academic and journalist. Each brings the best of their world to the table: on the one hand deep knowledge and expertise and on the other news sense and communication skills. Why is it important to translate academic discourse to the general public? Because their knowledge is hugely valuable to our understanding of the world around us and can help us look for and discuss solutions for the problems and challenges we are facing. We can provide ‘just-in-time’ knowledge in our fast-paced world, when people need to analysis to understand the flood of incoming information.</p>
<p>What’s striking to all of us working at TCUS is that there is a real enthusiasm for the kind of content we produce. A few comments from our readers’ survey:<br />
“Sometimes popular academic writings don&#8217;t seem to jive with the times. The Conversation does.”<br />
“I like the idea of news items being written by a person who has some background knowledge of the topic.”<br />
“Just keep up the good work (and the Creative Commons license: you&#8217;re very creative, never common, but always sharable).”</p>
<p>We view our role as unlocking knowledge from academia and sharing it with a wide variety of audiences. Creative Commons plays an essential role in making this happen.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/22/conversation-conversation-transforming-journalism-cc-license/">A Conversation with the Conversation: transforming journalism with a CC license</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51913
title: I can’t wait for 2016 to be over
uri: I-can-t-wait-for-2016-to-be-over
url: https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/28/cant-wait-2016/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-48184 size-full" src="media/250a8239.25893415802_00f0a52ca3_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/25893415802_00f0a52ca3_z.jpg" width="640" height="422" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/25893415802_00f0a52ca3_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/25893415802_00f0a52ca3_z-300x198.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p>I can’t wait for 2016 to be over.</p>
<p>Refugee crises, outbreaks of disease, and a divisive US election has left many disappointed and exhausted by the challenges ahead. 2016 was difficult, destructive, and terrifying for many all over the world. <strong>I truly believe that if we want the world to be more equitable, accountable, and accessible to all, we have to build it together. </strong>More than ever, we need to work together to share our knowledge and resources, to build the world we want for ourselves and our families. As the year finally comes to a close, many are asking how they can be part of the solution? How can we start 2017 with renewed energy?</p>
<p>Creative Commons isn’t the most obvious answer to that question. <strong>But our team, our community, and our tools are at the centre of so many global movements</strong> that are working to build a more equitable and innovative world. From open educational resources for at-risk communities, to unlocking research to find a cure for Zika or Cancer, CC is part of the solution.</p>
<p>Our reach is large, but we’re much smaller than you might think. Just 20 staff worldwide, with a small and vibrant community of global affiliates. And yet, over 1.1 billion times, we’ve helped people share and collaborate together for a better world. We’re completely supported by grants and donations, and we can’t continue our work without your help. Our small but dedicated group of donors make all the difference; your donation &#8211; at every level &#8211; tells us that you’re ready to help CC drive change when it is needed most.</p>
<p>We can’t do this without you.</p>
<p><strong>The list of causes that need your help is overwhelming, but I truly believe Creative Commons is fundamental to so many movements that I hope we’ll make your list. </strong>We’re almost at the end of the year and we are SO close to hitting our goal. With the amazing show of support from all of you &#8211; our global community &#8211; we’re 85% to our goal. I am writing to ask for your help in pushing us to the finish line so we can head into 2017 with new optimism, and the resources we need to hit the ground running alongside our incredible supporters like you.</p>
<p>We’ve come so far with all of you. We compelled governments, foundations and organizations to share millions of new works; we rallied communities to fight the TPP and advance copyright reform; we unlocked research and data to drive innovation and discovery. We really couldn’t have done this without you &#8211; thank you.</p>
<p><strong>We have big plans for the year ahead. </strong>New tools to support discovery and re-use, and build a commons of collaboration and gratitude; stronger global communities that can advocate and activate sharing cultures around the world. I can’t wait to share all our big wins with you &#8211; but first, we need your support to make it happen.</p>
<p><strong>A commitment to a more vibrant creative world begins today &#8211; please visit our <a href="http://creativecommons.org/donate">donation page</a>. Let&#8217;s light up the commons together.</strong></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51927
title: What does “open” mean in Nigeria? Reflections on a Nigerian Roundtable with Stakeholders
uri: What-does-open-mean-in-Nigeria-Reflections-on-a-Nigerian-Roundt
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/04/open-mean-nigeria-reflections-nigerian-roundtable/
content:
<figure id="attachment_51929" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-51929" src="media/95abc0fc.31615703515_fbf4de9370_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31615703515_fbf4de9370_z.jpg" alt="CC Nigeria Meeting. Photo by Kayode Yussuf. CC BY-SA" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31615703515_fbf4de9370_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31615703515_fbf4de9370_z-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31615703515_fbf4de9370_z-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31615703515_fbf4de9370_z-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31615703515_fbf4de9370_z-207x155.jpg 207w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">CC Nigeria Stakeholders Meeting. Photo by Kayode Yussuf. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0">CC BY-SA</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>In the area of knowledge governance today, it is no longer in doubt that ‘open’ is an important and emerging paradigm and philosophy. The shift from strictly closed and proprietary forms of knowledge governance is irrefutable and the notion of exclusive and absolute control over their content by authors is fast becoming the exception rather than the rule. This has resulted in the proliferation of different concepts, models and mechanisms of knowledge governance such as Open Access publishing, Open Education Resources, Open Data. Alongside these are new forms of licensing including Creative Commons, GNU, etc.</p>
<p><a href="https://web.facebook.com/CreativeCommonsNigeria/">Creative Commons Nigeria</a> got support from <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons headquarters</a> through the<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/07/21/cc-is-awesome/"> Awesome Fund</a> and Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies to host a stakeholders’ roundtable discussion on Creative Commons and its effect on open access to information and knowledge. The theme of the roundtable was &#8220;Understanding the Importance of the Open Access to Content in Nigeria in the Light of Current Copyright Law Reforms.&#8221;</p>
<figure id="attachment_51930" style="width: 341px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img class=" wp-image-51930" src="media/05c94a22.31578328056_7b5a77d645_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z.jpg" alt="CC Nigeria Meeting. Photo by Kayode Yussuf. CC BY-SA" width="341" height="341" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31578328056_7b5a77d645_z-128x128.jpg 128w" sizes="(max-width: 341px) 85vw, 341px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">CC Nigeria Meeting. Photo by Kayode Yussuf. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0">CC BY-SA</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Speakers at the roundtable included the representative of the Director General of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Prof. Adebambo Adewopo and Ms. Esther Ekong of the <a href="http://www.nials.edu.ng/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=233:nials-creative-commons-nigeria-one-day-roundtable-on-open-access-content-in-nigeria-in-the-light-of-current-copyright-law-reforms&amp;catid=8&amp;Itemid=114">Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies</a>, Mr. Michael Akpan of the Nigerian Copyright Commission, Dr. Ifeoma Oluwasemilore of University of Lagos, <a href="https://twitter.com/tpcast">Abiodun Thorpe</a> of <a href="http://rainylemon.com/">Rainy Lemon Ltd</a>, Samuel Atiku of <a href="http://yourbudgit.com/">BudgIT</a>, Idrees Ibrahim and Kayode Yussuf of <a href="https://twitter.com/CC_Nigeria">Creative Commons Nigeria</a>.</p>
<p>The meeting had 85 participants from various sectors such as government, regulators, academia (high school and universities). The meeting also had librarians, technology start-up companies, social enterprises in attendance. The aim of the meeting was to introduce Creative Commons to the stakeholders and get their feedback. An important part of the meeting was listening to the fears of the community on using Creative Commons licenses.<br />
It was enlightening to note that the Nigerian Copyright Commission, the intellectual property regulator in Nigeria, had plans for Open Access licenses. The regulator had done a lot of research on Creative Commons Licenses and was willing to work with Creative Commons Nigeria in educating the users of these licenses.</p>
<p>There are good reasons for this trend. The concept of <strong>open</strong> comes with great merits and is in perfect alignment with digital technology as the principal means of knowledge production and dissemination today. The philosophy of ‘open’ in knowledge governance and its merits can be seen in both the public and private sectors in education, research, governance.<br />
For a country in the process of reforming its copyright laws to align with current requirements of the digital age, the concept of ‘open’ cannot be ignored. Unfortunately, it is clear that the philosophy of ‘openness’ in any form of knowledge governance is still a strange phenomenon in Nigeria. The level of awareness and scale of implementation of the different models of openness in knowledge governance in the country are insignificant in proportion to its size, needs and population. Reasons for this include lack of awareness and misconceptions about concepts and models, particularly Creative Commons and Open Access publishing. For instance, despite the increasing recognition of and justification for the use of Creative Commons licenses internationally, the mainstream Nigerian populace in the creative industry regards it with misgivings and suspicion. There is indeed a strong perception of CC among the stakeholders as a threat to their interests as copyright owners. Lack of awareness also exists in the academia and among key policy makers. These concerns clearly underscore the importance and imperative for enlightenment programs on Creative Commons in particular and open access practices and policies in knowledge governance generally in Nigeria. This imperative is further strengthened by the fact that Nigeria is on the threshold of amending her extant copyright statute in response to digital technology. Amending the law without properly integrating the philosophy of ‘open’ and the diverse models in knowledge governance developed on the basis of the philosophy would constitute a serious setback to knowledge governance in Nigeria.<br />
This roundtable was designed to fulfill this need. It provided a platform for CC Nigeria to discuss with provide adequate knowledge of CC to the NCC and other policy makers and stakeholders in the academia and the creative industry as a whole. Such knowledge would be useful in providing them with enough understanding of the objectives of CC and the modalities of the licenses and thus help to clarify existing misconceptions and misgivings over CC.<br />
Next steps after this stakeholders’ roundtable will be to begin to engage each sector. It will be great to host training for librarians, academics, business people and for those in entertainment.</p>
<p>Photos of the event can be seen on <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/91116545@N03/albums/72157676164721471/with/31499751251/">Flickr</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51870
title: Announcing Swedish Translation of 4.0 License!
uri: Announcing-Swedish-Translation-of-4-0-License
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/11/announcing-swedish-translation-4-0-license/
content:
<figure id="attachment_51954" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-51954 size-full" src="media/eb830a31.6051120264_8a8c59731f_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/6051120264_8a8c59731f_z.jpg" alt="6051120264_8a8c59731f_z" width="640" height="424" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/6051120264_8a8c59731f_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/6051120264_8a8c59731f_z-300x199.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/6051120264_8a8c59731f_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/6051120264_8a8c59731f_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/6051120264_8a8c59731f_z-234x155.jpg 234w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/6051120264/&quot;">Kristina Alexanderson,</a> CC BY NC-ND 2.0</figcaption></figure>
<p>We are so happy to announce our official translation of 4.0 into Swedish. Now all Swedish speakers can benefit from the 4.0 licenses in their own language.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.creativecommons.se/">Creative Commons Sweden</a> coordinated the translation process. The translation draft was prepared by the CC Sweden&#8217;s legal team. The draft was put to public consultation from 1 Jan 2015 July to 31 August 2015, 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 media, and the mailing list were used to inform about the translation process.</p>
<p>Thank you to the members of CC Sweden involved in the translation process:<br />
Catharina Ekdahl – lawyer, coordinator of the translation process responsible for managing the process of translation of 4.0 for Creative Commons Sweden.<br />
Olle Pettersson – lawyer, coordinator of the translation process responsible for managing the process of translation of CC0 for Creative Commons Sweden.<br />
Karl Jonsson – lawyer, legal lead of Creative Commons Sweden.<br />
Kristina Alexanderson, project manager for Creative Commons Sweden, responsible for process of comments from CC Legal, final publication and contact with CC Legal.<br />
Jonas Öberg – Creative Commons Sweden.</p>
<p>We want to also thank for invaluable help, comments, and support to Stefan Högberg and Lennart Guldbrandsson.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/11/announcing-swedish-translation-4-0-license/">Announcing Swedish Translation of 4.0 License!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51938
title: Communia publishes position papers to untangle lackluster EU copyright proposal
uri: Communia-publishes-position-papers-to-untangle-lackluster-EU-copyright
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/09/communia-publishes-position-papers-untangle-lackluster-eu-copyright-proposal/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In September 2016 the European Commission released its </span><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;">proposed changes to copyright in the EU</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Unfortunately, the proposal </span><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><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the promise for a modern copyright law in Europe. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons is a founding member of  the <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/">Communia Association</a>, which has been hard at work advocating for positive changes to the Commission’s plan.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The group has published a series of position papers dealing with the various parts of the proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. The short policy papers are linked below. The next step in the legislative process will be providing specific textual changes to the proposed Directive. This amended language will be introduced by Members of the European Parliament and negotiated within the relevant committees. There’s still time to fix this copyright law to make sure that it supports users and creators in the 21st century. </span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/05/commissions-proposal-education-devil-detail/"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-51939 size-large" src="media/dbec8acd.education-exception-1024x397.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/education-exception-1024x397.png" alt="education-exception" width="840" height="326" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/education-exception-1024x397.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/education-exception-300x116.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/education-exception-768x298.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/education-exception-103x40.png 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/education-exception-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/education-exception-270x105.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/education-exception.png 1124w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><b><i>EDUCATION EXCEPTION: The </i></b><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/05/commissions-proposal-education-devil-detail/"><b><i>paper argues</i></b></a><b><i> for the introduction of a mandatory exception for educational purposes that does not primarily focus on the type of person or institution doing the teaching, but rather on the educational purpose of the use, and that cannot be excluded by Member States if licensed content is available.</i></b></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/12/commissions-proposal-text-data-mining-strategic-mistake/"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-51940 size-large" src="media/ea3dbb63.text-and-data-mining-exception-1024x397.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/text-and-data-mining-exception-1024x397.png" alt="text-and-data-mining-exception" width="840" height="326" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/text-and-data-mining-exception-1024x397.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/text-and-data-mining-exception-300x116.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/text-and-data-mining-exception-768x298.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/text-and-data-mining-exception-103x40.png 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/text-and-data-mining-exception-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/text-and-data-mining-exception-270x105.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/text-and-data-mining-exception.png 1124w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><b><i>TEXT AND DATA MINING EXCEPTION: The </i></b><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/12/commissions-proposal-text-data-mining-strategic-mistake/"><b><i>paper argues</i></b></a><b><i> for expanding the proposed exception to allow Text and Data Mining by anyone for any purpose.</i></b></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/14/commissions-proposal-new-rights-press-publishers-terrible-solution-good-no-one/"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-51941 size-large" src="media/93a888e7.ancillary-copyright-1024x396.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ancillary-copyright-1024x396.png" alt="ancillary-copyright" width="840" height="325" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ancillary-copyright-1024x396.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ancillary-copyright-300x116.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ancillary-copyright-768x297.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ancillary-copyright-103x40.png 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ancillary-copyright-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ancillary-copyright-270x104.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ancillary-copyright.png 1122w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><b><i>ANCILLARY COPYRIGHT: The </i></b><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/14/commissions-proposal-new-rights-press-publishers-terrible-solution-good-no-one/"><b><i>paper argues</i></b></a><b><i> that Article 11 (“Protection of press publications concerning digital uses”) should be removed from the proposal.</i></b></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/19/eu-copyright-protect-photography-public-spaces/"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-51942 size-large" src="media/0c3a7294.freedom-of-panorama-1024x397.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/freedom-of-panorama-1024x397.png" alt="freedom-of-panorama" width="840" height="326" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/freedom-of-panorama-1024x397.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/freedom-of-panorama-300x116.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/freedom-of-panorama-768x298.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/freedom-of-panorama-103x40.png 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/freedom-of-panorama-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/freedom-of-panorama-270x105.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/freedom-of-panorama.png 1124w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p><b><i>FREEDOM OF PANORAMA: The </i></b><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/19/eu-copyright-protect-photography-public-spaces/"><b><i>paper argues</i></b></a><b><i> that the European Parliament should introduce a broad, EU-wide Freedom of Panorama right that applies to both commercial and noncommercial uses of all works permanently located in public spaces.</i></b></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2017/01/09/eu-copyright-protect-users-rights-prevent-content-filtering/"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-51943 size-large" src="media/fb5be6a7.content-filtering-1024x397.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/content-filtering-1024x397.png" alt="content-filtering" width="840" height="326" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/content-filtering-1024x397.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/content-filtering-300x116.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/content-filtering-768x298.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/content-filtering-103x40.png 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/content-filtering-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/content-filtering-270x105.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/content-filtering.png 1124w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><b><i>CONTENT FILTERING FOR ONLINE PLATFORMS: The </i></b><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2017/01/09/eu-copyright-protect-users-rights-prevent-content-filtering/"><b><i>paper argues</i></b></a><b><i> that Article 13 and the related recitals should be deleted from the proposal. </i></b></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/09/communia-publishes-position-papers-untangle-lackluster-eu-copyright-proposal/">Communia publishes position papers to untangle lackluster EU copyright proposal</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51903
title: La Cumbre Global de Creative Commons. Los comunes y el intercambio: ¿y ahora qué sigue?
