Share, Reuse, Remix — Legally N E W S L E T T E R http://creativecommons.org Issue No. 6 April 2008 1 2 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 Message Dear All, Over the past 10 months I’ve compiled and sent you newsletters that (to me) relay the most interesting and informative links from the CC blog - a one stop (email) shop for current CC- related news. But now that I have a number of these newsletters under my belt, I’m beginning to wonder how I can make them better. So, in an attempt to improve the ccNewsletter, I’ve decided to tweak the format. From now on, in order to provide you with a more comprehensive overview of what we are working on here at CC, each newsletter will begin with an update from one of CC’s projects. The first being Creative Commons International. Melissa Reeder Alex Roberts, “Melissa Reeder.” Development Manager CC BY 3.0 Creative Commons Contents CCi News: Inside Scoop 24 Tone Releases Small Arm of Sea 3 Creative Commons International 25 German public broadcaster adopts CC license Heaps of Positive Coverage for CC Licenses on German CCi Events: Launches TV 6 Creative Commons Licenses Launch in India 26 Public Broadcasters Opt for CC 7 Launch of Creative Commons Switzerland 27 Revised Guidelines For International License Porting 8 Macedonian versions of Creative Commons licenses Process presented 31 Asia and the Commons Case Studies 2008 9 Creative Commons Licenses Launch in Greece 32 Visit Planet Creative Commons 10 Luxembourg 40th Jurisdiction to Offer Ported Creative First CC-licensed Photography Contest in China Commons Licenses 33 CC China Photo Contest 11 New Zealand Successfully Ports Creative Commons Panda Punk Lab: Inauguration in Chile Licenses 12 Serbia announces ported licenses on Creative CC News Commons’ fifth year 34 Creative Commons Announces New Leadership, New 13 Philippine Launch Celebration: a vibrant member of the Funding global commons 35 Approved for Free Cultural Works 14 Puerto Rico Launches Localized Creative Commons 36 CC0 beta/discussion draft feedback and next step Licenses CC Press Kit Relaunched CCi Events: Version 3.0 Science Commons News 16 Version 3.0 Croatia goes live 37 A commons-sense approach to winning the drug discovery lottery CCi Events: Upcoming Jurisdictions 38 Response to STM statement on author addenda 16 CC in Thailand: license draft in public discussion CC Hong Kong begins public discussion ccLearn News 17 License drafts from Ecuador and Norway enter public 39 Bayanihan Books, an Open Textbook Initiative discussion OpenCourseWare Launched at United Nations University CCi Related Events 17 ACIA: International Workshop on Asia and Commons CC Points of Interest in the Information Age 40 Wikitravel Press launches first printed titles 18 ACIA: Asia Commoners meet in Taipei Nebraska Library Commission adds CC-licensed books 19 COMMUNIA: public domain & alternative licensing to collection experts convene in Europe 41 Freeing America’s Operating System -2nd COMMUNIA Workshop: Ethical Public Domain 42 Is it possible to design non-defective DRM? 20 The 1st International Creative Commons Korea 43 Loops: Solo Dance, CC-Licensed Conference and Naver CC Integration 44 Wireless Networking in the Developing World 21 First CC Korea International Conference Recycled Computers, Remixable Content for schools CCi Legal Day 2008 45 Encyclopedia of Life launches, publishes articles under 22 CC Nordic meeting CC licenses Birthday Party 2007 Nine Inch Nails releases Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license CCi Points of Interest 46 Sound Copyright 23 Dutch Collecting Societies Welcome CC Diesel Sweeties Archive Released Under CC License Danish Collecting Society KODA teams up with CC 48 What good is a CC licensed specification? Denmark 50 8.5 GB of CC-Licensed Samples for the OLPC The Inside Scoop Creative Commons International Creative Commons International (CCi) is a project of Creative • Launch of Swiss Creative Commons Licenses [audio Commons that works towards linguistically and legally files] (http://www.archive.org/details/creativecommons_ adapting the Core Creative Commons licenses to copyright ch_2007_05_26) legislations around the world. A dynamic, international network of legal experts and policy-makers volunteer to Macedonia — June 19, 2007 in Skopje: Alongside port and maintain the licenses in their jurisdiction. To date, the successful launch event attended by 120 visitors, there are 44 jurisdictions with ported licenses, and six more Metamorphosis Foundation published the opening of the scheduled to launch in 2008. This network consists of over Macedonian portal intended for encouraging e-content 200 active affiliate members from nearly 70 countries. development and their promotion. Through coordination with CCi, these leaders promote • Macedonian versions of Creative Commons licenses a culture of creativity and legal sharing in the digital presented (http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/ environment and beyond. view/929/26/lang,en/) • Creative Commons Content Portal for Macedonia This network of volunteers is one of the foremost reasons (http://www.cc.org.mk/) behind the growth and dissemination of Creative Commons and we are forever indebted to them for their work and Greece — October 13, 2007 in Athens: The launch was dedication to CC and the broader “open” movement. This celebrated at the Ceremonies Hall in the University of Athens, newsletter is dedicated to all of the affiliates. Thank you so with a keynote address from Prof. Lawrence Lessig. The porting much for your hard work, your dedication, and most notably of the licenses to Greek law was headed by Legal Project - your patience, as we figure out how we can best support Leads Marinos Papadopoulos and Prodromos Tsiavos, with you. support from Public Project Lead Theodoros Karounos. • Creative Commons Licenses Launch in Greece Launches (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7721) • Greek Creative Commons 3.0 Launch [video] (http://www. Nine jurisdictions successfully ported the Creative Commons youtube.com/watch?v=G_GpEcIiqqc) licensing suite in 2007-2008. The completion of the license porting is celebrated at a launch event hosted by the local jurisdiction project. Luxembourg — October 15, 2007 in Luxembourg: The launch of the Creative Commons licensing suite at the Public India — January 26, 2007 in Bombay: The Indian versions Research Center Henri Tudor (CRP) in Luxembourg marked of the Creative Commons licenses were launched in the IIT the 40th jurisdiction worldwide to offer Creative Commons Bombay’s auditorium in Mumbai, at a ceremony held as licenses adapted to national law. part of the ‘IIT Techfest,’ IIT Bombay’s Annual International • Luxembourg 40th Jurisdiction to Offer Ported Creative Science and Technology festival. Commons Licenses • Creative Commons Licenses Launch in India (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7737) (http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/7222) • CC-lu Launch Event 15.10 [program] • Chitra Katha - Creative Commons Short Film Contest (http://www.luxcommons.lu/?page_id=60) (http://cc-india.org/index.php?q=node/27) Switzerland — May 24-26, 2007 in Zurich: The Swiss New Zealand — October 27, 2007 in Wellington: The version of Creative Commons licenses were launched in launch was celebrated in Wellington at the National Library Zurich at a ceremony held as the finishing highlight of this in cooperation with Te Whā¡inga Aronui The Council for year’s Tweakfest, Switzerland’s Festival for Media, Culture, the Humanities. The event was followed by a free seminar and Digital Lifestyle. The event was hosted by Digitale hosted by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand on Allmend in coopreration with Openlaw. the new licensing environment in the digital world. • Launch of Creative Commons Switzerland (http://www. • Launch announcement edri.org/edrigram/number5.11/creative-commons- (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7768) switzerland) CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 3 4 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 • Webcast & video files from launch Version 3.0 (http://www.r2.co.nz/20071027/) The Netherlands and Croatia (http://creativecommons.org/ Serbia — December 15, 2007 in Belgrade: The much- weblog/entry/8150) upgraded their licenses to version 3.0, anticipated global celebration of Creative Commons’ fifth and six newly launched jurisdictions (Greece, Luxembourg, year was amplified with the announcement of the launch New Zealand, Serbia, Philippines, and Puerto Rico) started of the locally ported Creative Commons licensing suite at 3.0. in Serbia. In collaboration with slobodnakultura.org, Wikimedia Serbia, and New Media center Kuda_org, the Upcoming jurisdictions Creative Commons Team in Serbia successfully adapted the Creative Commons licenses both linguistically and legally to The following jurisdiction projects are currently porting Serbian national law. the licenses and are expected to launch in the coming • Serbia announces ported licenses on Creative Commons’ months. fifth year (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7911) Thailand: • CCBit music compilation • CC in Thailand: license draft in public discussion (http:// (http://creativecommons.org.yu/lounge/CCBit) creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7854) • License Drafts Philippines — December 15, 2007 in Manila: Following (http://creativecommons.org/international/th/) the unveiling of the Philippine localized Creative Commons Hong Kong: licenses in December, citizens gathered on January 14th in • CC Hong Kong begins public discussion Manila at the Arellano University School of Law to celebrate (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7949) in full the public launch of the country’s completed licenses • License Drafts and its strides towards fostering the global commons (http://creativecommons.org/international/hk/) movement. Ecuador: • Philippine Launch Celebration: a vibrant member of the • License drafts from Ecuador and Norway enter public global commons discussion (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7971) (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8046) • Philippine Laws and Jurisprudence Databank - The Lawphil • License Drafts Project (http://www.lawphil.net/) (http://creativecommons.org/international/ec/) • Maiden Issue of CC PH newsletter Norway: (http://philippinecommons.org/2008/03/14/maiden- • License Drafts issue-of-cc-ph-newsletter/) (http://creativecommons.org/international/no/) Romania: Puerto Rico — February 21-24, 2008 in San Juan: The • License Drafts University of Puerto Rico Cyberlaw Clinic will host the launch (http://creativecommons.org/international/ro/) of Puerto Rico’s localized Creative Commons licenses, marking the forty-fourth jurisdiction worldwide to port the Creative Commons licensing suite. CCI Related Events • Puerto Rico Launches Localized Creative Commons Licenses • AC IA: International Work shop on A sia (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8053) and Commons in the Information Age • CD of the CC PR launch [images, music, publications] (http:// (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7821; http:// pr.creativecommons.org/cd-de-lanzamiento/) creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7994; http:// meeting.creativecommons.org.tw) • COMMUNIA: public domain & alternative • German Public B roadcaster [N DR] adopts licensing experts convene in Europe CC license: The Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), a (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7698) public radio and television broadcaster belonging to • 2nd COMMUNIA workshop: Ethical Public Domain Germany’s national broadcasting consortium ARD, (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8121) announced today that they will begin to use CC licenses • 1st CC Korea International Conference for some of their programs. (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8077; http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7838 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8120; and http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7842 http://www.creativecommons.or.kr/conference/eng/) http://www1.ndr.de/ratgeber/technik/ • CCi Legal Day: At the iSummit 2008 in Saporro, Creative creativecommonsindex2.html Commons will again invite its international network of • Public Broadcasters opt for CC project leads and teams to participate in a workshop http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7987 about the legal and international aspects of the Creative • Revised guidelines for international license Commons licenses. Similar to last year’s CCi Legal Day, this porting process special meeting will be held one day ahead of the actual http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Worldwide_Overview iSummit events. The agenda opened March 2008 with a call for discussion topics. (http://wiki.creativecommons. • CcAU: Asia and the Commons Case Studies org/CCi_Legal_Day_2008) 2 0 0 8 ( h t t p://w w w. c r e a t i v e c o m m o n s .o r g . a u/ asiaandthecommons) • CC Nordic Meeting (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Nordic_meeting) • Visit Planet Creative Commons: Visit the Planet Creative Commons home page to get the CC blog, CC jurisdiction • CC Birthday Parties blogs, and various CC community blogs all at one time. (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Birthday_Party) http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8091 • CC Salons • First CC-Licensed Photography Contest in China: Chennai: CC in China Mainland partnered with the online photo- http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Chennai_Salon sharing community nphoto.net and one of China’s largest Belgrade: internet portals, sohu.com, to co-sponsor the first CC- http://creativecommons.org.yu/cc_salon licensed photography contest in China Mainland. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7659 CCI Points of interest http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7786 • Panda Punk Lab: Inauguration in Chile: Because • Dutch Collecting Societies Welcome CC: On August the indemnification received by the violation of a Creative 23, 2007, Dutch collecting societies Buma and Stemra Commons license - the first case in Chile and Latin America and Creative Commons Netherlands launched a pilot - the “Panda Punk Lab” was inaugurated in Chillán, Chile, project that seeks to provide Dutch musicians with more to the benefit of more than 200 students. opportunities to promote their own repertoire. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7817 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7622 http://www.creativecommons.nl/extra/bumapilot • Danish Collecting Society KODA teams up with CC Denmark: Creative Commons Denmark announced that KODA, the Danish Authors’ Society, is now offering noncommercial Creative Commons licensing to its members - making it the second country worldwide to do so. ht tp://cre ativecommons.org/weblo g/entr y/8012 http://www.creativecommons.dk/?p=11 • Tone release Small Arm of Sea [first album released under KODA-CC DK partnership] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7988 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 5 6 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 Launches C reative C ommons L icenses Launch in India by Mia Garlick 26 January 2007 http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/ entry/7222 San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, Germany — January 26, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in India. Joi Ito. “CC India Launch” CC BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/ photos/joi/369952597/ Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s [1] website. The licenses allow authors and artists to mark their works as free to copy or transform About IIT Bombay under certain conditions—to declare “some rights reserved,” IIT Bombay, set up by an Act of Parliament, was established in contrast to the traditional “all rights reserved”—thereby in 1958, at Powai, a northern suburb of Mumbai. Today enabling others to access a growing pool of raw materials the Institute is recognised as one of the centers of academic without legal friction. excellence in the country. The institute has 12 departments of engineering, basic sciences and the humanities, 11 With Creative Commons India joining the effort, Creative research centers, 3 postgraduate degree schools and 5 Commons is proud to announce that its licenses now are interdisciplinary programs. IIT Bombay is largely a residential offered in localized versions in a total of 35 jurisdictions institution with over 4 thousand students and over 400 around the world. faculty. It offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degrees. Over the years, there has been dynamic progress Staff at Creative Commons’ offices in San Francisco and at IIT Bombay in all academic and research activities, and a Berlin worked with project leads Lawrence Liang from the parallel improvement in facilities and infrastructure, to keep Alternative Law Forum (ALF) in Bangalore and Shishir K.Jha it on par with the best institutions in the world. For more from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) information, visit the IIT Bombay website.[2] to adapt the standardized copyright licenses to Indian law. See also • Creative Commons Launch [from CC India] http://cc-india.org/ Today the Indian versions of the Creative Commons licenses index.php?q=node/23 will be launched in the IIT Bombay’s auditorium in Mumbai, at a ceremony held as part of the ‘IIT Techfest’, IIT Bombay’s Additional Activities Annual International Science and Technology festival. The • Chitra Katha - Creative Commons Short Film Contest http://cc- Techfest with its lectures, workshops and exhibitions offers india.org/index.php?q=node/27 students a platform to explore the realms of science and • Interview with Prof. S. K. Jha - Creative Commons http:// technology in the 21st Century. mutiny.in/2007/12/05/interview-with-prof-s-k-jha-creative- commons/ At the launch Joichi Ito, Chairman of Creative Commons, Documentation will give the keynote address. Speakers Nandu Pradhan, http://joi.ito.com/archives/2007/01/28/india.html President and Managing Director of Red Hat India, film director Anurag Kashyap, Professor Deepak Phatak of IIT Endnotes Bombay, project lead Lawrence Liang as well as Catharina 1 http://creativecommons.org/ Maracke, Creative Commons International Coordinator, will 2 http://www.iitb.ac.in/ speak about topics related to culture, law and technology. Says Project Lead Shishir Jha, “Creative Commons India will seek to inspire everyone to share the subcontinent’s abundant wealth of visions and ideas by standing tall on the shoulders of her intellectual and creative giants.” Launches Launch of Creative Commons Switzerland by European Digital Rights (EDRI) “We see the porting of Creative Commons licences to 6 June 2007 Switzerland as an important step - firstly because the swiss http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.11/creative- cultural movement will be able to contribute a variety commons-switzerland of interesting works to a global creative community and secondly in achieving a more balanced choice for creators On 26 May 2007 the Swiss version of Creative Commons when deciding how their works is distributed and accessible.” licenses were launched in Zurich at a ceremony held as the was the declaration of Martin Feuz from Digitale Allmend. finishing highlight of this year’s Tweakfest, Switzerland’s Festival for Media, Culture, and Digital Lifestyle. During the launch, Creative Commons Switzerland announced several upcoming projects that plan to use the Swiss Creative The launch was hosted by Digitale Allmend, a Swiss NGO Commons licenses, including netlabels (starfrosch.ch, focused on access to digital information and creativity. sonicsquirrel.net), two online cultural TV channels (kulturtv.ch Openlaw and Digitale Allmend are co-leading the Swiss and rebell.tv) or a video art website (lenarmy.ch). Creative Commons project in a joint effort. With Switzerland, the Creative Commons licenses are now offered in localized Creative Commons Switzerland http://www.creativecommons.ch/ versions in a total of 37 countries around the world. Digitale Allmend - News and videos from CC John Buckman, Creative Commons board member and Switzerland launch founder of magnatune.com, gave the keynote address, (German) http://blog.allmend.ch/ explaining how he developed his website as a successful example of a Creative Commons based business. Openlaw http://www.openlaw.ch There was live audio and visual performances by DJ Soult Tweakfest and VJ Set from Pixelpunx.ch who released a number of http://www.tweakfest.ch works under the new Swiss Creative Commons licenses that evening. Documentation: Launch of Swiss Creative Commons Licenses [audio files]: Urs Gehrig from Openlaw explained the system: “The http://www.archive.org/details/ Creative Commons licensing system simplifies the exchange creativecommons_ch_2007_05_26 of cultural goods such as music, video, text and other Podcast: John Buckman, Volker creative media.” Grassmuck at CC CH launch http:// blog.allmend.ch/2007/06/14/ stefanrechsteiner / Stefan Rechsteiner “John Buckman @ podcast-john-buckman-volker- Tweakfest 2007” All Rights Reserved. http://flickr.com/photos/ grassmuck-am-cc-launch-ch/ macprime/515827669/ Interview Pixelpunx.ch - VJs and Creative