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Grants/Central and Eastern European Free Culture Policy Workshop

2010-06-30T21:49:00Z

Alek Tarkowski: Created page with '{{Grant Application |Project Title=Central and Eastern European Free Culture Policy Workshop |applicants=Creative Commons Poland |contact person=Alek Tarkowski (alek@creativecomm…'

{{Grant Application
|Project Title=Central and Eastern European Free Culture Policy Workshop
|applicants=Creative Commons Poland
|contact person=Alek Tarkowski (alek@creativecommons.pl), Justyna Hofmokl (justyna@creativecommons.pl)
|coordinator=same as above
|start date=2011/01/01
|end date=2011/06/30
|Affiliation=CC Hungary, CC Czech Republic / IuRe, CC Germany, Project: Poland (Polish NGO)
|Mainurl=http://creativecommons.pl
|Affiliated=Yes
|description=We want to organize in Warsaw (or in its vicinity), in the first half of 2011, a two-day regional meeting of free culture activists (and in particular Creative Commons leads) from Central and Eastern Europe. It's a first of its kind opportunity to meet at regional level, recognize the region's specificity with respect to free culture growth – but also due to common economic and developmental conditions, and discuss strategies suited for our local contexts. The focus of the meeting will be free culture as a policy matter - in the context of both the recently adopted Digital Agenda for Europe; and the upcoming EU Presidencies led by Hungary (January – June 2011) and Poland (July-December 2011), which has declared intellectual capital as one of its priority area. The workshop will start with a collective analysis of national and international contexts and experiences, and then move on to formulate two sets of policy documents: an external one, to be presented to the Polish presidency, and an internal one, to be used by free culture activists. The workshop will focus upon two key areas: culture and heritage, and public / government information and data.
|output=Key output:
Policy document "Free culture as a key component of Europe's intellectual capital", to be presented to the Polish EU Presidency.
Internal policy document „Paths towards free culture growth in Central and Eastern Europe”.
Additional output:
Recorded and edited audio / video relation from parts of the workshop.
Blog posts and other incidental communication.
|community=We are directly targeting the community of free culture activists active in Central and Eastern Europe. We believe that there is strength in greater regional collaboration, taking into account similarities between countries and relative lack of geographic distance. The workshop will support it through exchange of knowledge and collective policy work. Indirectly, we are targeting the broad free culture community – which we will provide with policy guidelines.
|community relationship=Creative Commons Poland, started in 2005, is among the first ten CC jurisdictions worldwide and one of the first ones in the region. Our leads are active in international free culture networking and have experience in organizing and programming a broad range of events (conferences, workshops) related to free culture.
|measurement=The project will be evaluated directly with workshop participants. The impact of the project will afterwards be measured by observing the reaction to workshop's output documents.
|participants=We expect to fund the participation of 16 selected experts from abroad (assuming 1-3 persons per country) and 4 persons from Poland, with a mixed set of competences and backgrounds corresponding to both the two key areas and other areas of interest (for example, science, education, innovation, etc.). These persons will be invited through CC affiliates in the region (jurisdiction affiliates or people and institutions considering such status). Through them we will invite both persons involved in Creative Commons, other free culture activists, and potentially also other key experts dealing with these issues from different perspectives.
In order to insure involvement, we are moving beyond a simple "talk" model and want to focus the workshop on a specific policy document. Part of the collective work on document drafting will have to be done after the Forum - this effort will be led by our Polish staff; we hope that its activity will encourage peer contributions from other participants.
|impact=The external policy document will help raise awareness of issues related to free culture and hopefully affect national-level or European policy. Secondly, an internal policy document will sum up experiences of regional activists and describe effective ways for promoting and spreading free culture in Central and Eastern Europe. Finally, the workshop process itself will strengthen Creative Commons' presence in the region, by allowing for exchange of knowledge, networking, and common strategic goals.
|tech needs=Our technical needs are minimal. We will use simple, freely available tools to coordinate the project, collectively gather knowledge and produce content.
|challenges=We do not recognize any significant challenges related to organizing the workshop, other than the potential difficulty of having our policy statement recognized. To overcome this potential problem, we hope to use our contacts in the Polish public administration. We believe that the regional CC affiliates and their partners have sufficient, broad expertise to run collectively a successful policy workshop.
|sustainability=The workshop is a one-time event with a clear output and end date. We hope to make this a regular event - but will evaluate the need to do so after the first workshop. By networking activists in the region we plan to create a possibility for starting future projects together.
|scalability=By aligning the workshop with the Hungarian and then Polish EU Presidency, we expect to gain substantial visibility and achieve a policy effect at both European and regional level.
|resource needs=The workshop will be organized with the use of Creative Commons Poland's own organizational capacity. We are ensuring support of other jurisdictional chapters from the region by involving them in the project.
|communication=CC Poland runs its own mailing list (300+ members) and a blog. We are also involved in the Coalition for Open Education, which is an important communication channel for us (with its own mailing list and webpage).
|budget=CEE free culture policy workshop.pdf
|free text=The Workshop will receive additional support of USD 1500 from the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe. The workshop has a Central and Eastern European focus in order to strengthen the free culture community in this particular region. We believe that there is regional specificity both in terms of common history and culture, but also in terms of current common situation as new members of the European Union (or states wanting to achieve such status), with shared economic, social and developmental challenges. Furthermore, a regional scope will allow us to lower transportation costs.
|legal=No
}}