uri: La-Cumbre-Global-de-Creative-Commons-Los-comunes-y-el-intercambio
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/22/la-cumbre-global-de-creative-commons-los-comunes-y-el-intercambio-y-ahora-que-sigue/

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<figure id="attachment_51887" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-51887" src="media/e7734a16.6153035729_7d0710310f_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z.jpg" alt="Foto por Kristina Alexanderson. Cumbre de CC 2011, Varsovia, CC BY 2.0" width="640" height="424" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z-300x199.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6153035729_7d0710310f_z-234x155.jpg 234w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Foto por Kristina Alexanderson. Cumbre de CC 2011, Varsovia, CC BY 2.0</figcaption></figure>
<p><span>Estamos orgullosos de anunciar que el registro a la Cumbre Global de CC está abierto, junto con el llamado para que la comunidad envíe sus propuestas. Por favor, consideren unirse a nosotros, tanto como si son colaboradores desde hace tiempo o son nuevos en la comunidad de CC. ¡Esperamos verlos a todos en el hermoso Delta Hotel de Toronto del 28 al 30 de abril de 2017! Por favor, ayúdennos a difundir la noticia.</span></p>
<p>El comité de programación de la Cumbre Global de CC ha estado trabajando duro para generar un encuentro espectacular en 2017. Este dedicado grupo está compuesto por personas provenientes de una variedad de países y antecedentes, que juntas desarrollaron el tema del 2017: &#8220;Los comunes y el intercambio: ¿y ahora qué sigue?&#8221;. El comité también estableció los objetivos de la Cumbre:</p>
<p><strong>Definir el intercambio y los comunes para la próxima generación</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>¿Qué desafíos urgentes y/o amenazas enfrentan actualmente los comunes?</li>
<li>¿Qué asuntos necesitan la atención y el apoyo de la red de Creative Commons en los próximos dos años, particularmente a partir de nuestro cambio de enfoque hacia una colaboración significativa entre las personas?</li>
<li>¿Cómo reforzamos, expandimos y celebramos nuestros lazos con los creadores de la cultura que visibilizan y hacen reales a los comunes para la gente?</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cambiar el foco hacia la gente, yendo más allá de las licencias para mejorar la colaboración y el intercambio</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Queremos cambiar hacia un modelo realmente interconectado y de colaboración abierta</li>
<li><span>Queremos cambiar enfocarnos en la gente que hace los comunes, por sobre los contenidos de los comunes</span></li>
<li><span>Queremos ir más allá de la adopción de licencias, para incluir la colaboración e intercambio de los comunes</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Discutir el futuro de la red de Creative Commons y hacer crecer el movimiento de CC</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Discutiremos y trataremos de alcanzar un consenso sobre la nueva estrategia y estructura de la red propuesta por el Comité de Estrategia de la Red</li>
<li>Generaremos sesiones colaborativas que le permitirán a cualquiera ser parte de la conversación</li>
<li>Invitaremos a creadores y a usuarios para participar activamente e involucrarse con temas que van más allá del licenciamiento de contenidos</li>
</ul>
<p><span>Estamos creando el programa de la Cumbre Global de CC con tu colaboración. Si te interesa contribuir al programa, por favor responde a nuestro Llamado a propuestas [LINK EN] con ideas. Estaremos recibiendo propuestas de capítulos afiliados, socios, organizaciones amigas, colaboradores y cualquier otra persona que quiera ayudarnos a diseñar un evento fantástico. Puedes enviar tus propias ideas o simplemente ayudarnos a difundir la noticia.</span></p>
<div class="yj6qo ajU"><strong>Muchas gracias a Scann por su traducción!</strong></div>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/22/la-cumbre-global-de-creative-commons-los-comunes-y-el-intercambio-y-ahora-que-sigue/">La Cumbre Global de Creative Commons. Los comunes y el intercambio: ¿y ahora qué sigue?</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52063
title: La comunidad de CC lanza consulta acerca de la estrategia del movimiento
uri: La-comunidad-de-CC-lanza-consulta-acerca-de-la-estrategia-del-movimien
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/25/la-comunidad-de-cc-lanza-consulta-acerca-de-la-estrategia-del-movimiento/

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<p>Hoy, la comunidad de Creative Commons está abriendo el proceso de consulta sobre el borrador de su estrategia para apoyar un movimiento global fuerte y en crecimiento. La propuesta es parte de un proceso liderado por la propia comunidad que comenzó en la Cumbre Global en Seúl, Corea del Sur, en octubre de 2015. <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/">Hoy estamos abriendo un período de consulta de dos meses</a> con la comunidad más amplia de CC. La propuesta final será revisada y finalizada en la Cumbre Global en Toronto, del 28 al 30 de abril de 2017.</p>
<p>La propuesta recomienda cambios significativos pero necesarios al actual modelo de afiliados de CC, que originalmente se desarrolló para apoyar el proceso de adopción de las licencias a las estructuras legales de cada país. Hoy, el movimiento de CC es amplio y diverso, involucrado en educación abierta, reforma al derecho de autor, acceso abierto, datos abiertos y más. El nuevo modelo está diseñado para empoderar a los individuos y a las organizaciones que quieran contribuir a nuestros valores compartidos, construir equipos más fuertes y flexibles y coordinar objetivos y actividades para tener mayor impacto. Los colaboradores de CC y los afiliados serán parte del núcleo de esta nueva estructura, que esperamos crecerá y florecerá en un nuevo modelo liderado por la comunidad.</p>
<p>CC nunca emprendió una revisión semejante de nuestra red, pero mientras celebramos nuestro 15avo aniversario, llegó el momento de renovar el foco sobre la comunidad y la colaboración. Con un empuje fuerte de nuestra comunidad y con el apoyo del Directorio para renovar el movimiento, iniciamos un proyecto con un comité voluntario de afiliados de todo el mundo. Este proceso requirió investigaciones nuevas, análisis y horas de contribuciones de este diversos grupo de líderes globales. Trabajamos por consenso y todos contribuyeron activamente. Estoy orgulloso de lo que escribimos juntos y entusiasmado de apoyar al movimiento de CC a construir esta red juntos.</p>
<p>Los <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/spanish/">elementos claves de la propuesta</a> incluyen:</p>
<ul>
<li>Una estructura de membresía para los miembros individuales de la red y las organizaciones partner o aliadas para tomar el liderazgo en el movimiento y participar en la gobernanza y en los procesos de configurar los objetivos de manera comunitaria.</li>
<li>Habrá un Consejo Global de la Red (GNC, Global Network Council), implementado con representantes locales para proveer gobernanza al movimiento, localizar recursos financieros y definir áreas de interés y posicionamientos políticos globales.</li>
<li>Los colaboradores, los miembros de la red y las organizaciones partner o aliadas estarán organizadas en equipos nacionales, con un coordinador nacional y un representante electo para el Consejo Global de la Red (GNC).</li>
<li>El desarrollo de nuevos fondos para proveer recursos a los equipos de la comunidad para aquellos proyectos que hagan avanzar los objetivos del movimiento.</li>
<li>La creación de áreas definidas de trabajo, llamadas Plataformas, para las actividades globales de CC, como reforma al derecho de autor, educación abierta y administración de las licencias. Cada plataforma incluirá objetivos, posiciones y un coordinador.</li>
</ul>
<p>La consulta a la comunidad estará abierta hasta el 24 de marzo de 2017. Necesitamos escuchar comentarios por parte de la comunidad más amplia de CC para asegurarnos de que haya un amplio apoyo a los cambios propuestos. Nuestra investigación nos recomendó que trabajemos en múltiples idiomas, por lo que hemos traducido las propuestas al <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/spanish/">español</a>, <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/arabic">árabe</a> y <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/french">francés</a> (versión en <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/english/">inglés</a>). Posteamos una página en nuestro sitio con la <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/context-background-information/">información de contexto</a>, la <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByIEo_6QTqttUzFEZzRIbGxJZEE">investigación</a>, la <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/english/">propuesta</a> y abrimos la oportunidad para hacer y compartir comentarios. Abrimos un canal de Slack (#network-consultation), y vamos a estar moderando discusiones en línea y reuniones presenciales. <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/">Se puede averiguar más aquí</a>.</p>
<p>Para finalizar, quiero terminar este post con una expresión de gratitud. Mucha gente ha contribuido a este trabajo y quiero agradecerles. Aún queda mucho por hacer, pero no podríamos haber llegado tan lejos sin todas estas personas:<br />
* La comunidad de afiliados de CC, el directorio, el consejo consultivo, los coordinadores regionales y el staff de CC<br />
* El Comité de Estrategia y su vice-presidente, Alek Tarkowski<br />
* Anna Mazgal y los investigadores detrás de los reportes de &#8220;Los rostros de los comunes&#8221;<br />
* Paul Stacey y Kamil Sliwowski, nuestros talentosos facilitadores<br />
* La Fundación Hewlett por su aporte generoso y su profundo compromiso con la comunidad de Creative Commons alrededor del mundo<br />
* Nuestros donantes y seguidores, que eligen financiar el trabajo vital de CC</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/25/la-comunidad-de-cc-lanza-consulta-acerca-de-la-estrategia-del-movimiento/">La comunidad de CC lanza consulta acerca de la estrategia del movimiento</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52059
title: CC Community releases movement strategy for consultation
uri: CC-Community-releases-movement-strategy-for-consultation
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/24/cc-community-releases-movement-strategy-consultation/
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<h4><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/25/la-comunidad-de-cc-lanza-consulta-acerca-de-la-estrategia-del-movimiento/">En Español</a></h4>
<p>Today, the Creative Commons community is opening consultation on its draft strategy to support a strong and growing global movement. The proposal is part of a community-led process that began at the Global Summit in Seoul, South Korea in October 2015. <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/">Today we are opening a two-month consultation period</a> with the broader CC community. The final proposal will be revised and finalized at the Global Summit in Toronto from April 28-30, 2017</p>
<p>The proposal recommends significant but necessary changes to the current CC affiliate structure, which was originally developed to support the porting of licenses to national legal structures. Today, the CC movement is broad and diverse, engaging in issues of open education, copyright reform, open access, open data, and more. The new model is designed to empower individuals and organizations that want to contribute towards our shared values, to build stronger, more resilient teams, and to co-ordinate goals and activities for greater impact. Today’s CC contributors and affiliates will form the core of this new structure, which we hope will grow and flourish in a new community-led model.</p>
<p>CC has never undertaken such a review of our network, but as we celebrate our 15th anniversary, it’s time for a renewed focus on community and collaboration. With a strong push from our community, and support from the board to renew the movement, we initiated the project with a volunteer committee of affiliates from around the world. This process has required new research, analysis, and hundreds of hours of contributions from this group of diverse global leaders. We worked by consensus, and everyone contributed actively. I’m proud of what we’ve drafted together, and excited to help the CC movement build this network together.</p>
<p><a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/english/">Key elements of the proposal</a> include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Membership structure for individual network member and partner organizations to take leadership in the movement and participate in governance and community goal-setting</li>
<li>There will be a Global Network Council established with national representatives to provide movement governance, allocate fund resources, and define areas of focus and global policy positions</li>
<li>Contributors, network members and partners will be organized under national teams, with a national lead and an elected representative to the Global Network Council</li>
<li>Development of new fund to provide resources to community teams for projects that advance the movement’s goals</li>
<li>Establishment of defined areas of work, called platforms, for CC’s global activities, such as copyright reform, open education, and license stewardship. Each platform will include goals, positions, and a co-ordinator</li>
</ul>
<p>The community consultation will be open until March 24, 2017. We need to hear from the CC community to ensure broad support for these proposed changes. Our research recommended we work in multiple languages, so we have translated the proposals into <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/spanish/">Spanish</a>, <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/arabic/">Arabic</a>, and <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/french/">French</a>. We have posted a page on our website with the <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/context-background-information/">background information</a>, <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByIEo_6QTqttUzFEZzRIbGxJZEE">the research</a>, <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/english/">the proposal</a>, and opportunities to share comments. We have opened a Slack channel (#network-consultation), and will be conducting online discussions and in-person sessions. <a href="https://consultation.creativecommons.org/">Find out more here</a>.</p>
<p>Finally, I want to end this post with gratitude. So many people have contributed to this work, and I want to offer my thanks. We have much more to do, but we couldn’t have come this far without:</p>
<ul>
<li>The CC community of affiliates, board, advisory board, regional coordinators, and staff</li>
<li>The steering committee, and committee co-chair Alek Tarkowski</li>
<li>Anna Mazgal and the researchers behind Faces of the Commons reports</li>
<li>Paul Stacey and Kamil Sliwowski, our talented facilitators</li>
<li>The Hewlett Foundation for their generous support and deep commitment to the Creative Commons community around the world</li>
<li>Our donors and supporters, who choose to fund CC’s vital work</li>
</ul>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/24/cc-community-releases-movement-strategy-consultation/">CC  Community releases movement strategy for consultation</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51964
title: The Platform Cooperatives Movement Helps Light up the Commons
uri: The-Platform-Cooperatives-Movement-Helps-Light-up-the-Commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/24/platform-cooperatives-movement-helps-light-commons/
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<figure id="attachment_52045" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-52045 size-full" src="media/79edf950.People-Power-Mosaic.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/People-Power-Mosaic.jpg" alt="people-power-mosaic" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/People-Power-Mosaic.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/People-Power-Mosaic-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/People-Power-Mosaic-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/People-Power-Mosaic-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/People-Power-Mosaic-207x155.jpg 207w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/oggiedog/8614698765/">People Power Mosaic</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/oggiedog/">Herb Neufeld</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Creative Commons upcoming </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/global-summit-2017/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Global Summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the first major opportunity to introduce our community to the newly-born </span><a href="http://platformcoop.net/about/consortium"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Platform Cooperatives Consortium</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and to look for ways our two movements, which share many core values, can collaborate. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have just entered a time of potentially enormous social turmoil. Like the 1960’s, it could also set the stage for some unexpectedly positive outcomes, this time, in ways that transform labor markets and business ownership structures. A powerful backlash to unchecked corporate power is gaining momentum. As it unfolds, Creative Commons, the Platform Cooperatives Consortium, and our allies around the world can play decisive roles in these labor market transformations. In fact, as 2017 dawns, there are at least two big reasons to be optimistic about the opportunities ahead for grassroots actions that lead to large-scale constructive social change. </span><b>What’s more, everyone can help.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first is the five-year “Lighting up the Commons” vision crystallized last year by Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley. This vision has already helped generate remarkable progress including more collaborative approaches to federally-funded scientific research in the U.S. and smarter government policies around the world. The three central pillars of the</span><a href="http://www.seattlestar.net/2016/02/lets-light-up-the-global-commons/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Lighting up the Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> strategy are </span><b>discovery, collaboration, and advocacy. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The strength of this inclusive strategy? It’s entirely community-driven and features an explicit focus on empowering changemakers with the substantial support and scaffolding of Creative Commons.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The advent of the nascent “Platform Cooperatives Movement,” reminiscent of Creative Commons during its salad days, is the second reason for optimism. Through this movement, a thing of beauty is being born.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<figure id="attachment_52048" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-52048" src="media/36abaae3.cooperative-1246862_1280-1024x682.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cooperative-1246862_1280-1024x682.jpg" alt="cooperative-1246862_1280" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cooperative-1246862_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cooperative-1246862_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cooperative-1246862_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cooperative-1246862_1280-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cooperative-1246862_1280-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cooperative-1246862_1280-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cooperative-1246862_1280-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cooperative-1246862_1280.jpg 1280w" 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="vecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a> via <a href="http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/Teamwork-Cooperative-Stone-Cooperation-Business-1246862">Max Pixel</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Platform cooperatives rely on shared governance guidelines known as the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Principles"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rochdale Principles</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that provide for democratic governance and profit-sharing and are generally designed to reinforce non-exploitative, mutually beneficial commercial relationships.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last year’s </span><a href="http://platformcoop.net/2016"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Platform Cooperatives Consortium organizing meeting</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, hosted at the New School in New York by the activist scholar </span><a href="http://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty/?id=4d54-5533-4d44-5534"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trebor Scholz</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, was thrilling. One </span><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/platformcoop2016"><span style="font-weight: 400;">rapid-fire inspiring moment after another</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> conveyed the sense of a world under repair.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is from the platform co-op </span><a href="http://platformcoop.net/2016"><span style="font-weight: 400;">call to action</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: “The cooperative platform economy can become one of the counterforces to the defects of the on-demand economy. It is a strategy for reversing wealth inequality, gender inequity, environmental degradation, and systemic racial injustice. The </span><a href="http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-shareable-explainer-what-is-a-platform-co-op"><span style="font-weight: 400;">experiments now already underway</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> show that a global ecosystem of cooperatives can stand against the concentration of wealth and the insecurity of workers that yields Silicon Valley’s winner-takes-all economy. They show that the Internet can be owned and governed differently.”</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_52049" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-52049" src="media/9f78b537.team-386673_1280-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/team-386673_1280-1024x768.jpg" alt="team-386673_1280" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/team-386673_1280-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/team-386673_1280-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/team-386673_1280-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/team-386673_1280-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/team-386673_1280-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/team-386673_1280-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/team-386673_1280-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/team-386673_1280.jpg 1280w" 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://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a> via <a href="http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/Community-Teamwork-Together-Group-Team-Motivation-386673">Max Pixel</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the conference, we learned that taxi drivers in cities including Denver, Colorado have organized themselves into worker-owned co-ops such as the </span><a href="http://greentaxico-op.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Green Taxi Cooperative</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, an Uber-like service complete with a sleek smartphone app that is fully owned and run by the drivers themselves, whose rates of pay, job security and benefits have all increased. We also heard from feminist officials recently elected in Barcelona, Spain who are providing </span><a href="http://platformcoop.net/2016/participants/mayo-fuster"><span style="font-weight: 400;">municipal support for the rollout of publicly-owned digital platform cooperatives</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, including an alternative to sites such as Airbnb. Barcelona residents who rent out their homes or apartments using the new platform cooperative will be rewarded with a share of revenue from other hosts, enjoy a more reliable income stream, and gain other benefits of platform ownership when they agree to pay taxes, operate transparently, and abide by local laws. We heard from workers on Amazon’s </span><a href="https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mechanical Turk</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> casual labor service who have organized themselves into a powerful new force online through </span><a href="http://turkernation.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TurkerNation.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, based in part on platform cooperative ideas after suffering appalling abuses, including instances when remote workers were asked to caption beheading videos posted to the site by the Islamic State.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harvard legal scholar Yochai Benkler, a longtime friend of Creative Commons, did the math in his </span><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/platformcoop2016/videos/141710602"><span style="font-weight: 400;">keynote address</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: there is enough slack in global production and distribution chains, Benkler calculates, to enable rising standards of income, living and municipal services around the world if we use technology to reduce or entirely eliminate those who play a primarily “extractive” role in markets, the players whose main or sometimes </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">only</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> function is to come between the producers or providers of goods and services and consumers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re talking about nurturing a return to a more humane form of capitalism, to the way agricultural cooperatives used to work and still do in some regions where farmers take turns harvesting each other’s fields and share storage silos and other facilities and equipment. There is already a home </span><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/platformcoop2016/videos/141639935"><span style="font-weight: 400;">healthcare service</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that is owned by the nurses it employs, and artist and photographer co-ops such as </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/danpontefract/2016/10/01/platform-cooperatives-like-stocksy-have-a-purpose-uber-and-airbnb-never-will/#277d8c2965a5"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stocksy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that pool some expenses and revenues. One day there may even be search engines and social media firms that are owned by their users, who would then gain full control over the data they produce and who could as groups or individuals negotiate their own relationships with advertisers and news media services who seek their attention.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_52050" style="width: 458px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-52050 size-full" src="media/89c7bd2a.12113454824_985689a689_o.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/12113454824_985689a689_o.jpg" alt="12113454824_985689a689_o" width="458" height="282" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/12113454824_985689a689_o.jpg 458w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/12113454824_985689a689_o-300x185.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/12113454824_985689a689_o-65x40.jpg 65w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/12113454824_985689a689_o-50x31.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/12113454824_985689a689_o-252x155.jpg 252w" sizes="(max-width: 458px) 85vw, 458px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/seaternity/12113454824/in/photolist-jsqC6o">Hope</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/seaternity/">seaternity</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But perhaps the most important takeaway from last year’s Platform Cooperatives Consortium organizing meeting was the message it conveyed not to despair or lose hope. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When they’re able, people revolt against tyrants and the tools of oppression and exploitation are reworked in different hands into tools of liberation and freedom. People of good will and vision can put these tools—the Internet and information technologies—to far better use than we do now. Spain’s </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZoI0C1mPek"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mondragon Corporation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, for example, is a network of worker-owned co-ops that has successfully resisted takeover by stateless multinational firms and now employs more than 70,000 people. In the U.S., approximately 30,000 co-ops presently contribute an estimated $154 billion to our national income, which provides a base on which more worker-owned businesses can be organized, constructed, and sustained. Imagine what might happen if government procurement policies here in the U.S. and around the world favor firms that are cooperatively owned by workers rather than controlled by global capital.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Platform cooperatives can put a brake on income inequality by making sure the voice of workers does not remain submerged in the digital age. They could also be the only way workers and Internet users can become masters—and owners—of powerful artificial intelligence systems that can’t be built without data we all produce. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s why I am delighted to report that Creative Commons’ organizers recently reached out to personally invite leaders of the Platform Cooperatives movement to participate in our upcoming Toronto Global Summit—and to also pitch ideas for panels and workshops. Together, we can look for ways to strengthen our ability to shape a better future.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Internet is not finished yet and the future is in our hands. I hope to see you in Toronto!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i>Hal Plotkin is the Senior Open Policy Fellow at Creative Commons USA, the U.S. affiliate of Creative Commons. He served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Education during the administration of President Barack Obama (2009-2014). In 2002, Mr. Plotkin authored the first article ever published about</i> </span><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/All-Hail-Creative-Commons-Stanford-professor-2874018.php"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52029
title: Compartir no es delito: Sharing is not a crime
uri: Compartir-no-es-delito-Sharing-is-not-a-crime
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/23/compartir-no-es-delito-sharing-not-crime/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-52030" src="media/2d1cae79.diego1000.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/diego1000.jpg" alt="diego1000" width="1000" height="272" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/diego1000.jpg 1000w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/diego1000-300x82.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/diego1000-768x209.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/diego1000-140x38.jpg 140w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/diego1000-50x14.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/diego1000-270x73.jpg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<h3>Why are students criminalized for sharing knowledge?</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the last two years several </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">organizations have been highlighting the situation of Colombian graduate student Diego Gomez, who is being criminally prosecuted for sharing a research article online. Gomez is a student in conservation and wildlife management, and for the most part has poor access to many of the resources and databases that would help him conduct his research. He shared an academic paper on Scribd so that he and others could access it for their work. If convicted, Diego could face a prison term of 4-8 years. Final court arguments are scheduled for January 25, 2017. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The prosecution of Diego is yet another example of copyright overreach, where rights holders can unfairly leverage the law so that even a minor violation leads to major negative repercussions for both the individual involved and society as a whole.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://act.eff.org/action/let-s-stand-together-to-promote-open-access-worldwide"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-52031 size-large" src="media/035e17cf.standwithdiego_twittershare-1024x538.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/standwithdiego_twittershare-1024x538.png" alt="standwithdiego_twittershare" width="840" height="441" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/standwithdiego_twittershare-1024x538.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/standwithdiego_twittershare-300x158.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/standwithdiego_twittershare-768x403.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/standwithdiego_twittershare-76x40.png 76w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/standwithdiego_twittershare-50x26.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/standwithdiego_twittershare-270x142.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/standwithdiego_twittershare.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<h3><a href="https://act.eff.org/action/let-s-stand-together-to-promote-open-access-worldwide"><b>Take action now! Show your support for Diego and global open access to scientific research.</b></a></h3>
<p>Many thanks to the Colombian digital rights organization <a href="http://karisma.org.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fundación Karisma</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which has been providing legal assistance to Diego and has documented his story </span><a href="https://www.karisma.org.co/compartirnoesdelito/?page_id=2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51996
title: CC 4.0 German now live!
