Nordic CC network

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= Team description =

The Project team consists of four Nordic Creative Commons teams and Royal Institute of Technology’s VINNOVA Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Communications. The team members have set up a mailing list and have had previous communications at open content related events.

== Finland ==

Creative Commons Finland is hosted together by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and The University of Art and Design Helsinki.

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), founded in 1999, is a joint research institute of the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University of Technology. HIIT represents high expertise both in computer science and law. In addition it has close institutional bonds with academic legal science, law-courts and The Finnish Bar Association.

HIIT conducts internationally high-level strategic research in information technology, especially in areas where Finnish IT industry has or may reach a significant global role. HIIT works in close co-operation with universities and industry, aiming to improve the contents, visibility, and impact of Finnish IT research to benefit the competitiveness of Finnish IT industry and the development of the Finnish information society.
The University of Art and Design Helsinki's Media Lab provides education and research frameworks for studying digital media contents and technologies, their design, development and the effect they have on society. Media Lab’s work is characterized by the collaboration of people from a wide variety of disciplines and cultures.

Key personnel:
Herkko Hietanen has been the CC-Finland leader since 2004. He has worked with Creative Commons team in San Francisco and as a visiting scholar in UC Berkley School of Information.
Currently Hietanen teaches law and technology in Lappeenranta University of Technology and conducts p2p research at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. His publications include several academic papers and he has co-authored a book "Community Created Content, law business and policy" that has received excellent reviews from the open content community. Herkko is writing his PhD thesis on open content licensing which he hopes to finish early 2008.
Herkko is also a partner in Turre Legal law firm and has extensively worked with user created and open content projects. Herkko has counseled several media companies and productions in open content licensing recently helped to design the open content licensing and distribution strategy for the Star Wreck motion picture.
Herkko will be the project leader of the Summit and responsible for organizing the event.

== Sweden ==

IT University is a faculty within Göteborg University. It is a new addition to the centre for IT research, education and development in the west of Sweden. This venture offers excellent scope for cooperation between researchers within different areas of expertise and specializations. The programs offered are based on advanced research and are in a constant state of development. Göteborg University offers the most comprehensive range of courses and degree programs in Sweden. Göteborg University has about 40 000 students, a staff of well over four thousand, and almost as many part-time teachers spread over approx. 70 departments.

The VINNOVA Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Communications is a recently established Centre of Excellence at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm funded over a ten-year period by VINNOVA, KTH and partners from Swedish industry and society. The Centre will develop innovative applications of media and communications technologies that can contribute, directly or indirectly, to sustainable development by enabling collaboration, interaction and communication exchange between people in different locations. Furthermore, the Centre will develop innovative user–oriented services, products, environments, business models, methods and tools.

Key personnel:
Mathias Klang currently holds positions both at the University of Lund and the University of Göteborg. In Lund he is conducting a copyright research project aimed at developing the state of Open Access at university libraries in Sweden. In Göteborg Mathias conducts research in the field of legal informatics with particular interest in copyright, democracy, human rights, free expression, censorship, open access and ethics. He has published several articles in these topics. Among his recent work is a co-edited volume (with Andrew Murray) entitled “Human Rights in the Digital Age” and he defended his PhD thesis "Disruptive Technology" in October 2006.

Mathias is a coordinator of the Resistance Studies Network, he has been Project Lead for Creative Commons Sweden since 2004 and a member of the Free Software Foundation Europe team since 2006.

Marko Turpeinen is Professor of Media Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Helsinki University of Technology and a M. Sc. Degree in Media Arts and Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His academic research addresses issues in customized media content and active computer-mediated communities. Previously he has worked at Alma Media Corporation, a Finnish media company, as Director of Business Opportunities.

== Denmark ==
Creative Commons is working with the Law Department of Copenhagen Business School to create Denmark jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses.
CBS also facilitates Creative Commons Denmark - a broadly founded forum which purpose is to promote Creative Commons in Denmark.

Copenhagen Business School has around 14,000 students and an annual intake of around 1,000 exchange students. With this number of students as well as around 400 full-time researchers and around 500 administrative employees, CBS is the one of the 3 largest business school in Northern Europe. http://www.cbs.dk
Key personnel:
Legal Project Lead: Jan Trzaskowski
Public Project Lead: Henrik Moltke

Henrik Moltke is an independent media professional, documentary maker and freelance journalist. He has been promoting the Creative Commons licensing system in Denmark since 2005, and a part of the "movement" since 2003. Henrik handles non-legal issues, PR and press, frequently gives presentations and talks and liaises with users and partners on behalf of Creative Commons Denmark. He is also the co-director of the internationally acclaimed feature length documentary, Good Copy Bad Copy (broadcast on DR2 in Denmark, soon to be broadcast by FST, Finland, and others).

Nordic CC network

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CC Nordic meeting

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CC Nordic meeting

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=2008 Nordic Creative Commons Summit=

The summit brings together scholars and practitioners from legal and culture field to discuss best policies of implementing legal open content sharing in Nordic countries.

