This December, Creative Commons led a CC Certificate Bootcamp, or condensed Certificate training, for faculty and staff from 16 different California Community Colleges implementing Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) degree programs. This marked the second CC Bootcamp for California Community Colleges after the California legislature invested $115 million to expand ZTC degrees and the use of open educational resources (OER) within the statewide California community college system. ZTC degrees and increased use of OER reduce the overall cost of education and shorten the time to degree completion for students. With the average cost of course textbooks estimated at $100/student/course, ZTC degrees are crucial for students’ higher education. Further, students’ grades achieved in ZTC programs are higher than in traditional courses.

The CC Certificate program provides training and tools for ZTC program faculty and staff to legally and effectively implement the open licensing requirements of California’s historic investment in education. After learning about copyright basics, fair use, the public domain, and CC licensing, participants brainstormed and initiated some great ways to support ZTC program faculty and student needs. Examples of participant work include using generative AI to create “Creative Commons Bots,” tools to help others learn about licensing, and test their own knowledge with quiz questions; creating a grants guide for OER funding; drafting a potential strategic plan for OER/ ZTC work (work in progress), and remixing previous courses or resources to address ZTC communications and learning needs for localized audiences (works in progress). See what participants are saying below.

“This is one of the best professional development experiences I’ve had in years”

“Thank you so much for sharing wonderful resources and CC practices. I will share this knowledge with my colleagues”

“You’ve nailed the condensed week workshop. So much fun, and creating work groups was really beneficial”

We are proud to support California Community Colleges’ collaboration as they strengthen their foundations for open education. CC is grateful to the Michelson 20MM Foundation for generously funding this bootcamp at San Bernardino Valley College. Special thanks also go to the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges for their liaison work, expertise and support, to San Bernardino Valley College for hosting the event, and to Fresno Pacific University for providing professional development credits to faculty.

If you’re interested in advancing open education efforts in your own institution, Creative Commons offers an array of learning, training, and consulting opportunities to support our global community in developing open licensing expertise and a deeper understanding of recommended practices for better sharing. Visit the CC Training & Consulting page to learn more about our training services, workshops, lectures, and CC Certificate courses. Register for our next CC Certificate online courses, starting 29 January.

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As we end 2023, we want to showcase the incredible work of CC community members to translate the CC Certificate content. Thanks to 21 volunteers this year and numerous volunteers in the past, the reading content of our CC Certificate training is now available in 10 languages. This makes our fundamental open licensing and open advocacy training more accessible to over one billion people in their native languages. 

The CC Certificate program offers in-depth courses about copyright, CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of our global, shared commons. CC Certificate courses target (1) Academic Librarians, (2) Educators and (3) Open Culture advocates, but are open to everyone. Learn more about the CC Certificate and other professional learning opportunities, then register for a Certificate course today. If you are a CC Certificate graduate and would like to translate course content in 2024, please contact certificate administrators on the alumni listserv. 

Slovak

The Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information contacted CC in 2022, noting the need for CC Certificate content in Slovak. Thanks to Gabriela Fišová, Judita Takačová, Jakub Klech, and Barbora Bieliková, who translated content earlier this year, the Centre now has a complete translation. 

Download the Slovak translation files, view them on the CC Certificate translations webpage, or on Zenodo. 

Bengali

Bangladesh Open University (BOU) faculty, Sadia Afroze Sultana and Mostafa Azad Kamal, translated the CC Certificate content to make open licensing training more accessible to the 184+ million Bengali-speakers worldwide. Sadia is a CC Certificate alumna and facilitator; Mostafa is the CC Bangladesh Chapter Representative and also a CC Certificate alumnus. CC thanks Mostafa and Sadia; CC also thanks BOU faculty Asma Akter Shelly and Ananya Laboni, and graduate students Aminul Islam Rana and Mir Khadija Tahera for reading the translated copies and providing feedback. 

Download the Bengali translation files, or view them on the CC Certificate translations webpage.

French 2.0

Building on last year’s French Translation, a community of volunteers from seven countries embarked on a two-week French translation 2.0 sprint, to increase the accessibility of the French translation for different francophone audiences. Nicolas Simon, a CC community member who provided the original French translation supported the sprint, and reviewed the final draft. Adou Jean-Constant Atta, Aman Ado, Emmanuelle Guebo Kakou, Fawaz Tairou, Karen Ferreira-Meyers, Kamel Belhamel, Nyirahabihirwe Clementine, Touré Kahou, Namon Moussa Traore, and Yao Hippolyte Bondouho added local contextual considerations such as recommended links. 

