2012-07-22T04:37:42Z

Jonas Öberg:

All affiliates are encouraged to seek out each other for meetings and collaborations when participating in events (especially those listed last on this page which is of particular interest to Creative Commons affiliates). You can always ask on the European mailing list if someone else is going to a particular event!

During some occasions, when a more detailed discussion is useful between the affiliates, it can make sense to schedule a half day or day long meeting before or after a related event to have some time for the affiliates themselves to voice opinions and find constructive dialogue.

<h2>Meeting planning</h2>
Upcoming events
<ul>
<li>1st of May - [[Europe/Meetings/2012/4.0|The 4.0 revision - regional meeting]] in Berlin, Germany with Diane Peters from Creative Commons
<li>13th of June, [[Europe/Meetings/2012/GLAM|seminar and strategy meeting on CC & GLAM]] in Stockholm, Sweden (in connection with EuroDIG)
<li>20th of September, [[Europe/Meetings/2012/RM|Regional meeting]] in Helsinki, Finland (in connection with OKFestival
</ul>

<h2>Events of interest</h2>
<ul>
<li>1st Global Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons, 12-14th of September 2012</li>
<li>Free Culture Forum (Barcelona), 25-27th of October 2012</li>
<li>Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (Göteborg), 9-11th of November 2012</li>
</ul>

Armenia

2012-06-18T15:22:10Z

Jonas Öberg:

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There is currently no formal CC team in Armenia. If you are interested in working with Creative Commons in Armenia, please contact affiliate-program@creativecommons.org.

Creative Commons would like to thank its former affiliates for all their hard work and commitment to CC.

Armenia

2012-06-18T15:20:18Z

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[http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/international/am/translated-license.pdf License draft] (PDF).

[http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/international/am/english-retranslation.pdf English re-translation and explanation of substantive legal changes] (PDF).

[mailto:cc-south-caucasus@lists.ibiblio.org Post a message.]

[http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-south-caucasus/ Subscribe to the discussion.]

[http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-south-caucasus/ Read the discussion archives.]

===More About the Center for Information Law and Policy===
[http://www.gipi.am/ Center for Information Law and Policy] is non-for-profit institution founded by [http://www.internews.am/ Media Support Internews NGO] to address the issues of information legislation and policy.

The mission of CILP is to promote the culture of the freedom of speech and communication in Armenia and support the development of legislation ensuring individuals’ universal right to hold opinions, receive and impart information an ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.

Main areas of CILP activities are:
Internet policy and legislation including telecommunications policy and regulation.
Media and broadcasting policy and legislation.
Other areas of information and communication legislation such as personal data protection, freedom of information, cybercrime and copyright aspects of information society.

Representatives of CILP are members of Information Technologies Development Support Council (ITDSC), Group of Specialists of Human Rights in Information Society of the Council of Europe and the Council of Europe Ad Hoc Committee on Electronic Democracy.

===Acknowledgments===

Eurasia Partnership Foundation’s (EPF) mission is to empower people to effect change for social justice and economic prosperity through hands-on programs, helping them to improve their communities and their own lives. Through its foundations, registered locally in [http://epfound.am/ Armenia], [http://epfound.az/ Azerbaijan] and [http://epfound.ge/ Georgia], EPF raises and delivers seed capital to emerging civil society organizations. EPF is both a grant maker and a program implementer and is guided by five program mandates and approaches: Creating Opportunities for Civic and Economic Participation; Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Research to Improve Policy-Making; Fostering a Culture of Corporate and Community Philanthropy; Cross-Border Cooperation; and Open Door Grant Making.

In May 2008, EPF in cooperation with CC has started the “Support to Caucasus Creative Commons” program that aims at establishing CC licensing framework in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The program will enable and popularize the legal sharing and reuse of cultural, educational, and scientific works in the countries of the South Caucasus through offering free and easy-to-use Creative Commons licensing framework to creators, artists, and educators, as well as other internet-based communities in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The program will harness further intellectual activity in the South Caucasus, will potentially provide a newer mechanism for economic activity, and, at the same time, will enhance opportunities for cross-border collaboration among creative communities in the South Caucasus and beyond.

Switzerland

2012-06-18T15:00:23Z

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Visit the [http://creativecommons.ch/ jurisdiction's website].
The Creative Commons Switzerland license suite is available in the following version. [http://creativecommons.org/choose/?jurisdiction=ch License your work] under these licenses, or [http://creativecommons.org/choose choose] the international licenses. [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Should_I_choose_an_international_license_or_a_ported_license.3F More info].

Many thanks to all who contributed to the localization of the license suite.

Creative Commons is working with [http://blog.allmend.ch/ Digital Allmend] to create Switzerland jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses.