Commons Launch: http:// blog.allmend.ch/2007/06/02/ interview-pixelpunxch-vjs-und- creative-commons-launch/ launch flier: Alessandro Frigerio and Matthias Mehldau http://blog. allmend.ch/2007/05/20/ flyer-creative-commons- launch-schweiz/ CC BY 2.5 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 7 8 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 Launches Macedonian versions of C reative C ommons licenses presented by Metamorphosis.org.mk 19 June 2007 http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/ view/929/26/lang,en/ Darko Hristov. “joi ito creative commons macedonia” In Skopje, on June the 19th, 2007, Mr. Joi Ito - chairman CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 http://flickr.com/photos/iofoto/570568949/ of Creative Commons promoted the Macedonian version of the world famous licenses that enable the expansion of Mr. Mickoski and Mrs. Zdraveva outlined some of the free culture. After adapting the licenses to the domestic legal specifics during the process of licenses localization, such system, Macedonia became the 38th member country of the as the differences in the legal terminology; for instance, the Creative Commons family. American term “license” means “Agreement for Non-exclusive Transfer of part of the Copyrights” in Macedonian. More than 120 visitors attended the presentation held in the Holiday Inn hotel; opening statements were made by the Mrs. Pefeva outlined that the main reason for the success translator of the licenses and the coordinator of this process - of Creative Commons in Bulgaria, which holds the second Mr. Nikolche Mickoski from the Metamorphosis Foundation, position in the world with the number of licensed content, is Mrs. Neda Zdraveva from the Faculty of Law - the expert for the great support from the authors provided by setting up adapting the licenses to the Macedonian legislation, as well platforms for their mutual communication. The Government’s as Mrs. Desi Pefeva, representative of the Internet Society decision to license the texts of the laws and publish them Bulgaria, who shared the experiences of using the Creative in an electronic version was particularly positive, since they Commons licenses in her country. were made available to the wider public. Mr. Ito held an inspirational presentation regarding the Aside from localizing the appropriate section for issuing main aspects of free culture which enables the sharing of licenses at the central Creative Commons website, the knowledge and benefits of creative work via the Internet. He Metamorphosis Foundation published the opening of the emphasized that the Creative Commons system is part of the Macedonian portal intended for encouraging e-content copyright protection system, with which the communication development and their promotion – www.cc.org.mk. All of the authors with their public is facilitated, as well as the e-content authors will be able to learn more about the communication with other authors that want to use their work licenses through the portal, and they will be able to set links as a basis for their own work. to their licensed works. The portal also provides hosting to the authors that cannot publish their work on their own Rejecting the classification of the free culture movement websites. as an effort of idealistically liberal students and law professors, he presented several examples of Creative See also: Official promotion of Macedonian version of Creative Commons Commons acceptation by commercial systems interested licenses [from CC MK]: http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/ in providing better services to their clients. He outlined content/view/918/61/lang,en/ that the extensions in Flicker - photo database owned by Yahoo, and in Microsoft Office, enable their clients Additional Activities: • Macedonian translation of 11 Shakespeare plays under CC to easily integrate and use the licenses. The preparation license: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8156 of a similar extension for OpenOffice is ongoing, • Creative Commons Content Portal for Macedonia: and the diversity of all the stakeholders indicates the http://www.cc.org.mk/ preparedness of Creative Commons to be an incentive for the promotion of new approaches – for the benefit of everyone. According to him, companies such as Apple - with its iTunes and iPod, realizing that users who share content, such as music over the internet, are not a threat but actually a new market, are rapidly becoming world leaders in this market. Launches C reative C ommons L icenses Launch in Greece by Michelle Thorne Today the Greek version of Creative Commons will be 13 October 2007 launched in Athens, at an event in the Ceremonies Hall at http://creativecommons.org/weblogentry/7721 the University of Athens. Lawrence Lessig, founder and CEO of Creative Commons, will give the keynote address at the ceremony, which will be hosted by Greek Research and We are proud to announce the successful localization of the Technology Network (GRNET). Creative Commons licenses in Greece. The porting of the licenses to Greek law was headed by Legal Project Leads “The real value of the Creative Commons licenses,” says Marinos Papadopoulos and Prodromos Tsiavos, with support Marinos Papadopoulos, “comes in clarifying what is useful from Public Project Lead Theodoros Karounos. to both creators and users of intellectual property, while also providing them with the tools to share creations in a mutually The launch was celebrated on Saturday, October 13, at the acceptable legal environment. By helping both creators and Ceremonies Hall in the University of Athens, with a keynote users determine the value of intellectual property sharing, address from Prof. Lawrence Lessig. Creative Commons in Greece is helping an explosive growth in creativity.” About GRNET The Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) supports the research and development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within Greece and internationally, through the provision of its high- capacity networking and grid computing infrastructure, the strengthening of e-Learning & e-Business practices, as well as the participation in international research and education efforts. GRNET operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Development and is supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Development. University of Athens, photo by yuankuei (http://flickr.com/photos/ please/) licensed under CC BY-NC-ND. (http://creativecommons. Documentation: org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) • Greek Creative Commons 3.0 Launch [video]: http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=G_GpEcIiqqc October 13, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA and • Lawrence Lessig - Creative Commons in Greece [video]: http:// Berlin, Germany www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWFgVW6fjuk • Creative Commons Licenses Lent a Greek Touch [3rd party, Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization dedicated to not under CC, for reference]: http://cordis.europa.eu/greece/ building a body of creative work that is free and legal to news_rd185.htm share and build upon, unveiled today a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Greece. With the Creative Commons’ project in Greece joining the focalpointx. “Creative Commons launch in Greece” CC BY-SA 2.0 effort, Creative Commons licenses are now being offered http://www.flickr.com/photos/7634692@N03/1688036668/ in localized versions in a total of 39 countries around the world. Staff at Creative Commons’ offices in San Francisco and Berlin worked with project leads Marinos Papadopoulos, Theodoros Karounos, and Prodromos Tsiavos to adapt the standardized copyright licenses to Greek law. CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 9 10 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 Launches Luxembourg 40th Jurisdiction to O f f e r P ort e d C r e at i v e Commons Licenses by Michelle Thorne founder and CEO of Magnatune.com and Board Member 15 October 2007 of Creative Commons, and Paul Keller, Project Lead for http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7737 Creative Commons Netherlands. The ceremony will also include a presentation by Laurent The launch of the Creative Commons licensing suite in Kratz, founder Luxembourg’s Jamendo, one of the largest Luxembourg marks the 40th jurisdiction worldwide to offer music portals offering Creative Commons-licensed works, Creative Commons licenses adapted to national law. and Lionel Maurel, scientific coordinator from the National Library of France. An event[1] to commemorate the launch will be held on October 15th at the Public Research Center Henri The Creative Commons licenses were “the first instrument Tudor[2] (CRP) in Luxembourg, featuring speeches by John of choice” in Luxcommons’ efforts to lead innovation in Buckman,[3] founder and CEO of Magnatune.com[4] and intellectual property and promote Open Content in their Board Member of Creative Commons; Paul Keller,[5] Project region and around the world. The licenses, available free Lead for Creative Commons Netherlands;[6] Laurent Kratz,[7] of charge at http://creativecommons.org, allow authors and founder Luxembourg’s Jamendo,[8] one of the largest music artists to mark their portals offering Creative Commons-licensed works; and Lionel Maurel, scientific coordinator from the National works as free to copy or transform under certain conditions, Library of France.[9] and thereby enable others to access a growing pool of raw materials without legal friction. About Luxcommons The non-profit Luxcommons was founded in 2005 with the goals of promoting, researching, and developing of Open Content. Thanks to funding from “2007, Luxembourg and Greater Region, Cultural Capital of Europe,” the National Cultural Fund and with the Support of the Technoport Incubator (an initiative of the Henri Tudor Research Center), Luxcommons was able to start transposing the CC 3.0 License to the Luxembourg jurisdiction. For the future, a stronger linking of similar initiatives in the Greater Region and stronger tie-ins with institutional partners is sought to keep the Luxembourgish CC project on stable footing. For Johann Paul Keller. “Sylvain” CC BY-NC 2.0 http://flickr.com/ more information about Luxcommons, please visit their photos/johannpaul/1589830549/ website http://www.luxcommons.lu/. October 15, 2007 -- San Francisco, CA, USA and Luxembourg, Luxembourg Documentation: • John Buckman: Creative Commons presentation in French in Luxembourg: The launch of the Creative Commons licensing suite today in [presentation slides & video]: http://blogs.magnatune.com/ Luxembourg marks the 40th jurisdiction worldwide to offer buckman/2007/10/creative-common.html Creative Commons licenses adapted to national law. Creative • CC-lu Launch Event 15.10 [program from Luxcommons]: Commons worked in collaboration with Luxcommons ASBL, http://www.luxcommons.lu/?page_id=60 a local non-profit for researching and developing Open • launch poster: http://www.luxcommons.lu/wp-content/ Content headed by Patrick Peiffer, to linguistically and uploads/2007/09/cc-poster_a3_colour.pdf legally port the licenses to Luxembourgish law. An event to commemorate the launch will be held today at the Public Research Center Henri Tudor (CRP) in Luxembourg, featuring speeches by John Buckman, Luxembourg Launch > 15 Launches New Zealand Successfully Ports Creative Commons Licenses by Michelle Thorne 26 October 2007 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7768 October has been one busy month -- The CC Team in Greece[1] held a phenomenal launch[2] at the University of Athens (video,[3] photos[4]), Luxembourg[5] became the 40th jurisdiction to port the CC licenses,[6] CC HQ kicked off our 3rd annual fundraising campaign,[7] and now: New Zealand will now offer Creative Commons licenses adapted to its national law. The Project Lead in NZ, Dr. Brian Opie, worked with his legal team under the auspices of Te Whainga Aronui The Council for the Humanities[8] in collaboration with Creative Commons to bring the licensing suite to New Zealand. The launch will be celebrated October 27 in Wellington at the National Library, followed by a free seminar hosted by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand[9] on the new licensing environment in the digital world. Congratulations, New Zealand! Additional Activities: New Zealand Labour Party Goes Creative Commons : http:// gpollard.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/new-zealand-labour-goes- creative-commons/, http://labour.org.nz/index.html Carved Maori Pole, photo by dartio (http://flickr.com/photos/ Documentation: dartio) licensed under CC BY-NC-SA. (http://creativecommons. Webcast & video files from launch: org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/) http://www.r2.co.nz/20071027/ Endnotes 1 http://creativecommons.org/international/gr/ 2 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7721 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_GpEcIiqqc 4 http://flickr.com/photos/karpidis/sets/72157602407496488/ 5 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7746 6 http://creativecommons.org/international/lu/ 7 http://support.creativecommons.org/ 8 http://www.humanities.org.nz/ 9 http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/ aenertia / Joel Wiramu Pauling “S6001198.JPG” CC BY-SA http:// flickr.com/photos/aenertia/2063856019/ CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 11 12 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 Vlidi “CC launch & birthday, Belgrade” CC BY-SA 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ Launches Serbia announces ported licenses on Creative Commons’ fifth year vlidi/2124943357/ by Michelle Thorne 15 December 2007 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7911 The party in Belgrade will then head to Club Andergraund at www.flickr.com/photos/vlidi/2124961769/ Vlidi “Setting up...” CC BY-SA 2.0 http:// 10pm CET with live acts from artists MistakeMistake, Crobot, Wolfgang S, Ah, Ahilej, and Electric Divine. CC Serbia’s Public Project Lead Vladimir Jeric thanks the Serbian community for their support, and he expresses the team’s appreciation for the public’s input during the discussion of the Serbian licenses, which he reports “assured us that we are on the right way regarding meeting the demands from the side of both ‘content producers’ and ‘users.’” The CC Serbia Team hopes to present the first collection of locally-licensed CC works this spring. December 15, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA and About Slobodnakultura.org Belgrade, Serbia Slobodnakultura.org is an non-formal network based in Belgrade. Acting as a kind of meta-organization The much-anticipated global celebration of Creative coordinating different initiatives and actions by different Commons’ fifth year is amplified today with the announcement individuals and organizations, it presents a collaborative of the locally ported Creative Commons licensing suite in platform for discussing and conducting various projects. All Serbia. In close collaboration with slobodnakultura.org, of it’s projects are formally being conducted trough one or Wikimedia Serbia, and New Media center Kuda_org, the several of it’s member organizations with the formal status. Creative Commons Team in Serbia, lead by Nevenka Antic, Creativecommons.org.yu is the part of slobodnakultura. has successfully adapted the Creative Commons licenses org, and it helps in building the tools requested from within both linguistically and legally to Serbian national law. the society in order to introduce different social codes. Fundraising and management for the localization of the The ported the Serbian licenses, available soon online, Creative Commons licenses is being carried out by Bureau will be celebrated today in Belgrade at Dom omladine for Culture and Communication Beograd (birobeograd. at 5:00pm CET. Speakers at the event include Slobodan info), a member of slobodnakultura.org network. For Markovic from ICANN, Ivan Jelic & Desiree Miloshevich more information, please visit: slobodnakultura.org and of the Free Software Network and the Internet Society, and creativecommons.org.yu Marcell Mars from CC Croatia and MAMA. About Wikimedia Serbia The festivities will continue at the Cultural Center Magacin, Wikimedia Serbia, formed in 2005, is a non-profit where guests will join the CC Serbia Team in greeting independent organization, based in Belgrade. It is included the globally synchronized Creative Commons Birthday in the international network of non-profit and independent Parties via webcast. The international birthday parties are organizations sharing the goals of free knowledge issues as being coordinated by local chapters around the world to well as improving and participating in the global collection commemorate Creative Commons’ fifth year in a series of of educational content under free licenses or in the public celebrations culminating in San Francisco on December 15th domain. Wikimedia Serbia supports free knowledge from 10pm-2am PST. Serbian Launch > 15 Launches Philippine Launch Celebration: a vibrant member of the global commons by Michelle Thorne Arellano University School of Law. 15 December 2007 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7971 The event will consist of three parts: 1) an orientation to projects by stakeholders in the Philippine Commons, with Following the unveiling of the Philippine localized Creative the aim of developing a local collaboration promoting Commons licenses[1] in December,[2] citizens will gather on alternative licensing, free and open source software, open January 14th in Manila to celebrate in full the public launch education, and free culture; 2) the public presentation of the of the country’s completed licenses and its strides towards CC Philippine Licensing Suite Version 3.0, which has been fostering the global commons movement. The launch activities available online since its soft launch December 15, 2007; are scheduled to take place from 1:00pm to 9:00pm at the and 3) the CC Philippines Concert featuring more than six Arellano University School of Law.[3] local rock bands. Highlights include: an orientation to projects from the Atty. Soriano and Atty. Michael Vernon M. Guerrero, Philippine Commons,[4] a local initiative to promote Deputy Project Lead of CC Philippines, are both pleased alternative licensing, free and open source software, open to also announce the public launching of the Philippine education, and free culture; the public presentation of the Commons website, available at www.philippinecommons. CC Philippine Licensing Suite Version 3.0,[5] which has been org, and the adaption of a CC license to the LawPhil Project, available online since its soft launch December 15, 2007; the most popular and comprehensive website on Philippine and the CC Philippines Concert[6] featuring more than six law and jurisprudence. local rock bands. The localized CC licenses will also be applied to the San Francisco, CA, USA and Pasay City, Metro Arellano Law and Policy Review; the law school’s IT Law Manila, Philippines -- January 14, 2008 Journal, whose first quarter issue features all articles devoted to Creative Commons; and the original works of the Arellano Following the unveiling of the Philippine localized Creative Law Singers. These materials will be presented and shared at Commons licenses in December, citizens of the archipelago ACIA: International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the will gather today in Manila to celebrate in full the public Information Age, held on January 19-20 in Taipei, Taiwan. launch of its completed licenses and the country’s strides towards fostering the global commons movement. Additional Activities: Philippine Laws and Jurisprudence Databank - The Lawphil Project: Attorney Jaime N. Soriano, Creative Commons Philippines http://www.lawphil.net/ Project Lead and Executive Director of the e-Law Center, Documentation: announces that the launch activities are scheduled to take Maiden Issue of CC PH newsletter: http://philippinecommons. place on January 14, 2008 from 1:00pm to 9:00pm at the org/2008/03/14/maiden-issue-of-cc-ph-newsletter/ Endnotes 1 http://creativecommons.org/international/ph © 2008. Berne Guerrero. Some Rights Reserved. 2 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7910 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ Built upon the works of: Beth Kanter (cambodia4kidsorg). “What A Second Grader 3 http://www.arellanolaw.edu/ Knows About Creative Commons”. BY 2.0 Generic; Peter Shanks 4 http://www.philippinecommons.org/ (BotheredByBees). “CC swag XI”. BY 2.0 Generic; Emil Alviola. 