File:CEE free culture policy workshop.pdf

2010-06-30T21:48:03Z

Alek Tarkowski: detailed budget

detailed budget

Affiliate Calls/Q2 2010

2010-06-06T20:11:09Z

Alek Tarkowski: /* RSVP/Attendees */

==Time & Date==
Thursday, June 10th:
16:00 San Francisco
23:00 GMT
Friday, June 11th:
08:00 Seoul/Tokyo
([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=10&month=6&year=2010&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 time zone planner])

== Call Details==
TBA

== RSVP/Attendees ==
(add your name here by June 4th if you plan to join)
# [[User:Mike Linksvayer|Mike Linksvayer]] 16:38, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
# Diane Peters (HQ)
# Joi Ito (HQ)
# --[[User:Michelle Thorne|Michelle Thorne]] 10:13, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
# Federico Morando (CC-IT)
# Jane Hornibrook (CC New Zealand)
# [[User:Nathan Yergler|Nathan Yergler]]
# Rafik Dammak (Tunisia)
# Melissa Reeder (HQ)
# Alberto Cerda (CC Chile)
# Tyng-Ruey Chuang (CC Taiwan) [note: 80% certainty]
# Tomoaki Watanabe (CC Japan)
# Pindar Wong (CC HK)
# John Weitzmann (CC DE)
# Carolina Botero (CC CO)
# ALek Tarkowski (CC PL)

==Q1 2010 Call Notes==
See [[Affiliate_Calls/Q1_2010]]

==Q2 2010 Agenda==

===Welcome and Meeting Overview===
===CC-HQ Board and Staff Updates===
===Program Updates===
* Catalyst Grant Program
* Public Patent License
* Translation Plans
* Intern Program
* Affiliates
**MOU Revisions
**Affiliate and Porting Guidelines and Policies
**Board Composition and Reporting

===Affiliate Updates===
* Asia-Pacific Conference (CC Korea)
* OCWC meeting and Vietnam launch (CC Columbia)
* Others

Free culture debate at the "Swoją drogą" conference

2009-12-11T22:15:17Z

Alek Tarkowski: added link

{{Birthday Party
|Location=Warsaw, Poland
|Date=2009/12/13
}}
Creative Commons Poland will organize a debate on free culture as part of cultural reform in Poland within the scope of the "Swoją drogą" conference, taking place in Warsaw on the 11th-13th of December. "Swoją drogą" is a meeting of the representatives of the independent cultural sector, focusing on various aspects of cultural reform.
Additionally, on the 11th Eileen Simpson and Ben White from the Open Music Archive project will give a presentation of their work with public domain and free cultural works, and then play a DJ set of copyleft music at the Wspaniały Nowy Świat club.

Details of the conference (in Polish): http://www.wuw2009.pl/index.php?lang=&page=wydarzenia&id=63&mod=opis

Free culture debate at the "Swoją drogą" conference

2009-12-11T22:13:43Z

Alek Tarkowski: birthday celebration in warsaw, poland

Public Sector Information defaults

2009-08-25T20:01:01Z

Alek Tarkowski: corrected information about Poland

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Jurisdiction
! Reference (if given)
! Response
|-
| Canada
| NA
| Copyright Act recognizes Crown Copyright and most provinces and the federal government have a "Queen's Printer" or a government printer (for Québec, where references to the Queen have mostly been eliminated from your government aparatus) in charge of dealing with reprint requests. These documents are covered by the Reprographic Rights Organisations (RROs) for the creation of cource-packs in schools and universities (don't get me started on this). There are some notable efforts to make data/documents available under some sort of flexible licensing scheme, such as:

http://geogratis.gc.ca/ - free access to (some) geospacial data from Canada. A notable exception to this are the postal (Canada's Zip) code master file, specially with electoral boundaries. Canada Post makes this available via a very expensive and restrictive license.

http://www.canlii.org/ - free access to primary legal materials (this is funded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada and is managed by a research center at Université de Montréal). The Government has passed a decree via the Gazette of Canada (for federal statutes at least) allowing
copies of statutes to be made:
http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/regu/si-97-5/latest/si-97-5.html

There are a hodge-podge of other regimes, mostly with special terms and conditions, for other types of government data. But GeoGratis and CanLII are the two most notable examples.