Download the French translation files, or view them on the CC Certificate translations webpage.

With these translations, the CC Certificate reading content is accessible in 10 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Turkish, and Yoruba. The latest translations make our open licensing training more accessible than ever before and we thank open community members for making that possible. 

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As part of our #20CC anniversary, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what better sharing looks like in action. Our #BetterSharing collection of illustrations was the result — we gathered insights from 12 prominent open advocates around the world and tasked 12 renowned artists who embrace openness with transforming these perspectives into captivating visual pieces available under a CC license.

Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For November, we’re excited to showcase “Shared Knowledge, Shared Future” by Colombian illustrator, Luisa Brando. The piece, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, was inspired by a quote from Molly Van Houweling, former chair of CC’s Board of Directors:

“Better sharing for a brighter future means that the world is wrapped in a living connective tissue of shared knowledge, culture, and insights that spread joy and alleviate suffering.”

Meet the artist:

Luisa Brando is dedicated to producing visual art and architecture projects sensitive to heritage conservation and dichotomies between nature and culture, tradition and development. Brando currently teaches at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), coordinates a Master Plan in Ibague, and continues her artistic work on the geopolitics, images and imaginations of water and other living beings.

Follow Luisa on Instagram: @luisa_brando_art

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The CC Czech Republic, supported by Chapter Lead and Representative to the CC Global Network Lucie Smolka, will continue to develop the Czech environment of commons and other open areas. The Czech Chapter is working closely with the institutional CC Network member NGO Open Content. Board members of Open Content are Lucie Smolka as a CEO, Martin Loučka as a COO and Jiří Marek as a CMO. Members of Open Content are experienced lawyers from different “open” areas such as Open Science, Open Source or Open Educational Resources.

Czech Chapter has recently submitted a statement as part of the consultation process led by the Czech Ministry of Culture on the implementation of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, and is also consulting the Implementation of Open Data Directive. We have also entered the strategic partnership with NGO Otevřená města (Open Cities). This organization deals with digitization of local governments and the Czech Chapter is bringing the necessary legal interoperability expertise. Recently, we have submitted a project proposal for the public research funding by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic with the project called  Re-use System Management, that should bring the abstract re-use economy (so-called “circular economy in cyber-space”) closer to the everyday practice of local governments and NGOs. The goal for the upcoming months is to foster these projects and partnerships and to develop a Czech open community scene.

Join us!

We are looking forward to branching out further in the Czech Republic and encourage interested people to join us! You can find more information on the CC Czech Chapter website! Contact us directly at info@opencontent.cz, engage with us on Twitter or Facebook.

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The Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) consists of 45 CC Country Chapters spread across the globe. They’re the home for a community of advocates, activists, educators, artists, lawyers, and users who share CC’s vision and values. They implement and strengthen open access policies, copyright reform, open education, and open culture in the communities in which they live.

To help showcase their work, we’re excited to continue our blog series and social media initiative: CC Network Fridays. At least one Friday a month, we’re traveling around the world through our blog and on Twitter (using #CCNetworkFridays) to a different CC Chapter, introducing their teams, discussing their work, and celebrating their commitment to open! 

Say hello to CC India!

The CC India Chapter was formed in 2018 after previously existing in different collective structures. Its Chapter Lead is Savithri Singh and its representative to the CC Global Network Council is Subhashish Panigrahi. Since the beginning, the Chapter has been involved in promoting and supporting open education and copyright. It advocates for open content and promotes the growth of @creativecommons in India (check out the first meeting). For this post, we spoke to Subhashish who told us a bit more about the Chapter’s work. He responded in both English, Odia and Hindi! 

CC: What open movement work is your Chapter actively involved in? What would you like to achieve with your work?

CC India: The CC-India Chapter has organised several webinars  (e.g. OER in elementary education, future of open education) particularly during the COVID outbreak on relevant areas like OER. The community also includes many Wikipedians who are involved in growing open content in Indian languages and license migration by public agencies.