5 http://creativecommons.org/international/ph/ “scratch-this”. BY 2.0 Generic; and Creativecommons.org/about 6 http://www.philippinecommons.org/2007/12/13/cc-ph-soft- launch-and-cc-5th-birthday/ CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 13 14 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 Launches P uerto R ico L aunches L oc alized C reative Commons Licenses by Michelle Thorne “The Cyberlaw Clinic’s commitment to ‘free culture’ has 21 February 2008 provided the ideal context for the development of the http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8053 Creative Commons Puerto Rico (CCPR) project,” notes Mari´a L. Jime´nez, Director of U.P.R.’s Legal Aid Clinic. “The university has a longstanding tradition as an innovative On Feb. 22 in San Juan, the University of Puerto Rico institution in many legal fields and is deeply committed to Cyberlaw Clinic[1] will host the launch of Puerto Rico’s the advancement of important social values such as the ones localized Creative Commons licenses,[2] marking the forty- embraced by the Creative Commons project.” fourth jurisdiction worldwide[3] to port the Creative Commons licensing suite. The event will be held at 7:00pm at U.P.R.’s The CCPR Project Leads add that they are “fully aware the School of Law, featuring an exhibition by Puerto Rican importance of a rich and culturally diverse public domain for artists, a promotional CD release, and keynote by Creative a vigorous democratic society and of the many ways in which Commons Chairman Joichi Ito. cultural growth is stifled by a combination of technology, copyright law and practice, and the entertainment industry’s The Creative Commons Puerto Rico[4] team is lead by Hiram A. Meléndez-Juarbe, Carlos González-Yanes, and Chloé Georas, who coordinated the porting process and public consultation with local and international legal experts. In preparation for the public discussion, a memorandum was prepared by the 2006-2007 class of the University of Puerto Cyberlaw Clinic to analyze the role of moral rights in Puerto Rico’s mixed legal tradition. The memorandum is available for download.[5] Congratulations CC Puerto Rico! San Francisco, California and San Juan, Puerto Rico — February 22, 2008 Today in San Juan, the University of Puerto Rico Cyberlaw Clinic will host the launch of localized Creative Commons licenses, marking the forty-fourth jurisdiction worldwide to port the Creative Commons licensing suite. The event will be held at 7:00pm at U.P.R.’s School of Law, featuring an hold on the creation and dissemination of cultural products.” exhibition by Puerto Rican artists, a promotional CD release, They confirm that “CCPR understands what is at stake and and keynote by Creative Commons Chairman Joichi Ito. is, thus, very serious about consistently following up on the essential community building and internationalizing The Creative Commons Puerto Rico team is lead by Hiram dimension of this enterprise.” A. Meléndez-Juarbe, Carlos González-Yanes, and Chloé Georas, who coordinated the porting process and public One of the major assets to the CCPR licenses is the avoidance consultation with local and international legal experts. In of unnecessary legal obstacles to creative exchanges. As preparation for the public discussion, a memorandum was Rolando Silva, photographer, graphic artist and professor, prepared by the 2006-2007 class of the University of Puerto confirms, “Creative Commons licenses are a neat alternative Cyberlaw Clinic to analyze the role of moral rights in Puerto to the categorical copyright. We were in dire need of more Rico’s mixed legal tradition. The memorandum is available flexible possibilities within copyright laws that permit the for download: http://creativecommons.org/international/ dissemination of artistic work without the fear of lawsuits or pr/moral-rights.pdf. any such foolishness.” About the University of Puerto Rico School of Law Endnotes Founded in 1913, the University of Puerto Rico School of 1 http://cyberclinicpr.org/ Law is the oldest of its kind in Puerto Rico. The School of Law 2 http://creativecommons.org/international/pr/ has been accredited by the American Bar Association since 3 http://creativecommons.org/international/ 1945, has been a member of the American Association of 4 http://www.creativecommonspr.org/ Law Schools since 1944 and is the only public law school 5 http://creativecommons.org/international/pr/moral-rights.pdf in Puerto Rico. The Cyberlaw Clinic of the U.P.R. School of Law promotes principles of liberty and freedom of expression on the internet as well as the development of a technological and legal context that encourages individual and collective creativity. For more information, visit http://cyberclinicpr.org/. Documentation: • Public Launch of Creative Commons License in Puerto Rico [from CC PR]: http://www.creativecommons.pr/?p=50 • CD of the CC PR launch [images, music, publications]: http:// pr.creativecommons.org/cd-de-lanzamiento/ • pics: http://flickr.com/photos/24156661@N02/ sets/72157603992681305/, http://flickr.com/photos/ joi/sets/72157603970631839/, http://flickr.com/ photos/24156661@N02/sets/72157603992681305/ 10 < Luxembourg Launch Endnotes 1 http://www.luxcommons.lu/?page_id=60 2 http://www.tudor.lu/ 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buckman 4 http://magnatune.com/ 5 http://www.kennisland.nl/nl/mensen/paul/index.html 6 http://www.creativecommons.nl/ 7 http://lkratz.blogspot.com/ 8 http://www.jamendo.com/ 9 http://www.bnf.fr/ 12 < Serbian Launch Community and free knowledge projects building the cultural and social policy. Some of the main issues include Community in Serbia and providing the projects in Serbian interpretation and analysis of the history and significance language. The projects are coordinated by the Wikimedia of the information society, the potential of information itself, Foundation, the non-profit parent organization of various and the diffusion of its influence on political, economic and multilingual free content projects, such as Wikipedia, the cultural relationships in contemporary society. New Media famous online encyclopedia, and Wikimedia Commons, Center_kuda.org opens space for both cultural dialog and the repository for free video, images, music and other media. alternative methods of education and research. For more For more information: rs.vikimedija.org. information: www.kuda.org. About New Media Center_kuda.org Additional Activities: CCBit music compilation: New Media Center_kuda.org is an independent organization http://creativecommons.org.yu/lounge/CCBit which brings together artists, theoreticians, media activists, researchers and the wider public in the field of Information Documentation: and Communication Technologies. In this respect, kuda. http://www.flickr.com/photos/vlidi/sets/72157603507257984/ org is dedicated to the research of new cultural relations, contemporary artistic practice, and social issues. Kuda. org’s work focuses on questions concerning the influence of the electronic media on society, on the creative use of new communication technologies, and on contemporary CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 15 16 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 Version 3.0 Version 3.0 Croatia goes live by Michelle Thorne CC Croatia, lead by Diana Kovaèeviæ Remenariæ and 19 March 2008 Tomislav Medak and in affiliation with the Zagreb-based http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8150 NGO Multimedia Institute [mi2],[3] was one of the first jurisdictions to port the earliest version of the licenses (in 2004) and continues to be one of the most active Creative Creative Commons Croatia has successfully completed the Commons projects worldwide.[4] versioning of the ported Creative Commons licensing suite in Croatia.[1] Version 3.0 of the six standard Creative Commons Endnotes 1 http://creativecommons.org/international/hr/ licenses is now legally and linguistically adapted to Croatian 2 http://creativecommons.org/license/?lang=hr law and integrated into our licensing process.[2] 3 http://www.mi2.hr/ 4 http://creativecommons.org/international/ Upcoming Jurisdictions CC in Thailand: license draft CC Hong Kong begins public in public discussion discussion by Michelle Thorne by Catharina Maracke 26 November 2007 3 January 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7854 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7949 We are pleased to announce that the CC project in Thailand It’s with great pleasure to announce that the CC project has entered the public discussion for their localized license in Hong Kong has entered the public discussion for their draft.[1] At this time, we would like to invite members of the localized license draft.[1] We would like to congratulate community to join the Thai team in discussing and reviewing the CC Team in Hong Kong, lead by Dr. Yahong Li and their license draft, which includes a re-translation of the Alice Lee (The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law)[2] license into English and an English explanation of substantial as well as Rebecca MacKinnon[3] (Journalism and Media legal changes. Studies Center).[4] For their progress thusfar, we would like to congratulate the Please feel invited to join the Hong Kong team in discussing CC Team in Thailand, lead by Phichai Phuechmongkol[2] and reviewing their license draft and help the licenses to and Worasete Phueksakon[3] of Dharmniti Law Office be adapted to Hong Kong law. The role of the discussion (DLO); Sunit Shrestha from TRN Institute;[4] and Arthit is to start the public debate and to make the least amount Suriyawongkul, Sirindhorn International Institute of of changes necessary to bring the licenses into accord Technology,[5] Thammasat University. with Hong Kong law (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/ Worldwide_Overview). We expect the archived discussions We look forward to a lively discussion! to serve as a history of this experience. That way, your input will continue to be useful to anyone from any country even after the discussion for Hong Kong is completed. Endnotes Endnotes 1 http://creativecommons.org/international/th/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/international/hk/ 2 http://thailandlawoffice.com/attorneys?q=node/21 2 http://www.hku.hk/law/ 3 http://thailandlawoffice.com/attorneys?q=node/23 3 http://jmsc.hku.hk/cms/component/option,com_magazine/ 4 http://www.trnlab.org/ func,show_article/id,21/Itemid,33/ 5 http://www.siit.tu.ac.th/ 4 http://jmsc.hku.hk/cms/ Upcoming Jurisdictions License drafts from Ecuador & Norway enter public discussion by Michelle Thorne Dra. Patricia Pacheco Montoya and Abg. Verónica Granda 21 February 2008 González, with support from the Universidad Técnica http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8046 Particular de Loja.[1] Our warmest congratulations extend as well to CC Norway, We are very pleased to announce that the public whose Legal Lead Peter Lenda and Public Lead Gisle discussion of localized license drafts has begun in Hannemyr, along with their Legal Advisory Board and affiliate Ecuador and in Norway: institution Oslo University College,[2] have demonstrated extreme thoughtfulness and commitment in producing the http://creativecommons.org/international/ec/ first draft of the CC license ported to Norwegian law. http://creativecommons.org/international/no/ We welcome your participation in the discussion of these It is a great pleasure to invite all interested parties to join two license drafts! the teams in Ecuador and Norway in discussing these drafts adapted to their respective jurisdictional law. Endnotes For their progress and dedication thus far, we would like to 1 http://www.utpl.edu.ec/ thank the CC Ecuador team, lead by Dr. Juan José Puertas 2 http://www.hio.no/content/view/full/4563 Ortega and Carlos Correa Loyola, and team members CCi Related Events ACIA: International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age by Michelle Thorne • Providing a forum for industry engagement, and in particular 15 November 2007 identifying and presenting successful commercial uses of open http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7821 content licensing within the region; • Providing a forum for discussion of topics of importance to the Asia Commons (e.g., the meaning of ‘open’ in our For those of you interested in the vibrant commons of the Asia age, and the history and role of the commons in Asia). Pacific region, mark January 19, 2008 on your calendars for the International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age (ACIA),[1] hosted in Taipei, Taiwan. Please visit the ACIA wiki[2] to learn more and to enrich the event with your input and participation. For more The ACIA workshop (like ASIA, with a “C”), is the highly- background information, check out the original proposal[3] anticipated, self-sponsored event organized by Creative and the iCommons’ article “What is Asia Commons?”[4] Commons jurisdiction project teams and other commons- based initiatives, and they are inviting all interested parties to Thank you to Tyng-Ruey Chuang (CC in Taiwan), Jessica attend the workshop with a focus on the following objectives: Coates (CC in Australia), and the other Asia Commoners for their dedication to this great initiative! • Strengthening the “Asia Commons” by bringing in more Endnotes members and improving links to related organizations 1,2 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/ within the Asia Pacific region; 3 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/ac:original-proposal • Promoting the commons in the region, and providing a 4 http://icommons.org/articles/what-is-asia-commons forum to develop practical strategies for this promotion; CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 17 18 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CCi Related Events ACIA: Asia Commoners meet in Taipei by Michelle Thorne 24 January 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7994 The workshop, ACIA: the International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age,[1] which was Jui-chuan,[23] and André van Rensburg, [24] Bust This,[25] Sudev organized by CC Taiwan[2] and hosted at Academica Bangah,[26] and Lisa Diy.[27] Sinica[3] on January 19-20 in Taipei, Taiwan, focused on bringing together members of the “Asia Commons” to meet Endnotes 1 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/ and discuss regional strategies and initiatives. The program[4] 2 http://creativecommons.org.tw/ opened with a keynote by Terry Fischer on “Solutions to 3 http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ the copyright crisis,”[5] in which he sought to combine legal 4 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/ac:program reforms and business models with digital technologies that 5 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/program:solutions-to- compensate creators while enabling cultural and economic the-copyright-crisis benefits. Both Ts’ui-jung Liu, VP of Academia Sinica, and 6 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/program:the-making- Der Tsai Lee, director of the Institute of Information Science, of-a-totally-open-phone Academia Sinica, were at the opening ceremonies and 7 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/program:sony-eyevio- delivered greetings to the workshop participants. user-generated-media-meets-creative-commons 8 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/program:jamming-with- CC Vice President Mike Linksvayer chaired a session featuring machines plans for “The Making a Totally Open Phone”,[6] Sony’s 9 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/program:making- integration of CC licensing for their eyeVio video sharing creative-commons-common-in-asia service,[7] techniques in musical collaboration with “Jamming 10 http://rejon.org/2008/01/19/slides-from-acia-and-asia- commons-conference-in-taiwan/ with Machines”,[8] and “Making Creative Commons Common 11 http://www.creativecommons.org.au/ in Asia”[9] by CC’s Jon Phillips (slides).[10] 12 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/program:playing-well- with-others Later in the day, CC Australia[11] Project Manager Jessica 13 http://cn.creativecommons.org/ Coates presented open licensing compatibility in “Playing 14 http://www.creativecommons.org.my/ Well With Others”[12] at a panel with Chunyan Wang from 15 http://www.cci.edu.au/ccc/ CC China Mainland[13] and Alina Ng from CC Malaysia. 16 http://creativecommons.org.au/asiaandthecommons%20 [14] The CC Team from Australia and the Creative Commons 17 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/program:how-does-an- Clinic[15] also announced the release of the Asia and the asian-commons-mean Commons case studies booklet,[16] a fantastic collection of 18 http://www.monbaza.com/ reports on individuals and organizations engaged in the 19 http://my.streetvoice.com.tw/pigheadskin commons in the Asia-Pacific region. 20 http://moshang.net/ 21 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g90FXXEdluI Their work was followed by Lawrence Liang and his debate 22 http://kou.com.tw/ about concepts, “How Does An Asian Commons Mean.” 23 http://www.myspace.com/juichuanchang [17] The ACIA workshop drew to an close with Chu-Cheng 24 http://www.myspace.com/andrevanrensburg Huang’s final remarks on the changing phases of property 25 http://www.groovestore.co.kr/album/album_view.php?goods_ in “From res nullius to res communis,”[18] a session chaired by code=G1196752169 the event’s organizer, Tyng-Ruey Chuang from CC Taiwan. 26 http://www.myspace.com/sbinfluence 27 http://www.m2kmusic.net/resources/songwriters/lisa_diy.htm The social program picked up as the sun set with the CC Asia Mega Mix Concert featuring acts by Monbaza;[19] Pig Head Skin;[19] MoShang[20] (video),[21] Kuo Chou Ching,[22] Chang CCi Related Events COMMUNIA: public domain 2nd COMMUNIA Workshop: & alternative licensing experts Ethical Public Domain convene in Europe by Michelle Thorne by Michelle Thorne 5 October 2007 12 March 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7698 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8121 COMMUNIA,[1] the The second COMMUNIA workshop, Ethical Public European Thematic Domain: Debate of Questionable Practices,[1] took place Network on the Public on Monday, March 31 in the geographic center of Domain in the Digital Europe:[2] Vilnius, Lithuania. Age, held its kick-off meeting[2] in Turin, Italy on The workshop hosted ten rounds of debates on issues September 28, 2007. The concerning to the public domain and related policies and network consists of over 35 practices, followed by a press conference inviting the media members from 21 countries and public to join the discussion. who are dedicated to developing The workshop in Lithuania was organized by Minciu Sodas,[3] an online laboratory experimenting with humanitarian efforts “the single European point such as Pyramid of Peace,[4] an innovative project helping of reference for high-level Kenyans during political unrest by enabling the donation of policy discussion and strategic action on all issues related mobile phone airtime, which can be shared or traded in the to the public domain in the digital environment, as well Kenyan mobile phone network for food and medicine. as related topics such as alternative forms of licensing for creative material (including, but not limited to, the Creative Also, the First COMMUNIA International Conference[5] will Commons licenses), open access to scientific publications be held in Leuven-La-Neuve (Belgium) from June 30 - July 1, and research results, management of works whose authors 2008. There is currently a Call for papers for the conference. are unknown (i.e. orphan works).” The deadline for submissions is March 30th, and abstracts addressing one of the following topics are very welcome: The COMMUNIA project, funded by the European Libraries and archives, Public sector Information, Creative Commission[3] and coordinated by Politecnico di Torino,[4] will works, Scientific research, Publishing intermediaries or enrich the next 3 years with a productive schedule of thematic Emerging Issues. workshops and conferences, with the goal of maintaining a strong link between participants dedicated to analytical COMMUNIA is a project funded by the European Commission and practical results, including “the production of a book; and coordinated by Politecnico di Torino. It consists of over an academic journal; a “best practices” guide for European 35 members from 21 countries dedicated to developing research and reference centres on the topics covered by “the single European point of reference for high-level policy COMMUNIA; and a final strategic report containing policy discussion and strategic action on all issues related to the guidelines that will help all the stakeholders - public and public domain in the digital environment” and related topics, private, from the local to the European level - tacking the including Creative Commons licensing. issues that the existence of a digital public domain have raised and will undoubtedly continue to raise.” Endnotes 1 http://www.communia-project.eu/ws02 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_centre_of_ The kick-off meeting owes its success to the superb organization Europe#Lithuania efforts of Italian CC Project Lead and COMMUNIA Network 3 http://www.ms.lt/ Coordinator Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin, Project Manager 4 http://www.pyramidofpeace.net/ Andrea Glorioso, Ms. Maria Teresa Medina Quintana, Prof. 5 http://www.communia-project.eu/conf2008 Angelo Raffaele Meo, and Prof. Marco Ricolfi. Also part of Communia > 47 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 19 20 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CCi Related Events T he 1 st I nternational C reative C ommons K orea Conference and Naver CC Integration by Jon Phillips 11 March 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8120 CEO of Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig[1] along with VP of Science Commons,[2] John Wilbanks, and myself, Jon Phillips[3] holder of the title[4] of the “human inbox” of Creative which has already adopted CCL to its blog service in Commons [5] will all be participating at the 1st International 2005, and Paran[16] in 2007. These portal sites are known Creative Commons Korea[6] conference, “Open Culture in to grab more than 90% of Korea’s portal market. CC”[7] on Friday, March 14 in Seoul, Korea. Lessig will go big with his keynote, Wilbanks will be presenting “Information The key thing to note with Naver’s CC licensing integration and Sharing: A Universal Solvent for Life Sciences” and I will as a service that effectively everyone with a net connection round up the CC pack with my new presentation: Share or uses, is that Koreans now have CC licensing front-and-center. Die: Collaborative Media Projects from Art to Business. Yes, Many know that Korea takes the crown as the most wired that’s right! I will be wearing more of my art hat at this one, nation with 95% broadband penetration inside the home [17]. but will round it up by discussing how individual practice Korea, is a hyper-connected homogenous society that now must be sustainable all the way up the ladder to a large has CC licensing on the most used service in the country. scale web company. How long will it take for Korea to take the title of the country with the highest level of Creative Commons license adoption These presentations are the tip of the iceberg as brilliant per individual? Korean colleagues will cover many topics as they relate to Korean society in the large global context and Chiaki UPDATE: Michelle already wrote a stellar blog post about Hayashi from Loftwork[8] in Japan will discuss running a the conference, by the way.