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Creative Commons global affiliate network–origin, role, future, including collaboration and shared learnings with Wikimedia chapters
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Mike:
thx
- Wiki* (mania, media, chapters)
- CC affiliates and staff, especially Diane Peters, who leads CC affiliate stuff described below
- supporters
- Michelle, Alek (each self-introduce at beginning of section?)
why this panel?
- chapters discussion last year, eg approximate quotes:
"CC has ported licenses to 50 jurisdicitons without legal entities"
"we have alliances with CC Switzerland"
"CC NZ got the NZ government to use CC BY"
"what we should take from CC is to learn from its mistakes"
- related missions/visions
- Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. // The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.
- We work to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing.
- (ML's unvarnished version: "Develop and steward voluntary legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes welfare resulting from nonrival commons.")
- scaling missions: opportunity for human benefit massively outweights what can be done in single organization
- forces issues of "transnational governance": orgs [almost] born global
- not just cc and wmf; also consider older FSF (and a few of its sister orgs), global voices, mozilla drumbeat (new)
history of cc affilites
- legal porting/building global legal community for commons initial rationale
- public leads quickly added due to enormous adoption/outreach opportunity
- icommons created as framework for community beyond legal, including conferences, "nodes" ... didn't work out
- newer affiliates less legal-centered
- broad range of activity from failed ports to several people working on CC adoption and related issues on ongoing basis within affiliate orgs
- ~70 jurisdictions, 100+ organizations
plans for upgrade
- new mou facilitating affiliates with different kinds of expertise; porting/versioning ports just one possible responsibility
- governance participation: CC board has requested affiliates suggest board members for two seats (not as representatives; also requires board to articulate requirements; board development in progress now permitting this)
- improved reporting/metrics/other knowledge sharing
- peer support/pressure among affiliates
- will have global mtg 2011
basic chapter/affiliate differences
- "franchise" with existing organizations vs grassroots new organizations
- similarities/differences make room for collaboraiton/comparative advantage? Michelle and Alek to discuss
Michelle:
3 cases of CC affiliate & WM chapter/community collaborations
Netherlands: Wiki Loves Art
initiated by CC NL & WM NL
1 month photo collection across the country, prize for winning submissions
46 museums participated
great publicity for museums with low PR budgets
a project that has and can be replicated elsewhere
Colombia: ESCUELA VIRTUAL DE DEPORTES (EVD) - Virutal School of Sports
inititated by Ministry of Technology & Communication
in collaboration with CC CO & CO Wikipedians
sponsored by Coldeportes
Surprisingly little information about sports training online, especaily in Spanish
EVD begun as open virtual school for Colombian sports
OER introducd & realized potential impact beyond original audience
All content licensed CC BY-SA, intended to disseminate on Wikipedia/Wikimedia projs.
Currently, a bus is traveling through Colombia showing EVD and encouraging use
Goal: build a community that could develop a sustainable environment for the content
Australia
GLAM
government policy
Israel
Wikimania 2011
CC & WM collaboration
Possible pattern:
CC provides legal expertise
advice on copyright issues (sui generis database rights, moral rights, etc.)
experience on license implementation
WM provides use case, technical infrastructure, manpower
destination for liberated content
platform for further re-use
technical know-how
capacity to contribute to sorting, categorizing, implementation
Example: German Federal Archive, Colombian sports
Other types of activities:
Free Culture Events
Educational Outreach
Topical Workshops
Academies
Catalyst Grants
inspired by WM, but not only affiliates but also broader community
Alek Tarkowski (CC Poland):
- brief history of CC Poland
- start in 2004/2005
- started as a small "expert" crew and working this way until today
- employs network model to get things done
- more public than legal focus
- from volunteer work to stable university base
- 450 people on mailing list with a mainly passive interest in CC
- what do we do? (public / legal)
- core legal work
- outreach / promotion / coaching
- own free-cultural production
- who do we work with?
- specificity of our work as a small project - always looking for partners
- from the beginning, we've worked as a project that *cannot* do anything without partners
- KOED (more on this in the afternoon OER session)
- CC Poland and CC network
- international versioning process works
- international cooperation on spread of free culture is more difficult
- regional scope is important: CC Europe, Communia
- international scope is very important: we started CC to work in an international framework
- but international cooperation is difficult!
- spread of free culture is crucial! (my Polish perspective)
- our work model: content - R E A C H - participation
- in Poland WP is by far the no. 1 user of CC licenses - our "premium client"
- role of CC PL (small axe)
- role of WP PL (big axe!): WP community as a sleeping giant - not assuming yet the key role of a community that not only builds free culture, but reaches out / spreads free culture - the Wikipedia itself won't promote FC;
(though I see now that I need to acknowledge the fact that the experience of using the Wikipedia is a great way of spreading free culture; and Tomek Ganicz is right that this mechanism might be the biggest tool for spreading free culture / CC in Poland)
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