==Background==

Creative Commons [Later referred CC] is a global nonprofit organization that is based in US. It provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." All the tools and licenses created are free. Creative Commons licenses have been used for over 200 million works. It can be said that the licenses help to fuel the legal free culture movement that is happening online.
CC provides generic licenses which are jurisdiction-agnostic: they do not mention any particular jurisdiction's laws or statutes or contain any sort of choice-of-law provision. The licenses are, however, based on the U.S. Copyright Act in many respects. This means that it is at least conceivable that some aspects of the licenses will not align perfectly to a particular jurisdiction's laws. Creative Commons International (CCi) works to "port" the core Creative Commons Licenses to different copyright legislations around the world. The porting work involves both linguistically translating the licenses and legally adapting them to particular jurisdictions.
The translation and localization work is done by volunteer teams in each jurisdiction who are committed to introducing CC to their country and who consult extensively with members of the public and key stakeholders as part of the porting process. Denmark’s, Finland’s and Sweden’s volunteer country teams have adapted the previous version of the licenses and have web pages for instructing the rights owners for how to use the licenses. Norway is in the process of localizing the licenses.
Creative Commons is based to copyright licenses that are translated and localized to each countries local legal system. This ensures that the licenses are easily understood and enforceable in each country The Nordic legal systems has a common heritage when it comes to copyright law. Nordic co-operation can thus help to produce common licensing structure and provide insights for the translation process. Having a face to face meeting helps the networking of the voluntary members of the movement.

==Project description==
The project will bring together Nordic Creative Commons licensing researchers and activists for a weekend workshop to Stockholm in May [tentatively 16.-18.5.] 2008. The workshop will provide networking for Nordic researchers and co-ordinate and discuss the license localizations and free culture promotion. The event will be co-hosted by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and VINNOVA Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Communications. Expected attendance is 100 people.
The program consists of keynote presentations, workshops and panels. Invited papers are selected and printed in a special "open content, culture and law" publication in a joint publication of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and VINNOVA Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Communications. The publication will be made available in electronic form for free. The printed material will be made available for academic and cultural institutions.
Information of the summit will be distributed through the international Creative Commons network and using Nordic networks own channels like participating institutions web pages and mailing lists. The call for papers will be shared to the culture and academic community.

==Summit themes==
The summit themes and program will be divided to four parts.
1) Technology How can technology be used to aid distribution of cultural objects legally? The call for participation is aimed for case studies, demos and posters of new technologies that enable legal remixing and sharing.
2) Law How copyright and other laws affect free culture movement? What are the special Nordic circumstances that we have to take into account? The call for papers is for legal analysis of open content licensing and related issues.
3) Business How can you do business while giving away your products for free? The call for papers is for case studies of innovative business and production models that are enabled by open content licensing.
4) Art What kind of new possibilities open content enables for artists? The call for papers is for art projects showcases.

Conference

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Creative Commons is a small nonprofit. CC presents at several conferences a year, but our formal staff is limited. We often need other CC community members to help us at conferences by helping present projects, fliers, and other issues. Also, this is a great way to get into your favorite conference for free!

Check out our schedule and contact us if you want to get involved handing out swag and manning the booth. Also, make sure to subscribe to our [http://www.creativecommons.org/weblog webblog] where we will be sure to post about upcoming conferences/volunteer opportunities.

== Upcoming Conferences ==

*[[CC Nordic meeting]]
**May 23-25
**Stockholm, Sweden

== Info Cheat Sheet ==

* Link to PDF

Reading list

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This is a reading list of Web sites and paper books that you can use to get informed about Open Content, licenses, copyright, and related issues.

See [[CcDebate]] for in depth discussion of CC-specific issues.

== Licensing ==

Several of the books highlighted at [[Books]] discuss licensing.

* [http://turre.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=5&Itemid=41 Community Created Content] Book by Hietanen, Välimäki and Oksanen analysing CC licensing and business models.
* [http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law]. Book by Lawrence Rosen about Open Source licenses. All chapters available for download under the Academic Free License 3.0.
* [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/osfreesoft/ Open Source and Free Software Licensing]. By Andrew M. St. Laurent, from O'Reilly and Associates. All chapters available for download under by-nd license.
* [http://www.catb.org/~esr/Licensing-HOWTO.html Licensing HOWTO]. By Eric and Catherine Raymond. Detailed discussion of Open Source licensing issues, comparison of licenses, and some process information about changing license. Some idiosyncratic terminology ("academic licenses", for example).

== Freedom definitions ==

* [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free Software Definition] from the [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation]
* [http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php Open Source Definition] from the [http://www.opensource.org/ Open Source Institute]
* [http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines Debian Free Software Guidelines] from [http://www.debian.org/ The Debian Project]
* [http://www.freedomdefined.org/Definition Definition of Free Cultural Works]

== Copyright ==

* [http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html Copyright basics] ([http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf PDF version]), from [http://www.copyright.gov/ US Copyright Office]. Overview of copyright issues for US jurisdictions. An excellent introduction to the subject and terminology.
* [http://www.nolo.com/resource.cfm/catID/DAE53B68-7BF5-455A-BC9F3D9C9C1F7513/310/276/ Nolo.com Copyright Section]. Good overview of copyright from do-it-yourself legal publisher [http://www.nolo.com/ Nolo Press]