[18] business where Creative Commons licensing is core to its daily function. Endnotes 1 http://lessig.org/ 2 http://sciencecommons.org/ I’m quite eager though to interact with our Korean colleagues 3 http://rejon.org/ on the recently announced Creative Commons licensing 4 http://rejon.org/bio integration into Naver.[9] And, I should note that by looking 5 Jon Philllips’ long form title is Community and Business at the web traffic at http://creativecommons.org, there is a Development Manager. massive surge from Korea since the Naver announcement. 6 http://www.creativecommons.or.kr/ The CC Korea blog states:[10] 7 http://www.creativecommons.or.kr/conference/eng/ 8 http://loftwork.com/ On 26 February, Naver,[11] one of the major portal service 9 http://www.creativecommons.or.kr/global/article/46 providers[12] in Korea, announced that it officially introduces 10 http://www.creativecommons.or.kr/global/article/46 Creative Commons License to its blog[13] and café services 11 http://www.naver.com/ and began a grand campaign for promoting CCL with 12 http://www.newsweek.com/id/62262 cartoons, videos, etc. As for the largest portal service 13 http://section.blog.naver.com/BlogEpisode4Ccl.nhn provider in user size at home, Naver has been struggling 14 http://cafe.naver.com/SectionNoticeList.nhn?nid=761 with copyright infringements, content and blog posting 15 http://hyphen.daum.net/hyphen/ piracy activities of users. In a hope to find a reliable campaign/2008CCKoreaConference.do solution against them, Naver has chosen to introduce the 16 http://blog.paran.com/blog@hanmir/20742601 CC license scheme. And it is very welcomed. 17 Trust me. From living in Korea, I’ve seen four year olds with cellphones on the Internet! What? And, now that Relatively belated, but thanks to their introduction, most of I’m living 50% of my time in Guangzhou, China (the the Korean portal sites take part in CC licensing. With this other 50 ‘cent in San Francisco), I’m feeling the burn announcement, Naver becomes the third next to Daum,[15] CC Korea > 47 CCi Related Events 1 st CC K orea I nternational CCi Legal Day 2008 Conference by Michelle Thorne Creative Commons Wiki 28 February 2008 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/ http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8077 CCi_Legal_Day_2008 “Open Culture in CC” is the theme of the first CC Korea Creative Commons’ second “CCi Legal Day”[1] is scheduled International Conference, [1] a day-long event to be held on for July 29, 2008. Friday, March 14th at the National Museum of Korea (map). [2] At the iSummit 2008 in Saporro, Creative Commons will again invite its international network of project leads and The CC Korea[3] team, lead by Chief Project Lead Jongsoo teams to participate in a workshop about the legal and Yoon, have organized the conference not only to celebrate international aspects of the Creative Commons licenses. the 3rd birthday of CC Korea and its localized CC licenses,[4] Similar to last year’s CCi Legal Day, this special meeting will but as a platform to promote Open Culture in Korea, both be held one day ahead of the actual iSummit events. With qualitatively and quantitatively, by discussing case studies the increasing growth of Creative Commons worldwide, and coordinating future projects. a structured discussion about policies, legal issues, and questions about interoperability will prove both necessary The program is divided into four tracks, covering topics such and fruitful. as open access and peer review, case studies in public sector content usage, Government Information Licensing Framework We hope that the CCi Legal Day in Sapporo will build upon (GILF)[5] in Australia, and media tools for CC in businesses. the initiative that began in Rio de Janeiro and continued in Dubrovnik, and that the event will help set the stage for further Speakers at the conference include Creative Commons’ detailed collaboration on questions about the international own Lawrence Lessig and Jon Phillips, John Wilbanks from Creative Commons licensing suite. Science Commons,[6] Project Lead Brian Fitzgerald from CC Australia,[7] and many representatives from Korean institutions The agenda will be opened in March 2008 with a call including SuMyoung Lee (Ministry of Culture and Tourism),[8] for discussion topics. The CCi team is looking forward SeungHoon Chun (Samsung),[9] iSuk Woo (Korea National to receiving your input and ideas in order to organise a University), KyoungHee Jung (Hansung University),[10] successful and interesting day in Sapporo! JungWook Seo (Korea National University), SungWook Moon (KDI School of Public Policy and Management),[11] See also • CCi Legal Day Programme 2008 JongMin Ham (NHN), [12]and ChangShin Park (Newsbank). http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCi_Legal_Day_ Programme_2008 Endnotes 1 http://www.creativecommons.or.kr/conference/eng/ 2 http://www.museum.go.kr/eng/use/sub_02.jsp • Archives: CCi Legal Day 2007 3 http://www.creativecommons.or.kr/ http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCi_Legal_Day_2007 4 http://creativecommons.org/international/kr/ Endnotes 5 http://www.qsic.qld.gov.au/qsic/QSIC.nsf/CPByUNID/6C310 1 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCi_Legal_Day_2008 63F945CD93B4A257096000CBA1A 6 http://sciencecommons.org/ 7 http://www.creativecommons.org.au/ 8 http://www.mct.go.kr/english/index.jsp 9 http://samsung.kr/news/index.jsp 10 http://www.hansung.ac.kr/eng/ 11 http://www.kdischool.ac.kr/new/eng/index.jsp 12 http://www.nhncorp.com/ CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 21 22 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CCi Related Events CC Nordic meeting Creative Commons Wiki Project description. The project will bring together Nordic http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Nordic_meeting Creative Commons licensing researchers and activists for a weekend workshop to Stockholm in September 2008. The workshop will provide networking for Nordic researchers and co-ordinate and discuss the license localizations and free 2008 Nordic Creative Commons Summit. culture promotion. The event will be co-hosted by Helsinki The summit brings together scholars and practitioners from Institute for Information Technology and VINNOVA Centre legal and culture field to discuss best policies of implementing of Excellence for Sustainable Communications. Expected legal open content sharing in Nordic countries. attendance is 100 people. Background. The translation and localization work is done The program consists of keynote presentations, workshops by volunteer teams in each jurisdiction who are committed to and panels. Invited papers are selected and printed in a introducing CC to their country and who consult extensively special “open content, culture and law” publication in a joint with members of the public and key stakeholders as part publication of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology of the porting process. Denmark’s, Finland’s and Sweden’s and VINNOVA Centre of Excellence for Sustainable volunteer country teams have adapted the previous version Communications. The publication will be made available in of the licenses and have web pages for instructing the rights electronic form for free. The printed material will be made owners for how to use the licenses. Norway is in the process available for academic and cultural institutions. of localizing the licenses. Information of the summit will be distributed through the Creative Commons is based to copyright licenses that are international Creative Commons network and using Nordic translated and localized to each countries local legal system. networks own channels like participating institutions web This ensures that the licenses are easily understood and pages and mailing lists. The event is organized by the enforceable in each country The Nordic legal systems has Nordic CC network. a common heritage when it comes to copyright law. Nordic co-operation can thus help to produce common licensing Endnotes 1 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Nordic_CC_network structure and provide insights for the translation process. Having a face to face meeting also helps the networking of the volunteer members of the movement. Birthday Party 2007 Creative Commons Wiki http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Birthday_Party Creative Commons turned 5 on 15 December 2007. New York, United States (Celebrate CC’s 5th Birthday in In celebration, parties were held in Beijing, China (Birthday NYC); Bangalore, India (Khichdiz, Mixtures of Various Party 2007 Beijing); Berlin, Germany (Birthday Party 2007 Kinds); and Los Angeles, United States (Surprise Birthday Berlin); Pasay, Pilippines (Birthday Party 2007 Manila); Party 2007 Los Angeles) San Francisco, United States (Birthday Party 2007 San Francisco); Seoul, Korea (Birthday Party 2007 Seoul); Belgrade, Serbia (Birthday Party and Launch Event 2007 Belgrade); Brisbane, Australia (CCau Birthday BBQ Bash); CCi Points of Interest D utch C ollecting S ocieties D anish C ollecting S ociety Welcome CC KODA t e a m s u p w i t h CC Denmark by Melissa Reeder by Michelle Thorne 23 August 2007 31 January 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7622 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8012 From Paul Keller[1] — CC Netherlands[2] Project Lead: Creative Commons Denmark[1] has just announced[2] that KODA,[3] the Danish Authors’ Society, is now offering On August 23, 2007, Dutch collecting societies Buma and noncommercial Creative Commons licensing to its members Stemra and Creative Commons Netherlands launched - making it the second country worldwide to do so. A similar a pilot project[3] that seeks to provide Dutch musicians pilot project[4] was initiated in 2007 by Buma/Stemra[5] in the with more opportunities to promote their own repertoire. Netherlands. Both show that collective rights management This project enables members of Buma/Stemra to use and Creative Commons licenses can be combined to the the 3 non-commercial CC licenses for non-commercial benefit of creators. As Paul Keller of Creative Commons distribution of their works. It also allows Dutch composers Netherlands[6] notes, “Creators can rely on the strength of and lyricists who already use the CC NonCommercial collective rights management for commercial uses of their license to join Buma/Stemra[4] and have them collect their works, while taking noncommercial online distribution into royalties for commercial use of their works. their own hands by using Creative Commons licenses.” Before now Dutch authors have not been able to make their KODA’s adoption of Creative Commons licensing marks a work available online under the CC NC license while at breakthrough for Danish composers and lyricists wanting the same time having Buma/Stemra collect their royalties to explore new ways of making their work available online for commercial use of those works. The Netherlands is while at the same time collecting commercial royalties the first country to bring such a collaboration between through KODA. a music copyright organization and Creative Commons, a move applauded by Lawrence Lessig, the founder and Members must sign an agreement with the KODA in which chairman of Creative Commons International, as “the they indicate which works they wish to license, and for first step towards more freedom of choice in the field of the purpose of this arrangement, only Creative Commons exploiting music works in the digital world.” licenses with the “non-commercial” condition can be used. The press release by Creative Commons Netherlands and For more information about this exciting initiative and other Buma Stemra can be found at http://www.creativecommons. Danish projects, please visit CC Denmark’s website (Danish). nl/bumapilot/070823persbericht_en_web.pdf. And for [7] And for those of you who missed it, last week we posted[8] more information about what’s going on in the Netherlands about the first album in Denmark to be released under a CC check out CC Netherlands website [5] license in cooperation with KODA: Tone’s[9] “Small Arm of the Sea” (download).[10] Endnotes Endnotes 1 http://www.kennisland.nl/nl/mensen/paul/index.html 1 http://creativecommons.dk/ 2 http://www.creativecommons.nl/ 2 http://creativecommons.dk/?p=11 3 http://creativecommons.nl/2007/08/23/cc-nl-start-pilot- 3 http://koda.dk/ flexibel-rechtenbeheer-samen-met-bumastemra/ 4 http://www.creativecommons.nl/extra/bumapilot 4 http://www.bumastemra.nl/ 5 http://www.bumastemra.nl/ 5 http://www.creativecommons.nl/ 6 http://creativecommons.nl/ 7 http://creativecommons.dk/ 8 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7988 9 http://tonetone.org/ 10 http://urlyd.com/section/downloads/tone-small-arm-sea/ CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 23 24 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CCi Points of Interest Tone Releases Small Arm of Sea by Cameron Parkins 21 January 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7988 Today marks the release of Small Arm of Sea,[1] the debut Endnotes album by female indietronica singer, songwriter and 1 http://urlyd.com/section/downloads/tone-small-arm-sea/ producer Tone[2] (Sofie Nielsen). While the album itself is 2 http://tonetone.org/ unique in its style and substance, seamlessly combining 3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/dk/deed. en_GB abstract electronic composition techniques with a clear pop 4 http://urlyd.com/ sensibility, it is equally as intriguing in terms of distribution. 5 http://urlyd.com/section/label-profile/ Small Arm of Sea is available both in stores (on both combined CD/DVD w/ visuals or vinyl) and online (for free, non-DRM download), with physical copies containing the text “Copy this album for your friends, please!”. The most interesting aspect of the album’s distribution is that Small Arm of Sea is both CC-licensed (BY-NC-ND)[3] and backed commercially by KODA, Denmark’s music collecting society. This means that not only is Small Arm of Sea available for free and open sharing, but also operating within in the traditional Danish commercial structure, in which KODA collects royalties for commercial uses. This is the first album of its kind to be released in such a way, and label Urlyd,[4] who are releasing the album, are understandably ecstatic:[5] Until recently the use of Creative Commons licenses was incompatible with services provided by collecting societies such as KODA (KODA administers Danish and international copyrights for composers, songwriters and music publishers when their musical works are performed in public). If a singer, musician, publisher, or producer wanted to distribute her work for free online under a Creative Commons license, she was forced to give up the right to receive compensation through royalties collected by the collecting agency. As a consequence, mostly bands without a recording contract and outside of the collective rights management have used the Creative Commons model. “The novelty here is that our artists can collect commercial royalties through the traditional model while fully using the potential of the internet - giving fans the freedom to do what they ultimately do best.” Small Arm of Sea is truly a phenomenal album, both in musical quality and as an experiment in new forms of content distribution. Download it for free at http://urlyd.com/ section/downloads/tone-small-arm-sea/ CCi Points of Interest G erman public broadc aster Heaps of Positive Coverage for adopts CC license CC Licenses on German TV by Michelle Thorne by Michelle Thorne 20 November 2007 26 November 2007 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7838 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7842 We just ran a post[1] about the German public broadcaster NDR,[2] who recently announced it will release segments from some of its programs under a CC license. But the flood of positive feedback and media coverage has prompted us to write another article pointing to a few of the gems (mostly in German): • The TV magazine Zapp introduces and explains its decision to implement a CC license; [3] • Articles in Welt,[4] Spiegel Online,[5] heise.de,[6] PCwelt.de,[7[ goldem.de,[8] Sat+Kabel;[9] • and from the blogosphere Netzpolitik,[10] Medienrauschen,[11] Rebellenidyll,[12] Peter Turi,[13] Jan Knöttig, Prospero.net,[14] The Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR),[1] a public radio and Tim Schlotfeld/E-Learning,[15] Teddy Krieger,[16] Stohl.de,[17] television broadcaster belonging to Germany’s national DWDL,[18] Wortfeld.de,[19] and many, many more! broadcasting consortium ARD,[2] announced today that they will begin to use CC licenses for some of their programs. Endnotes 1 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7838 The political comedy show Extra 3 and critical media [3] 2 http://www.ndr.de/ magazine Zapp[4] will release segments of their program 3 http://www3.ndr.de/ndrtv_pages_video/0,,OID4423446_ under a BY-NC-ND license as part of a pilot project lasting VID4422126,00.html for six months. 4 http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article1384072/Private_ Websites_duerfen_NDR-Filme_zeigen.html More information can be found at http://www1.ndr.de/ 5 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,518668,00.html ratgeber/technik/creativecommonsindex2.html (German) 6 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/99279 and in NDR’s official press release[5] (German). 7 http://www.pcwelt.de/start/dsl_voip/online/news/125337/ 8 http://www.golem.de/0711/56079.html Thanks to Meike Richter, CC Project Leads John-Hendrik 9 http://www.satundkabel.de/modules.php?op=modload&name Weitzmann (Germany) & Paul Keller (Netherlands), and =News&file=article &sid=27784&mode=thread&order=0&thol d=0 CC Creative Director Eric Steuer for their involvement in this 10 http://netzpolitik.org/2007/inhalte-des-ndr-unter-creative- great initiative! commons/ Endnotes 11 http://www.medienrauschen.de/archiv/ndr-oeffnet-sich/ 1 http://www.ndr.de/ 12 http://blog.rebellenidyll.de/2007/11/20/beitraege-des-ndr- 2 http://www.ard.de/ unter-creative-commons/ 3 http://www.ndr.de/extra3 13 http://turi-2.blog.de/2007/11/20/heute2_openndr_t_mobile_ iphone~3326212/ 4 http://www.ndr.de/zapp 14 http://prospero.netbib.de/?p=6678 5 http://www1.ndr.de/unternehmen/presse/pressemitteilungen/ pressemeldungndr934.html 15 https://www.tschlotfeldt.de/node/602 16 http://teddykrieger.blog.de/2007/11/20/ndr_inhalte_unter_ creative_commons_lizen~3324795 17 http://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=6983 18 http://www.dwdl.de/article/news_13486,00.html 19 http://www.wortfeld.de/2007/11/lizenziert/ CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 25 26 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CCi Points of Interest Public Broadcasters Opt for CC by Michelle Thorne The BBC also offers television and radio programs to stream 22 January 2008 or download through its iPlayer,[13] although the player’s http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7987 format has been the source of some criticism.[14] The BBC’s dedication to public access has helped inspire Public broadcasters often ask themselves: how to better several other open projects for European public broadcasters. enable tax payers to access the works that they have In November 2007 the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR),[15] paid for? This was the question that the BBC, the public a public radio and television broadcaster in Germany’s broadcaster for the United Kingdom, addressed[1] in 2004 national broadcasting consortium ARD, announced[16] that during the debate over its charter renewal. The result of their they will use CC licenses for some of their programs. The six- deliberations was a yearlong pilot, the Creative Archive month pilot has so far generated positive coverage,[17] and it Licensing Group project,[2] launched in September 2005. is hoped that its services will be continued. The objective of the Creative Archive was to make BBC material Also, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation[18] features CC- available online to UK citizens. The content was released licensed images and content on its website, and it was under a Creative Archive Licence,[3] a license similar in some the first broadcaster to purchase and air the CC-licensed respects to the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical documentary, Good Copy Bad Copy.