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Creative Commons (closed session)
March 17 13:00 - 14:30 - Kremlin
1st European Creative Commons meeting; chaired by Paul
Keller (Waag Society)
On the 17th and 18th of march 2005 Creative Commons Nederland invites all organizations and individuals involved in the European iCommons projects for a first European Creative Commons Meeting in Amsterdam. This meeting will take place in the framework of the Creative Capital Conference that is organized on the same dates by Stichting Nederland Kennisland in collaboration with Waag Society. Nederland Kennisland and Waag Society, together with the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam, form Creative Commons Nederland. The meeting will be part of the conference but the sessions on Thursday (see below) are closed to registered participants of the meeting.
At the time of writing the Creative Commons licenses have been ported for use in nine different European jurisdictions and in a substantial number of other European Counties the efforts are well under way. Our experience with the Creative Commons Licenses and their promotion has come to suggest that there are a) substantial differences in the institutional background between the US (where the licenses originate form) and (continental) Europe and b) that some of the challenges to a wider adoption of the Creative Commons license model (such as the practices and statutory position of collective rights management societies) are very similar throughout Europe. Additionally, some important legal frameworks that shape the legal space wherein Creative Commons must operate are formed on the level of the European Union.
This situation calls for cooperation and collaboration among the individuals and organizations that back the Creative Commons Licenses in Europe. With this meeting we intend to explore in how far such a collaboration is possible, what it should focuses on and how we can shape it. During the second day of the meeting boardmember of the Creative Commons project Joichi Ito will participate in the meeting. The participants can discuss the issues raised during the first day with him and to look for possibilities of integrating European experiences into the future development of the Creative Commons project.
With this first European Creative Commons meeting we hope to establish a
constructive collaboration between the different national projects that in
the long run will enable us to share resources and experiences, develop common
projects and enables us to jointly react to policy developments on the European
level. This meeting should focus on aspects of community building and the
promotion of the Creative Commons Licenses in Europe. We want to avoid discussing
the legal aspects of the Creative commons licenses in Europe at this point.
Such a discussion could be part of a follow-up meeting.
Programme
1200 – 1330 (introduction session):
Introduction of the meeting (Paul Keller
/ Creative Commons
NL)
Short introductions of the different national projects (max 5 minutes)
1400 – 1530 (organisation on the european level):
Update on the plan to set up a European legal entity for Creative Commons
(Christiane Aschenfeld / iCommons)
participation agreement - how to formalize the relationship between Creative
Commons / iCommons and the national projects with regard to Phase 2 (community
building) (Roland Honekamp / iCommons)
1600 – 1630h (common agenda):
What specific challenges are there for creative commons in Europe. What can
be done (on a European level) to address these challenges. What are possible
common projects? Are there ressources that can be shared between the individual
projects?
One specific issue that we want to adress in this session is the relationship
between creative commons and the national collecting societies.
2000h: Common dinner for all participants of the meeting (Location still needs to be confirmed but please reserve this in your agendas)
// Friday 18th of march:
1100 – 1030h: Conference Keynote presentation by Joichi Ito (Creative Commons Board member).
1300 -1500h: Workshop Publicly Financed Content
working session on the question how publicly financed content shall be dealt
with. Do we need to treat this content different than other content and if
so are the creative commons licenses a suitable instrument to ensure that
what has been paid for by the public remains at the disposal of the public.
This working-group will enable the participants of this creative commons meeting
to present their ideas about the role of creative commons in Europe to the
rest of the conference.
For further information, contact Paul Keller at paul@waag.org