[HINDI] Creative Commons-भारत चैप्टर ने विशेष रूप से मुक्त शैक्षिक संसाधन (Open Educational Resources – OER) जैसे प्रासंगिक क्षेत्रों पर COVID महामारी के दौरान कई वेबिनार (जैसे प्रारंभिक शिक्षा में OER, Open Education यानी मुक्त शिक्षा का भविष्य) का आयोजन किया है । इस समुदाय में कई विकिपीडिया संपादक भी शामिल हैं जो भारतीय भाषाओं में मुक्त लेखन प्रस्तुत करने और सरकारी संस्थाओं द्वारा लाइसेंस स्थानांतरित करने में शामिल हैं ।

[ODIA] Creative Commons-ଭାରତ ଚାପ୍ଟର କୋଭିଡ ମହାମାରୀ ସମୟରେ ଅନେକ ୱେବିନାର ଆୟୋଜନ କରିଛି । ଯଥା: ପ୍ରାଥମିକ ଶିକ୍ଷାରେ ଓପନ ଏଜୁକେସନାଲ ରିସୋର୍ସ – OER ଏବଂ ଓପନ ଏଜୁକେସନର ଭବିଷ୍ୟତ । ଏହି ସମ୍ପ୍ରଦାୟରେ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷାରେ ଖୋଲାରେ ପାଠ୍ୟ ତିଆରି କରୁଥିବା ଏବଂ ସରକାରୀ ସଂସ୍ଥାମାନଙ୍କଦ୍ୱାରା ଲାଇସେନ୍ସ ବଦଳାଇବାରେ ଜଡ଼ିତ ଥିବା ଅନେକ ଉଇକିଆଳି ମଧ୍ୟ ଯୋଗଦେଇଛନ୍ତି ।

CC: What exciting project has your Chapter engaged in recently?

CC India: There are many — from many community leaders organising and participating in webinars like the ones shared above on topics Open Education, OER, open licensing and open mapping, to ongoing active Telegram group discussions, to the creation of a Wikipedia article on the Chapter, to the initiation of three projects that were supported by Creative Commons Global Network Communities Activity Fund.

[HINDI] कई है — कई समुदाय के नेताओं ने ओपन एजुकेशन, OER, ओपन लाइसेंसिं और ओपन मैपिंग जैसे विषयों पर वेबिनार का आयोजन किया और भाग लिया; सक्रिय चर्चाओं के लिए एक टेलीग्राम ग्रुप है; CC-भारत चैप्टर पर विकिपीडिया का एक लेख है । Creative Commons ग्लोबल नेटवर्क कम्युनिटीज एक्टिविटी फंड (CAF) द्वारा समर्थित तीन परियोजनाओं को शुरू किया गया था।

[ODIA] ଅନେକ: ଏହି ସମ୍ପ୍ରଦାୟର ନେତୃତ୍ୱ ଓପନ ଏଜୁକେସନ, OER, ଖୋଲା ଲାଇସେନ୍ସ ଏବଂ ଖୋଲା ମାନଚିତ୍ର ଭଳି ବିଷୟ ଉପରେ ୱେବିନାର ଆୟୋଜନ ଏବଂ ଅଂଶଗ୍ରହଣ କରିଥିଲେ; ସକ୍ରିୟ ଆଲୋଚନା ପାଇଁ ଏକ ଟେଲିଗ୍ରାମ ଗୋଷ୍ଠୀ ରହିଛି; ସିସି-ଭାରତ ଅଧ୍ୟାୟ ଉପରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଏକ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ରହିଛି । କ୍ରିଏଟିଭ କମନ୍ସ ଗ୍ଲୋବାଲ ନେଟୱାର୍କ କମ୍ୟୁନିଟିଜ ଆକ୍ଟିଭିଟିଜ ଫଣ୍ଡଦ୍ୱାରା (ସିଏଏଫ) ସମର୍ଥିତ ତିନୋଟି ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରାଯାଇଛି ।

CC: What do you find inspiring and rewarding about your work in the open movement?

CC India: I would say the network effect of the open movement as it helps in distributed, collaborative, diverse and inclusive action for spreading knowledge.