[19] In the Netherlands, ShareAlike License,[4] but more restrictive in that it allowed only the public broadcasting network VPRO[20] has implemented non-profit educational & personal use, forbade promotional or CC licenses for its 3voor12 Plundert Musea[21] project, which campaign use, and limited these rights to within the UK. makes available samples from rare musical instruments, and furthermore the Dutch broadcaster also promotes CC music During the pilot period, the Creative Archive received much on its radio show Wissel.[22] Also of note is Images for the praise. At its conclusion in September 2006, the BBC had Future,[23] a joint project funded by the Dutch government to released[5] nearly 500 clips, full programs, audio tracks, and digitize nearly 3 million photos, 140,000 hours of audio, images. As the recent director of the Creative Archive Paul and 150,000 hours of video & film, which is another great Gerhardt noted in an interview,[6] viewers respected the licenses, example of efforts to preserve the commons through online and during the trial period, only two minor licensing breaches public access to cultural resources. had been reported. However, a hurdle[7] for the initiative was the fact that the Creative Archive could only license simple However, despite many positive strides, creators working rights material from the BBC, which meant that no third-party for public broadcasters still often find themselves at odds programming could be included in the Archive. with their institutions’ more traditional copyright policies. In- house legal departments can be reluctant to embrace user- Still, as Herkko Hietanen points out in Community Created generated content, remixes, downloads, and third-party Content, “[8]The [Creative Archive] was in line with BBC’s material, and at times, they may endorse restrictive DRM goal ‘ to turn the BBC into an open cultural and creative while resisting new and open media formats. As more and resource for the nation’.” [9]The Creative Archive was indeed more publicly-funded content goes online, it is important a significant step for public interest and one of the BBC’s enable and empower users, rather than leaving enriching most applauded initiatives.[10] And so, although the Creative material to digitally decay. Archive is not longer in active use, the philosophy of open licensing has continued to grow within the BBC. If readers have any additional examples of CC license usage in public broadcasting, we invite you to include them on our Today several departments in the BBC publish content under Content Directories wiki.[24] Creative Commons licenses: album reviews (for example)[11] and a partnership[12] with MusicBrainz, a community music Endnotes 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/docs/bbc_constitution/bbc_royal_ metadatabase that uses CC licenses. Furthermore, under charter_and_agreement/Building_Public_Value.pdf other licensing conditions, the BBC has opened up its website 2 http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/ to developers at backstage.bbc.co.uk. Public Broadcasters > 47 CCi Points of Interest Revised Guidelines For International License Porting Process • experience with hosting and organizing events Creative Commons Wiki http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Worldwide_ • strategies for fundraising Overview • willingness to work within the CCi guidelines • ability to communicate in English In November CCI revised its guidelines for the international Affiliate Institution porting process. These guidelines provide an overview for The Affiliate Institution officially houses the CC project in founding of a local CC jurisdiction project with the aim of their jurisdiction porting of the CC licensing suite to national law. • locally run, owned, and managed • mandate of host institution and potential for independence Creative Commons International, which oversees the of CC project internationalization of the Creative Commons licensing • copyright/internet law expertise suite, would like project teams in as many jurisdictions as possible to join our efforts to increase the sum of raw source • professional network, prestige material online and to make access to that material cheaper • willingness to collaborate and easier. We are still looking for expert help all around • capacity the world. The following overview is designed to help you understand what helping us would entail: Project Leads sign a Memorandum of The porting process Understanding (MOU) with Creative Commons Affiliate Institution and Legal and/or Public Project Leads are chosen Once the Project Lead(s) and an Affiliate Institution have been identified, please email CCi with the names and contact Building a Team information of the proposed team members. This information To begin the process of porting the licenses to a new should also include formal titles, institutional positions, email jurisdiction, a team of committed people within that addresses and any appropriate URLs. jurisdiction must be identified. It is important that the team members are dedicated to the project and are willing to CCi will prepare an MOU to be signed by the project cooperate with each other, CCi, and other affiliates around leads and a representative from the affiliate institution. The the world. purpose of the MOU is for the jurisdiction project and CC to agree upon several policies and expectations regarding The following roles will need to be assigned: their collaboration and the license porting. Legal Project Lead Please return the signed MOU first electronically followed Legal Project Lead is responsible for drafting the CC licenses by two originals in the mail to Gipsstrasse 12, 10119 Berlin in their jurisdiction Germany. CCi will then sign and return one original to you. • professional legal credentials Internal administration and Timeline • re p u t a tio n am o n g co pyr igh t an d in t e ll e c t u al property experts Mailing Lists • enthusiasm for project At this time, CCi will announce the Project Leads and the • willingness to work within the CCi guidelines Affiliate Institution on our mailing list and on our website • ability to communicate in English under the column “Upcoming Jurisdictions”. There are other recommended Creative Commons mailing lists, which you Public Project Lead may choose to join and contribute to as well. Public Project Lead is a spokesperson for the CC Project in their jurisdiction Furthermore, we will provide your jurisdiction with its own • strong network of collaborators mailing list, which can be used to host discussions about CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 27 28 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 the license drafts and coordinate events. Please invite Translate the license (if applicable) to your list interested and valuable stakeholders in your Translate the license verbatim into the first official language region. Examples of key stakeholders include prominent of your jurisdiction. commentators on copyright in your jurisdiction, Wikipedia leaders in relevant region or language, and potential license Analyze and adapt the license adaptors in your area. Once you have literally translated the license into your jurisdiction’s first language, then you must modify the license We encourage you use the mailing list as tool to involve to be compliant with your applicable copyright legislation and consult the members of your community, and also keep them informed about developments in Creative Commons Prepare an explanation in English projects, both local and worldwide. Prepare a document that describes any substantial legal changes made to the generic license. A suggested format Developing a timeline for this document is (by column): BY-NC-SA original version, After the internal administration has been completed, the BY-NC-SA ported version (in jurisdiction’s first language), BY- jurisdiction’s project leads will propose a timeline for the NC-SA ported version re-translated into English, commentary porting process. Each step, especially the launch date, to changes. should be coordinated with the CCi team. Please find below a suggested timeframe: Send the license draft (re-translated into English) and explanation of substantial legal changes • Legal Project Lead produces first draft, including re- Send the re-translated license draft and the explanation of translation into English and chart of substantial legal substantial legal changes to the CCi team. changes: one month CCi reviews first draft • CCi reviews the first draft: one month Please send the first draft and any other relevant material to • Public discussion: one month Catharina at CCi. • Legal Project Lead produces second draft: two weeks • CCi reviews second draft: one month At this point, she will review the draft and work closely • Project Leads arrange necessary translation and with the Legal Project Lead to ensure that the license is as customization of the Commons Deed, the FAQs, and suitable as possible. Depending on the circumstances, this other related content: one-two months collaboration will be conducted on a public list or offline. • Ported Licenses are posted on creativecommons.org: one week This stage may be intense, since there are often many translation issues to consider. Therefore, it may take several • The Launch is celebrated! email exchanges and/or phone calls to ensure that all the fine points of the licenses have been addressed and Legal Project Lead produces a first draft understood correctly. After a timeline has been agreed upon, then the Legal Project Lead will produce a first draft of the license. Please be patient and open to feedback -- we are all working together to write the most comprehensive and accurate Review the license licenses as possible for your jurisdiction. The license that you will be working with is the most recent version of Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA). Public discussion The public discussion is a stage in which the team You should prepare the first draft from CCi’s working invites members of the public to participate in the document, which is a document based on the most recent license drafting. Creative Commons will announce version of BY-NC-SA, the most comprehensive CC license. the draft on creativecommons.org, and we expect Every element required for all 6 generic licenses can be the Legal Project Lead to encourage commentary and found in BY-NC-SA. criticism from their community. This step is crucial in the porting process, since it enables • how Creative Commons fits into the current legislation the community to develop and improve the license. It is • changes that were made to the licenses to accommodate important to conduct the public discussion in an open and local legislation and policy fair way and to incorporate the changes that the community deems appropriate. CCi reviews second draft Before entering the public discussion, please Please send the second draft and any relevant material to send us: CCi. Catharina will review the second draft and collaborate • the most recent license draft (in the jurisdiction’s first with the Legal Project Lead to fine-tune the licenses and language) (PDF) confirm that all aspects have been addressed. • an English re-translation of the draft (PDF) • an explanation of the substantial legal changes in As with the first draft, this collaboration will be conducted English (PDF) either on a public list or offline. • name, title, and email addresses of each Project Lead. Again, please be patient at this stage. Sometimes local legal This information will be made public experts continue to make revisions once the second draft has • a short biography (2-3 paragraphs, including hyperlinks) been submitted to CCi. It is sometimes necessary to redraft the about the Affiliate Institute licenses several times before reaching a final, stable version. • a small logo for the Affiliate Institute (jpeg, png, svg, or gif preferred) However, please keep encouraging the input from your community. In the end, it will ensure that all bases have been Once in the public discussion covered and that your jurisdiction will be able to offer the • discuss with team members whom to invite and how to most complete licenses possible! ensure maximum involvement by local stakeholders • agree with team members on to how to structure Project leads finalize licenses and arrange the discussion technical requirements • develop a summary of the list and highlight specific issues to be addressed in the second draft Transform the licenses Once CCi, the Legal Project Lead, and the jurisdiction’s Legal Project Lead produces second draft community have agreed upon the license draft, then the Once the Project Leads agree that enough time in the public Legal Lead will be responsible for transforming the BY-NC- discussion has elapsed, then they can begin to work on SA license into the six generic CC licenses: a second draft. This draft should be a revision based on comments gained in the public discussion. • BY-NC-ND • BY-NC-SA When the second draft is finalized, we kindly ask for another • BY-NC English re-translation of the draft, and please point out and explain the changes that have been made. • BY-ND • BY-SA If any interesting and relevant material has surfaced during • BY the public discussion that you would like to share, we encourage you to forward the information to us so that we All of these licenses can be derived from the clauses can inform the CC community. Examples of relevant material contained in BY-NC-SA. include: • a brief history of copyright law and intellectual property Translate informational material rights in your jurisdiction The Project Leads will also be responsible for coordinating • outline and links to major legislation and international treaties the literal translation of CC’s informational material. If these that affect copyright and IP rights in your jurisdiction documents are already translated into your jurisdiction?s CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 29 30 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 first language, then you may also like to consider offering will be the decision of the Project Leads. However, the event translations in other common languages in your region. should attract publicity to make sure the people will know Furthermore, you should read through all documents to ensure where to find “creative work available for others to create that the specifics of your jurisdiction are reflected in the upon and share.” translations. These documents include, but are not limited to: • FAQs Future collaboration • Commons Deed After the launch, the jurisdiction team and CCi will discuss • Trademark policy (other policies) whether the Project Leads and the Affiliate Institution would like to continue to work with CC as part of an ongoing • Disclaimer collaboration. The parties agreeing to stay on board will • Legal Concepts then sign a Legal/Public Project Lead Agreement, which • Choosing a License outlines the expectations and responsibility involved in • CC films on dotsub continued collaboration. Creating the XHTML files Next your team will need to prepare all 6 ported licenses as XHTML files. To create these files, please go to the /worldwide page on the Creative Commons site. Under “Completed Licenses,” click on a jurisdiction’s flag. For this step, we recommend that you work from a launched jurisdiction with the same license version that you are porting (e.g., 3.0) and if possible that shares the same language or script as your jurisdiction. These similarities will make formatting the XHTML files easier for you. If it is not possible to work from an existing jurisdiction, then we recommend working from the unported license. Please note that no further changes will be possible once they have been published Launch of the national version of the licenses Press release Once the XHTML files for all six licenses have been received, CCi will post the licenses on the /international page along with the Commons Deed in your jurisdiction’s language(s). Then CCi will generate a press release to announce the launch. At this time, please send any relevant information about the project or event to CCi. A presskit for high quality graphic files can be found at creativecommons.org/presskit. The launch event Whether the launch is in the form of a party, convention, television program, press conference, or all of the above, CCi Points of Interest Asia and the Commons Case Studies 2008 Creative Commons Australia • Pig Head Skin & Jesus Rocks! (http://creativecommons. http://www.creativecommons.org.au/ org.au/asiaandthecommons/pigheadskin) asiaandthecommons • Creative Commons Taiwan (http://creativecommons.org. au/asiaandthecommons/cctaiwan) • International IDEA Publishing (http://creativecommons. The Asia and the Commons case study project represents an org.au/asiaandthecommons/ideapublishing) effort to uncover exemplary individuals and organisations • 60Sox ( h t t p : //c r e a t i v e c o m m o n s . o r g . a u / engaged in the commons in the Asia-Pacific region. From asiaandthecommons/60sox) Australia and New Zealand to Malaysia and India—in text • Arab Commons (http://creativecommons.org.au/ and film and music and image—this booklet[1] is a snapshot of asiaandthecommons/arabcommons) the Asian commons. The booklet has been prepared as part • Show Some Color (http://creativecommons.org.au/ of ACIA: International Workshop on Asia and Commons in asiaandthecommons/showsomecolor) the Information Age[2] in Taiwan on 19-20 January, 2008. • Global Voices Online (http://creativecommons.org.au/ asiaandthecommons/globalvoicesonline) This research is part of the Creative Commons Clinic[3] • Foundation for P2P Alternatives (http://creativecommons. research program, funded by the Australian Research org.au/asiaandthecommons/p2pfoundation) Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and • EngageMedia (ht tp://creativecommons.org.au/ Innovation[4] at the Queensland University of Technology.[5] It asiaandthecommons/engagemedia) is being undertaken in collaboration with Creative Commons • Moshang & Asian Variations (http://creativecommons. Australia[6] as part of the iCommons[7] Local Context, Global org.au/asiaandthecommons/moshang) Commons initiative.[8] • NLA Picture Australia Click & Flick (http://creativecommons. org.au/asiaandthecommons/nlaclickandflick) Its primary goal is to examine past, present, and future • openDemocracy (http://creativecommons.org.au/ implementations of commons-based projects to offer insights asiaandthecommons/opendemocracy) into the innovative operation and possible future direction of • Creative Commons Clinic (http://creativecommons.org. Asia and the Commons. au/asiaandthecommons/ccClinic) • Sony eyeVio (ht tp://cre ative commons.org.au/ The case studies assembled to date represent activities in asiaandthecommons/sonyeyeVio) nine countries, broader regions such as the Arab nations, and global efforts towards sustainability and social justice, To this end, we invite any individual or organisation revealing creative ways of participating in the commons. participating in the commons to submit their stories to info@ Featured are remix artists, performers, open-source software creativecommons.org.au. Bountiful thanks go to all contributors programmers, filmmakers, collecting institutions and and participants in these projects for helping to make the publishing houses focused on democracy and change, who commons a flourishing cultural movement. demonstrate a diverse set of motivations to engage with the shared ideals of openness and community collaboration. Download the booklet at http://creativecommons.org.au/ materials/AATC/Asia%20and%20the%20Commons%20 We hope that you enjoy reading these vignettes, and booklet.pdf are inspired to contact the individuals and organisations involved. This booklet will contribute to a larger selection of Endnotes 1 http://creativecommons.org.au/materials/Asia%20and%20 case studies to be presented at the iSummit ’08, to be held in the%20Commons%20booklet.pdf Sapporo, Japan, between 29 July and 1 August, 2008. 