In sum, most everything that can still be protected by crown copyright still is, but there are notable efforts to make some content available freely/openly ("libre" in French).

|-
| Chile
| NA
| In Chile all the works made by public functionaries (informs, judicial sentences, software, database and text of law, for example) are not in public domain but they are protected by copyright law, where is the State the copyright holder.

Nevertheless, there a brand new access to information law where makes accessible a lot of information from the public institutions for the citizen. Of course, in that sense, what is public in the sense of the access is not quite the same that the copyright access to copy and reuse of those materials.
|-
| Colombia
| Law 23 of 1982
| The general rule is protection but there are a couple of exceptions to express authorization for certain reproductions according to the Law 23 of 1982:

The following works are protected, but it is allowed to reproduce them provided that the copy is an exact reproduction of the official version:

Constitution, laws, treaties, orders, municipal ordinances, agreements, regulations, all kind of administrative acts and judicial decisions

It is possible to publish in the printed press, TV or broadcast as news the political speeches delivered in public and statements made in public in the court, or any other judicial fora or before any public authority, this apply also to conferences, speeches, sermons, lectures given in public provided that no reserve has been done as to it´s property, This works can not be compiled without the author's approval.
|-
| Italy
| NA
| Not applicable. There is no PSI provision in Italian law (so far). The usual laws apply, even if the rights holder is a public entity.
|-
| Japan
| NA
| What is not protected by copyright are the following:
* law and other public ordinances, instructions, and announcements drafted and released by governmental body
* judgments, decisions, orders made by courts

|-
| Netherlands
| NA
| Public acts are exempt from copyright, but they're just a part of PSI (which is not generally exempt from copyright).
|-
| Poland
| NA
| The following types of works (among several others) are not subject to copyright, according to the Copyright Act:
* normative acts and their official projects;
* official documents, materials, marks and symbols;
* published patent descriptions

Unfortunately, the concept of "official documents and materials" is ambiguous, leading to uncertainty regarding copyright status of many government documents - for instance those prepared by external institutions / experts.

Independently of copyright regulation, there are rules granting access to any public information not publicly available, upon request. Such access does not offer any waiving of copyright, if such applies to given information.
|-
| Slovenia
| NA
| According to Slovenian PSI legislation:
* '''Access''' to PSI protected by copyright is '''granted'''.
* '''Reproduction''' of copyright PSI is '''not allowed'''. This is the case also '''if the copyright owner is a public entity''' (e. g. the government). This will most probably change soon and reproduction of copyrighted PSI will only be impossible in case the copyright owner is a third person (not a public entity).
* '''Re-use''' of copyright information is not allowed only, if the copyright owner is a third person (not the entity obliged to give PSI but someone else).

In accordance with our copyright legislation, official legislative, administrative and judicial texts are not copyright protected and can, therefore, be freely used.
|-
| South Africa
| Section 12(8) of the South African Copyright Act 1978
| "(8) (a) No copyright shall subsist in official texts of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, or in official translations of such texts, or in speeches of a political nature or in speeches delivered in the course of legal proceedings, or in news of the day that are mere items of press information."
|-
| South Korea
| NA
| No work which falls under any of the following subparagraphs shall be protected
* Constitution, Acts, treaties, orders, municipal ordinances and municipal rules;
* Bulletins, public notifications, directives and others similar to them which are issued by the State or local governments;
* Judgments, decisions, orders, or adjudications of courts, as well as resolutions and decisions made by the administrative appeals procedures, or other similar procedures;
* Compilations or translations of those as referred to in subparagraphs 1 through 3 which are produced by the State or local governments; and

And political speeches delivered in public and statements made in public in the court, the National Assembly or local councils may be utilized in some way or other: Provided, That the speeches and statements of the same author are utilized after compilation, this shall not apply.
|-
| Taiwan
| Article 9, Taiwan Copyright Act
| The following items shall not be the subject matter of copyright:
* The constitution, acts, regulations, or official documents.
* Translations or compilations by central or local government agencies of works referred to in the preceding subparagraph.
* Slogans and common symbols, terms, formulas, numerical charts, forms, notebooks, or almanacs.
* Oral and literary works for news reports that are intended strictly to communicate facts.
* Test questions and alternative test questions from all kinds of examinations held pursuant to acts or regulations.

The term "official documents" in the first subparagraph of the preceding paragraph includes proclamations, text of speeches, news releases, and other documents prepared by civil servants in the course of carrying out their duties.
|-
| United States
| Section 105 of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 (as amended)
| Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works:

Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.
|-
| Other Information on PSI
| National Academy Press
| "The Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks" (in which the status of PSI usage in some countries can be found), available online at:

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12687

Contact at The National Academies: Paul F. Uhlir (Rapporteur, U.S. National Committee for CODATA; Director, NRC Board on Research Data and Information)
|}

Priority Projects

2008-07-24T10:04:49Z

Alek Tarkowski:

In the spirit of [http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html Free Software Foundation's High Priority Projects], Creative Commons should have a top 5 high priority projects for all to feel free to participate in solving. Help set the direction!

