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This page is meant to aggregate information, discussions, arguments and opinions around the Porting Principle prevalent withing the CC license ecology.
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This page is meant to aggregate information, discussions, arguments and opinions about CC's porting project.
  
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Creative Commons as a legal tool started out when the first set of core licenses was released to be used on by the wider internet community, in late 2001. Quite soon after that, in 2002, Creative Commons as an entity took a certain path to disseminate the principles underlying its license suite around the globe. This path was and is absolutely unique amongst the various private order licensing initiatives.
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Creative Commons first published licenses in late 2001. In 2002, Creative Commons created its license porting project, which is unique in the public license arena.  Generally stated, porting involves the translation and legal adaptation of CC's core license suite (the international suite, formerly known as the "unported" or "generic" license suite) to the languages and copyright laws of individual jurisdictions. As a result of the project, CC has ported licenses in more than 55 jurisdictions, and hosts 550+ unique licenses across all versions. <ref> See [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Ports_by_Jurisdiction CC Ports by Jurisdiction] where all ports across all versions of the licenses are referenced.</ref>
  
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Starting in Fall 2010, CC has established a policy against further porting of its licenses to new jurisdictions in the absence of a demonstrated need and an appropriately constituted team.  Indeed, most of the time the international license suite (the unported licenses) are legally sufficient for use in place of a localized version of the licenses.  Instead, CC encourages the members of its CC Affiliate Network to build a robust, diverse community of users and to undertake community-building activities as a priority over license porting.
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Porting has been a historical feature of CC's affiliate activities.  It has been the subject of much discussion and debate, both favorable and unfavorable.  During our 2011 Global Summit, CC and the affiliates discussed the future of the porting project.  Based on input, CC has decided not to make a decision on the future of porting while version 4.0 is first in development, as we want to focus on the international licenses first (as has always been the case).  CC plans to consult with its affiliates and communities as well as other stakeholders and experts prior to making decisions that could affect the continuation of porting.  That consultation process is expected to take place with publication of the third discussion draft.  In the interim, we ask that you use this space for any related discussion.
  
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Contact CC for more information.
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Please note that CC is currently not authorizing new (or the continuation of) porting projects because of limited resources and capacity during the 4.0 versioning process.  '''Unless you have received express permission from CC to proceed, affiliates should not be spending their time on porting activities'''. 
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*  Blog entry dated 3rd November, 2011, [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/29639 recapping Global Summit legal discussions].
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Latest revision as of 21:22, 10 September 2013

This page is meant to aggregate information, discussions, arguments and opinions about CC's porting project.

Creative Commons first published licenses in late 2001. In 2002, Creative Commons created its license porting project, which is unique in the public license arena. Generally stated, porting involves the translation and legal adaptation of CC's core license suite (the international suite, formerly known as the "unported" or "generic" license suite) to the languages and copyright laws of individual jurisdictions. As a result of the project, CC has ported licenses in more than 55 jurisdictions, and hosts 550+ unique licenses across all versions. [1]

Porting has been a historical feature of CC's affiliate activities. It has been the subject of much discussion and debate, both favorable and unfavorable. During our 2011 Global Summit, CC and the affiliates discussed the future of the porting project. Based on input, CC has decided not to make a decision on the future of porting while version 4.0 is first in development, as we want to focus on the international licenses first (as has always been the case). CC plans to consult with its affiliates and communities as well as other stakeholders and experts prior to making decisions that could affect the continuation of porting. That consultation process is expected to take place with publication of the third discussion draft. In the interim, we ask that you use this space for any related discussion.

Please note that CC is currently not authorizing new (or the continuation of) porting projects because of limited resources and capacity during the 4.0 versioning process. Unless you have received express permission from CC to proceed, affiliates should not be spending their time on porting activities.

Discussion topics

Please identify topics for discussion here.

Resources/Related Discussion

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  1. ↑ See CC Ports by Jurisdiction where all ports across all versions of the licenses are referenced.
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