[HINDI] मैं कहूंगा कि ओपन मूवमेंट का नेटवर्क प्रभाव — यह ज्ञान के प्रसार के लिए वितरित, सहयोगात्मक, विविध और समावेशी कार्रवाई में मदद करता है ।

[ODIA] ମୋ ମତରେ ଓପନ ଆନ୍ଦୋଳନର ନେଟୱାର୍କ ପ୍ରଭାବ କାରଣ ଏହା ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିସ୍ତାର ପାଇଁ ବିତରଣ, ସହଯୋଗୀ, ବିବିଧ ଏବଂ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଭୁକ୍ତୀ କାର୍ଯ୍ୟରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରିଥାଏ ।

CC: What are your plans for the future? 

CC India:  As we move through uncertain times, CC-India Chapter will focus on engagements and innovations in areas that are hit badly because of COVID: from liberating paywalled resources to online discussions to lobbying with governments for license migration to even creating/translating open content.

[HINDI] जैसा कि हम सब एक अनिश्चित समय में आगे बढ़ रहे हैं, CC-भारत अध्याय ये सारे क्षेत्रों में शामिल होंगे और नवाचारों पर ध्यान केंद्रित करेंगे जो COVID के कारण बुरी तरह से प्रभावित हुए हैं: पेवल संसाधनों को मुक्त करना, ऑनलाइन चर्चा और लाइसेंस का बदलाव के लिये सरकार को समझाना एवं मुक्त विषय का अनुवाद/लेखन ।

[ODIA] ଆମେ ସମସ୍ତେ ଏକ ଅନିଶ୍ଚିତ କାଳ ଭିତରେ ଆଗକୁ ବଢ଼ୁଥିବାରୁ ସିସି-ଇଣ୍ଡିଆ ଅଧ୍ୟାୟ COVID ହେତୁ କୁପ୍ରଭାବିତ ସମସ୍ତ କ୍ଷେତ୍ରରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଅଂଶଗ୍ରହଣ ଓ ଉଦ୍ଭାବନ ଉପରେ ଧ୍ୟାନଦେବ । ଯଥା: ପେ-ୱାଲ ସମ୍ବଳକୁ ମୁକ୍ତ କରିବା, ଅନଲାଇନ ଆଲୋଚନା, ଲାଇସେନ୍ସ ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନ ପାଇଁ ସରକାରଙ୍କ ସହ ବୁଝାମଣା କରିବା ଏବଂ ଖୋଲା ପାଠ୍ୟର ଅନୁବାଦ/ଲିଖନ ।

CC: Anything else you want to share?

Though there are the following interesting things that we have seen in the last decade, India has a long way to go with open content:

• Textbooks by a national board relicensed under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License,  
• Many sites and publications by the Odisha state government including OER in 21 indigenous languages and national-level online school education portal DIKSHA make active use of Creative Commons Licenses.
• A handful of educational institutions, civil society organisations, public sector entities and publishers like Story Weaver publish content under CC Licenses.
  

Thank you to the CC India team, especially Subhashish for contributing to the CC Network Fridays feature, and for all of their work in the open community! To see this conversation on Twitter, click here. To become a member of the CCGN, visit our website!

?: Featured image has icons by Guilherme Furtado and Vectors Point via Noun Project (CC BY 3.0).

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Just over a year ago, the Executive Committee of the CC Global Network Council (GNC) launched an open process to collect feedback from all members on the network structure, with the purpose of understanding what was working and what was not, and to offer recommendations on how to make the structure work better for those on the ground and in local communities. 

We were committed to making the process deeply open and transparent— not just in the procedure, but in the discussion and decision-making as well. That often conflicted with our desire to move forward and significantly extended the timeline, but we believed it was necessary to build trust, to encourage compromise, and to ensure that a variety of voices and perspectives were heard. 

It wasn’t an easy process, but the result is a series of recommendations grounded in the input from our network, repeatedly reviewed and refined by members and chapter leads, and ultimately voted on by the Global Network Council. 

That’s why I am proud to say, as of this week, the GNC has voted overwhelmingly to accept these recommendations. 