# Repository of CC promotional materials, built at collective level and open to allow reuse (in particular translation) + a "motivational scheme" to support international-level translation of content (with license-related strings a priority)
# Case Studies project
# Metrics project - let's gather better data about where we are, so that later we can see, how far we went ahead...
# Priority (replace me)
# Priority (replace me)

{{Project}}
[[Category:Wishlist]]
[[Category:Incomplete]]

Legalcode errata

2008-06-10T08:49:40Z

Alek Tarkowski:

Despite our best efforts, spelling errors and other errata are sometimes included in the published legal code for licenses. Creative Commons publishes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha1 SHA1] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function checksums] for legal code, which allows people who receive a copy of the license to easily verify this it has not been tampered with. Therefore Creative Commons does not amend legal code once published.

Creative Commons is planning an errata service which will allow us to record and report the typographical errata for a license without modifying the document itself. This service is currently under development, and will launch Q2 2008. Until that time, this wiki page collects known errata for license legal code. If you discover a spelling error on a license, please record it here. The information on this page will be integrated in the errata service at launch time.

= Recurring bugs =

== by-sa with by-nc-sa as example compatible port ==
Found in (at least, pending further review). See section 4(b) or 4(β) in the Greece license:
* by-sa 3.0 gr
* by-sa 3.0 ph
* by-sa 2.5 ca (en and fr)
* by-sa 2.0 at
* by-sa 2.0 ca (en and fr)
* by-sa 2.0 de
* by-sa 2.0 fr

= Individual license errata =
== by 2.0 de ==
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/legalcode
<pre>
(1) Lizenzvertrag:

< UNTER DER VORAUSSETZUNGEIN, DASS
---
> UNTER DER VORAUSSETZUNG EIN, DASS

(2) Definitionen:

< f. f. Unter dem „Schutzgegenstand"wird
< verstanden
---
> f. Unter dem „Schutzgegenstand" wird
> verstanden.

(3) Gewährleistung:

< vereinbart,,
---
> vereinbart,

(4) Schlussbestimmungen:

< a. a. Jedes Mal
---
> a. Jedes Mal

(5)

< HAT CREATIVE COMMONS ALL RECHTE [...]
< LIZENSGEBERS [...]
< KENIE VERTRAGSPARTEI [...]
< ÜBREEINSTIMMUNG
---
> HAT CREATIVE COMMONS ALLE RECHTE [...]
> LIZENZGEBERS [...]
> DARF KEINE VERTRAGSPARTEI [...]
> ÜBEREINSTIMMUNG
</pre>

== by-nd and by-nc-nd 3.0 unported ==
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode
* The last paragraph of section 3 makes reference to a section 8(f), which doesn't actually exist. Instead, it should refer to section 8(e).

== by-sa 3.0 unported ==
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
* 1(b) cites 1(f), should cite 1(h)
* 1(b) says Adaption is defined '''above''', not below as the text states.
* 4(c) has a spelling error: "(iv) , consistent with Ssection 3(b)"

== every 3.0 license other than by-nc-sa ==
5.
is "MERCHANTIBILITY" - should be "MERCHANTABILITY"

inconsitency: BYNCSA states:"THIS EXCLUSION MAY NOT", every other license states "SUCH EXCLUSION MAY NOT"

== cc byncsa, cc bysa, cc by ==

4.c. compensation in *con-nection* with the exchange of copyrighted works.

should be connection, without hyphen?

== cc byncsa vs. cc bysa ==

1.
4(b): (i) the terms of this License;

4(b): the terms of: (i) this License;

2.
granted by Licensor are hereby reserved, *including but not limited to the rights described in Section 4(e)*.

granted by Licensor are hereby reserved. [part missing]

== cc byncsa vs. other licenses ==

5. UNLESS OTHERWISE MUTUALLY AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES IN WRITING AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, LICENSOR

5. UNLESS OTHERWISE MUTUALLY AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES IN WRITING, LICENSOR

[part missing]

== cc bysa, cc bync vs. other licenses ==

For the avoidance of doubt, this trademark restriction does not form part of *this* License.

For the avoidance of doubt, this trademark restriction does not form part of *the* License.

== cc byncsa vs. cc bync ==

3.d.: ... including but not limited to the rights *described* in Section 4(e).

3.d.: ...including but not limited to the rights *set forth* in Section 4(d).

== by-sa 2.0 it ==
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/it/legalcode
* 4(b) is a repeat of 4(a)
* corrected in http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/it/legalcode

== devnations 2.0 (retired) ==
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/devnations/3.0/legalcode
* economy is misspelled