Grants/Outreach event for Iranian Musicians and songwriters to promote understanding and adaption of CC's tools, licenses and technologies.
Describe the project you are proposing as clearly as possible in just five sentences.
Bar-Ax Promotions, which promotes Iranian musicians and songwriters worldwide, aims to convene a workshop in Istanbul where Iranian musicians represented by Bar-Ax, together with other Middle Eastern musicians, can build an understanding to adapt Creative Commons tools and licenses in their work.
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 project should result in a video to introduce CC to a wider audience. In addition, our excellent contacts within the Persian media abroad might result in press coverage about the event.
Describe the community you are targeting. How would the project benefit the community?
Bar-Ax targets young Iranian musicians, both men and women, on their path to professionalise their talent, as well as helping to promote, license and share their music globally.br />
Bar-Ax represents Iranian contemporary and alternative musicians. Our website hosts more than 75 underground music bands. We are providing musicians with recording guides, copyright and legal consultancy, PR, thus facilitating performances and advancing networking. Most recent ventures include an alternative Iranian Arts Festival in March 2010. Another success has been a compilation CD of 14 underground bands in collaboration with Songlines magazine. Bar-Ax is a dynamic and very promising initiative that plays an important role in supporting and promoting the Iranian music community under difficult circumstances.
How will you measure and evaluate your project’s impact - on your main participants? Other contributors? On the larger community?
The success of the project will be measured by two indicators: participants adapting the licenses in their work, and participants introducing CC in their video interviews, in Farsi.
How many participants do you expect to be involved in your project? How will you seek and sustain their involvement?
There will be 8 participants in this project. Bar-Ax will sustain their involvement by representing them in other fields-as are provided within Bar-ax- including PR, facilitating performances and distributing their music.
Describe how your project will benefit Creative Commons' mission to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in "the commons".
The overall impact of the project is to increase confidence among Iranian musicians to participate in the global market without the fear of encountering copyright issues.
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?
The event should result in at least one video to reach a wide audience introducing the CC's work, through the words of participants themselves. In this regard there are some tools available to use, such as a camcorder. But a quality sound is important to ask musicians to interview each other about their arguments for and against the use of CC in their work. We need 3 Sony voice recorders, one tripod for the camcorder and a suitable mic for the Camcorder. The assets we bring to the project are a camcorder and the technical skills to film.
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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