uri: CC-4-0-German-now-live
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/23/german-4-0/
content:
<figure id="attachment_51997" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-51997" src="media/1933d459.john_monk-1024x768.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/john_monk-1024x768.jpg" alt="wikipedia-flashlight" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/john_monk-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/john_monk-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/john_monk-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/john_monk-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/john_monk-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/john_monk-207x155.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/john_monk.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Dimitar Dimitrov, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/cc/by/4.0">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>At the end of an intense process of expert hearings, thesaurus<br />
discussions, translation sprints, legal language comparisons and several<br />
rounds of fine-tuning the texts, the unified German translation of CC<br />
licenses version 4.0 is finally here.</p>
<p>It is the first time that a CC tool is available in just one<br />
consolidated text for all German-speaking users. The coordination<br />
necessary happened between the CC teams in Germany, Austria and<br />
Switzerland. Although the language variants between these main<br />
German-speaking countries are considered relatively small, consolidating<br />
legal texts that are equally aimed at lay people and professionals<br />
proved considerably harder than expected.</p>
<p>We would like to thank the open content experts and commons activists<br />
involved:<br />
Annette Kaufmann<br />
Alexander Baratsits<br />
Armin Talke<br />
Christoph Endell<br />
Joachim Losehand<br />
Klaus Graf<br />
Leonhard Dobusch<br />
Lukas Mezger<br />
Magdalena Reiter<br />
Matthias Schmid<br />
Max von Grafenstein<br />
Michela Vignoli<br />
Nicole Lieger<br />
Paul Klimpel<br />
Roland Alton-Scheidl<br />
Simon Schlauri<br />
Till Jaeger<br />
Till Kreutzer<br />
several other commenters of the public commenting phase on <a href="http://co-ment.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://co-ment.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1484930922684000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHcmEyyN5M8AgjFyyvXzxmk2l-R1Q">co-ment.com</a><br />
and John Weitzmann of CC Germany for leading the effort.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/23/german-4-0/">CC 4.0 German now live!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52008
title: Copyright as a tool to censor political dissent in Latin America
uri: Copyright-as-a-tool-to-censor-political-dissent-in-Latin-America
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/20/copyright-tool-censor-political-dissent-latin-america/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51980" src="media/cf47c9f7.OG-CopyrightWeek-1-1024x512.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-1024x512.png" alt="og-copyrightweek" width="840" height="420" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-1024x512.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-300x150.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-768x384.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-80x40.png 80w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-270x135.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><em>We’re taking part in </em><a href="https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek"><em>Copyright Week</em></a><em>, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of the law, and addressing what’s at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.</em></p>
<hr />
<p>The &#8220;Safe harbor&#8221; provisions of the DMCA have been critical to build the internet as we know it today. Provisions like this one have given space to intermediaries providing platforms to host and transmit user-generated content without being held responsible for third party acts. The above is the legal reason explaining innovation on user-generated platforms and ways to communicate and, as a consequence, enhance rights such as freedom of expression.</p>
<p>But the DMCA is U.S. law, not international law. Nevertheless, DMCA related provisions such as notice and takedown are spread worldwide, in part because of the significant role of the United States on the international trade agenda, forcing countries in the Global South to adapt their internal regulation—including copyright, of course—to U.S. based standards to do business together. In addition, the law is forced on these countries due to the widespread use of these platforms all over the world, the vast majority of them owned by Silicon Valley companies legally bound by U.S. federal law.</p>
<p>Connecting those two dots, the implementation of national DMCA oriented legislation at the local level because of international trade agreements, and the fact that media and communications today is based on platforms with legal obligations to U.S. law, the DMCA&#8217;s notice and takedown processes are known, used, and abused in countries outside the U.S. These processes are not used to enhance the exercise of rights—such as freedom of speech—but instead do exactly the opposite.</p>
<p>The case of Ecuador under president Correa is probably one of the finest examples of systematic practices of using the internet as a battleground to silent political dissent. <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamesball/ecuadors-president-used-millions-of-dollars-of-public-funds">Reports suggested the government of President Correa has invested millions of dollars of public funds</a> hiring services to <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/15/censorship-ecuador-has-made-it-internet">remove content using DMCA notices</a>. These practices have been used to suppress content such as &#8220;unauthorized images&#8221; from the state-operated TV channel ECTV, used to take down a documentary about President Correa, or even <a href="http://www.fundamedios.org/alertas/secom-intenta-dar-de-baja-pagina-web-de-fundamedios-traves-de-reclamos-de-ares-rights/#eng">asking for taking down the Fundamedios website</a>—a well known freedom of expression and journalist non-profit organization critical to the government—for using an picture of President Correa. The DMCA has also been used to <a href="http://www.usuariosdigitales.org/2016/07/29/ecuador-el-abuso-del-dmca-22-denuncias-de-baja-de-contenido-en-3-meses/">report Twitter accounts for using similar photos</a>, as covered by activists in the field.</p>
<p>Those cases are not just limited to Ecuador. There are other documented cases which use DMCA notices to take down content in Mexico, such as asking YouTube to remove <a href="http://www.sinembargo.mx/29-04-2015/1329513">videos showing president Peña Nieto confusing some administrative departments of Mexico</a>. Or in Brazil, where <a href="https://advox.globalvoices.org/2014/10/23/brazilian-bloggers-claim-presidential-candidate-is-censoring-his-critics-on-youtube/">videos critical of the presidential candidate Aecio Neves were supposedly removed by Neves himself</a>.</p>
<p>Cases like those above illustrate that copyright regulation is not just about defending the right of creators or giving them the right incentives. Copyright during the last part of twentieth century and first part of the twenty-first century has been a powerful tool to control content and its distribution, understanding content and control in a broader sense, allowing governments, such in the case of Latin America, to also control discourses, narratives, and dissent.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52010
title: State Department Publishes Open Licensing “Playbook” for Federal Agencies
uri: State-Department-Publishes-Open-Licensing-Playbook-for-Federal-A
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/20/state-department-publishes-open-licensing-playbook-federal-agencies/

content:
<figure id="attachment_52016" style="width: 450px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="media/655229e5.open_licensing_playbook_final.pdf" data-original-source="https://eca.state.gov/files/bureau/open_licensing_playbook_final.pdf"><img class="wp-image-52016" src="media/acedcb2d.Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-3.33.03-PM-793x1024.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-3.33.03-PM-793x1024.png" alt="Cover of Federal Open Licensing Playbook" width="450" height="581" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-3.33.03-PM-793x1024.png 793w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-3.33.03-PM-232x300.png 232w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-3.33.03-PM-768x992.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-3.33.03-PM-31x40.png 31w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-3.33.03-PM-39x50.png 39w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-3.33.03-PM-120x155.png 120w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-3.33.03-PM.png 920w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Cover of Federal Open Licensing Playbook, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Today the U.S. Department of State <a href="https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/01/267125.htm">released</a> the <a href="media/655229e5.open_licensing_playbook_final.pdf" data-original-source="https://eca.state.gov/files/bureau/open_licensing_playbook_final.pdf"><em>Federal Open Licensing Playbook</em></a>, a list of considerations, use cases, and recommendations for federal departments interested in developing and implementing open license requirements on federally-funded grant projects. It is designed to assist federal efforts to maximize the impact of grant funds, and create opportunities for innovation and collaborative practices using federally-funded resources.</p>
<p>Each of the nine “plays” contains common features, including a checklist, key questions, and examples of use.</p>
<p>Of particular interest is <strong>Play 1: Use widely accepted open licenses.</strong></p>
<p>“Whenever possible, you should require grantees to use widely accepted and interoperable open licenses rather than create agency-specific or permit grantee-specific licenses. Customized licenses should only be considered if no existing open license meets the program’s needs. Custom licenses can inadvertently limit the usability of content, because they are often incompatible with each other and with common open licenses. By using widely accepted open licenses, agencies can ensure that their content can be remixed with content from many other sources, including other grant programs and other federal agencies. This also promotes consistency with existing standard practice outside of government. Common open licenses also enable attribution to content creators.</p>
<p>See also <strong>Play 3: </strong><strong>Make resources adaptable and remixable.</strong></p>
<p>“One of the goals of open licensing is to ensure members of the public are able to create derivatives of openly licensed resources, including by remixing content, translating content, localizing content, and creating accessible versions. There are two key factors for enabling adaptation: ensuring that the open license selected is broadly compatible, and ensuring that the openly licensed materials are in file formats that can be easily edited and tagged.</p>
<p>Creative Commons and other civil society organizations provided key input on the creation of this new open policy tool. The <em>Federal Open Licensing Playbook</em> draws inspiration from similar products developed by other federal agencies, such as the <a href="https://playbook.cio.gov/"><em>Digital Services Playbook</em></a>.</p>
<p>The <em>Federal Open Licensing Playbook</em> has been released into the public domain using the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0 Public Domain Dedication</a>, which means it can be freely reused, customized, and updated by anyone, anywhere in the world, with no restrictions. CC plans to repurpose the Playbook for use with other governments who also want to ensure publicly funded resources are openly licensed.</p>
<p><a href="media/655229e5.open_licensing_playbook_final.pdf" data-original-source="https://eca.state.gov/files/bureau/open_licensing_playbook_final.pdf">Open Licensing Playbook (.pdf)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://eca.state.gov/files/bureau/open_licensing_playbook_final_.doc">Open Licensing Playbook (.doc)</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51994
title: We are a community of creators
uri: We-are-a-community-of-creators
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/19/we-are-a-community-of-creators/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51980" src="media/cf47c9f7.OG-CopyrightWeek-1-1024x512.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-1024x512.png" alt="og-copyrightweek" width="840" height="420" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-1024x512.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-300x150.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-768x384.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-80x40.png 80w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-270x135.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><em>We’re taking part in </em><a href="https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek"><em>Copyright Week</em></a><em>, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of the law, and addressing what’s at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.</em></p>
<hr />
<p>At her <a href="https://air.mozilla.org/mozfest-speaker-series-our-digital-lives/#@50m43s">talk at this year’s Mozilla Festival,</a> Maggie Vail made a strong case for artist-driven media, stating, “Artists create. Artists innovate. It’s what they do, even in business.” According to Vail, artist-driven media will help drive out the industry-backed corporations who seek to lock down the web, maintaining a stranglehold on the important projects that make creativity on the internet thrive. Democratizing creation in both platform-based and independent media means providing open licensing structures that support artists and promoting creativity and innovation. In the words of our mission statement, these structures will “realize the full potential of the internet.”</p>
<p>I feel lucky that I get to spend a good deal of my time seeking out and talking to brilliant 21st century creators, from <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/07/27/makemypattern/">Joost deCock</a>, a self-proclaimed “sewcialist” who provides bespoke CC-licensed sewing patterns on his website to the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/07/collaboratively-generating-knowledge/">Public Lab, </a>which infuses science with art to inspire a generation of citizen scientists. I’ve spoken to<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/23/caroline-woolard/"> fine artists,</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/10/howlround/">data scientists,</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/12/22/conversation-conversation-transforming-journalism-cc-license/">journalists,</a> and even <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/10/howlround/">actors,</a> all of whom believe that through the power of sharing, another world is possible. For me, the commons represents this dream of another world. Our digital commons has now reached well over a billion works – the free exchange of knowledge is dependent on its growth and maintenance, but it takes creators and mission-driven projects to make that possible.</p>
<p>At the core of CC is our licenses, which makes sharing clear and simple across platforms, but I know that we are much more than just licenses – we’re a group of creators, scientists, lawyers, musicians, photographers, and sometimes all of these identities at once. We’re global, we’re multilingual, and most of all, we’re a community.</p>
<p>21st century creation means embracing the commons and the messy, collaborative form of open creativity that makes digital media so special. It means utilizing tools that question the status quo, and most of all, it means sharing and gratitude for the community that makes it all possible.</p>
<p>Our core of community is not a series of disparate projects, but instead a network of people driven by the desire to share their creativity with the world. What is creating in the 21st century? It’s remix, it’s reuse, and it’s collaboration, made possible by the dream of the global commons.</p>
<h4>Read more of our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/cctalkswith/">commons profiles here.</a></h4>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51986
title: One Click Attribution Tool now available for WordPress
uri: One-Click-Attribution-Tool-now-available-for-WordPress
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/18/one-click-wordpress/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-51987" src="media/692d1469.Screen-Shot-2017-01-18-at-11.05.58-AM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-18-at-11.05.58-AM.png" alt="screen-shot-2017-01-18-at-11-05-58-am" width="461" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-18-at-11.05.58-AM.png 918w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-18-at-11.05.58-AM-300x278.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-18-at-11.05.58-AM-768x711.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-18-at-11.05.58-AM-43x40.png 43w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-18-at-11.05.58-AM-50x46.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-18-at-11.05.58-AM-167x155.png 167w" sizes="(max-width: 461px) 85vw, 461px" /></p>
<p>Want to make using CC even easier? Today we’re excited to announce the public beta and feedback period for our <a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons-wordpress-plugin/releases/tag/v2.1-beta">One Click Attribution Tool for WordPress.</a> Using the plugin is simple: just install the plugin on your site by uploading the zip file containing it, choose your license (using our handy license chooser) click the button, and voila! You’ve added a license to your content.</p>
<p>WordPress powers almost 25% of the web, and CC powers over a billion pieces of content, so this collaboration is fulfilling our mission to make the web and the commons more usable, more discoverable, and more delightful every day.</p>
<p>Big thank yous to Rob Myers (Creative Commons’s software developer), who worked on finishing the new features, refactoring older code, and getting the project ready for this release. Previous work on this version of the code was done by Matt Lee (Creative Commons’s former Technical Lead). The original project was authored by Bjorn Wijers and Tarmo Toikkanen.</p>
<h2>How to use the tool</h2>
<p>We would like people to download and try the new version of the plugin and provide us with feedback.</p>
<p>In particular we would like to know whether:</p>
<ul>
<li>The documentation is sufficiently detailed.</li>
<li>Installation and activation work as expected.</li>
<li>The plugin works as expected.</li>
<li>The plugin works with your version of WordPress.</li>
<li>The plugin works with your WordPress theme.</li>
<li>The plugin works with your other WordPress plugins.</li>
<li>The plugin does everything you would like it to.</li>
</ul>
<p>The downloadable, installable Zip file of the software can be found <a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons-wordpress-plugin/releases/tag/v2.1-beta">here.</a></p>
<p>The software project can be found here on the <a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons-wordpress-plugin">“develop”</a> branch.</p>
<p>Bugs and other issues can be reported <a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons-wordpress-plugin/issues/new/">here.</a></p>
<p>You can also discuss the software with us via <a href="https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/">Slack </a>on the #cc-developers channel, or via irc on #creativecommons-dev on <a href="https://freenode.net/">Freenode.</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=51979
title: We Bought It, We Own It, We Fix It: Building Open Policies for Digital Public Goods
uri: We-Bought-It-We-Own-It-We-Fix-It-Building-Open-Policies-for-Digital