2 http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/ 3 http://www.cci.edu.au/ccc Case Studies 4 http://www.cci.edu.au/ • Following Alexis West (http://creativecommons.org.au/ 5 http://www.qut.edu.au/ asiaandthecommons/followingalexiswest) 6 http://creativecommons.org.au/ • Strange Symphonies Blog (http://creativecommons.org. 7 http://icommons.org/ au/asiaandthecommons/strangesymphonies) 8 http://icommons.org/nodes/local-context-global-commons CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 31 32 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CCi Points of Interest Visit Planet Creative Commons First CC-licensed Photography Contest in China by Mike Linksvayer by Michelle Thorne 1 March 2008 19 September 2007 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8091 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7659 CC in China Mainland[1] has partnered with the online photo-sharing community nphoto.net and one of China’s largest internet portals, sohu.com, to co-sponsor the first CC- licensed photography contest[2] in China Mainland. The first submissions were received on September 1st, 2007, and at the time of this posting, entries now number around 3,500 and span three major categories: society & humanity, nature & landscape, and portrait. In the universe of blogs and other syndicated content, a planet is a service that aggregates a specific set of blogs, usually all relevant to a particular community, so that one may easily follow conversations (or at least blogged updates) in the community or drop in and see what is happening in a community without having to visit many individual blogs (and having to figure out which ones to visit). Planet Debian[1] and Planet GNOME[2] were the first two planets. Now a planet aggregator is a well established communications channel for many large free software The contest is open to both professional and amateur communities, complementing mailing lists, IRC, wikis, and photographers, and as the blog from CC in China Mainland individual and project blogs. Planet Mozilla[3] is another reports,[3] all entrants will select a localized CC license for good example. their photos. We’ve been syndicating CC jurisdiction project blogs on Judging will be carried out in two phases, the first consisting the CC home page[4] for a while. Now you can see more of open, online voting ending October 15, followed by a and subscribe at planet.creativecommons.org/jurisdictions/. selection by a panel of experts. Awards will be presented Or visit the Planet Creative Commons[5] home page to get to the winners on November 3rd at the National Library of this blog, CC jurisdiction blogs, and various CC community China[4] accompanying the opening of a critically-acclaimed blogs all at one time. photography exhibition. You can read about the software that runs the Planet on the Official contest page: http://cc.nphoto.net/ CC wiki,[6] including CC engineer Nathan Kinkade’s plugin to read syndicated license information.[7] Endnotes Endnotes 1 http://planet.debian.org/ 1 http://cn.creativecommons.org/en/ 2 http://planet.gnome.org/ 2 http://cc.nphoto.net/ 3 http://planet.mozilla.org/ 3 http://cn.creativecommons.org/en/index.php/2007/09/19/ 4 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7710 first-cc-licensed-photography-contest-in-china/ 5 http://planet.creativecommons.org/ 4 http://www.nlc.gov.cn/old/english.htm 6 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Planet_Venus 7 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Syndication CCi Points of Interest CC China Photo Contest Panda Punk Lab: Inauguration in Chile by Joi Ito by Michelle Thorne 4 November 2007 14 November 2007 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7786 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7817 Yesterday, I attended the Creative Commons China[1] Photo Claudio Ruiz[1] from Creative Commons in Chile[2] reports Content ceremony at the National Library in Beijing. There the inauguration of the Panda Punk Lab, a multimedia lab were 10,000 submissions of professional and amateur in Chillán City offering educational software running on an works licensed under various CC licenses. There were three Ubuntu Linux operating system: categories: Society, Nature and Portraits. Winners were chosen by a panel of judges including famous photographers, “ Because the indemnification received by the violation of professors and other notable people. The photographs were a Creative Commons license - the first case in Chile and amazing. There is a web page of the winning photographs. Latin America - the “Panda Punk Lab” was inaugurated [2] Don’t forget to click the link underneath the winning photos yesterday (Monday), which will benefit more than 200 for the second place winner gallery. students of the E-120 “María Saavedra” School, Chillán. While we have silly people in the West saying that for every During the ceremony, the Director of Studies of NGO free photo on Flickr a professional photographer loses their Derechos Digitales,[3] Alberto Cerda, emphasized how job, we have professional photographers in China licensing this donation ratifies the validity of the CC licenses to their best works under CC licenses. As far as I could tell, the share and spread intellectual works, and protect them amateur and professional photographers seemed integrated from non-authorized uses. and supportive of each other. The case was born in April of 2007 when designer After the awards ceremony, we have a workshop with Armando Torrealba realized one of his works - a panda presentations from an illustrious and interesting group of bear drawing with pink punk hair - was used by a retail speakers. Overall a groundbreaking and well executed store for publicity without his authorization. After NGO event. Congratulations Chunyan and the CC China team! Derechos Digitales’ intervention, the enterprise indemnified the professional with a non-specified amount,[4] part I’m uploading photos from my trip in a Flickr set.[3] I found out of which was destined to the implementation of this yesterday that there is a Firefox Plugin to bypass the Chinese laboratory.” block on Flickr.[4] Endnotes Endnotes 1 http://www.quemarlasnaves.net/acerca/ 1 http://cn.creativecommons.org/en/ 2 http://www.creativecommons.cl/ 2 http://cc.nphoto.net/contest2007/winners.html 3 http://www.derechosdigitales.org/ 3 http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/sets/72157602918061297/ 4 http://www.derechosdigitales.org/2007/04/13/creative- 4 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4286 commons-logra-triunfo-historico-en-la-proteccion-de-los- derechos-de-autor/ Image: Inauguración Laboratorio PPunk, photo by Derechos Digitales (http://flickr.com/ photos/ongderechosdigitales/) licensed under CC BY-SA. (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by- sa/2.0) More photos. (http://flickr. com/photos/ongderechosdigitales/ sets/72157603138857040/) CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 33 34 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CC News Creative Commons Announces New Leadership, New Funding by Eric Steuer Change Congress, a movement to increase transparency 1 April 2008 in the US government’s legislative branch. In order to http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8176 concentrate on this effort, Lessig is stepping down as CEO of Creative Commons. He will be replaced by entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and free culture advocate Joi Ito. Lessig Today, Creative Commons is excited to make two will remain on the Creative Commons board. important announcements. “Although I have changed my focus, I’m still very much First, we’re thrilled about a major new grant of $4 committed to Creative Commons and the Free Culture million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,[1] cause,” Lessig said. “The work I intend to do with Change consisting of $2.5 million to provide general support to Congress is in many ways complementary to the work of Creative Commons over five years, as well as $1.5 million Creative Commons. Both projects are about putting people to support ccLearn.[2] in power and enabling them to build a better system. I could not be more pleased to hand off the leadership of Creative We’re also pleased to announce some changes to CC’s Commons to the extraordinarily passionate and qualified Joi leadership that reflect. Lawrence Lessig[3] is stepping down as Ito.” CEO of Creative Commons, to focus on his newly-launched project, Change Congress.[4] He will be replaced by “Under Larry’s management, Creative Commons has grown entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and free culture advocate Joi from an inspirational idea to an essential part of the technical, Ito.[5] Lessig will remain on the Creative Commons board. social, and legal landscape involving organizations and people in 80 countries,” said Ito. “With it, the organization From Larry: has grown in size and complexity, and I am excited to increase the level of my participation to help manage this “Both pieces of news we are announcing today reflect amazing group of people. The Hewlett Foundation has been Creative Commons’ maturation from a startup into crucial a major supporter of ours from the beginning and we could infrastructure for creativity, education, and research in the not be more grateful for their support going forward into the digital age.” future.” Founding board member and Duke law professor James Founding board member and Duke law professor James Boyle[6] will become chair of the board, replacing Ito, who Boyle will become chair of the board, replacing Ito, who will remain on the board. remains on the board. “Jamie has demonstrated his commitment to Creative Commons from its founding,” said San Francisco, CA, USA — April 1, 2008 Lessig. “He led the formation of Science Commons and ccLearn, our divisions focused on scientific research and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that works to education respectively. There is no person better suited to expand the body of creative work available to the public for lead the Creative Commons board.” legal sharing and use, today announced both a leadership evolution and a major new grant of $4 million from the Boyle is optimistic about Creative Commons’ future. “If one William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to support its activities. looks at all the amazing material that has been placed “Both pieces of news we are announcing today reflect under our licenses – from MIT’s Open Courseware and Creative Commons’ maturation from a startup into crucial the Public Library of Science to great music, from countless infrastructure for creativity, education, and research in the photographs and blogs to open textbooks – one realizes digital age,” said the organization’s founder, Stanford law that, under Larry’s leadership, the organization has actually professor Lawrence Lessig. Creative Commons celebrated its helped build a global ‘creative commons’ in which millions fifth anniversary last December. of people around the world participate, either as creators or users. My job will be to use the skills of the remarkable Lessig has announced a shift of academic focus from people on our board – including a guy called Larry Lessig, copyright to political corruption. He recently launched who has promised me he isn’t going away any time soon – to make sure that mission continues and expands.” CC News A pproved for F ree C ultural Works by Mike Linksvayer The Hewlett Foundation grant consists of $2.5 million to 20 February 2008 provide general support to Creative Commons over five years http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8045 and $1.5 million to support ccLearn, the division of Creative Commons that is focused on open educational resources. “The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been a strong supporter of openness and open educational resources in particular,” said Catherine Casserly, the Director of the Open Educational Resources Initiative at Hewlett. “Creative Commons licenses are a critical part of the infrastructure of openness on which those efforts depend.” The Hewlett grant was a vital part of a five-year funding plan which also saw promises of support from Omidyar Network, Google, Mozilla, Red Hat, and the Creative Commons board. Creative Commons also announces two other senior staff changes. Diane Peters joins the organization as General Counsel. Peters arrives from the Mozilla Corporation, serves on the board of the Software Freedom Law Center, and was We’ve just added the seal you see at right to Creative previously General Counsel for Open Source Development Commons licenses that qualify as Free Culture Licenses[1] Labs and the Linux Foundation. She has extensive experience according to the Definition of Free Cultural Works — collaborating with and advising nonprofit organizations, Attribution[2] and Attribution-ShareAlike.[3] Public domain[4] is development communities, and high-tech companies on a not a license, but is an acceptable copyright status for free variety of matters. cultural works according to the Definition. Vice President and General Counsel Virginia Rutledge, who One obvious way to think of the definition is as an application joined Creative Commons last year from Cravath, Swaine of the principles of free software[5] to content. These demand & Moore LLP, will take on a new role as Vice President and the freedom to modify without any discrimination against Special Counsel. In her new role, Rutledge will focus on uses or users, which means that Creative Commons licenses development and external relations, while continuing to lead containing the NonCommercial or NoDerivatives terms do special legal projects. not qualify. Of course you don’t have to agree with the definition of freedom used by the free software movement Endnotes and the Definition of Free Cultural Works, and even if you 1 http://www.hewlett.org/ do agree, there may be reasons for using a more restrictive 2 http://learn.creativecommons.org/ license in some cases. However, this seal and approval 3 http://www.lessig.org/ signals an important delineation between less and more 4 http://change-congress.org/ restrictive licenses, one that creators and users of content 5 http://joi.ito.com/ should be aware of. 6 http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/ A very practical reason users should be aware of these distinctions is that some important projects accept only freely (as defined) licensed or public domain content, in particular Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites, which use the Definition of Free Cultural Works in their licensing guidelines. Indeed, clear marking of qualifying CC licenses as free is one of the issues to be addressed[6] for a potential migration of Wikipedia to CC Attribution-ShareAlike.[7] Free Cultural Works > 47 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 35 36 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CC News CC0 beta/discussion draft feedback and next step by Mike Linksvayer like to use this opportunity to engage at the beginning of 16 February 2008 our process with CC international jurisdiction projects[3] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8045 and other experts to make sure CC0 is the most universal waiver/maximally thin license possible. • Avoiding confusion between the Waiver and the Assertion On January 15 we launched discussion[1] of two new tools will also help with efforts to educate about the existence of in a beta US version, both branded “CC0? — a Waiver of the “public domain” in every jurisdiction, whether called by all copyrights in a work, and an Assertion that there are no that name or not. The Assertion tool should now include the copyrights in a work. After taking account of your feedback ability to indicate reasons why a work would be in the public (thank you!), a lot of internal discussion has led us to plan domain under the law of jurisdictions other than the US. some changes. We are now planning to have the next • We also want to be clear that there is no need to buy iteration of the beta ready for discussion by March 31, but into CC0 branding in order to use CC-built metadata to will describe the overall changes below for early feedback communicate the rights associated with any particular work. as we work toward that iteration. Our goal is interoperability — it’s the “Rights Expression Language” part of ccREL,[4] not the “cc”, that we care about • Many found the use of “CC0? for both the Waiver and the most. Assertion tools to be confusing. Going forward, we plan to separate the tools more clearly. As a legal tool, the CC0 We hope these changes will help clarify messaging Waiver can be thought of as the “no rights reserved” option and make it easier for us to build — with your help — within the CC licensing suite. The Assertion is something the simplest and most effective tools for global usage. different — not a legal tool, but a method of enabling Primary discussion of this work will continue on the cc- statements of fact about the public domain. licenses list.[5] Please join in! • Thinking of the CC0 Waiver as part of the licensing suite is also in keeping with the legal reality that in some situations Endnotes the tool will probably function as a license rather than 1 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7978 a waiver. So we want to begin with a “Universal” (not 2 http://www.opendatacommons.org/ “Unported”) version of the tool. We do not want to give 3 http://creativecommons.org/international US legal code a special status here. This means we need 4 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/ccREL to address now some additional legal issues, such as 5 http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses moral rights and the question of rights in databases. Much discussion of the moral rights issue has already taken place within the CC community, and we will make use of that input. Open Data Commons[2] has provided an example of how database rights might be addressed. We would CC Press Kit Relaunched by Alex Roberts direct links to vector versions of our icons and license buttons, 27 March 2008 and are recommended for use in videos and printed works. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8164 We are pleased to announce a brand new Press Kit page.[1] Please read our policies page[2] for information on how Based on user requests and feedback, we have completely our logos may be used, and see our marking project[3] for redesigned it to make it easier for you to find and use specific examples and best practices on marking your work. CC graphics. Endnotes As before, all graphics are available in various formats for 1 http://creativecommons.org/presskit any purpose, including large format transparent PNGs — 2 http://creativecommons.org/policies which work well in presentations. The page also features 3 http://creativecommons.org/projects/Marking Science Commons News A commons-sense approach to winning the drug discovery lottery by Kaitlin Thaney 24 February 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8065 In a new piece[1] [free reg. req.] this week from GenomeWeb It is not easy. But it is, in a way, a very simple change. Daily News, Aled Edwards[2] — director and CEO of the It just requires the flipping of a switch, from a default rule Structural Genomics Consortium[3] — describes the drug of “sharing doesn’t matter” to one of “sharing matters discovery process as a “lottery,” and argues that increasing enormously.” It is as easy, and as hard, as the NIH the chances for discovery will require that people in mandate on open access. It’s a matter of willpower. “academia, industry, and funding bodies collaborate and keep new structural data accessible to all researchers who Edwards points out that governments and academic might be interested in using it.” institutions spend “hundreds of billions of dollars” each year on activities related to drug development, and biotech and The sentiment echoes those of Science Commons’ own pharmaceutical companies “spend another $50 billion.” Yet John Wilbanks, who earlier this year wrote a post on the the pace of discovery remains static — and according to Nature Network[4] comparing drug discovery to a game Edwards, may even be slowing down. of roulette. It’s a game, says Wilbanks, that people win by “betting on every square, then patenting the one that wins Clearly, the current approach isn’t working. We at Science and extracting high rents from it.” The biggest problem in this Commons are encouraged that more people are coming to scenario, he argues, isn’t the existence of patents, but the understand that it’s time for a new approach to tilt the odds sheer complexity of the human body, and how much we still in our favor — so that we can save not only time and money, have to learn about it: but also human lives. Human bodies make microprocessors look like children’s Endnotes 1 http://www.genomeweb.com/issues/news/145120-1.html toys in terms of complexity. …Complexity is the problem 2 http://www.utoronto.ca/AlEdwardsLab/al_edwards_bio.html both in terms of our understanding of bodies and drugs 3 http://www.thesgc.com/ and in terms of reworking the models around discovery. 4 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/wilbanks/2008/01/09/ This system regularly and utterly defeats the best efforts complexity-and-the-commons of many entrepreneurs and policy reformers to change 5 http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses things for the better. So what’s the solution? According to Wilbanks, it’s a “commons approach,” which entails precisely the kind of collaboration that Edwards advocates: It requires open access to content, journals and databases both. It requires that database creators think about their products as existing in a network, and provide hooks for the network, not just query access. It requires that funders pay for biobanks to store research tools. It requires that pharmaceutical companies take a hard look at their private assets and build some trust in entities that make sharing possible. It requires that scientists share their stuff (this is the elephant in the lab, frankly). It requires that universities track sharing as a metric of scientific and societal impact. CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 37 38 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 Science Commons News Response to STM statement on author addenda by Kaitlin Thaney 14 March 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8065 The International Association of Scientific, Technical & need now more than ever greater clarity and transparency. Medical Publishers (STM)[1] recently released a statement this Overly general statements about what “typical” or “most” March called “Statement on journal publishing agreements publications agreements allow should hardly be of comfort. and copyright agreement ‘addenda.’”