From here, we can move forward as a stronger, more community-owned network. The full sets of recommendations are linked below, but here are just a few of the pieces we think will have a big impact: 

• Local chapters will now have real input into membership decisions that affect their jurisdiction. 
• Guidelines on chapter fundraising for CC efforts have been streamlined to make it easier for chapters to grow. 
• We removed barriers and addressed issues around chapter structure that have caused confusion in practice. 
• There are now clearer, more transparent processes for the Community Activities Fund and Certificate Scholarship program, supporting the disbursement of $30,000 (so far) to local organizing efforts and members. 

I’m grateful to the Executive Committee (Lisette Kalshoven – CC Netherlands; Franco Giandana – CC Argentina; Alek Tarkowski – CC Poland; Liz Oyange – CC Kenya; Jorge Gemetto – CC Uruguay; as well as Claudio Ruiz, Delia Brown, and Cable Green from CC HQ), and to Julia Brungs, CC Network Manager, who all put in significant effort to get this process across the finish line. I also want to express appreciation for all the network members, chapter leads, and GNC representatives who spent time to submit comments, give feedback, and push for changes to make the Network better. Over the next few months, the ExCom, the GNC, and CC staff will have to work together to implement these changes. 

You can see the entire process from start to finish in the following links:

Initial Documents: 

1. Launching a Review of the Network Structure: Call for Feedback
2. Transcript of Submitted Comments
3. Analysis of Submitted Comments

Resulting Recommendations:

1. Area 1: Membership
2. Area 2: Funding and Volunteerism
3. Area 3: Chapter and Network Structure
4. Area 4: Miscellaneous

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CC Austria, supported by Chapter Lead Alexander Baratsits and Representative to the CC Global Network Roland Alton-Scheidl, will continue to address core issue areas through a variety of activities. CC Austria has already submitted a statement as part of the consultation process led by the Austrian Ministry of Justice on the implementation of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. The Ministry of Justice’s initial draft addresses the issues of text and data mining and offers exceptions for digital uses in teaching and learning. Unsurprisingly, the Ministry of Justice has adopted a rights holder-friendly position. For example, the draft provides remuneration for text and data mining for scientific purposes and the priority of licenses for the educational exception. CC Austria has submitted alternative proposals and intends to intensify the public debate on this issue in the coming months.

Join us!

We are looking forward to branching out further in Austria and encourage interested people to join us! You can find information on the new CC Austria Chapter website! Contact us directly at team@creativecommons.at or legal@creativecommons.at, engage with us on Twitter, or visit our public fairchat channel, which you can also just subscribe to as a mailing list. Chances are high that you meet one of us in person at the monthly Netzpolitischer Abend!

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The meeting began with a welcome greetings from Carlos Correa, followed by the presentation that the team had developed to introduce the attendees, by Karen Díaz. The presentation, which you can access here, began with the basic concepts of Creative Commons (What it is, why it exists, what are its work programs, the types of licenses and the content repository). Attendees were very active in the group chat and engaged with the topics through a lively discussion.  We had attendance from a wider range of backgrounds, including copyright and IP lawyers, as well as Wikimedians. 

Next, we discussed how the Creative Commons Global Network worked, the global strategy and shared a timeline that contextualizes Peru within the framework of the evolution of the Network. It was important to point out what the current objectives of the global strategy arebecause Peru already had a Chapter inaugurated in 2006. This Chapter stopped its operations  after the Singapore Summit, so our mission as the new Chapter was to continue promoting the spirit of collaboration of the global strategy and learn from the previous Chapter (As highlighted by Diego de la Cruz)

Finally, we moved on to the third part: the formation of our new local Chapter. We reviewed the procedure to form a national Chapter, how this Chapter would be structured, how we can encourage our local members to join the global network, what ways we would have to communicate and how the Chapter would work in Peru:

Communication

We indicated the #cc-peru channel in the Creative Commons Slack workspace as priority communication channels, explaining how it worked, and we presented the website that the driving team had previously enabled. We are excited to expand our Chapter, if you are interested in joining please contact us

Leadership

Miguel Morachimo was proposed for representation in front of the Global Network and Clara Cubas for Chapter leadboth introduced themselves and their roles were approved through enthusiastic comments in the chat. It was proposed that the roles of Chapter Lead and representative to the Global Network have an annual duration and that the main objective of the first year would be to strengthen the nascent chapter.