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/17/bought-fix-building-open-policies-digital-public-goods/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-51980" src="media/cf47c9f7.OG-CopyrightWeek-1-1024x512.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-1024x512.png" alt="og-copyrightweek" width="840" height="420" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-1024x512.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-300x150.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-768x384.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-80x40.png 80w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1-270x135.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OG-CopyrightWeek-1.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re taking part in </span></i><a href="https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright Week</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of the law, and addressing what’s at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.</span></i></p>
<hr />
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s topic for Copyright Week is “You Bought It, You Own It, You Fix It”, which means that copyright law shouldn&#8217;t interfere with your freedom to own your stuff however you see fit: to repair it, tinker with it, recycle it, use it on any device, lend it, and then give it away (or re-sell it) when you&#8217;re done.</span></p>
<p>Many rights holders are saddling their content with digital rights management (DRM) or restrictive licensing agreements that attempt to limit the use, modification, and distribution of copyright-protected works. In some instances, copyright law being misused in service of controlling access and use of legally-acquired content.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One recent example concerns the agricultural machinery manufacturer John Deere. John Deere attempted to use U.S. copyright law </span><a href="https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">to restrict access to the software code</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on their tractors. Specifically, the company contended that provisions of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digital Millennium Copyright Act</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> allows them to limit farmers’ ability to inspect and modify software code to fix or enhance the equipment they already own. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every three years the Library of Congress entertains arguments from stakeholders wishing to receive an exemption from the anti-circumvention rules of the DMCA. If the exemption is granted, the farmer would be able to legally (within their technical limitations,) bypass the DRM in order to examine and fix their equipment. However, the Library of Congress process is far from ideal. The list of categories of exemptions is quite limited, and requires interested parties to submit new evidence every three years in order to be granted a renewal. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the principle behind “You Bought It, You Own It, You Fix It” extends beyond our ability to repair, tinker, and fix the technologies to which we have legal access. We see a parallel in the policy work and advocacy that publicly funded resources should be openly licensed resources. </span><strong>Just as we need rules that protect people in accessing and using content and technologies they&#8217;ve already paid for (like a John Deere tractor), we need public policies that guarantee access and re-use rights to things we pay for together, like scientific and medical research, educational resources, job training materials, and public sector data. </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are multiple benefits to the public of requiring open licenses on publicly funded resources. For example, it enables collaboration between researchers because the materials are legally “open” for working together, and for continuous improvement. It makes access easier and cheaper over time because the materials are shared widely instead of being locked down under copyright and proprietary licenses that benefit only a small number of rights holders. It increases the efficiency and overall impact of the grant funds stewarded by government agencies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are already implementations of the principle that publicly funded materials should be openly licensed materials. One specific example is a </span><a href="http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">grant program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at the U.S. Department of Labor. It’s a big program funding up to $2 billion for the creation and dissemination of education and training materials. The difference between this grant program and those that have come before it is that grantees must agree to license and publish the digital content they create under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (Note, the open licensing policy has been extended to apply department-wide). This way, the public, and anyone around the world, are free to re-use the materials for any purpose, as long as they give credit to the author of the materials. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Outside of government, we know that </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/legal-tools-licenses/legal-tools-licenses-resources/foundations/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">philanthropic foundations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are learning toward adopting similar policies for their grantmaking. For example, the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation adopted a </span><a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Open-Access-Policy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">liberal open licensing policy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (which went into effect as of January 1, 2017) for its science funding programs whereby all peer-reviewed published research and underlying data sets must be published immediately (meaning: without embargo) under a CC BY license. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tomorrow for Copyright Week: “Transparency and Representation”. Copyright policy must be set through a participatory, democratic, and transparent process. It should not be decided through backroom deals, secret international agreements, or unilateral attempts to apply national laws extraterritorially.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52094
title: Announcing first Keynotes, Tracks, and an Extended Call for Submissions
uri: Announcing-first-Keynotes-Tracks-and-an-Extended-Call-for-Submission
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/26/keynotes-tracks-call-for-submissions/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-52070 size-full" src="media/e91b1822.front-page-summit-site.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/front-page-summit-site.png" alt="summit" width="694" height="398" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/front-page-summit-site.png 694w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/front-page-summit-site-300x172.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/front-page-summit-site-70x40.png 70w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/front-page-summit-site-50x29.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/front-page-summit-site-270x155.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
<p>Our <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org">Global Summit</a> is three short months away, and today I am delighted to provide some exciting updates to our program: two keynotes (more to come), five tracks, and a one week extension for submissions (<strong>now due on Friday, February 3</strong>).</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Keynotes</h2>
<p><img class="alignright wp-image-52095" src="media/ec56dbe2.rokediji.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rokediji.jpg" alt="okediji" width="222" height="222" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rokediji.jpg 220w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rokediji-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rokediji-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rokediji-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rokediji-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rokediji-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rokediji-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rokediji-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rokediji-128x128.jpg 128w" sizes="(max-width: 222px) 85vw, 222px" />Our first keynote will be international copyright and intellectual property expert <strong>Ruth Okediji, </strong>William L. Prosser professor of law at the University of Minnesota. Professor Okediji is the author of several books on copyright and intellectual property and is regularly cited for her work on IP in developing countries. She is an editor and reviewer of the <em>Journal of World Intellectual Property, </em>and has chaired the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Committee on Law and Computers, its Committee on Intellectual Property, and its Nominating Committee for Officers and Members of the Executive Committee. In 2011-2012, she was a member of the National Academies Board on Science, Technology and Policy Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era. In 2016, she received the prestigious McKnight presidential professorship and was a visiting professor at Harvard from 2015-2016. Ruth was also part of the process of negotiating the recently approved <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh_VIP_Treaty">Marrakesh treaty</a>; she joined the Nigerian delegation and helped lead the African Group. She has an upcoming book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Copyright-Limitations-Exceptions-Intellectual-Information/dp/1107132371/ref=sr_1_3/161-6866914-5203938?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1485462596&amp;sr=1-3&amp;refinements=p_27%3ARuth+L.+Okediji"><em>Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions</em></a>. Ruth will be speaking to our first summit goal: “To define sharing and the Commons for our generation.”</p>
<p><img class="wp-image-52096 alignleft" src="media/f54bedbc.headshotpink-1024x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-1024x1024.jpg" alt="jeong" width="222" height="222" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-768x768.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/headshotpink-128x128.jpg 128w" sizes="(max-width: 222px) 85vw, 222px" />Our second keynote will be journalist and lawyer <strong>Sarah Jeong,</strong> a<br />
contributing editor at Vice Motherboard who writes about technology, policy, and law. She is the author of <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Garbage-Sarah-Jeong-ebook/dp/B011JAV030">The Internet of Garbage</a></em>, and has bylines at the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Verge, Forbes, the Guardian, and other publications. In 2017, she was named as one of Forbes’s 30 under 30 in the category of Media. Jeong graduated from Harvard Law School in 2014. As a law student, she edited the Harvard Journal of Law &amp; Gender, and worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and at the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society. She was a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale for 2016, and also currently a fellow at the Internet Law &amp; Policy Foundry. Sarah will be speaking to our third summit goal: “To discuss the future of the Creative Commons network and grow the CC movement.”</p>
<h2>Tracks and track leads</h2>
<p>The CC Global Summit will be organized around five tracks:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Policy &amp; advocacy </strong>(Copyright reform, advocacy strategies, OER policies, etc)</li>
<li><strong>Community &amp; movement</strong> (CC network strategy, appreciation culture, stronger ties for the community in different domains, mentoring, strong diversity, etc)</li>
<li><strong>Spheres of Open</strong> (GLAM, Open Education, OER impact, open data, open design, open hardware, open agriculture/farming, etc)</li>
<li><strong>The Future of the Commons</strong> (Future of the digital commons, future of digital archives, how does CC fit in the broader Commons movement, Commons and economy, open innovation, Open business models, etc.)</li>
<li><strong>Usable Commons</strong> (health data, 3D printing, legal infrastructure, open infrastructures for collaboration, patent data, etc)</li>
</ol>
<p>I would also like to congratulate the track leaders, a diverse group of experts from around the world who will be assisting in programming and curating the tracks.</p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Track</td>
<td>Track Leader</td>
<td>Contributors</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Policy &amp; advocacy</td>
<td>Lisette Kalshoven, Europeana, CC Netherlands</td>
<td>Claudio Ruiz, Timothy Vollmer, Cable Green, Delia Browne</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Community &amp; movement</td>
<td>Kelsey Wiens, CC Canada</td>
<td>Claudia Cristiani, Batbold <span>Zagdragchaa</span>, Simeon Oriko, María Juliana Soto, SooHyun Pae</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Spheres of open</td>
<td>Scann, CC Argentina</td>
<td>André Rocha, Mahmoud Wardeh, Cable Green, Delia Browne</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Future of the Commons</td>
<td>Alek Tarkowski, CC Poland</td>
<td>Claudia Cristiani, Jane Park, Alexandros Nousias, Paul Stacey</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Usable Commons</td>
<td>Jane Park, CC HQ</td>
<td>Ryan Merkley, André Rocha, Alexandros Nousias</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>If you want to get in touch with any of the track leaders, please email us at <a href="mailto:summit@creativecommons.org">summit@creativecommons.org</a></p>
<h2>Call for Submissions extended</h2>
<p>Finally, we’re extending the call for submissions to <strong>Friday, February 3rd,</strong> so that everyone can have an opportunity to submit their proposals. You can find the <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezm8y2pheNlsP4Tserougy8ht1PITIyvT3GTBUJzDCb1ansg/viewform">Call for Submissions</a> here.</p>
<p>As always, we’re available for questions, discussions, or feedback on our <a href="http://slack-signup.creativecommons.org">Slack,</a> on social media, or at <a href="mailto:summit@creativecommons.org">summit@creativecommons.org</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone who has participated in this process, and we look forward to seeing you all in Toronto in April.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52036
title: New Register of Copyrights should put public at the center of technology and policy goals
uri: New-Register-of-Copyrights-should-put-public-at-the-center-of-technolo
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/26/new-register-copyrights-put-public-center-technology-policy-goals/

content:
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-52038" src="media/29d2aa69.gx.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx.png" width="500" height="500" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx.png 720w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-32x32.png 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-64x64.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-96x96.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gx-128x128.png 128w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px" /></p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.loc.gov/">Library of Congress</a> in an incredible institution in the United States, serving as the research library for Congress, and stewarding an unparalleled collection of books and cultural works of all types. Over the last several years, groups have called on the library to make technology and policy changes to remain relevant in the 21st century, in order to meet its mission &#8220;to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.&#8221;</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve already mentioned <a href="http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/A-Big-ToDo-List-for-the-New-Librarian-of-Congress-113734.asp">a fews ways</a> the Library of Congress could better support public access to information and cultural heritage materials, <span style="font-weight: 400;">including</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">opening up the Congressional Research Service so that the useful and timely reports are publicly shared with everyone (in addition to members of Congress), and developing a “digitization swat team” to ensure that all relevant government information and resources are accessible and discoverable online.</span></p>
<p>Now that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Hayden">Carla Hayden</a> is the new Librarian of Congress, there&#8217;s been significant interest and hope that she will re-infuse the institution with excitement and digital vitality, and help address some of the technological challenges faced by the Library for many years.</p>
<p>One of the key roles overseen by Hayden is the director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Copyright_Office">U.S. Copyright Office</a>; this position is called the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_of_Copyrights">Register of Copyrights</a>. Upon the departure of the most recent register Maria Pallante, Hayden initiated a <a href="https://www.research.net/r/RegisterOfCopyrights">public consultation</a> to solicit information on the knowledge, skills, and expertise necessary for the next Register.</p>
<p>Creative Commons submitted answers to the survey questions (reproduced below). You can <a href="https://www.research.net/r/RegisterOfCopyrights">share your thoughts</a> to the questionnaire through January 31, 2017.</p>
<hr />
<p><b>What are the knowledge, skills, and abilities you believe are the most important for the Register of Copyrights?</b></p>
<p>The Register of Copyrights should put the public at the center of the Copyright Office’s strategy and work plan. The Register should support and uphold key principles such as evidence-based policy analysis and development, nimble and user-focused technological improvements, open-minded public information gathering, and transparent decision making.</p>
<p>The Register should also have a firm grasp of technology and understanding of how creators and users share over the internet, and be willing to reconsider policies that impede the sharing of content in the digital era. The Register should also be able to engage with the broader community in ways other than a formal request for information and comments. The register should talk with and understand the challenges and opportunities of creators of all types, and listen to feedback and ideas from those who are generating new types of creative works.</p>
<p><b>What should be the top three priorities for the Register of Copyrights?</b></p>
<p>Regarding authors’ rights, copyright policymaking should uphold a principle of “copyright neutrality”. This means that when copyright policy is made, it needs to treat all stakeholders (authors) equally and take all authorial needs into consideration, not just those who wish to maximize their protection under the law, or who have an outsized ability to influence the policy-making process. Some authors are interested in commercialization, while others wish to share widely under permissive terms. The Register and the Office should develop and implement processes to make it inexpensive and simple to declare authorship and public license status, and for authors to dedicate works to the public domain. Copyright Office policy and practice should contain features that address the needs of all types of authors, whatever their choices along the copyright spectrum.</p>
<p>Regarding users and the public, the Register and Office should redouble its strategic priority to “make copyright records easily searchable and widely available to authors, entrepreneurs, and all who need them”. The Register should prioritize making collection metadata freely available in digital form, preferably by releasing an API or a similar approach so the public can build tools and interesting applications around the content. The public’s interaction with the copyright registration, recordation, and other systems should operate as 21st century users expect.</p>
<p>The Register and the Office should focus on overhauling the DMCA 1201 exemption-granting process by committing to reforms in the public interest. Changes should make the process less complex, less expensive, and less burdensome to those parties seeking an exemption. These could include—but are not limited to—a presumed renewal where no opposition exists, making particular exemptions permanent, and refusing to consider concerns not focused specifically on copyright. In addition to positive changes that can be made from within the Copyright Office, the Register should call for Congressional action to address these and related problems.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52067
title: Watch/listen: a celebration of Freedom of Sharing in Indonesia!