[2] It dismisses concerns of scholars, scientists, and universities that publisher copyright It is, nonetheless, a step in the right direction for journals to agreements leave authors without sufficient rights to share acknowledge that authors should be able to retain more rights or re-use their own articles as “rhetorical.” The statement to their own articles. Authors receive no compensation for their suggested that “standard journal agreements” already allow articles, and are often called upon to provide peer review authors to retain rights that various copyright addenda, like for others without compensation. Journals, of course, provide the ones offered by Science Commons,[3] SPARC,[4] MIT,[5] valuable services, including the coordination of peer review, and others, were designed to address. Thus, they seem to for which they ought to receive fair compensation. However, suggest, the addenda are superfluous at best. this statement by these publishers implicitly acknowledges that the balance has rested too far in favor of restrictive journal However, despite their insistence that “most” journal policies intended to protect revenue streams, and that this publication agreements “typically” allow authors to retain balance has been shifting, and needs to shift further, in favor some combination of rights, the reality is that there is no of authors’ freedom and the public interest. “standard” publication agreement. Publications agreements vary widely in what rights they allow scholars to keep, Endnotes 1 http://www.stm-assoc.org/ ranging from full rights of re-use and sharing to sometimes 2 http://www.stm-assoc.org/documents-statements-public- exotic format restrictions (you can distribute the doc or html co/2008.3%20STM-PSP-ALPSP%20Statement%20Publishing version but not the pdf) to no rights at all, so that scholars have %20Agreements%2020080310.pdf to purchase copies of their articles if they want to distribute 3 http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/ to colleagues. The Sherpa project[6] has a large database 4 http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html showing the variations among journal policies. Unfortunately, 5 http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-copyright-amendment- even Sherpa’s summaries of these policies do not always form/ reflect the most accurate or up-to-date information, because 6 http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ the journals can change their publication agreements or policies from time to time. Some of these policies are buried in fine print, some are only found on obscure journal web pages, and some are not published anywhere and are only communicated to a scholar when they bother to call the publisher. And of course these policies are subject to change at any time. Copyright addenda are needed because most authors don’t have a lawyer, much less a whole legal department or law firm (as most publishers have) to parse the legal language of publication agreements for them. They also don’t have the time to search through journal Web sites for hard- to-find policies and to stay up to date with journal policy changes. By attaching a standard addendum, scholars can ensure that they retain those rights that they expect to have without having to be a lawyer themselves. With more private and public funders mandating open access, scholars ccLearn News B ay a n i h a n B o ok s , an Open OpenCourseWare Launched at Textbook Initiative United Nations University by Jane Park by Jane Park 6 February 2008 6 February 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8034 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8035 Bayanihan is a Tagalog term originating from the root word The United Nations University, an official member of the Bayani, or hero. Today, Bayanihan represents an heroic OpenCourseWare Consortium,[1] has just launched their web effort on the part of the community, or the actions of a group learning portal. Joining more than 100[2] other institutions of people that result in a common good. Greg Moreno’s of higher education, UNU is providing open access to an new initiative, Bayanihan Books,[1] is aptly named. initial dozen[3] training courses, spanning from subjects like Integrated Water Resources Management to the Social With 17.5 million public school students in the Philippines, Construction of Technology in Development. The courses affordable access to textbooks is not a simple matter. are aimed towards educators, students, and individuals– Textbook companies can monopolize the market, upping pretty much anyone who’s interested. prices for students and schools that can’t always afford them. Moreno’s plan is to compete with these companies by Rather than replacing for-credit courses, the United shifting the control of textbook content from a few to many— Nations University recognizes the significance of different the community. Textbook making will be a collaborative approaches to education in the 21st century. As a result, project, a sort of wiki-style peer editing and review consisting the courses are licensed under the Creative Commons of volunteers. The content will be published under a Creative Attribution License 2.5.[4] Commons license specific to the Philippines that allows it to be shared. But the ultimate goal is to have the content be in Endnotes print and distributed widely to public schools. That’s where 1 http://ocwconsortium.org/ the publishing companies come in. 2 http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_ content &task=view&id=17&Itemid=32 3 http://ocw.unu.edu/Courses_listing The publishing companies will bid on the content, and 4 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ because they don’t have to deal with doling out royalty fees to a community of volunteers, they will only have to shoulder the costs of the actual printing. Then they can distribute the books at minimal cost to schools around the country, while still making quite a profit for themselves. Everyone wins. Currently, they are working on these two books. [2] Endnotes 1 http://blog.bayanihanbooks.org/ 2 http://blog.bayanihanbooks.org/books CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 39 40 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CC Points of Interest Wikitravel Press launches first Nebraska Library Commission printed titles adds CC- licensed books to collection by Mike Linksvayer by Timothy Vollmer 3 February 2008 22 February 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8016 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8056 Wikitravel Press announced[1] its first printed guidebooks, Congratulations to the Nebraska Library Commission[1] for Wikitravel Chicago[2] and Wikitravel Singapore.[3] Like the spearheading an initiative[2] to add Creative Commons- Wikitravel site,[4] the books are licensed under CC Attribution- licensed book editions to the library collection. Michael ShareAlike,[5] allowing sharing and adaption, including Sauers,[3] Technology Innovation Librarian for the Commission, commercial uses. was asked, “Why don’t libraries start cataloging and offering CC-licensed works?” Taking collaboratively created material to print is another landmark for the Wikitravel community, and another The NLC staff went to work cataloging commercial success for Wikitravel’s founders, who sold the and then posting electronic versions site to Internet Brands in 2006[6] and subsequently launched of CC-licensed works like Cory Wikitravel Press[7] (they have an agreement with Internet Brands Doctorow’s Down and Out in the to use the Wikitravel name in this independent business). Magic Kingdom and Steven Poole’s Trigger Happy to the library’s web Wikitravel Press titles look like normal guidebooks rather than server. Patrons can now access these printouts of related wiki articles, but they aren’t stale tomes and other CC-licensed books from the either — they’re updated every month[8] and printed to order. online library catalog. Sauers adds So while the businesses-built-on-liberal-licenses angle is cool, that some of the CC-licensed titles were I think currency is another area in which Wikitravel Press will also printed as spiral-bound books so lead the travel guide pack. As someone who has printed out they could be added to the library’s articles from Wikitravel and other online resources in lieu of physical collection. buying travel books for a couple years (in spite of always ending up with a disorganized mess of papers by the end of The Nebraska Library Commission a trip), I wouldn’t go back to the convenient packaging of a now offers nine CC-licensed electronic Nebraska Library book unless it were nearly as up to date as the web. titles, and hopes to add more. This is Commission. “Someone Comes fantastic news, and we encourage other to Town, Someone Leaves Town Endnotes libraries to follow their lead. It’d be great by Cory Doctorow” CC BY-NC-SA 1 http://wikitravelpress.com/pr/20080201 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ for Michael and the NLC to document librarycommission/2250621029/ 2 http://wikitravelpress.com/books/en/Chicago/ and share the specifics of the cataloging 3 http://wikitravelpress.com/books/en/Singapore/ process so other libraries can try it too! 4 http://wikitravel.org/ 5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/ Check out some photos[4] from the NLC. 6 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5864 7 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7596 Endnotes 8 http://wikitravelpress.com/faq 1 http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/ 2 http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/blogs/NLC/2008/02/nlc_tries_ creative_commons_1.html 3 http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/ 4 http://www.flickr.com/photos/librarycommission/ sets/72157603875045969/ CC Points of Interest Freeing America’s Operating System by Mike Linksvayer 11 February 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8039 Last November Carl Malamud’s Public.Resource.Org Resource.Org to deliver this important governmental and announced[1] an initiative to free 1.8 million pages of U.S. case judicial material back into the public domain. law, publishing them online with no restrictions on reuse. Carl Malamud (emphasis added): Today the results of this initiative are available at http://bulk. resource.org/courts.gov/. Developers and interested members of the public are invited to join our open discussion group which will From the press release (pdf):[2] evaluate the format of this public domain data. These cases and codes are America’s operating system and for Today’s release covers all U.S. Supreme Court decisions the first time Americans can use them with freedom. and all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 on. The release is equivalent to 1,858 volumes of case law in Read whole release,[3] get the data.[4] book form, a stack of books 348 feet tall. Endnotes 1 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7828 The files have all been converted to the XHTML standard and 2 http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/0_Press_20080211.pdf make extensive use of CSS style sheets to allow developers 3 http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/0_Press_20080211.pdf to build new search engines and user interfaces. Since the 4 http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/ U.S. Courts do not yet digitally sign their documents, a SHA1 hash is provided on their behalf. The source of this case law is a transaction previously announced with Fastcase, Inc., a leading provider of American legal research tools. Public.Resource.Org and Creative Commons were represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in this transaction. Purchase of this valuable data was made possible by generous donations from a group that includes the Omidyar Network and several individuals including David Boies, the Elbaz Family Foundation, and John Gilmore. Quotes, also from the release — David Boies: Practical access for all Americans to legal cases and material is essential to the rule of law. The Legal Commons is an important step in reducing the barriers to effective representation of average citizens and public interest advocates. Lawrence Lessig: Just as markets are premised on the free flow of information, so is our democratic system of government. Creative Commons is proud to be working with Public. CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 41 42 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CC Points of Interest Is it possible to design non-defective DRM? by Mike Linksvayer The only exception to that certain futility rule has been Sun’s 28 February 2008 Project DReaM[8] team. While it is far from clear that they http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8080 have succeeded, theirs is perhaps the first honest attempt (at least outside academia) to specify a DRM system that supports CC licensed content and fair use — which we DRM[1] (Digital Rights Management, pejoratively known as consider a requirement for supporting CC licenses. Digital Restrictions Management) is said to be defective by design[2] — making digital devices and content more The project has produced two white papers outlining potential annoying, less secure, less compatible, [3]and generally less support for CC licensed work and fair use, which are now useful, and especially where protected by recent legislation, open for comments: DReaM-MMI Profile for Creative Commons in conflict with free speech. If this dysfunction is not included Licenses (pdf)[9] and Support for Fair Use with Project DReaM by design, it is at least a direct side effect of a largely futile (pdf).[10] A forum[11] has been set up to collect comments. attempt to make computers worse at copying. An introductory post [12] from Susan Landau sets forth In light of these problems, Creative Commons licenses the challenge: stipulate[4] the following: This is just to say that we welcome comments on the When You Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work, You DReaM-MMI fair use document and the DReaM-MMI may not impose any effective technological measures on specification for implementing Creative Commons the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work licenses. We’re not unaware of the inherent contradiction from You to exercise the rights granted to that recipient of a DRM’s support for fair use and Creative Commons under the terms of the License. licenses. What we are seeking to do in DReaM is develop an open-source DRM system, and include in it the things This is not an outright prohibition of DRM on works distributed that ought to be part of any DRM system: support for fair under terms of any CC license, but it does rule out existing use — and Creative Commons licenses. DRM schemes that would clearly restrict the ability to exercise the rights granted in any CC license. We are very happy that Project DReaM has taken this step to encourage open discussion, which is certain to generate However, use of Digital Rights Expression, also variously intense criticism, as anyone familiar with the DRM debates known as Digital Rights Description and Rights Management will immediately recognize. However, open criticism by Information, has always been a core part of Creative many legal and computer security experts is the only way Commons’ strategy. The point of DRE and other information to properly evaluate a DRM system that aspires to support describing creative works is to describe works, not to facilitate public licenses and fair use. restrictions imposed by your own computer. Computers should help users find[5] and manage[6] content, not help There is some existing literature on DRM and fair use. One content owners manage and expose users. starting point is a 2003 special issue of the Communications of the ACM on the theme “Digital Rights Management and We’ve only begun to exploit the ability of machine-readable Fair Use by Design.” Unfortunately these papers are not code describing works and licenses to make media more open access, but abstracts and exceprts are available at valuable rather than less. Look for a paper on what we’re Cover Pages.[13] Another is the DRM page of the Samuelson now calling ccREL[7] — CC Rights Expression Language — Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic,[14] which features coming soon. several downloadable papers on DRM and fair use. In brief, there are two extremely difficult problems to overcome for a ccREL has nothing to do with DRM, but this hasn’t stopped DRM system to support fair use: determining what constitutes many people with DRM implementations or schemes from fair use or trusting users and privacy. approaching us about making CC licenses work with their DRM. Nearly all of these conversations have been very brief Even if Project DReaM has successfully specified support as they were clearly futile. CC Points of Interest L o o p s : S o l o D a n c e , CC - Licensed for CC licensed works and fair use with DRM, there would by Cameron Parkins probably be other hurdles to deploying truly non-defective 22February 2008 DRM. The good news is that in the last year many more http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8057 people have realized that DRM is not good for business or consumers, particularly in the music industry. [15] However, attempts to make DRM work will probably be with us for some Loops[1] is an amazing new project, created collaboratively time. If it can be shown that it is possible to design a DRM between the Merce Cunningham Dance Company[2] and system that supports fair use, consumers and advocates can The OpenEnded Group,[3] to release Merce Cunningham’s[4] demand that all DRM systems meet that standard. If not (and choreography for his solo dance Loops under a CC BY-NC- admittedly, we suspect this is the case), all the more reason SA license.[5] to hasten the abandonment of DRM and the hindrance it poses to innovation, and to embrace technologies that make By releasing Loops under a CC-license, anyone is able content more useful and empower users. to perform, reproduce, and adapt it for non-commercial purposes. Simultaneously, the digital artists of The OpenEnded Endnotes Group (Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, and Paul Kaiser) will 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management release a digital portrait of Cunningham, also entitled Loops, 2 http://defectivebydesign.org/ as open source software. This artwork derives from a high- 3 http://techdirt.com/articles/20080226/092905359.shtml resolution 3D recording of Cunningham performing the solo 4 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode with his hands and promises to provide ample substance for 5 http://search.creativecommons.org/ derivative works. 6 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7658 7 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/ccREL The public release of the Loops project will take place this 8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_DReaM Tuesday, February 26 at 6:30 PM in the Merce Cunningham 9 http://www.openmediacommons.org/collateral/DReaM-MMI- Studio.[6] The event is co-hosted by the New York Public CC-v1.0-CClicensed.pdf Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center[7] and will 10 http://www.openmediacommons.org/collateral/DReaM-MMI- Fair-Use-v1.0-CClicensed.pdf include a presentation of the choreography and digital 11 http://www.openmediacommons.org/forums/forumdisplay. artwork, remarks from Merce Cunningham as well as Paul php?f=12 Kaiser and Marc Downie of The OpenEnded Group, and 12 http://www.openmediacommons.org/forums/showthread. a reception. The choreography and code will be released php?t=471 simultaneously online the same day. 13 http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-15-b.html 14 http://www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/samuelson/drm.html Endnotes 15 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7641 1 http://www.openendedgroup.com/index.php/in-progress/ loops-open-source/ 2 http://merce.org/ 3 http://www.openendedgroup.com/ 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merce_Cunningham 5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 6 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=55+Bethune+Str eet +New+York,+NY+10014&ie=UTF8&om=1 7 http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/lpa.html CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 43 44 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CC Points of Interest Wireless Networking in the Developing World by Mike Linksvayer 25February 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8066 Wireless Networking in the Developing World[1] is a free Network,[5] which very conveniently also happens to be book about designing, implementing, and maintaining low- available under an Attribution-ShareAlike license. cost wireless networks. The second edition has just been released[2] under a CC Attribution-ShareAlike[3] license with Endnotes 1 http://wndw.net/ versions in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic,[4] and 2 http://wiki.wndw.net/mw/index.php/WNDW2_Release soon Portuguese. 