Chapter structure

When registering in the attendance form, we noticed that the topics of academia and education, governance, civil society platforms and GLAM were a local priority. Each topic will depend on the interest and volunteer work of those who promote it. These interest groups and their short-term work plans would be defined at the next meeting, where we are hoping to invite even more people to!  With this, after the final photo, the first Creative Commons Peru meeting closed.

Spanish website (English website will be coming soon!):

https://creativecommons.pe/2020/08/asi-fue-la-reunion-de-formacion-del-capitulo-cc-peru/

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Creative Commons Perú

Así fue nuestra reunión de formación de capítulo:

El sábado 15 de agosto del 2020 nos reunimos vía online para la primera Reunión Oficial del Capítulo de Creative Commons en Perú. A la reunión asistieron 26 personas, de las 60 que se registraron en el formulario de asistencia. El distanciamiento físico no fue una limitación para el éxito de este primer encuentro. Por el contrario, que la reunión se haya dado virtualmente posibilitó la participación de personas de distintas ciudades del país fuera de la capital, entre ellos Chiclayo, Trujillo, Piura y Arequipa, lo que en un país centralista como Perú era una muy buena noticia.

Este encuentro, muy esperado en Perú, venía gestándose ya desde hace un mes por un grupo de personas interesadas en promoverlo (Calú Correa, María Belén Collao, José Aranda, Abel Revoredo, Clara Cubas, Karen Díaz, Miguel Morachimo y Willy Cruz). La reunión comenzó con el saludo de bienvenida de Carlos Correa, seguido por la presentación que el equipo había desarrollado para introducir a los asistentes, a cargo de Karen Díaz.

La presentación, a la que puedes acceder aquí, inició con los conceptos básicos del Creative Commons, qué es, por qué existe, cuáles son sus programas de trabajo, los tipos de licencias y el repositorio de contenido. Después de esta sección de presentación, se invitó a los asistentes, que habían tenido mucha actividad ya en el chat, a que compartan sus comentarios. Entre quienes asistían a la reunión se presentaron  Aaron Anibal, abogado en temas de propiedad intelectual; Daniel Coíla Llerena, abogado interesado en los derechos de autor desde Arequipa y Melissa Guadalupe, parte del capítulo de Wikimedia. 

A continuación, comentamos cómo funcionaba la Red Global de Creative Commons, la estrategia global y una línea de tiempo que contextualiza a Perú en el marco de la evolución de la red. Fue importante señalar cuáles eran los objetivos actuales de la estrategia global porque nuestro país ya había tenido un capítulo inaugurado en el 2006, que se desactualizó tras la Cumbre de Singapur, por lo que nuestra misión como capítulo era continuar promoviendo el espíritu de colaboración de la estrategia global y aprender del capítulo anterior, como resaltó Diego de la Cruz. 

Finalmente, pasamos a la tercera parte: conformar un capítulo local. Para ellos, repasamos cuál era el procedimiento para formar un capítulo nacional, cómo se estructuraría este capítulo, cómo sumarse a la red global, qué formas tendríamos de comunicarnos y cómo trabajaría el capítulo en Perú.

Comunicación interna

Señalamos como canales de comunicación prioritarios el canal #cc-peru en el espacio de trabajo en Slack de Creative Commons, explicando cómo funcionaba, y presentamos la web creativecommons.pe que el equipo impulsor ya había habilitado previamente.

Liderazgos

Miguel Morachimo fue propuesto para la representación frente a la Red Global y Clara Cubas para el liderazgo local, ambos se presentaron y sus roles fueron aprobados mediante entusiastas comentarios en el chat. Se propuso que los roles de Líder Local y de representante ante la Red Global tengan una duración anual y que el objetivo principal del primer año sería fortalecer al capítulo naciente. 

Estructura del capítulo

Al registrarse en el formulario de asistencia, notamos que eran prioridad local los temas de academia y educación, Gobernanza, Plataformas de sociedad civil y GLAM. Cada tema dependerá del interés y el trabajo voluntario de quienes lo impulsen, articulados en un capítulo nacional. Estos grupos de interés y sus planes de trabajo a corto plazo se definirían en la próxima reunión, tras un tiempo prudencial para socializar este primer encuentro e invitar a más personas. Con esto, tras la foto final, cerró la primera reunión de Creative Commons Perú.