=CC Switzerland List=

Legal Project Leads: [mailto:philippe@perreaux.ch Philippe Perreaux] and Simon Schlauri
Public Project Leads: [mailto:instantmartin@gmail.com Martin Feuz]

*[http://www.creativecommons.ch/downloads/translatedlicense.pdf License draft] (PDF).
*[http://www.creativecommons.ch/downloads/englishchanges.pdf English explanation of substantive legal changes] (PDF).
*[mailto:cc-ch%20-at-%20lists.ibiblio.org Post a message].
*[http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-ch/ Subscribe to the discussion].
*[http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-ch/ Read the discussion archives].

=More about Digital Allmend=

[http://blog.allmend.ch/ Digitale Allmend] is an NGO, that engages in public access to digital goods as well as securing their future development. Digitale Allmend creates new spaces and fosters a public understanding for an open knowledge society.

For information about the Creative Commons Switzerland project, visit http://www.creativecommons.ch.

Further questions, [mailto:Team_cc@allmend.ch contact] Creative Commons in Switzerland

=Acknowledgments=

The organization [http://www.openlaw.ch/ Openlaw – Plattform für Recht und freie Software] (Platform for Law and free Software), has filled the role of Legal Lead for Creative Commons Switzerland for several years. The tasks entailed, among others, the adaptation of Creative Commons in Switzerland and providing a point-of-contact for inquiries about the licenses.

Openlaw is an institute founded in 2003 by Dr. Mike J. Widmer, Dr. Christian Laux and Alex Schröder. Urs Gehrig, lic.iur, joined the project thereafter, and together they have overseen the porting of the Creative Commons licensing suite in Switzerland. The institute is dedicated to the legal aspect of Free Software, Open Source Software and Open Content in Switzerland. Openlaw provides information on its website, answers questions by mail, does consulting and delivers presentations targeted to the respective audience.

For more information about Openlaw visit their wiki website: http://www.openlaw.ch.

Europe/Meetings/2012/GLAM

2012-05-18T08:44:05Z

Jonas Öberg:

== Overview ==
Dear affiliates,

you are cordially invited to a meeting in Stockholm, Sweden on the 13th of June to discuss Creative Commons' role and activities in the GLAM sector. With the aim to learn from each other, we've invited Maarten Dammers (Wikimedia Netherlands) and Maarten Zeinstra (Knowledgeland). Maarten Dammers will talk about the work of Wikimedia with GLAM institutions, especially in relation to the Wiki Loves Monuments campaigns. Maarten Zeinstra will talk about Europeana's rights infrastructure that enables sharing under all CC licenses.

This will be a full day, starting with a seminar in the morning to which we've also invited participants from the GLAM sector. At the seminar, both Maartens, as well as CC's regional coordinator for Asia-Pacific, Chiaki Hayashi (via videolink), will present together with Lennart Guldbrandsson (Wikimedia Sweden) and Johanna Berg (Digisam). The last two will be held in Swedish to cater to the local participants from the GLAM sector.

Following from this, we'll meet in a workshop together with Maarten & Maarten to talk more specifically about CC's role in the GLAM sector. The aim of the workshop is to come together around a draft strategy that expands on the role that CC play in the GLAM sector, outlines activities that are useful and worth doing, potential collaborators for such activities, and a proposed timeline.

Participation is open for all affiliates and while it's especially relevant for those of you who are public leads in your jurisdiction, participation would also be welcome from others in an affiliate team.

== Agenda ==
* 09.00 - 12.00 Open seminar on CC & GLAM
* 12.00 - 13.15 Lunch
* 13.15 - 17.00 Workshop with CC affiliates

== Where ==
We'll be in the conference room of the .SE foundation, located at Ringvägen 100A, Stockholm. The closest subway stop to this is Skanstull, four stops from Stockholm C.

== Food ==
Lunch will be provided free of charge, and we'll do our best to cater to any particular requirements. If you think there's something we should know (allergies, if you're vegetarian, pescetarian, or so), then please let us know well in advance.

== Travel & accommodation ==
While we want to see as many affiliates as possible participate in this meeting, our ability to fund travel & accommodation is limited at this time. If you think that the meeting would be relevant to you, but you absolutely do not have enough funds to cover participation on your own or through your affiliate, you should inform about this as early as possibly, but not later than the 1st of June via email to jonas@creativecommons.org. Currently, decisions on this will be taken on a case-by-case basis by Creative Commons. Providing some funding yourself, and only asking for a part of it, will obviously increase the likelihood of a positive reply.

== Registration ==
Please register not later than the 7th of June via email to jonas@creativecommons.org.