3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ 4 http://www.lasilky.org/ For a bit on why a book on wireless networking in the 5 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7841 developing world may be particularly interesting, see last November’s post on Building a Rural Wireless Mesh Recycled Computers, Remixable Content for schools by Asheesh Laroia selected as part of our LiveContent project.[8] What better 29 February 2008 complement to (little-f) free computers than Free Software and http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8081 Free Content? With the number of computers they’ll be working on, the The Alameda County Computer Resource Center[1] is a Bay installfest has four locations. It all takes place on this Saturday, Area non-profit whose motto is “Obsolescence is Just a Lack March 1. If you’re near Berkeley, San Francisco, San Mateo, of Imagination.” James Burgett, the Director of the ACCRC, or Marin County, check out their wiki and sign up![9] writes on their website that they have distributed 16,000 computers as of 2006.[2] Most of the computers they receive Endnotes 1 http://www.accrc.org/ would otherwise end in the trash, which means they are 2 http://www.accrc.org/AB3001/ saving landfills from computers’ toxic waste. Instead:[3] 3 http://www.accrc.org/ 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20software [They] give free refurbished computers to schools, non- 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU profit organizations, and economically and/or physically 6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux disadvantaged individuals. Our refurbished systems all run 7 http://www.untangle.com/ a Free software[4] GNU[5]/Linux[6] operating system. 8 http://creativecommons.org/projects/LiveContent 9 http://wiki.untangle.com/index.php/Installfest With Andrew Fife from Untangle,[7] they are organizing a Linux installfest in the Bay Area this weekend to get the Bay Area community to help set up those systems. The computers being installed will go to schools in the Bay Area. In addition, they are going to pre-install Creative Commons-licensed photos and music from Flickr and Jamendo. The photos and music were CC Points of Interest Encyclopedia of Life launches, Nine Inch Nails releases Ghosts publishes articles under CC I-IV under a CC license licenses by Timothy Vollmer by Eric Steuer 2 March 2008 2 March 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8092 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8095 The Encyclopedia of Life,[1] an ambitious project to Some very exciting news for music fans: Tonight, Nine document all of Earth’s known species, has released its Inch Nails released Ghosts I-IV,[1] a collection of 36 new first 30,000 pages of content. Over the next 10 years, the instrumental tracks that are available to the world under a project aims to aggregate, in one place, information on Creative Commons BY-NC-SA[2] license. an estimated 1.8 million species. From the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) press release: This music arrived unexpectedly as the result of an experiment. The rules were as follows: 10 weeks, no Intended as a tool for scientists and clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by policymakers and a fascinating impulse. Whatever happens during that time gets resource for anyone interested released as… something. in the living world, the EOL is being developed by a unique … collaboration between scientists and the general public. By making The end result is a wildly varied body of music that we’re it easy to compare and contrast able to present to the world in ways the confines of a information about life on Earth, major record label would never have allowed - from a the resulting compendium has the 100% DRM-free, high-quality download, to the most potential to provide new insights luxurious physical package we’ve ever created. into many of life’s secrets. We’ll have a lot more to say about this exciting development In most cases, Encyclopedia of Life contributing very soon. In the meantime, read more[3] about the project members have made content available using one of the and check out the music![4] following Creative Commons licenses: Attribution, Attribution- ShareAlike, Attribution-NonCommercial, or Attribution- Endnotes 1 http://ghosts.nin.com/ NonCommercial-ShareAlike. Users can easily note the CC 2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ license attached to each article and accompanying media 3 http://ghosts.nin.com/main/more_info (like photos). 4 http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options The EOL project incorporates an open collaboration and feedback process, calling on community members and scientists to offer design suggestions and ideas for content development. Download and read the full press release.[2] More EOL coverage[3] from the New York Times. Endnotes 1 http://www.eol.org/ 2 http://www.eol.org/content/page/press_releases 3 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/science/26ency. html?_r=1&em&ex=1204261200&en =264ffed20b39b8f4&ei= 5087%0A&oref=slogin CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 45 46 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CC Points of Interest Sound Copyright Diesel Sweeties Archive Released Under CC License by Mike Linksvayer by Cameron Parkins 14 March 2008 12 March 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8133 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8119 Creative Commons licenses help creators (and users) opt rstevens (the r is for Richard), creator of popular webcomic for reasonable copyright by offering[1] (and using)[2] creative Diesel Sweeties,[1] announced on his blog[2] that starting works under “some rights reserved” terms, expanding the today he will be releasing the entire Diesel Sweeties archive commons where the default is “all rights reserved”. for free under a CC BY-NC license.[3] The archive contains close to 2,000 web comics, offering massive potential for to We also offer tools to mark works that are in the public interesting reuses (via Boing Boing):[4] domain — and are working on a major upgrade of those tools[3] — with a goal of making public domain works more By my calculations, DS is going to hit 2000 comics in a available and more usable, effectively expanding the “no little under two months. April is Clango’s 8th birthday. I’d rights reserved” portion of the commons. like to celebrate by releasing the entire webcomic archive for free in ten volumes. It worked for Nine Inch Nails and However, there’s nothing CC tools can do to protect against Radiohead- not bad company to try and keep! the stunting of the public domain through fiat, such as the retroactive extension of copyright terms. This is why many These files will be in PDF form, available one per week friends of CC are involved in efforts like Sound Copyright,[4] for ten weeks. You can donate if so inclined, or take a petition to the European Union to stop the retroactive advantage of ten classic shirt designs @$10.99. At the extension of copyright in sound recordings from 50 years end of ten weeks, I plan to release a special anniversary to 95 years. art book. Read about[5] why retroactive copyright extension is bad All eBooks will be released under a Creative Commons policy[6] — it offers miniscule incentive for the creation of new Attribution Non-commercial license. You’re free to works while imposing large costs on the preservation and reformat them into .CBR, Word docs, XML, whatever use of existing works. As a beneficial side effect, you’ll better you like. You’re also free to archive and share them with understand the milieu from which Creative Commons arises others for free. They’re even small enough to email. Just and why the voluntary adoption of reasonable copyright don’t use them commercially. through tools like ours are crucial to ensuring the existence of a viable commons — an open, participatory culture — for Endnotes 1 http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ future generations. 2 http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=283 Endnotes 3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/license/ 4 http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/10/diesel-sweeties-coll. 2 http://search.creativecommons.org/ html 3 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8045 4 http://www.soundcopyright.eu/ 5 http://www.soundcopyright.eu/learn 6 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/supct/ amici/economists.pdf 18 < Communia the COMMUNIA Project team is Mr. Bernardo Parrella as online PR manager. Endnotes 1 http://www.ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ econtentplus/projects/psi/communia/index_en.htm 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/ sets/72157602218241506/ 3 http://www.ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ econtentplus/projects/funded_projects/index_en.htm 4 http://www.polito.it/ 26 < Public Broadcasters 3 http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/licence/nc_sa_by_ne/uk/ 15 http://www.ndr.de/ prov/ 16 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7838 4 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 17 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7842 5 http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/archives/for_download/ 18 http://www.dr.dk/ 6 http://goodcopybadcopy.blip.tv/file/151953/ 19 http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/ 7 http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/archives/2006/06/paul_ 20 http://www.vpro.nl/ gerhardts.html 21 http://3voor12.vpro.nl/plundertmusea/kaft/index.jsp 8 http://turre.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view 22 http://www.vpro.nl/programma/wissel/ &id=20&Itemid=41 23 http://www.beeldenvoordetoekomst.nl/en 9 http://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/docs/bbc_constitution/bbc_royal_ 24 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories charter_and_agreement/Building_Public_Value.pdf 10 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2004/sep/20/ mondaymediasection.bbc 11 http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/c2w6/ 12 http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2007/06/the_bbc_ partner.html 13 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ 14 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer#Criticisms 35 < Free Cultural Works This added signaling is part of an ongoing effort to distinguish Endnotes among the range of Creative Commons licenses — never 1 http://freedomdefined.org/ say the Creative Commons license, as there is no such thing. 2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Our license deeds have always communicated the distinct 3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ properties of each license with icons and brief descriptions. 4 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ In December of 2006 we added a more subtle free/less free 5 http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html signal — green and yellow background graphics (compare 6 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007- Attribution[8] to Attribution-NonCommercial)[9] — and began December/035677.html suggesting license buttons that include license property icons, 7 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7888 so that one has an immediate visual cue as to the specific 8 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ license being used without clicking through to the deed. 9 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 10 http://creativecommons.org/license/ We hope to address further suggestions from the community and roll out further improvements in CC license deeds and the license chooser[10] in the near future — stay tuned! CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 47 48 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CC Points of Interest What good is a CC licensed specification? by Mike Linksvayer 29 March 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8165 Proto-lawyer, GNOME hacker and CC friend Luis Villa’s This is what I intended to highlight in a recent post on IE8 and brief “CC-licensed specification” rant[1] is correct: removing copyright barriers to collaboration with technology communities[5] (emphasis added): [I]mplementing a spec may require (among other things) licensing of “pending utility and design patent claims, It’s cool that Microsoft not only released the specifications copyrights, trade dress and trademark rights.” Putting a under liberal terms, but followed the lead of the specification under a CC license gives you a copyright relevant communities, ensuring that there are no license to the text of the specification; it does not give copyright barriers to collaboration with those license to the necessary trademarks, or to the patents, communities. and depending on the license chosen, may not even give you the right to make a derivative work […] As the post explains, Microsoft released their specifications under the same liberal terms (one under CC BY-SA,[6] another Fortunately all such specifications I’m aware of are published dedicated to the public domain)[7] as related specifications have under free CC licenses (or placed in the public domain)[2] so been released under by others. This simply (but importantly) that derivative works and commercial use are legal. means that in terms of copyright anyway, the relevant communities are free to fold the Microsoft specifications into However, liberal copyright terms on the text of a specification their wikis and other materials for ongoing collaboration (and are not sufficient (and strictly speaking, perhaps not even so are you). necessary) for a protocol (or format or similar) to permit independent implementation, interoperability, and extension, My post did not explain (as it should have) that as above, including by free and open source software. there’s much more to making a protocol usable than just placing its specification under liberal copyright terms. Software patents[3] may be the main legal barrier to such use. Microsoft obviously realizes this, as at the same time they This is why patent grants often get the most thorough public also offered a (patent related) Open Specifications Promise[8] vetting of any non-technical aspect of a new specification for the specifications in question — though whether the and why (for example) the debate over the W3C’s patent promise is good enough may be subject to debate — see policy[4] several years ago was so important. further quotation of Luis below. There are also non-legal items that will often be more important I briefly raised another reason to place a specification for a protocol being “open” in practice than the protocol under a well-known liberal copyright license in a post about specification’s copyright license. For example, the very the Sitemaps Protocol: Creating a space where Google, existence and publication of an unambiguous specification, Microsoft, and Yahoo! can collaborate:[9] and the availability of a reference implementation and test suite, preferably under a free and open source software This is just a guess, but I imagine that agreeing to release license. the [Sitemaps protocol][10] under a CC license saved Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft many hours of legal So what good is putting a specification under a liberal copyright haggling over copyright in the protocol. It is not a guess license? Is it just about signaling good intentions? As valuable that this decision allows anyone, e.g., non-incumbent as such signaling may be, it can be abused. I would argue search engines, to publish and extend the protocol, that it is primarily useful for facilitating ongoing collaboration without asking for permission from the incumbents. on the specification itself, extensions of the specification, and instructional materials and other non-software works around In other words, using a public license (CC BY-SA[11] in this the specification — in other words, precisely the works and case) for the specification solves one — even if just one activities impacted by the copyright status of the text. — of what must be a laundry list of issues that must face such a collaboration, and that’s valuable. However, I should Endnotes 1 http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/03/27/brief-cc-licensed- have been more clear that this enables anyone to publish specification-rant/ and extend the protocol specification, at least insofar as 2 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8051 copyright is concerned. 3 http://endsoftpatents.org/ 4 http://www.w3.org/TR/patent-practice The most recent development concerning a significant 5 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8109 specification under a CC license is also the most interesting 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ so far, in that the parties involved seem to have made a effort 7 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ to address all of the known barriers to uses of a protocol 8 http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx (whether they’ve succeeded is presumably an open question). 9 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6154 Tim Vollmer beat me to blogging about OpenSocial,[12] so I’ll 10 http://www.sitemaps.org/ expand a bit here. 11 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ 12 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8162 The OpenSocial Foundation Intent Agreement[13] covers 13 http://sites.google.com/a/opensocial.org/opensocial/ copyright in the specification, a patent non-assertion OpenSocial-Foundation-Proposal/Intent-Agreement covenant, a patent right in joint development, and a license 14 http://incubator.apache.org/shindig/ to the OpenSocial trademark. There’s also a reference 15 http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/osp-gpl. implementation[14] under the Apache 2.0 license. Of course html this appears to be just a proposal, and it is not clear to 16 http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ me whether non-members of the proposed foundation would have any patent or trademark rights with regard to the specification or implementations thereof. But at least they’re looking at all of the elements. Luis again: So, creative commons folks: could you please, please scream for me? Or better yet, work with SFLC to create a good license for specifications (since they aren’t happy with the OSP),[15] and then ask people who’ve ‘cc licensed’ specifications to use that instead? I suspect free CC licenses are reasonable licenses for specifications — for specification text, as far as that goes. But I agree we should talk about barriers other than copyright in the specification text whenever we talk or are approached about CC licenses and specifications. We have been approached over the years about developing a license for protocols, specifications, standards, and the like, and would doubtless be happy to work with the Software Freedom Law Center[16] and other parties to develop such a thing, whether it would take the form of a license or a “protocol” that included using liberal copyright terms and other aspects. In such an effort it would be important to consider interoperability with CC licenses, so that specification texts could easily be used in contexts like wikis and instructional materials. CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 49 50 CC Newsletter - Issue No. 6 CC Points of Interest 8.5 GB of CC-Licensed Samples for the OLPC by Cameron Parkins their sound collections to the children of the world,” said 27 March 2008 Dr. Richard Boulanger, professor of music synthesis at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8163 the Berklee College of Music and the organizer of the Berklee collection being donated to OLPC. “By providing extraordinary access to the resources to play, mix, Great news from the OLPC project[1] - 8.5 GB worth of sound transform, imitate and create sounds, sound effects, music library samples have been donated to the project by the and audio art works, this donation will enable children Berklee College of Music,[2] Berklee Music Synthesis alumni with XO laptops to learn about music and sound, and to (including electronic musician BT[3] and the international learn about themselves and their world. This collection Csound Developer community),[4] M-Audio,[5] Digidesign,[6] will inspire and promote incredible music-making on the and the Open Path Music group! The samples are being XO laptop and will invigorate the creative audio work of released under a CC BY license and while they are intended all computer musicians.” for (and facilitated by) the OLPC project, they are available publicly, making this a a huge contribution not only to the Endnotes 1 http://laptop.org/ OLPC but also to those looking for free, high quality, samples 2 http://www.berklee.edu/ in general. 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_(musician) 4 http://www.csounds.com/ You can check out all the samples on the OLPC wiki[7] as 5 http://www.m-audio.com/ well as see a breakdown of the OLPC’s music making 6 http://www.digidesign.com/intl_selector.cfm? capabilities over at Create Digital Music.[8] The OLPC is 7 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples paving a new road for contemporary music education with 8 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/26/85-gb-of-free-cc- this announcement and it will be absolutely fascinating to licensed-samples-from-the-olpc-project-and-olpc-music-tools/ see how these samples are put to use by their intended 9 http://csounds.com/OLPC_SoundSampleArchive.doc.zip practitioners. 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