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Describe the project you are proposing as clearly as possible in just five sentences.

Patamu is a site that provides free and instantaneous timestamping and storage of art works (such as music) and of any creative work in general. It is intended for musicians, photographers, writers, poets, artists, journalists, bloggers or researchers, to help them diffuse their works protecting themselves from plagiarizing. The release of the protected works in a Creative Commons license is highly encouraged in our site. Patamu would like to follow a Business Ethics model, offering an useful and complete free service for the low-level user, and a premium service for professional users. Patamu seems to be one of the first sites in italy and in europe to provide this kind of service. Also the development of a blog containing informations about creative commons, the free culture world, and royalties collecting companies is planned, to provide users with a strong know how to pursue the diffusion of art and culture.

Detail the tangible project output (e.g., paper, blog post, written materials, video/film, etc.; this would be in addition to the final written report that successful grant recipients will be expected to deliver to CC at the conclusion of the project).

The tangible project output would be the complete definition of Patamu as a recognized company, allowing the site to pursue better it's aim for the diffusion of creative commons culture. Furthermore, a new area of the site would be created, in a form of a blog, containing all the useful informations for the users to better choose, for instance in which royalties collecting company they wish to subscribe, and how to do so; but also providing them complete informations about the creative commons licences, and on how to protect their works from plagarizing using the free service provided in the site or similar techniques. Another output would be the translation of the site in other languages.

Describe the community you are targeting. How would the project benefit the community?

We are targeting to the broad community of creative works makers, such as musicians, writers, photographers, artists, but also scientists or journalists, or bloggers. In other words, to anyone producing a creative work. Our site would help them to feel free to diffuse their works without the fear of being plagarized (through the use of the digital timestamping). This would allow a better diffusion of culture, and would allow to many members of the community to obtain for free a service that now is provided incidentally by the royalties collecting societies (for instance in italy protection from plagiarizing is provided at high costs by SIAE). Furthermore, the know how database created in Patamu would help thee community to better decide how to protect, licence and diffuse their works, and to which royalties collecting society subscribe in the world.br />

What is your relationship with the community you are targeting? Why are you the best individual/organization to lead this project? Do you have prior experience in related projects?

My personal knowledge in the field of plagiarizing protection and free diffusion of creative works comes from the fact that i am a part-time composer (and a physicist on the other side) and i experienced the lack of a similar service. I am in contact with many members of both the artistic and scientific community, and many of them feel the need of such a service. I already worked with the Free Hardware Foundation for the development of a similar project, which is finally coming to life as Patamu.

How will you measure and evaluate your project’s impact - on your main participants? Other contributors? On the larger community?

How many participants do you expect to be involved in your project? How will you seek and sustain their involvement?

Describe how your project will benefit Creative Commons' mission to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in "the commons".

Describe what technologies and tools your project will use. What kinds of technical skills and expertise do you bring to the project? What are your technical needs?

What challenges do you expect to face, and how do you plan to overcome them?

How do you plan to sustain your project after the Creative Commons funding has ended? Detail specific plans. How do you plan to raise revenue to continue your efforts in the future?

How can this project be scalable, or have a scalable impact?

What resources and support do you expect Creative Commons to provide to your project to ensure its success (if any)?

Describe how your organization currently communicates with its community members and network partners. (100 words)

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