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In practice, however, advocates of open licenses in the realm of public-service media face several hurdles, such as:

• Standard licensing procedures in the world of public-service media do not include open licensing options and are typically limited in time and in scope.

Therefore, releasing material under an open license requires renewed rights clearing efforts with all right holders involved to reflect the conditions set out in open licenses—given the often high number of creators and right holders involved in video content production, this is a difficult, time-consuming, and costly task.

• Standard remuneration rules can make open licensing unattractive for creators.

One common provision, for example, requires public service broadcasters to pay repeated fees any time material is broadcast. With an open license, there are usually no required payments. As a result, remuneration schemes have to be changed to avoid or mitigate the loss of income for creators.

• European Union competition law prohibits state subsidies that may distort competition.

Usually, free and open licenses don’t pose a problem in terms of competition law as long as no special advantage for an individual market actor is associated with using an open license. Generally, public broadcasters act with great caution when it comes to competition rules and many have concerns regarding licensing arrangements that could potentially set off competition issues.

• There are fears of information manipulation.

In light of recent debates on disinformation and “fake news”, public-service media fear that the content they release might be deceivingly and fraudulently manipulated so as to misrepresent facts. While Creative Commons licenses generally permit the creation of derivative works or adaptations (unless the licensor chooses to release content under a NoDerivatives license) and attribution is a requirement for all CC licenses as is a link back to the original so users can see any changes made, they do not govern defamation, disinformation or fabrication of information, which are violations dealt with outside the scope of copyright. Still, there is a reticence in public media television to openly publish content due to such threats despite the aforementioned safeguards within the CC licenses.  

German public broadcaster ZDF chooses open licensing

Given these hurdles, the recent initiative by the German national public-service television broadcaster ZDF (“Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen”, literally translated as “Second German Television”) and its documentary series Terra X is remarkable. After a test run with five CC-licensed videos on issues related to climate change in the fall of 2019, the ZDF just launched a platform with 50 explainer videos and promised to add three additional videos each week. All videos are licensed under either CC BY or CC BY-SA, making them compatible with the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia (see the ZDF press release, in German). 

A screenshot of the “Terra X” webpage featuring a catalog of CC-BY and CC-BY-SA explainer videos. Access the videos here.

The videos on climate change published in 2019 soon found their way into prominent Wikipedia articles, such as this one on climate change, leading to hundreds of thousands of views. This illustrates how important the posting of content on Wikipedia, which requires the use of a CC BY or CC BY-SA license, is for public service-media, as it can considerably increase the size of the audience and the media’s reach. Earlier experiments by public broadcasters with open licenses had used restrictive license modules such as the Non-Commercial (NC) or NoDerivatives (ND) CC licenses, which reached a very limited audience.

With Terra X leading the way, it will be interesting to see how the “first” German public-service television broadcaster ARD will respond. Hopefully, we will see productive competition between these two public-service broadcasters that will ultimately increase the amount of content available under open licenses produced by public-service media for the benefit of users in Germany and across the world.

This blog post was written by Leonhard Dobusch, a Professor of Organization at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and a member of the supervisory council of the ZDF “Fernsehrat”, representing the societal interests of the internet. He blogs about his work at netzpolitik.org (in German only).

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Grant for the Web, the $100 million fund for efforts that utilize and build upon the Web Monetization standard, today announced $250,000 in funding for a small group of projects: Free Music Archive, Coronavirus Tech Handbook, DEV, and Grant for the Web Ambassadors. These “early grantees” represent the wide array of endeavors that this project is designed to support. From today’s announcement:

From an urgent COVID-19 response project that monetizes collaborative documents for charitable relief to a hackathon offering developers a chance to learn about open standards in Web Monetization, to an artist exploring ways to generate revenue from her original work, these awardees demonstrate that there is a fierce appetite and enormous talent for exploring new ways – and motivations – to exchange money on the web using open standards.

Creative Commons is proud to work alongside Coil, Mozilla, and Loup on Grant for the Web, which is is working to “fund individuals, projects, and global communities that contribute to a privacy-centric, open, and accessible Web Monetization ecosystem.” We’re especially excited that Grant for the Web is committed to awarding at least 50% of all grant dollars to projects that will be openly licensed.

Grant for the Web’s first open call for proposals is open now through June 12, 2020 at 12:00pm (PST). Learn more and consider applying.

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