uri: Watch-listen-a-celebration-of-Freedom-of-Sharing-in-Indonesia
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/27/watch-listen-celebration-freedom-sharing-indonesia/
content:
<p>At the end of 2016, Creative Commons Indonesia held a discussion titled “Celebration of Freedom of Sharing in Indonesia” with support from the Awesome Fund. This event was also held to celebrate Creative Commons&#8217;s 15th anniversary.</p>
<p>Creative Commons Indonesia is a project under <a href="http://www.wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Halaman_Utama">Wikimedia Indonesia</a> that aims to spread the message about open culture in Indonesia, especially about open licenses like the Creative Commons license. This project started the 11th of November 2011 in Jakarta, and the Indonesian version of Creative Commons license was officially launched in Jakarta on the 11th of November 2012.</p>
<p>CC invited 2 speakers for this discussion. The first speaker was Alifia Qonita Sudharto (Nita), Project Leader for the 2016 Creative Commons Project, and Agung Damarsasongko from the Indonesian Directorate General of Intellectual Property. In this discussion, Nita confirmed that CC Licenses work legally in Indonesia according to article number 80 from Law Number 28 Year 2014 about Copyright Law. Regarding the license recordal mandatory issue in Indonesia, Agung responded that license recordal mandatory appeared in Indonesian Copyright Regulation only aiming at the exclusive type of licenses. CC Licenses, which are categorized as an open license, are mainly used for nonprofit purposes and are not the same with some exclusive licenses which has commercial purposes.</p>
<p>Through this discussion, Nita hoped that the Indonesian people’s knowledge about copyright could be increased, especially about CC License usage. “If someone uses a CC License, you don’t have to be afraid of losing your right when you share your works online. The tool is strong enough to protect the works,” Agung stated. “And for now the government has also been better at tracking down online copyright infringement,” confirmed Agung as a closing statement for this discussion.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Discussion from the CC Indonesia Event</h2>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JPUwCPlXNfI" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Musical Selections from the Event</h2>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3lvcvV1g_k8" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JzOggdE1juE" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="media/e64f3abf._Podcast_-1_-_Celebration_of_Freedom_of_Sharing_in_Indonesia.ogg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creative_Commons_Indonesia_-_Podcast_-1_-_Celebration_of_Freedom_of_Sharing_in_Indonesia.ogg">Podcast about the CC Indonesia Event</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52113
title: Bottlesmoker: an Indonesian Electronic Duo that lives by the Internet
uri: Bottlesmoker-an-Indonesian-Electronic-Duo-that-lives-by-the-Internet
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/01/bottlesmoker/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52116" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://bottlesmoker.asia/"><img class="wp-image-52116 size-large" src="media/50e0fdf7.XIMG_1213-1024x721.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1213-1024x721.jpg" alt="ximg_1213" width="840" height="591" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1213-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1213-300x211.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1213-768x541.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1213-57x40.jpg 57w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1213-50x35.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1213-220x155.jpg 220w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1213-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1213.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Bottlesmoker, Photo by M. Akbar</figcaption></figure>
<p>Indonesian electronic duo <a href="http://bottlesmoker.asia/">Bottlesmoker</a> has been making DIY, &#8220;open source&#8221; music since 2005. Founding members Angkuy and Nobie are the brains behind this rebellious, alternative project, blending and bending genre and expectation through their uncompromising approach. Their music is fun, danceable, and truly a product of the internet – a &#8220;let&#8217;s do it together&#8221; collaborative approach to music making that has won them international acclaim.</p>
<p>This year has been particularly successful for the group: in addition to being the first Indonesian group to break through at Singapore&#8217;s St. Jerome Laneway festival, they released several new tracks and videos and have been featured in diverse publications including <a href="https://www.bandwagon.asia/articles/watch-bottlesmoker-release-an-exuberant-minimal-video-for-batara-pandita">Bandwagon,</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_id/article/we-talked-to-stars-and-rabbit-and-bottlesmoker-about-being-the-first-indonesian-bands-to-perform-at-laneway">Vice,</a> and <a href="http://www.yesnomusic.co.uk/2013/05/bottlesmoker-interview.html">Yes/No music. </a></p>
<p><strong>How did you first learn about Creative Commons? What made you want to use CC for your music?</strong></p>
<p>The first time we learned about CC was in 2006, when we released our first album via the Netlabel Neovinyl Records. Baldo, director of Neovinyl, explained how Netlabel worked and suggested we learn about CC. CC makes easier for us to thank the label in our work, and for the label to use and to share. And we think CC is a good way to license our works – which have the principle of free music sharing, so CC is the light for our music to be shared widely and used wisely.</p>
<p><strong>What is &#8220;open source music?&#8221; Why is open source music important for you?</strong></p>
<p>For us, open source music is a method of music writing that allows people to contribute to creative production and to be free to express their idea in music. Open source music is important in how people collaborate in creative ways to express their ideas and imaginations – through open source there’s a lot of knowledge transformation, the participants will transfer their culture. And that’s important to transfer all the things to the one good thing, which is music. Music in open source music has a million codes of knowledge.</p>
<p><strong>You&#8217;ve experienced global success with your unique sound – how does openness play into this? Why is openness an important value for you as musicians?</strong></p>
<p>We’ve learned so many things through the internet from people who share anything important globally. We transfer information and knowledge on internet, we learn from people who open their skill and knowledge, we learn from new culture in internet, the free culture. So, openness is the most important value and we want to be musicians who participate through the sharing of music. So far, we mostly seek unity in our music, so when our music shared freely and widely, and people use and enjoy it, that’s the biggest appreciation for us. We can’t live without openness, so being open to share is really important for our creativity and society, maintains innovation in all parts of creative works, and the openness is the door to that.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52114" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-large wp-image-52114" src="media/1e70e2db.XIMG_1064-copy-1024x683.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1064-copy-1024x683.jpg" alt="Bottlesmoker, Photo by M. Akbar" width="840" height="560" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1064-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1064-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1064-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1064-copy-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1064-copy-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1064-copy-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/XIMG_1064-copy-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Bottlesmoker, Photo by M. Akbar</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>On your website, you write that you choose to &#8220;live by the internet.&#8221; What does that mean for you? What does that mean for fans of your music?</strong></p>
<p>From 2006 until 2008, our life was only on the internet. We were rejected by all sides in Indonesia, from the record label to mass media. They can’t accept the openness of our music, the way we distribute music. But the internet really helped our music to be shared. Through the internet, finally our music can reach any country in this world, can be played by people in any city in the world. Without the internet, our music is only a ghost, frozen in a folder and buried in the computer. For fans, of course, they can access our music with the holy internet, and we can interact and share about cultures, ideas, and knowledge.</p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s next for you? What kinds of projects do you most look forward to? How are you looking to collaborate with other musicians in Indonesia and beyond?</strong></p>
<p>We still make music and share it for free, so we’ll be releasing a new album in April for free. And we look forward to make a project about audio library of Indonesian traditional music instruments that people can access for free. Indonesia has so many musical instruments and we need to archive the sounds for historical education and culture. Soon we will also collaborate with an American musicologist who has been traveled around Indonesia for years doing field recording of traditional music, and we will make something together for our new album.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52124
title: Announcing the new CC Search, now in Beta
uri: Announcing-the-new-CC-Search-now-in-Beta
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/07/new-cc-search/
content:
<p><a href="http://ccsearch.creativecommons.org"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52125" src="media/bf252a49.Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.39.13-AM-1024x462.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.39.13-AM-1024x462.png" alt="ccsearch-screenshot" width="840" height="379" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.39.13-AM-1024x462.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.39.13-AM-300x135.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.39.13-AM-768x347.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.39.13-AM-89x40.png 89w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.39.13-AM-50x23.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.39.13-AM-270x122.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.39.13-AM-1200x542.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p>Creative Commons’ goal is a vibrant, usable Commons powered by collaboration and gratitude. That work has taken us beyond the licenses to explore new tools for discovery, reuse and collaboration.</p>
<p>We’re releasing CC Search today and inviting users to try out the beta, including our list-making features, and simple, one-click attribution to make it easier to credit the source of any image you discover.</p>
<p>One of the primary ways that our users find Creative Commons content is through our search page, which provides references to various repositories. The current CC search tool is accessed by nearly 600,000 people every month — but we can do better. There is no “front door” to the commons, and the tools people need to curate, share, and remix works aren’t yet available. We want to make the commons more usable, and this is our next step in that direction.</p>
<p>Our goal is to cover the whole commons, but we wanted to develop something people could test and react to that would be useful at launch. To build our beta, we settled on a goal to represent one percent of the known Commons, or about 10 million works, and we chose a vertical slice of images only, to fully explore a purpose-built interface that represented one type but many providers. For more details on our research and development process, <a href="https://medium.com/@creativecommons/cc-search-developer-notes-and-reflection-418271194682#.elw4jbgp2">you can read our developer’s notes and reflections over on Medium.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ccsearch.creativecommons.org"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52126" src="media/2f9899f7.Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.40.00-AM-1024x525.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.40.00-AM-1024x525.png" alt="ccsearch-creativecommons" width="840" height="431" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.40.00-AM-1024x525.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.40.00-AM-300x154.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.40.00-AM-768x394.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.40.00-AM-78x40.png 78w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.40.00-AM-50x26.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.40.00-AM-270x138.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.40.00-AM-1200x615.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p>After a detailed review of potential sources, the available APIs, and the quality of their datasets, we selected the Rijksmuseum, Flickr, 500px, the New York Public Library as our initial sources. Later, after discussions with the Metropolitan Museum of Art regarding their collection of public domain works, which were released under CC0 on February 7, 2017, we incorporated their 200,000 CC0 images as well.</p>
<p>The new CC Search harnesses the power of open repositories, allowing users to search across a variety of open content through a single interface. The prototype of this tool focuses on photos as its first media and uses open APIs in order to index the available works. The search filters allow users to search by license type, title, creator, tags, collection, and type of institution.</p>
<p><a href="http://ccsearch.creativecommons.org">CC Search Beta</a> also provides social features, allowing users to create and share lists as well as add tags and favorites to the objects in the commons, and save their searches. Finally, it incorporates one-click attribution, giving users pre-formatted copy for easy attribution.</p>
<p><a href="http://ccsearch.creativecommons.org"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52127" src="media/e220f62f.Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.43.34-AM-1024x653.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.43.34-AM-1024x653.png" alt="favorites-shot" width="840" height="536" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.43.34-AM-1024x653.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.43.34-AM-300x191.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.43.34-AM-768x490.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.43.34-AM-63x40.png 63w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.43.34-AM-50x32.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.43.34-AM-243x155.png 243w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.43.34-AM-1200x765.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p>This is not our final product. It’s a beta, developed and released as early as possible in our development process to elicit discussion and conversation about the tool for its continued improvement. We’re in active development, and your comments and feedback will shape our work going forward as we add repositories, new media types, and new features.</p>
<p>This is a significant moment for CC, as we’ve always wanted to be able to do more to help people find and use the commons and make connections with each other as they create new things. We think CC Search is a good first step, and we welcome feedback on the tool via<a href="https://docs.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/forms/d/1Z_lwUoiTRBw-fr4wQVDZBSq8-T2kr93XezOEU-ISHBU/edit"> form</a>, social (<a href="http://twitter.com/creativecommons">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://facebook.com/creativecommons">Facebook</a>,) <a href="http://slack-signup.creativecommons.org">Slack</a>, or <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org">email.</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52132
uri: New-York-s-Metropolitan-Museum-of-Art-releases-375-000-digital-works
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/07/met-announcement/
title:
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art releases 375,000 digital works for remix and re-use online via CC0

content:
<p><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-52133 size-large" src="media/6429dd74.Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.54.28-AM-e1486475769567-1024x579.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.54.28-AM-e1486475769567-1024x579.png" alt="diana-screenshot" width="840" height="475" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.54.28-AM-e1486475769567-1024x579.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.54.28-AM-e1486475769567-300x170.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.54.28-AM-e1486475769567-768x435.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.54.28-AM-e1486475769567-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.54.28-AM-e1486475769567-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.54.28-AM-e1486475769567-270x153.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.54.28-AM-e1486475769567-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.54.28-AM-e1486475769567-1200x679.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p>Today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announces that all public domain images in its collection will be shared under CC0, expanding their digital collection by over 375,000 images as well as providing data on over 420,000 museum objects spanning more than 5,000 years. CC0 allows anyone to use, re-use, and remix a work without restriction. This announcement will shape the future of public domain images online and underscores the Met’s leadership role as one of the most important open museum collections in the world.</p>
<p>Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley joined the Met to announce the release. The Met collection of CC0 images can be browsed on the new <a href="http://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/themet">CC Search</a> beta, also announced this morning.</p>
<p>“Sharing is fundamental to how we promote discovery, innovation, and collaboration in the digital age,” said Merkley. “Today, The Met has given the world a profound gift in service of its mission: the largest museum in the United States has eliminated the barriers that would otherwise prohibit access to its content, and invited the world to use, remix, and share their public domain collections widely and without restriction.”</p>
<p><a href="http://ccsearch.creativecommons.org"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52134" src="media/a11c748e.Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.53.58-AM-1024x776.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.53.58-AM-1024x776.png" alt="degas-search" width="840" height="637" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.53.58-AM-1024x776.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.53.58-AM-300x227.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.53.58-AM-768x582.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.53.58-AM-53x40.png 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.53.58-AM-50x38.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.53.58-AM-205x155.png 205w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.53.58-AM-1200x909.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.53.58-AM.png 1584w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p>Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas P. Campbell concurs: “In making images of our public-domain artworks available to audiences under CC0, the Museum is adapting its practice to make our collection available in a way that best meets the needs of 21st-century, digital audiences. We are excited to share with the public new pathways to creativity, knowledge, and ideas as manifest in the greater utility of its collections spanning 5,000 years of art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art thanks Creative Commons, an international leader in collaboration, sharing, and copyright, for beings our partner in this effort.”</p>
<p>At the announcement, Met partners also shared a series of other open initiatives, including the museum’s first Wikipedian-in-residence, a Github repository of the publicly accessible data, and a partnership with ITHAKA-Artstor and Pinterest to provide more extensive access to its collections. More information on these initiatives can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources">Image and Data Resources</a> page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45027"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52135" src="media/4cfc6194.Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.59.01-AM-1024x932.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.59.01-AM-1024x932.png" alt="hokusai" width="840" height="765" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.59.01-AM-1024x932.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.59.01-AM-300x273.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.59.01-AM-768x699.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.59.01-AM-44x40.png 44w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.59.01-AM-50x45.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.59.01-AM-170x155.png 170w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.59.01-AM-1200x1092.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-8.59.01-AM.png 1418w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p>Our profound thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for making this partnership possible. Today’s announcement is the result of the hard work and leadership of the incredible staff team at The Met, and Creative Commons is proud to have supported the development and implementation of this new policy. Through the power of the commons, billions of people will now be able to enjoy the beauty of the Met’s collections as well as participate in the continued growth of the commons, utilizing the infrastructure that makes greater collaboration possible.</p>
<p>Stay tuned to our <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&amp;q=%23MetOpenAccess&amp;src=typd">social media</a> and <a href="http://slack-signup.creativecommons.org">Slack</a> for more updates and experience the collection yourself at the new <a href="http://ccsearch.creativecommons.org">CC Search</a> beta.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52152
title: Thank you to our lead sponsor of CC’s Global Summit
uri: Thank-you-to-our-lead-sponsor-of-CC-s-Global-Summit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/08/thank-lead-sponsor-ccs-global-summit/
content:
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-52154" src="media/c4a2aed5.pia_logp.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/pia_logp.png" alt="pia_logo" width="418" height="56" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/pia_logp.png 418w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/pia_logp-300x40.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/pia_logp-140x19.png 140w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/pia_logp-50x7.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/pia_logp-270x36.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 418px) 85vw, 418px" />Private internet access is the lead sponsor of the <a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org">2017 CC Global Summit. </a>Thank you for your support!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52166
title: Celebrating Public Domain Day and Fair Use Week 2017 in Israel– Thanks to CC Awesome Fund!
uri: Celebrating-Public-Domain-Day-and-Fair-Use-Week-2017-in-Israel-Than
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/10/public-domain-day-israel/
content:
<p>Every 1st of January, the <a href="http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/academyincommunity/cliniclist/tech/pages/default.aspx">Law and Technology Clinic</a> and <a href="http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/AcademyInCommunity/ClinicList/tech/projects/Pages/CCIsrael.aspx">Creative Commons Israel</a> celebrate the Public Domain Day. In Israel about 70 years after the death of the author, her works are released to the Public Domain.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-52167" src="media/c7f4bb45.15965233_1552867568062675_8881726275150576384_n.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15965233_1552867568062675_8881726275150576384_n.jpg" alt="israeli event" width="960" height="720" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15965233_1552867568062675_8881726275150576384_n.jpg 960w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15965233_1552867568062675_8881726275150576384_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15965233_1552867568062675_8881726275150576384_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15965233_1552867568062675_8881726275150576384_n-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15965233_1552867568062675_8881726275150576384_n-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15965233_1552867568062675_8881726275150576384_n-207x155.jpg 207w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>This year on the 16 Jan. 2017 <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/07/21/cc-is-awesome/">CC awesome fund</a> helped us celebrate the Public Domain Day 2017 and Fair Use Week.</p>
<p>The celebration took place at Haifa University Faculty of Law. During the event we presented Creative Commons Licenses and explained about the Public Domain Day. We also talked about <a href="http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/AcademyInCommunity/ClinicList/tech/Pages/FairUseWeek.aspx">Fair Use Week</a> which will take place on the 20-24 Feb. 2017.</p>
<h2>What is Fair Use?</h2>
<p>Copyright law creates a system of checks and balances that balance between the public domain and the granting of incentive for authors to create. Therefore, the <a href="media/f1352c98.IsraeliCopyrightAct2007.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.tau.ac.il/law/members/birnhack/IsraeliCopyrightAct2007.pdf">new Israeli Copyright Act of 2007 </a>includes permitted uses. Fair Use is one of them.</p>
<p>The <a href="media/f1352c98.IsraeliCopyrightAct2007.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.tau.ac.il/law/members/birnhack/IsraeliCopyrightAct2007.pdf">new Israeli Copyright Act of 2007</a> replaced the old <a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2376">Copyright Act of 1911</a>. The fair dealing clause was replaced by a Fair Use clause which is very much similar to the U.S. Fair Use clause:</p>
<p>&#8220;19. Fair Use<br />
(a) Fair use of a work is permitted for purposes such as: private study, research, criticism, review, journalistic reporting, quotation, instruction and examination by an educational institution.<br />
(b) In determining whether a use made of a work is fair within the meaning of this section the factors to be considered shall include, inter alia, all of the following:<br />
(1) The purpose and character of the use;<br />
(2) The character of the work used;<br />
(3) The scope of the use, quantitatively and qualitatively, in relation to the work as a whole;<br />
(4) The impact of the use on the value of the work and its potential market.<br />
(c) The Minister may make regulations prescribing conditions under which a use shall be deemed a fair use&#8221;<br />
There is another judicial criterion that has to be met before the use can be considered &#8220;fair&#8221; &#8211; attribution to the author.</p>
<p>However, the fair use clause is unclear and often impossible to say in advance whether a particular use should be considered fair or not.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-52169" src="media/79f2b653.IMG-20170116-WA0010.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG-20170116-WA0010.jpg" alt="img-20170116-wa0010" width="1048" height="776" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG-20170116-WA0010.jpg 1048w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG-20170116-WA0010-300x222.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG-20170116-WA0010-768x569.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG-20170116-WA0010-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG-20170116-WA0010-54x40.jpg 54w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG-20170116-WA0010-50x37.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG-20170116-WA0010-209x155.jpg 209w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>This year we devoted the celebration to women authors.</p>
<p>Mr. Yair Even-Zohar (<a href="http://www.zemereshet.co.il/">Zemereshet Israel</a>) talked about women, authors, and performers whose works and performances are in the public domain. Mrs. Hana Yariv (Wikimedia Israel) talked about women as editors in the Hebrew Wikipedia and about the forgotten women who lack an entry in Wikipedia. The Israeli Creative Commons Coordinator Dalit Ken-Dror Feldman explained about the public domain and about CC Licenses. The Law and Technology Clinic read works that are in the Public Domain and that were written by women – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Szenes">Hannah Szenes</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Bluwstein">Rachel Bluwstein Sela </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley">Mary Shelley</a>.</p>
<p>It was <em>awesome!!!</em></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-52168" src="media/6c5d2760.16142473_1553394164676682_6363244010767337621_n.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16142473_1553394164676682_6363244010767337621_n.jpg" alt="16142473_1553394164676682_6363244010767337621_n" width="960" height="711" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16142473_1553394164676682_6363244010767337621_n.jpg 960w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16142473_1553394164676682_6363244010767337621_n-300x222.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16142473_1553394164676682_6363244010767337621_n-768x569.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16142473_1553394164676682_6363244010767337621_n-54x40.jpg 54w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16142473_1553394164676682_6363244010767337621_n-50x37.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16142473_1553394164676682_6363244010767337621_n-209x155.jpg 209w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><em>All photos via Dalit KD, Creative Commons Israel</em></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52188
title: Job Opportunity: Director of Product Engineering
uri: Job-Opportunity-Director-of-Product-Engineering
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/14/director-product-engineering/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52190" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-52190 size-full" src="media/07ef67e3.22237589255_c8c1bd5582_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/22237589255_c8c1bd5582_z.jpg" alt="claudio-carolina" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/22237589255_c8c1bd5582_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/22237589255_c8c1bd5582_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/22237589255_c8c1bd5582_z-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/22237589255_c8c1bd5582_z-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/22237589255_c8c1bd5582_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">Creative Commons Global Summit 2015. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/22237589255/">Sebastian ter Burg</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>On February 7, 2017, Creative Commons released a public beta of CC Search. Our goal was to inspire discussion, debate, and ideas on how we can build a front door to the commons, and make content more discoverable and usable, and foster a culture of collaboration and gratitude. Now we&#8217;re looking for a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/team/opportunities/job-opportunity-director-product-engineering/">Director of Product Engineering</a> to lead that team at CC.</p>
<p>At Creative Commons it&#8217;s important to hire talented, diverse teams and advance women in leadership roles, and we&#8217;ve worked diligently this past year to ensure more of those voices are part of our team. You can help: if you know a bright, creative, technically-proficient woman or someone from a diverse community who wants to change the world with us, encourage them to apply. If that person is you, I can’t wait to hear from you.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/team/opportunities/job-opportunity-director-product-engineering/">Job Opportunity: Director of Product Engineering</a></h2>
<p>The universe of openly licensed content is massive and growing, and we want to light it up — make it more discoverable, usable, and connected. This is the opportunity: to build products and services — both standalone and within our partner platforms — that will bring the commons to life with greater use, re-use, and contribution. Our first project to realize this goal will be CC Search.</p>
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<p><span>There is no “front door” to the commons, and with over 1.1 billion works on platforms all over the world on over 9 million websites, the tools people need to curate, share, and remix works aren’t yet available. We launched the CC Search beta on February 7, 2017, indexing about 1 percent of the commons, and a focus on images as a first media type. We have had a great initial response and positive media coverage. But we have so much more to do to reach the scale of our ambition.</span></p>
<p><span>This project will unite billions of records for works and metadata, multiple platforms, diverse media types, and a variety of user communities and partners. It’s a difficult but rewarding problem for an inspired and creative leader. We want to build this product with a small dev team as part of an open community, and create something useful, delightful, and essential to the work of creators, educators, scientists, cultural institutions, and our partners.</span></p>
<h4><b>Primary Responsibilities</b></h4>
