Affiliates

Welcome to our wiki for the CC Affiliate Network!

The CC Affiliate Network is comprised of legal experts and other professionals around the world who are associated with Creative Commons, working to build and help maintain communities of CC license users.

Affiliate Program Enhancements -- Call for Affiliate comments on new MOU and updated policies

In an effort to improve our Affiliate program and CC's global reach and impact, Creative Commons is enhancing existing opportunities and opportunities for individuals and organizations to engage with CC, and creating new ones. Among other things, we aim to improve our infrastructure so that we can better support Affiliate collaboration, with CC directly as well as between Affiliates, jurisdictions, and regions.

The first step in this process is to improve coordination with our existing Affiliates who have MOUs or similar agreements already in place. Many if not most of those agreements are outdated. We believe that updating, standardizing and modularizing those agreements will better serve CC and all of its valuable Affiliates. This allows everyone to have a clearer picture of shared responsibilities and opportunities for improving our outreach, accountability, and opportunities for accomplishing shared goals like community building.

CC is pleased to post its updated Memorandum of Understanding and updated related Policies, for comment by our existing official Affiliates. These will replace our existing MOU and other Affiliate-related agreements and policies when finalized later this month. The comment process will close on 18 October 2010.

Information about our new MOU and related policies can be found on our MOU and Policies Summary Page. We encourage you to take a look at these documents and share your feedback. Please note that all Affiliates are expected to transition to the new form of MOU by 24 November 2010.