<p><span>The Director of Product Engineering reports to the CEO and will lead the development and implementation of CC’s products and services. You’ll be responsible for the CC Search roadmap and the review and enhancement of existing tools to ensure their successful adoption on the web. This is a rare opportunity to lead within an organization that is fundamental to sharing online, operating at a global scale. The successful candidate will lead a technical team to meet the needs of this vital organization, and to build a more vibrant, usable global commons, powered by collaboration and gratitude.</span></p>
<p><span>We believe that diverse teams build better organizations and better services. Applications from qualified candidates from all backgrounds, including those from under-represented communities, are very welcome.<br />
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<p><span>The Director of Product Engineering leads the technology team to:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span>Develop, lead and implement an ambitious product strategy, including a product and service roadmap for CC Search and other relevant services. Lead a small team aligned with our goal of a more vibrant, usable commons powered by collaboration and gratitude</span></li>
<li><span>Attract and oversee a small team of software developers and UX designers to build innovative, robust software both for CC use and for public release</span></li>
<li><span>Work in the open, in public repositories, open chat rooms, public wikis and a global community</span></li>
<li><span>Work with the CEO and Director of Development to seek funding for CC’s various technical projects</span></li>
<li><span>Represent the organization and provide technical leadership within various open communities and with CC partners. Coordinate with other outside communities, companies, and institutions to further Creative Commons’ mission, for example: W3C, non-profit communities like EFF, Open Knowledge, and Wikipedians, and the open data, open access, library, and open education communities</span></li>
</ul>
<h4><b>Qualifications and requirements</b></h4>
<ul>
<li><span>Proven team and product leadership, and an entrepreneurial spirit: a collaborative, motivated self-starter</span></li>
<li><span>Demonstrated experience building and deploying large scale web services; experience on mobile is a plus</span></li>
<li><span>Ability to identify and scope user requirements and develop specifications</span></li>
<li><span>Excellent management, written, and oral communication skills</span></li>
<li><span>Familiarity with content licensing including Free/Open licenses a plus</span></li>
<li><span>Familiarity with consumer privacy</span></li>
<li><span>Fluent in one of Spanish, Arabic, or French (in addition to English) a plus</span></li>
<li><span>Desire to work in a diverse, global, highly collaborative team environment</span></li>
</ul>
<h5><b>Work Environment and Location</b></h5>
<p><span>Creative Commons is a distributed organization. This position is available to applicants in Canada and the US, in a remote working environment, provided they have reasonable mobility for necessary travel, and high-speed broadband access. Laptop/desktop computer and necessary resources are supplied. May require some travel.</span></p>
<h5><b>How to Apply</b></h5>
<p><span>Please email your cover letter and resume as a single PDF to “jobs@creativecommons.org” with the subject heading of “Director of Product Engineering / [Last Name].” No phone calls, please.</span></p>
<h5><b>About CC</b></h5>
<p><span>Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. We are a leader in the global movement for free culture and open knowledge with an affiliate community in 85 countries. Our free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — from “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.” The first phase of CC’s work was about establishing the licenses as standard, and growing the archive. The next phase will establish a more vibrant, usable commons powered by collaboration and gratitude. Today, the global commons stands at over 1.1 billion licensed works, made up of photos, video, audio, datasets, open textbooks, research, 3D models, and more.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52196
title: Transforming public spaces with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things
uri: Transforming-public-spaces-with-the-Institute-for-Infinitely-Small-Thi
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/15/institute-for-infinitely-small-things/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52200" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-52200" src="media/a68f1a23.167033834_13d4f9a4e9_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/167033834_13d4f9a4e9_z.jpg" alt="renaming-cambridge" width="640" height="478" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/167033834_13d4f9a4e9_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/167033834_13d4f9a4e9_z-300x224.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/167033834_13d4f9a4e9_z-54x40.jpg 54w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/167033834_13d4f9a4e9_z-50x37.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/167033834_13d4f9a4e9_z-208x155.jpg 208w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Renaming Cambridge, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sushiesque/167033834/in/photolist-MLsBa-fL6kG-MLiLm-fL6gW-fL6n2-5aqb5-MQnoV-RAHUS-RAJBb-qa7CX-qa7C9-qa7Cx-qa7BR-qa7Bt">sushiesque</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC BY-NC 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><a href="http://www.ikatun.org/institute/infinitelysmallthings/">The Institute for Infinitely Small Things</a> addresses the commons through an art for all approach to engage with the political through their work in public spaces. As a research and art praxis group, their work is interdisciplinary and site-specific, yet it draws on data, multimedia, and documentation to concretize their ephemeral performance pieces on the web and beyond.</p>
<p>Over the past thirteen years, the collective has &#8220;conducted <span>creative, participatory research to temporarily transform public spaces dominated by non-public agendas,&#8221; engaging with &#8220;social and political tiny things.&#8221; </span>In encouraging interaction with the spaces that surround their installations, the Institute&#8217;s work is personal and political and works as a vehicle for local change wherever they find themselves.</p>
<p>Many of the Institute&#8217;s projects can be perused on the website of Berlin-based artist <a href="http://www.nicolesiggins.com/">Nicole Siggins,</a> who answered questions for this interview, or at their <a href="http://www.ikatun.org/institute/infinitelysmallthings/">website.</a></p>
<p><strong>As an artist-run organization concerned with public engagement, what kinds of tactics do you use to encourage participation in your projects?</strong></p>
<p>We perform many of our actions in public view, whether that be on the street in the middle of a busy square, while engaging a classroom, or in an exhibition space. When working in public space we use humor and spectacle to spark curiously in the people around us. This in turn brings people in closer to us, where we can then engage them in the project by asking questions about what they see and perceive, both in the actions we are taking and how it relates to the world and spaces around them. Tactics we have used in the past are wearing lab coats, moving our bodies in unexpected ways, using the landscape in a way that is different from its intended use, creating barriers, getting in the way, and obstructing pathways as a way of encouraging interaction.</p>
<p><strong>A good deal of your work is temporal, yet it is the kind of art that thrives on the internet – videos, remixes, and datasets, like the Corporate Commands dataset. How do you balance site-specific installations with sharing your work online? Do you believe that making your work accessible to a larger audience will encourage its dissemination?</strong></p>
<p>It is important to us that the work continue on its own path once we are finished with it. We are less interested in claiming ownership over the works than we are these works existing on their own to inspire others to engage more consciously and constructively with the world around them. Site specific installations are important because we get to engage with the local public in a space that belongs to them. This is, at heart, the core of the work. However, we truly hope that seeing our work online encourages others to continue to engage with the subject matter long after any site specific installation is over. We do hope that making our work accessible to a larger audience will encourage its dissemination and will encourage people to come up with their own similar ideas or begin their own Institute like groups.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52198" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eyebeam/4526539474"><img class="size-full wp-image-52198" src="media/a143a233.4526539474_bc9346bcfd_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/4526539474_bc9346bcfd_z.jpg" alt="PROEyebeam Follow The Institute for Infinitely Small Things – Corporate Commands: Say It With Flowers via Eyebeam CC BY-NC 2.0" width="640" height="360" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/4526539474_bc9346bcfd_z.jpg 640w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/4526539474_bc9346bcfd_z-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/4526539474_bc9346bcfd_z-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/4526539474_bc9346bcfd_z-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/4526539474_bc9346bcfd_z-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 Institute for Infinitely Small Things – Corporate Commands: Say It With Flowers via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eyebeam/4526539474">Eyebeam</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC BY-NC 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>So many of your installations involve seeking meaning in objects, work, capital, feelings, and politics. How do you bring the personal into the political in your work? How do you conceive of these interventions and installations?</strong></p>
<p>We believe that the personal is the political. Our ideas come from what is going on around us in our political and personal climate. For example, our project “Unmarked Package: A Case for Feeling Insecure” brought us through may different Chicago neighborhoods, setting up a temporary installation of empty boxes which were wrapped in white paper and marked “unmarked package” on all four sides. We then spoke with the residents of each neighborhood about how they would react if they saw an unmarked package and if being super vigilant made them feel safer. This idea emerged from living in a world where we are repeatedly told over intercoms and loudspeakers in train stations and airports to be cautions and to be on the look out for “suspicious behaviour” or “unmarked packages.” Our project was a vehicle to better understand the permeating culture of fear that exists all around us and to engage the public on whether these announcements and behaviors overall made us feel more safe or threatened. Thus, the objects that appear in our works are only a vessel to get the conversation going and to begin a dialogue about what is happening around us in our world.</p>
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<p><strong>As a research institute, you came of age during the Bush administration and continued to create work through Occupy and other social movements. How do you see your work changing in scope with the new administration in the US? What&#8217;s next for the institute?</strong></p>
<p>There is definitely a lot to talk about with the new administration in the USA. Last spring we ran the Campaign Limericks project, a series of events that analysed the speeches of all the political candidates using <a href="https://www.databasic.io/en/">DataBasic</a>. The goal of the project was to remix the presidential candidates’ speeches into limericks by finding the most used words in the speeches. It went over well and some of the limericks came out really great! We had events in Boston, Des Moines, and Hartford. Our projects tend to emerge out of community discussion. Right now there is so much going on with the new administration that it is difficult to focus on one topic. However, the ideas of borders, space, and fear have been past topics of our work that only seem more relevant in the current political climate. We hope that we are able to find ways to speak to a greater audience and bring more light to the issues at hand. We want to get people involved and to feel like they are an important piece in changing the world and raising awareness.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52199" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-52199" src="media/48263631.561283102_e1084e7a65_o.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/561283102_e1084e7a65_o.jpg" alt="packages" width="500" height="375" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/561283102_e1084e7a65_o.jpg 500w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/561283102_e1084e7a65_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/561283102_e1084e7a65_o-53x40.jpg 53w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/561283102_e1084e7a65_o-50x38.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/561283102_e1084e7a65_o-207x155.jpg 207w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Unmarked Packages&#8221; by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/grifray/561283102/in/photolist-MLsBa-fL6kG-MLiLm-fL6gW-fL6n2-5aqb5-MQnoV-RAHUS-RAJBb-qa7CX-qa7C9-qa7Cx-qa7BR-qa7Bt">ryan griffis</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>What do the commons mean to you? How does your work foster a robust global commons? What do you see as the future of the commons?</strong></p>
<p>In Boston, when we refer to commons, we are often speaking about a physical space, such as the Boston Common. In this sense, our work relates to and promotes interest in the public spaces around us and how they are used. We hope to influence others to take stock of the spaces around them and have a critical view about why things happen as they do. Why are all the streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts named after white men when the current city is so diverse? Why are people harassed and accused of having crossed the border when a border itself is placed right though their previously existing community? Why is it impossible to find something free to to in Harvard Square? The commons and public space should belong to everyone. Our work aims to help people think about and realize that in their own lives.</p>
<p>As for the more abstract commons (information, ideas and concepts that are free for anyone to use) the Institute works to involve everyone in the art we perform. We strive to show that art and research is the commons &#8211; it’s accessible to everyone! Making art and using performative research to get people thinking and talking helps bring people together to have important conversations about what is going on in our communities. Sharing our art and ideas on the Internet further spreads the invitation to the wider world. In this way, we use the commons in both senses to invite people to begin to have these important conversations.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52212
title: Announcing CC’s new board chair, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, and newest board member, Ruth Okediji
uri: Announcing-CC-s-new-board-chair-Molly-Shaffer-Van-Houweling-and-ne
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/16/board-announcement/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am thrilled to announce the appointment of two new members of the Creative Commons Board of Directors: Molly Shaffer Van Houweling and Ruth Okediji. In addition, the board has selected Molly Shaffer Van Houweling to serve as Board Chair. Molly is a brilliant and accomplished legal academic with an extensive history with Creative Commons and the open movement. Ruth is a highly esteemed international copyright and intellectual property lawyer, professor, and author. She is also a </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/index.php/program/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">keynote speaker at this year’s Creative Commons global summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52213" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/16/board-announcement/8258494113_eebeec70f0_z/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/8258494113_eebeec70f0_z.jpg" data-orig-size="223,327" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="8258494113_eebeec70f0_z" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/8258494113_eebeec70f0_z-205x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/8258494113_eebeec70f0_z.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-52213 alignright" src="media/fa0a9afb.8258494113_eebeec70f0_z.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/8258494113_eebeec70f0_z.jpg" alt="molly" width="223" height="327" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/8258494113_eebeec70f0_z.jpg 223w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/8258494113_eebeec70f0_z-205x300.jpg 205w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/8258494113_eebeec70f0_z-27x40.jpg 27w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/8258494113_eebeec70f0_z-34x50.jpg 34w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/8258494113_eebeec70f0_z-106x155.jpg 106w" sizes="(max-width: 223px) 85vw, 223px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Molly was Creative Commons&#8217; first Executive Director from 2001-2002. As one of the key members of the original CC team, she was critical in designing CC&#8217;s legal infrastructure and drafting the legal language for Creative Commons copyright licenses. Since then, she has served in various roles on the CC Board of Directors and Advisory Council. She is a </span><a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/molly-van-houweling/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Professor of Law and Associate Dean at University of California at Berkeley, School of Law</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, where she has taught since 2005. Her work in internet and technology policy and copyright is vast, and she has held fellowships at Harvard’s Berkman Center and Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. She also serves on the board of directors at Author’s Alliance and was an early employee at ICANN. Molly is also one of the </span><a href="http://www.bicycling.com/racing/womens-cycling/how-a-full-time-law-professor-beat-the-womens-world-hour-record"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fastest women in the world on a bicycle</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, setting a 2015 World Record by cycling 46.273 km in an hour. She is also a five-time UCI Amateur Road World Champion.</span></p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52214" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/16/board-announcement/rokediji-1/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1.jpg" data-orig-size="220,220" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="rokediji (1)" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-52214 alignleft" src="media/d29f0775.rokediji-1.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1.jpg" alt="ruth" width="220" height="220" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1.jpg 220w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rokediji-1-128x128.jpg 128w" sizes="(max-width: 220px) 85vw, 220px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ruth Okediji is </span><a href="https://www.law.umn.edu/profiles/ruth-okediji"><span style="font-weight: 400;">William L. Prosser professor of law at the University of Minnesota.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Ruth was also part of the process of negotiating the recently approved </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;">; she joined the Nigerian delegation and helped lead the African Group. Her upcoming book, </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Copyright-Limitations-Exceptions-Intellectual-Information/dp/1107132371/ref=sr_1_3/161-6866914-5203938?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1485462596&amp;sr=1-3&amp;refinements=p_27%3ARuth+L.+Okediji"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, will be published in March by Cambridge University Press. Professor Okediji is the author of several books on copyright and intellectual property and is regularly cited for her work on IP in developing countries. She is an editor and reviewer of the Journal of World Intellectual Property, and has chaired the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Law and Computers, its Committee on Intellectual Property, and its Nominating Committee for Officers and Members of the Executive Committee. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC’s outgoing board chair, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/paulb/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paul Brest,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will remain on the board for the balance of the year to facilitate the transition for Molly. Our current vice chair </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/christopherthorne/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris Thorne,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was reinstated. Paul has been a tremendous board chair, guiding CC through many challenges and new opportunities, and we would like to thank him for his service to the organization. I’m personally grateful for his friendship, guidance and ongoing support.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC is very excited to welcome Molly and Ruth to the Board of Directors. The accomplishments of these remarkable women as lawyers, academics, and trusted advisors to Creative Commons cannot be overstated. On behalf of the entire CC board, I am thrilled to welcome them in their new roles.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52222
title: European Space Agency announces new Open Access Policy for Images and Data
uri: European-Space-Agency-announces-new-Open-Access-Policy-for-Images-and
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/21/esa-oa/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52224" style="width: 468px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52224" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/21/esa-oa/understanding_planet_earth-768x776/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776.jpg" data-orig-size="768,776" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Understanding_planet_Earth-768&#215;776" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776-297x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776.jpg" class=" wp-image-52224" src="media/0e4600da.Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776-297x300.jpg 297w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776-153x155.jpg 153w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Understanding_planet_Earth-768x776-128x128.jpg 128w" sizes="(max-width: 468px) 85vw, 468px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Satellites to understand our changing Earth.<br />Image: ESA, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/">CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Yesterday, the <a href="http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Digital_Agenda/ESA_affirms_Open_Access_policy_for_images_videos_and_data">European Space Agency announced an Open Access policy</a> for images and data under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/">Creative Commons BY-SA</a> license. ESA has made various moves toward making data and images more open in the past, but this announcement is a major milestone for the organization’s commitment to openness.</p>
<p>Previously, ESA released individual images under Creative Commons licenses, but this organizational shift marks a substantial change in the way that ESA shares with the world. The choice of CC BY-SA clears ESA’s content for use in larger repositories like Wikipedia (and Wikimedia Commons), as well as by any individual member of the public. It also reaffirms the organization’s commitment to widely sharing open data and imagery across the web.</p>
<p>“This evolution in opening access to ESA’s images, information, and knowledge is an important element of our goal to inform, innovate, interact, and inspire in the Space 4.0 landscape,” said ESA Director General Jan Woerner in the organization’s <a href="http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Digital_Agenda/ESA_affirms_Open_Access_policy_for_images_videos_and_data">announcement</a> about the new policy.</p>
<p>Because many ESA images are created in collaboration with partners, this first release under CC BY-SA is limited to content that is completely owned by ESA (or for which any third-party rights have been cleared). The organization plans to release other sets of images under CC BY-SA in future phases of this new Open Access project.</p>
<p>The full repository includes the <a href="http://open.esa.int/rosetta-navcam-images-of-comet-67p/">Rosetta images</a>, <a href="http://open.esa.int/esas-sounds-from-space/">“Sounds from Space,”</a> <a href="http://open.esa.int/copernicus-sentinel-satellite-data/">Earth Observations from the agency,</a> <a href="http://open.esa.int/hubble/">Hubble images and video,</a> and the <a href="http://open.esa.int/esa-planetary-science-archive/">Planetary Science Data Archive</a>.</p>
<p>Ground Control to the ESA, you’ve really made the grade! <a href="http://open.esa.int/">Check out the entire archive. </a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52228
title: Copyright Filtering Mechanisms Don’t (and can’t) Respect Fair Use
uri: Copyright-Filtering-Mechanisms-Don-t-(and-can-t)-Respect-Fair-Use
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/22/copyright-filtering-mechanisms-dont-cant-respect-fair-use/
content:
<p><img data-attachment-id="52239" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/22/copyright-filtering-mechanisms-dont-cant-respect-fair-use/fairuseweeklogo/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo.png" data-orig-size="1208,428" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="fairuseweeklogo" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo-300x106.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo-1024x363.png" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-52239" src="media/0aa88aab.fairuseweeklogo-1024x363.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo-1024x363.png" alt="" width="840" height="298" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo-1024x363.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo-300x106.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo-768x272.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo-113x40.png 113w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo-50x18.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo-270x96.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo-1200x425.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fairuseweeklogo.png 1208w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During </span><a href="http://fairuseweek.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fair Use Week</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> organizations and individuals are publishing blog posts, hosting workshops, and sharing educational resources about the implementation and importance of this essential limitation to the rights endowed by copyright. Fair use (and in other countries, the related “fair dealing”) is a flexible legal tool that permits some uses of copyrighted material without permission from the original rights holder, such as for use in news reporting, criticism, teaching, and other reasons.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fair use and fair dealing are both a part of the larger constellation of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitations_and_exceptions_to_copyright"><span style="font-weight: 400;">limitations and exceptions to copyright</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. These limitations are a necessary check on the exclusive rights granted to copyright holders, and it’s important to expand and strengthen limitations and exceptions through fundamental copyright reform in order to protect the rights of the public in accessing and using creativity and culture.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We continue to </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/policy-advocacy-copyright-reform/reform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">support</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ongoing efforts to reform copyright law to strengthen users’ rights and expand the public domain. Last year the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/14/european-commission-copyright-proposal-leaves-users-dark/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">introduced its proposal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for a Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market. We’ve been working with </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Communia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and other organisations to support positive changes to the EU copyright regulation, especially in promoting limitations and exceptions to the copyright rules that benefit users’ rights and the public interest.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How well does the Commission’s proposal balance the rights of content creators with the rights of the public? The answer: poorly. There are well-intentioned but flawed proposals for exceptions on </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/05/commissions-proposal-education-devil-detail/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">digital education</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2016/12/12/commissions-proposal-text-data-mining-strategic-mistake/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">text and data mining</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Now the relevant committees are providing feedback and amendments to the original proposal, and the Committee on Culture and Education might be listening to the suggestions from civil society organisations. Its draft opinion </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2017/02/09/european-parliament-opinion-slams-european-commission-unbalanced-copyright-proposal/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">suggests</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the introduction of additional exceptions for </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2017/02/16/rapporteur-cult-preserves-upload-filters-draft-opinion/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">User-Generated Content</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2017/02/17/mep-joulauds-opinion-resurfaces-non-commercial-freedom-panorama/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freedom of Panorama</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. These could help correct some of the imbalance in the Commission’s plan.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But perhaps the most troubling aspect of the proposal is Article 13, the section of the Commission’s legislation that would set up a preemptive copyright filtering mechanism for user contributed content. The Commission </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2017/01/09/eu-copyright-protect-users-rights-prevent-content-filtering/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">proposes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that information society service providers (ISSP) that store and give access to copyrighted materials that their users upload must take specific measures to ensure that these materials do not contain other rightsholders’ works. In other words, ISSPs will need to adopt technology that would effectively recognize and prevent uploads of any content that includes even fragments of videos, music, pictures, and any other type of work that belongs to someone other than the person sharing it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The filter mechanism would apply to all user-uploaded content. It would operate blindly—which means it couldn’t tell the difference between a piece of content being shared improperly and a piece of content being shared under an existing exception to copyright. As Communia wrote last week, </span><a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2017/02/16/rapporteur-cult-preserves-upload-filters-draft-opinion/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">upload filters don’t—and can’t—respect user rights</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Upload filters cannot recognize existing freedoms such as the right of quotation or parody. The draft opinion ignores case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union that states that monitoring content is in breach with freedom of expression and privacy.</p></blockquote>
<p>This type of “shoot first, ask questions later” filtering approach is detrimental to users and could lead to a chilling effect on those who would otherwise attempt to use copyrighted content under an exception to copyright. The Commission’s proposal and the draft opinion of the Committee on Culture and Education suggests that the responsibility should be on users to complain if their content is taken down. This is an unfair burden.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The collateral damage to user rights associated with filtering mechanisms is not a new problem. For years platforms such as YouTube have </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp."><span style="font-weight: 400;">struggled</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with how to fulfill their legal obligations to remove protected content posted without the permission of the copyright holder, while at the same time attempting to take into consideration that some uses of works are made under fair use or another exception to copyright.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As we continue the fight for sensible copyright reform in Europe, we know that any EU legislative requirement aimed at addressing the unauthorized use of third-party content needs to fully respect the freedoms enshrined by exceptions and limitations to copyright.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/22/copyright-filtering-mechanisms-dont-cant-respect-fair-use/">Copyright Filtering Mechanisms Don’t (and can’t) Respect Fair Use</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52248
title: Official Arabic and Croatian Translations of 4.0 Licenses Now Available!
uri: Official-Arabic-and-Croatian-Translations-of-4-0-Licenses-Now-Availabl
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/23/arabic-croatian-translations/
content:
<p>Via a milestone translation effort, we are happy to announce the official translation of the Creative Commons 4.0 licenses into Arabic. An estimated 420 million people around the world speak Arabic, the sixth most spoken language in the world, making this translation effort the most far-reaching to date.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52250" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/23/arabic-croatian-translations/screen-shot-2017-02-23-at-1-48-42-pm/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.42-PM.png" data-orig-size="610,240" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2017-02-23 at 1.48.42 PM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.42-PM-300x118.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.42-PM.png" class=" wp-image-52250 alignright" src="media/66c47d44.Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.42-PM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.42-PM.png" alt="" width="425" height="167" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.42-PM.png 610w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.42-PM-300x118.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.42-PM-102x40.png 102w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.42-PM-50x20.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.42-PM-270x106.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 425px) 85vw, 425px" /></p>
<p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.ar">The Arabic translation</a> is the result of an unprecedented collaboration among more than a dozen translation and technical team members from nine Arab countries. The translation team consulted with members of the CC community in the Arab world to achieve consensus on technical and legal terms. An online public consultation was conducted from July 12-21, 2016, following a face-to-face working session in Istanbul among several of the team leaders. The public consultation resulted in contributions by lawyers, active license users, linguists, translators, librarians, and representatives of cultural heritage institutions. Blogs, social media and a mailing list were used to inform the translation process. The Arabic translation was funded in part with the generous support of the <a href="https://www.fordfoundation.org/">Ford Foundation</a> and <a href="http://wikimedia.org">Wikimedia Foundation.</a></p>
<p>Special congratulations go to Riyadh Al Balushi, Hala Essalmawi, Sadeek Hasna, Pierre el Khoury, and Mohammad el-Said for leading this multi-year effort, together with the terrific support of former CC regional coordinator Naeema Zarif.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52251" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/23/arabic-croatian-translations/screen-shot-2017-02-23-at-1-48-28-pm/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.28-PM-e1487875891179.png" data-orig-size="425,125" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2017-02-23 at 1.48.28 PM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.28-PM-300x88.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.28-PM-e1487875891179.png" class="alignright wp-image-52251" src="media/9bbcf81f.Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.28-PM.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-1.48.28-PM.png" width="425" height="125" />The <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.hr">Croatian translation</a> is also notable and expected to have significant impact. While using standard Croatian legal terminology, the translation will not only benefit Croatian speakers, but also speakers of affiliated languages across the Southeast Europe. The CC licenses are used by a range of Croatian-language users, from Wikipedia, various online news outlets, political parties, open access repositories, down to individual creators and users of free cultural works.</p>
<p>The public consultation process took place from January through June 2016. The translation team reached out especially to the IP lawyers, professional translators and the Wikipedia community during the consultation process. Special thanks are due to Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars and Diana Kovačević Remenarić. We want to also thank to Nena Antić from CC Serbia and Ante Jerić for their invaluable help and comments, as well as former CC regional coordinators John Weitzmann and Gwen Franck for supporting the translation.</p>
<p>Please <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Arabic">visit our wiki</a> for more details about these new translations. Congratulations to the teams on their work!</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/23/arabic-croatian-translations/">Official Arabic and Croatian Translations of 4.0 Licenses Now Available!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52233
title: GISWatch 2016: addressing economic, social and cultural rights on the internet
uri: GISWatch-2016-addressing-economic-social-and-cultural-rights-on-the
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/23/giswatch-2016-addressing-economic-social-cultural-rights-internet/

content:
<p><img class="alignright" src="media/1b6ca6f6.2016-cover.png" data-original-source="https://www.giswatch.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/book-image/2016-cover.png" width="205" height="280" />The current dominant public policy discourse on the internet and human rights addresses the importance of the these new technologies to empower civil liberties. There is no better example of this than freedom of speech, traditionally mediated by power structures that do not allow it to flourish. Another important stream of this discourse hinges on the security and surveillance debate – massive surveillance through technology due to security needs is one of the most serious challenges we are facing today in the field.</p>
<p>In spite, or perhaps because of this, there is less attention paid to the way those technologies affect or enhance economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR). Being seen as second class rights (or even third class, in some cases), there is a need to start talking about the importance of them to dramatically improve the live conditions of the least advantaged groups within our societies, both in terms of access to infrastructure, educational resources, access to health care, to work conditions, between others.</p>
<p>Such is the frame of the <a href="http://giswatch.org/2016-economic-social-and-cultural-rights-escrs-and-internet">GISWatch report (Global Information Society Watch) of 2016</a>. The aim of the report is cover to state of the information society from a civil society perspective worldwide. It was been published since 2006 as a collective effort of activists, scholars and academics leaded by the <a href="https://apc.org">Association for Progressive Communications</a>, and <a href="http://giswatch.org/2016-economic-social-and-cultural-rights-escrs-and-internet">the 2016 report</a> is just about internet and economic, social and cultural rights.</p>
<p>The 2016 report includes the work of several people within the Creative Commons global community trying to address issues related with trade agreements and ESCR, the right to educational resources and the internet, and the digital protection of traditional knowledge. This report is a key document to better understand the connections between technological advances and social empowering of human rights, particularly where access to knowledge and cultural resources is a key element.</p>
<p>The report is CC BY licensed as well!</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/23/giswatch-2016-addressing-economic-social-cultural-rights-internet/">GISWatch 2016: addressing economic, social and cultural rights on the internet</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52277
title: Cloudflare leak: Please reset your CCID password
uri: Cloudflare-leak-Please-reset-your-CCID-password
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/24/cloudflare-reset-ccid-password/
content:
<p>Web services company Cloudflare revealed late yesterday that it had experienced a <a href="https://medium.com/@octal/cloudbleed-how-to-deal-with-it-150e907fd165">large-scale memory leak</a>. About two million websites use Cloudflare for services like content delivery and Internet security. Creative Commons uses Cloudflare, and we investigated this issue as soon as it was reported.</p>
<p><strong>We have not found any cause for concern</strong>—as far as we know, CCID login data was not exposed. And because our donor data did not touch the Cloudflare service, we do not believe it was ever at risk. Additionally, Cloudflare has contacted us directly and informed us that we are not among the sites they know of that were affected by the leak.</p>
<p>Despite this, out of an abundance of caution, <strong>we are requiring all CCID users to reset their passwords</strong>. We are sending emails to CCID users asking them to do this immediately by going to <a href="https://login.creativecommons.org/login">login.creativecommons.org</a>.</p>
<p>If there are any changes, we will be in touch to let you know. For more information about the Cloudflare memory leak, read the company&#8217;s <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug/">incident report</a>.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/24/cloudflare-reset-ccid-password/">Cloudflare leak: Please reset your CCID password</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52257
title: Update on Great Minds v FedEx Office Litigation Involving BY-NC-SA
uri: Update-on-Great-Minds-v-FedEx-Office-Litigation-Involving-BY-NC-SA
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/24/update-great-minds-v-fedex-office-litigation-involving-nc-sa/

content:
<figure id="attachment_52258" style="width: 612px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52258" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/24/update-great-minds-v-fedex-office-litigation-involving-nc-sa/empty-classroom/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom.jpg" data-orig-size="612,612" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="empty-classroom" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom-300x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom.jpg" class="wp-image-52258 size-full" src="media/546b4b35.empty-classroom.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom.jpg" width="612" height="612" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom.jpg 612w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom-32x32.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom-64x64.jpg 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom-96x96.jpg 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/empty-classroom-128x128.jpg 128w" 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/s82911/9150958552">“Empty Classroom”</a> by <i> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/s82911/">Wen Shi</a> </i> is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0"> CC BY 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><em><strong>Update</strong>: Shortly after publishing this post, we received word that Judge Hurley today has granted defendant FedEx Office’s motion to dismiss. You can read the order here [<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0HBOY8b2doEdmpkMU4ya2dKM28/view?usp=sharing">pdf</a>]. This is the very result CC advocated for in its motion for leave to file an amicus brief,and we’re delighted with the outcome, the ruling, and the court’s analysis. The court found on the facts as presented by Great Minds, FedEx’s copying is permitted by the “unambiguous” terms of BY-NC-SA. Look for an in-depth post on the decision and its implications for users of the NC licenses and users of NC-licensed works next week.</em></p>
<p><span>Earlier this week, Judge Hurley issued an</span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0HBOY8b2doENEhMU3FsWGthMFU/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"> <span>order</span></a><span> denying our</span><a href="media/048d8e50.CC-EDNY-Letter.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CC-EDNY-Letter.pdf" target="_blank"> <span>motion</span></a><span> for leave to file an amicus brief at this stage in the litigation between</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/documents-great-minds-v-fedex-office-and-print-services-case/" target="_blank"> <span>Great Minds and FedEx Office</span></a><span>. The central question in that case turns on the proper interpretation of the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank"><span>BY-NC-SA</span></a><span>). In our motion, we sought permission to file a brief in support of FedEx Office and to assist the court in its interpretation of the license. As detailed in the motion, we believe it’s clear based on the facts alleged that the conduct engaged in by FedEx Office when it copied educational materials at the direction of school districts, whose use everyone agrees is non commercial, is not a violation of the license. You can read our rationale for this interpretation in our earlier</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/08/30/defending-noncommercial-uses-great-minds-v-fedex-office/" target="_blank"> <span>blog post</span></a><span> and in our motion</span><a href="media/048d8e50.CC-EDNY-Letter.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CC-EDNY-Letter.pdf" target="_blank"> <span>[PDF]</span></a><span> seeking permission to file an amicus brief, and learn why we’re fighting to protect non commercial uses</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/09/09/why-were-fighting-to-protect-noncommercial-uses/" target="_blank"> <span>here</span></a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>We’ll be monitoring the litigation for an update on the pending motion by FedEx Office to dismiss the case. We look forward to seeing how the court resolves the issue consistent with its order, </span><span class="m_9084801764605446210gmail-s1">and look forward to participating in the litigation if our assistance is needed at a later stage.</span></p>
<p>A special thanks to Andy Gass and Jonathan Ellis, our pro bono counsel at Latham &amp; Watkins, for their assistance with the motion and amicus brief.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/24/update-great-minds-v-fedex-office-litigation-involving-nc-sa/">Update on Great Minds v FedEx Office Litigation Involving BY-NC-SA</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52297
uri: CC-Global-Summit-program-update-Ashe-Dryden-Ana-Garzón-Sabogal-to-K
title:
CC Global Summit program update: Ashe Dryden, Ana Garzón Sabogal to Keynote, plus accepted sessions and speakers

url:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/28/cc-global-summit-program-update-ashe-dryden-ana-garzon-sabogal-keynote-plus-accepted-sessions-speakers/

content:
<p>Today we’re announcing our last two keynotes and accepted sessions and speakers for this year’s <a href="http://summit.creativecommons.org">CC Global Summit</a> in Toronto, just two months away.</p>
<p>In addition to <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/01/26/keynotes-tracks-call-for-submissions/">Ruth Okediji and Sarah Jeong</a>, we are thrilled to welcome Ana Garzón Sabogal and Ashe Dryden, both consummate representatives of their fields. Our diverse set of keynotes were selected by community members due to their incredible contributions to open culture, diversity, and community building. These four women from Africa, Latin America, and North America are representative of our community’s commitment to fostering a diverse, collaborative commons fueled by gratitude.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52298" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/28/cc-global-summit-program-update-ashe-dryden-ana-garzon-sabogal-keynote-plus-accepted-sessions-speakers/anaperfil/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ANAperfil.jpg" data-orig-size="600,400" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="ANAperfil" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ANAperfil-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ANAperfil.jpg" class="alignleft  wp-image-52298" src="media/73151ad8.ANAperfil.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ANAperfil.jpg" alt="" width="338" height="225" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ANAperfil.jpg 600w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ANAperfil-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ANAperfil-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ANAperfil-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ANAperfil-233x155.jpg 233w" sizes="(max-width: 338px) 85vw, 338px" />Ana Garzón Sabogal works with collaborative learning, cultural management, activism and free culture. Based in Colombia, she has organised diverse projects including <a href="http://www.haciaellitoral.org/radiovallena/">Radio Vallena,</a> a collective radio station that traveled Colombia&#8217;s Pacific Coast to Panama City, sharing stories about migration and resistance and Territories. She is currently Director of the cultural foundation <a href="http://www.masartemasaccion.org/">Más Arte Más Acción</a>, part of <a href="http://www.artscollaboratory.org/">Arts Collaboratory</a>. Ana will be speaking about culture, open tools, and collaboration in open communities.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="52299" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/28/cc-global-summit-program-update-ashe-dryden-ana-garzon-sabogal-keynote-plus-accepted-sessions-speakers/prarie/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/prarie.jpg" data-orig-size="2419,1721" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="prarie" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/prarie-300x213.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/prarie-1024x729.jpg" class="alignleft  wp-image-52299" src="media/c13edf18.prarie-300x213.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/prarie-300x213.jpg" alt="" width="328" height="233" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/prarie-300x213.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/prarie-768x546.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/prarie-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/prarie-56x40.jpg 56w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/prarie-50x36.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/prarie-218x155.jpg 218w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/prarie-1200x854.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 328px) 85vw, 328px" />Ashe Dryden is a former White House fellow, programmer, diversity advocate and consultant, prolific writer, <a href="http://ashedryden.com/speaking">speaker</a>, and creator of <a href="http://alterconf.com/">AlterConf</a> and <a href="http://joinfundclub.com/">Fund Club</a>. She&#8217;s one of the foremost experts on diversity in the tech industry. She&#8217;s currently writing two books: <a href="https://leanpub.com/the-diverse-team">The Diverse Team</a> and <a href="https://leanpub.com/diverseconfs">The Inclusive Event</a>. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American, Wired, NPR, and <a href="http://www.ashedryden.com/press">more</a>. Ashe will be speaking on the topic of open, diverse, and inclusive communities.</p>
<p>In addition, we are excited to announce <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/index.php/program/sessions/">our list of accepted speakers and sessions,</a> which is made up of an incredible group of experts, advocates, and enthusiasts from all over the globe. All sessions are tagged across five tracks at the summit website and are subject to change, with final program schedule TBD. Thanks to everyone who answered our Call for Submissions!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52316
title: Law for All: Free Law Project’s Radical Approach to Legal Transparency
uri: Law-for-All-Free-Law-Project-s-Radical-Approach-to-Legal-Transparen
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/03/law-free-law-projects-radical-approach-legal-transparency/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52317" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="52317" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/03/law-free-law-projects-radical-approach-legal-transparency/free_law_project_logo/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo.png" data-orig-size="300,300" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Free_Law_Project_Logo" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo.png" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo.png" class="wp-image-52317 size-full" src="media/79d5d24b.Free_Law_Project_Logo.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo.png" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo-32x32.png 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo-64x64.png 64w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo-96x96.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Free_Law_Project_Logo-128x128.png 128w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Free Law Project Logo <a href="creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">CC BY</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>What does open access look like for the law? Through free access to primary legal sources, the <a href="https://free.law/">Free Law Project</a> provides an important service to advocates, journalists, researchers, and the public. Joining with an international movement for <a href="http://www.falm.info">Free Access to Law,</a> the US-based organization helps people know their rights in an increasingly uncertain and rapidly changing legal era.</p>
<p>The Free Law Project is an umbrella organization for a variety of projects, including <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/">Court Listener</a> for millions of pieces of legal data, the <a href="https://free.law/recap/">RECAP</a> project (begun by Aaron Swartz in 2009) to freely open the PACER archive of legal data, a complete repository of <a href="https://free.law/supreme-court-data/">Supreme Court Data</a>, a repository of <a href="https://free.law/juriscraper/">judicial opinions</a> and <a href="https://free.law/judicial-seals/">seals,</a> and a <a href="https://github.com/freelawproject/reporters-db">Free Law Reporters Database.</a> The project&#8217;s call for greater transparency in the law has been covered in <a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/02/21/federal-courts-resist-transpar.html">a variety of news outlets</a>, and their work continues to grow in scope and importance.</p>
<p>The Free Law Project is <a href="https://free.law/">accepting volunteers</a>, legal and otherwise, for help with code, transcription, and more at their website. Project founder Mike Lissner graciously answered these questions via email.</p>
<p><strong>Why is it important for citizens to gain access to free legal documents? How does your work run parallel with the open access movement in science and academia?</strong></p>
<p>We see our work and the open access movement as two sides of the same coin. Just as people need access to journal articles to do good scientific research, they need access to legal information to do good legal research. It&#8217;s not enough to have access to American laws in the same way that it&#8217;s not enough to have access to the laws of physics. Knowing what the laws say is one thing, but properly understanding them in practice is something else entirely. That&#8217;s a gap we are working to fill.</p>
<p>With every passing year, we are seeing more and more people defending themselves in court, without hiring a lawyer. Last year, in federal courts alone, 52% of filings were made by people defending themselves, a whopping 18% increase from 2015.</p>
<blockquote><p>To get a fair shake, these people need good tools and they need to be well informed. We believe the way to accomplish that is by providing high-quality legal data to organizations, researchers, journalists, and the public.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>How has the internet changed free access to law? How has it made it more or less possible to gain access to free legal documents? How is your work technically mediated, and how do you create tools to empower legal recourse?</strong></p>
<p>We collect hundreds of new legal documents from court websites every day and make them searchable on CourtListener.com. Within minutes of a new case being published, we can send you an email about it so that you know that it&#8217;s something you may want to read. Prior to the Internet, this kind of access was impossible.</p>
<p>But there are still major difficulties that we encounter while gathering these documents. For example, most opinions published by the courts don&#8217;t have unique identifiers, so there&#8217;s no easy way to cite them until they are blessed by a third party publisher. And of course, very few courts have websites with high-quality machine-readable data, so we spend a lot of effort making sure our crawlers are working properly.</p>
<p>One of our biggest projects, RECAP, collects data from a government-run website called PACER, where legal documents cost roughly ten cents per page. PACER is the biggest paywall in the world, holding more than a billion copyright-free documents, and we&#8217;re working on liberating as many of them as we can so that the public can easily and freely access them.</p>
<p><strong>You run a variety of projects, technical and nontechnical, to help citizens gain greater access to legal documents. How does your work contribute to a more just and open society?</strong></p>
<p>We approach this from two different angles. First, we try to make the legal industry more competitive by offering high-quality legal data and APIs. This lowers the barrier to entry that startups and researchers face, making it easier for them to focus on their innovations or research instead of on how to get expensive legal data.</p>
<p>Second, part of our mission is to create simple high-quality tools for people to use to research the law. This helps level the playing field by giving both sides of any legal dispute good tools. Some legal tools are incredibly sophisticated, but even the simplest tools are often quite expensive (it&#8217;s hard to know <em>how</em> expensive because prices are usually secret).</p>
<blockquote><p>We see one of our roles as pushing the bar of what can be free. If Free Law Project, a tiny non-profit, can offer a tool for free, surely your organization can too.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>How can non-lawyers get involved with your projects? How do you see your work as being more broadly related to legal advocacy? What kinds of contributions do you seek from the public?</strong></p>
<p>This is a great question. We&#8217;re always seeking help from just about any- and everybody. All of our work is open source, and we&#8217;re always looking for people to help build new features or squash bugs. We have data entry work that we need volunteer corps to help fix, and we even have a collection of photos of judges that needs to be fleshed out. Essentially, if you have time and skills to volunteer, we can probably use your help.</p>
<p><strong>You work mostly in the United States, but the Free Access to Law Movement is a global movement. How does your project advocate globally as well as in the US? What kinds of organizations are doing similar work around the world?</strong></p>
<p>The Free Access to Law Movement is incredibly important and has gained a toehold in dozens of countries. You can see a list of all the members on their website, <a href="http://www.falm.info/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.falm.info&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1488492024467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEXKYFBRaLuRWD2reNfH-ABD2_ivA">www.falm.info</a>. A great way to get involved in the Free Access to Law Movement is to start at that site, find an organization in your country, and send them an email. There&#8217;s also the Law via the Internet conference every year that attracts free law advocates from around the world. For our part, working on the American legal system has proven to be more than enough!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=52329
title: Agitate, Educate, Organize: The Radical Printmaking of Justseeds Collective
uri: Agitate-Educate-Organize-The-Radical-Printmaking-of-Justseeds-Colle
url: https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/08/just-seeds/
content:
<figure id="attachment_52331" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://justseeds.org/graphic/agitate-educate-organize/"><img data-attachment-id="52331" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/08/just-seeds/macphee_3fingers_graph1500/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500.jpg" data-orig-size="1500,843" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500-300x169.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500-1024x575.jpg" class="wp-image-52331 size-large" src="media/5591f263.MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500-1024x575.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500-1024x575.jpg" alt="agitate-educate-organize" width="840" height="472" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MacPhee_3Fingers_Graph1500.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Agitate-Educate-Organize, Josh MacPhee</figcaption></figure>
<p>If you&#8217;ve ever attended a demonstration in North America, chances are you&#8217;ve seen the work of the 30 person artist collective <a href="http://justseeds.org/">Justseeds</a>, a group of printmakers who have made an indelible impact on activism and art through their free, distributed graphics. The nearly twenty-year-old collective of printmakers work as agitators, educators, and artists to support grassroots struggles for peace and justice with an evocative style and <a href="http://justseeds.org/graphics/">large online catalog of free images</a> that has helped them spread their message and aesthetic far past the streets and homes of activists around the world.</p>
<p>As a collective committed to social justice, they allow their members to work autonomously and from a diversity of perspectives and political positions – their vision that another world is possible depends upon it. In this interview with Creative Commons, cooperative co-founders <a href="http://justseeds.org/artist/rogerpeet/">Roger Peet</a> and <a href="http://justseeds.org/artist/joshmacphee/">Josh MacPhee</a> discuss solidarity, licensing, and their unique responsibility toward artists. All images in this piece are CC0.</p>
<p><strong>With 30 members working in a variety of countries and languages, how </strong><strong>do you deal with representation and diversity within your communities? How do you deal with various interests and engagement in your political work?</strong></p>
<figure id="attachment_52330" style="width: 265px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img data-attachment-id="52330" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/08/just-seeds/resist-color-2128x2800/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/resist-color-2128x2800.jpg" data-orig-size="2128,2800" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="resist-color-2128&#215;2800" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/resist-color-2128x2800-228x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/resist-color-2128x2800-778x1024.jpg" class="wp-image-52330 " src="media/39ea71b1.resist-color-2128x2800-778x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/resist-color-2128x2800-778x1024.jpg" alt="decolonize" width="265" height="349" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/resist-color-2128x2800-778x1024.jpg 778w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/resist-color-2128x2800-228x300.jpg 228w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/resist-color-2128x2800-768x1011.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/resist-color-2128x2800-30x40.jpg 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/resist-color-2128x2800-38x50.jpg 38w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/resist-color-2128x2800-118x155.jpg 118w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/resist-color-2128x2800-1200x1579.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 265px) 85vw, 265px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Resist, Jesus Barraza</figcaption></figure>
<p>Roger: Something that has defined Justseeds from its earliest stages as a cooperative has been the breadth of perspectives and political positions within the group. We all agree on a lot of things, but certainly not everything, and I think that we&#8217;ve thrived by maintaining a space for a variety of visions. We trust each other to represent our individual views responsibly. We rely on our members to articulate their own ideas and their particular passions, and those are more or less subsumed into the broader public presentation of Justseeds. In that way we&#8217;re a complex political object- we don&#8217;t spend a lot of time articulating group positions, and we rely to a certain degree on our audience&#8217;s interpretation of the work that we create to produce our public persona. There is no central program that we adhere to, but we rely on that aforementioned trust to maintain the political pole around which the cooperative turns. The only case in which we vet work as a group is when we&#8217;re distributing art by people who aren&#8217;t members of the cooperative.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52332" style="width: 252px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://justseeds.org/graphic/we-are-irreplaceable/"><img data-attachment-id="52332" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/08/just-seeds/irreplaceable_web/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Irreplaceable_web.jpg" data-orig-size="1000,1432" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Irreplaceable_web" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Irreplaceable_web-209x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Irreplaceable_web-715x1024.jpg" class="wp-image-52332 " src="media/b68e5880.Irreplaceable_web-715x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Irreplaceable_web-715x1024.jpg" alt="irreplaceable" width="252" height="360" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Irreplaceable_web-715x1024.jpg 715w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Irreplaceable_web-209x300.jpg 209w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Irreplaceable_web-768x1100.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Irreplaceable_web-28x40.jpg 28w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Irreplaceable_web-35x50.jpg 35w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Irreplaceable_web-108x155.jpg 108w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Irreplaceable_web.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 252px) 85vw, 252px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">We are Irreplaceable, Jordan Alam and Jess x Snow</figcaption></figure>
<p>Josh: Autonomy is one of the key organizational principles of Justseeds. Some of it is built into our model, but much of it is a default function of being so geographically spread out, and increasingly coming from different experiences and communities. We have have little centralized and coordinated representation of “Justseeds.” Our most visible collective presence is our website, which has an extremely neutral design, allowing the content to drive the experience of the viewer/user, and the content is entirely created by individual coop members, from the items they sell to their blog posts to their downloadable graphics. Collective projects also have a place on the site, but they tend to be polyphonic, and are rarely represented with a single artists image or work.<br />
Each member is afforded the trust to work, create, and organize in their communities as they see fit. The hope and goal is that we all will benefit from each others work. The more we each invest in the issues that are important to us, the better off we all are, and the more collective knowledge to draw from for our own goal work.</p>
<p><strong>What is the role of the political artist in 2017?</strong></p>
<p>Roger: To fight, bluntly. To maintain and broaden the fight for a different society and for a different relationship with the world outside of human priorities. To contribute to the destruction of Capitalism and white supremacy in whatever manner possible. Most importantly, however, the role of the political artist is to persist. Many of the members of Justseeds have been making political art in a variety of contexts for more than twenty years, and although the contemporary situation is more fraught on a daily basis, it&#8217;s not new.</p>
<blockquote><p>We have been working to support political, social and environmental struggles and confronting the bitter brute heart of this society for decades, and we will continue to do so- constantly in pursuit of new methods and new alliances by which to achieve a new world.</p></blockquote>
<p>Josh: I’m not sure it’s a new role, but it seems much more clearly now to be the creation of culture which furthers and amplifies the work that communities and groups are doing on the ground in protests, actions, organizing, and campaigning. Our art and projects role out in the street, in community spaces, within the media, across social media, and in our private spaces. All are important venues for pushing forward messages and ideas.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52333" style="width: 242px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img data-attachment-id="52333" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/08/just-seeds/wewont1500/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500.jpg" data-orig-size="1500,2384" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="wewont1500" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500-189x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500-644x1024.jpg" class=" wp-image-52333" src="media/36a4b474.wewont1500-644x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500-644x1024.jpg" alt="we-wont-go-back" width="242" height="385" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500-644x1024.jpg 644w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500-189x300.jpg 189w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500-768x1221.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500-25x40.jpg 25w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500-31x50.jpg 31w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500-98x155.jpg 98w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500-1200x1907.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wewont1500.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 242px) 85vw, 242px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">We Won&#8217;t Go Back, Roger Peet</figcaption></figure>
<p>In addition, artists have the privilege to raise questions and make challenging images which might not be at the top of the agenda for a very goals-oriented campaign or organization. We need instrumentalized protest culture, but we also need work that challenges norms, makes audiences inquisitive, and threatens the status quo in its own right.</p>
<p><strong>How do you deal with varying approaches to copyright within the organization? For example, much of <a href="http://justseeds.org/artist/nicolaslampert">Nicolas Lampert&#8217;s</a> work is Creative Commons, but many other artists don&#8217;t adopt the CC label, even though their work is free to reproduce and share? What kinds of tools do you use to support artists who want to work within your collective and their differing approaches to collective work and action?</strong></p>
<p>Roger: I think the reason that most people in Justseeds don&#8217;t apply a Creative Commons assignation to their work is that they&#8217;re unfamiliar with how it works, or that we as a group have a rather blasé attitude to how our work might populate the public domain. Personally I feel that a lot of the work that I make available on our free graphics page is geared towards a specific audience, and that I more or less trust that audience to use it as they and I might see fit. I realize that&#8217;s a pretty naïve attitude but I haven&#8217;t had any experiences that have pushed me away from that position. Yet. It would probably behoove us to develop an institutional policy whereby we assign all graphics with a Creative Commons license- maybe we&#8217;ll get around to that after this interview.</p>
<p>Josh: I honestly don’t think most of us have put a lot of thought into it. I know that when Favianna Rodriguez and I put out <a href="http://justseeds.org/product/reproduce-revolt/">Reproduce and Revolt,</a> a book of political graphics intended to be used by activists and organizers, we put the entire book under Creative Commons license. But for my own work, I never even think about it—instead I just almost always give permission when ever anyone asks. It’s not because I even have any criticism of CC, I’m just generally not that concerned about who uses my work.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52334" style="width: 282px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://justseeds.org/graphic/sanctuary-cities-now-version-2/"><img data-attachment-id="52334" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/08/just-seeds/sanctuary2506/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sanctuary2506.jpg" data-orig-size="1296,1728" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="sanctuary2506" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sanctuary2506-225x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sanctuary2506-768x1024.jpg" class=" wp-image-52334" src="media/f1044555.sanctuary2506-768x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sanctuary2506-768x1024.jpg" alt="" width="282" height="376" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sanctuary2506-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sanctuary2506-225x300.jpg 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sanctuary2506-30x40.jpg 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sanctuary2506-38x50.jpg 38w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sanctuary2506-116x155.jpg 116w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sanctuary2506-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sanctuary2506.jpg 1296w" sizes="(max-width: 282px) 85vw, 282px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Sanctuary Cities Now, Pete Railand</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>How are you working toward a culture of the commons, where artists and communities can share resources together? How does your work promote giving and gratitude?</strong></p>
<p>Roger: Trying to make a living as an artist is a challenging prospect, and perhaps especially challenging as a political artist. There is a lot of pressure on artists to make their political work available for free, or to do new work in support of causes without expectation of remuneration. It can be a difficult line to walk, but I think that Justseeds artists have, in general, a pretty responsive and responsible attitude towards what they are and aren&#8217;t willing to do for free. Basically that could boil down to “If nobody&#8217;s making any money, then I will gladly contribute my work for free. If people are getting paid, however, then I the artist also need to be paid.” As political artists, all of the members of Justseeds make a lot of free work for movements and causes because we feel that we are a part of those movements, or that we feel compelled to offer our art to them as a gesture of solidarity or support. Much of our work is about ideas, and we want those ideas to spread- so a lot of our work is always going to be available for free.<br />
Something that I like to do with my work is to create an edition of prints featuring an image that I offer for sale on the Justseeds site- and then also create a high-res downloadable graphic version of that image that I put on our free graphics page. What I hope happens in that situation is that people wanting to use my image for political work will download it and do what they need to with it, and that those who want a nice, handmade version of it for their workspace or as a gift will purchase the print.</p>
<p>Josh: I really wanted to build into our new website a solid, functional, searchable, and expandable free graphics page, because in my experience so many artists and organizers want to create downloadable graphics, and set up individual silo-ed sites for their projects—whether its a set of anti-war posters, or images related to the environment, or graphics about reproductive justice—and they promote the site for a week or a month or a year, and then the site slowly descends into the swamp of the internet, never to be visited again. One of the real benefits of Justseeds is that we already have a consistent flow of traffic of the very kinds of people that are looking for graphics to download, so we are a perfect aggregator. People have raised questions about how it might be perceived that we are using the free graphics as “bait” to bring people to the site to buy things, but I actually think it functions the other way around. People come to buy things, and then see how much cool stuff they can just download for free. Hopefully in the long run people will do enough of both to allow us to keep going, and to keep building a broader and deeper collection of free images.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52335" style="width: 578px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://justseeds.org/graphic/no-bans-on-stolen-land-medicine-wheel-version/"><img data-attachment-id="52335" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/08/just-seeds/nobans_highres_four_wbe/" data-orig-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe.jpg" data-orig-size="1080,799" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe-300x222.jpg" data-large-file="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe-1024x758.jpg" class="wp-image-52335 " src="media/b8e799f9.NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe-1024x758.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe-1024x758.jpg" alt="bans" width="578" height="428" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe-300x222.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe-768x568.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe-54x40.jpg 54w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe-50x37.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe-210x155.jpg 210w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/NoBans_HighRes_Four_wbe.jpg 1080w" sizes="(max-width: 578px) 85vw, 578px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">No Bans on Stolen Land, Dylan Miner</figcaption></figure>
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<p><a href="https://glasstree.com/shop/">Glasstree</a> is a new platform built on “healing academic publishing” to provide a range of Open Access options that allow academics to quickly and inexpensively self-publish their monographs, returning 70% of the royalties to the author. The company was launched in November by a number of publishing veterans with the goal of directly addressing the needs of academics. Glasstree offers Creative Commons licensing options to authors in order to facilitate the wider dissemination of knowledge via Gold Open Access. In the words of SVP Daniel Berze, “[Glasstree] is designed to put academics firmly back in the driving seat when it comes to ownership of their work. [T]he model empowers academics to share their knowledge and make their work more accessible to their respective communities.”</p>
<p>The site was built by <a href="http://lulu.com">Lulu.com,</a> the pioneering self-publishing company that has been a longtime user of CC licensing. Drawing from the great strides being made by the open access community, Glasstree’s embrace of CC licensing is exciting and innovative. They are running a free trial period through Spring 2017 for authors to try out the service, so be sure to sign up soon and give it a try.</p>
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