Global Summit 2013/Descriptions

Wednesday, 21 August

CC and copyright reform miniconference

• Session type: Miniconference
• Leads: Paul Keller, Delia Browne, Alek Tarkowski, Timothy Vollmer
• Location: Cultural Center General San Martin, located at Sarmiento 1551
• Time: 11:00 - 17:00
• Description: We are hosting a miniconference on 21 August (day before CC Summit kickoff) about the interaction of CC license stewardship and global copyright reform activities. We aim to increase knowledge of and involvement in these issues, present cases of how these two approaches are dealt with in parallel by involved affiliates, and discuss direct expressions of support for reform action. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/event/7489686855

Thursday, 22 August

Welcome and strategy updates

• Session type: Presentation
• Leads: Cathy Casserly
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• Time: 09:00 - 10:00
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Welcome to 4.0

• Session type: Presentation
• Leads: Diane Peters, Sarah Pearson, Kat Walsh
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• Time 10:00 - 11:00
• Description: Join CC's legal team and affiliate representatives as we review the new license suite and highlight its many features! We will review and brainstorm: marking and attribution requirements, including best practices for OER, databases and more; translations; adoption strategies and key features that make 4.0 attractive to governments, database providers, GLAM, OER providers and more.

OER Policies Around the World/Implementing UNESCO OER Declaration

• Session type: Panel and workshop
• Leads: Paul Stacey, Cable Green
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• Time: 11:30 - 13:00
• Description: Present a range of major OER policies in place around the world. Discuss implementation strategies and how to educate/convince policymakers and related stakeholders about CC. Present typical challenges faced during such implementations, and ways to overcome them. We'll also work to establish a strategy and set of tools to support adoption of the UNESCO OER Declaration.

Audience Engagement Workshop

• Session type: Workshop
• Leads: Jessica Coates
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• Time: 11:30 - 13:00
• Description: Whenever we communicate on behalf of CC, we should be asking ourselves who we’re communicating to and why that audience is important to our mission. In this interactive discussion, we’ll talk about the audiences we communicate with and how we can more strategically tailor our communications to achieve our desired goals.

CC business models

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• Time: 11:30 - 13:00
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Technology strategy meeting

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• Leads: Dan Mills
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• Time: 14:30 - 15:30
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Evading a Two-Edged Sword - A Differential Approach for Advocating CC

• Session type: Presentation
• Leads: Elad Wieder
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• Time: 14:30 - 15:30
• Description: What are our goals, as members of the international CC affiliates network, when attending local conferences, meetings with stakeholders or giving presentations in various forums? Is it to promote the actual use of CC licenses? To promote free/open culture? To educate the public about copyright law? Are we trying to advocate abstract values or practical tools? Should we take an ideological standpoint or a pragmatic approach? As one of the early chapters to join the international affiliate network, since the launch on 2005, the CC-Israel team had the opportunity to speak in numerous occasions in front of different types of audiences; from school kids to parliament members, from bloggers to museum curators and from NGOs to collection societies. While, generally speaking, reactions were positive and constructive, sometimes the outcome of such advocacy efforts were not quite as we intended or expected them to be. For instance, when promoting Creative Commons licenses in a bloggers meetup, are we supporting open content or are we over-educating about copyright? Will a presentation for school children advance open education efforts or strengthen the scary campaigns of the BSA? Should we address content producers and content consumers with uniform themes or with specifically tailored notions? Our presentation will begin with examples of different Israeli “case-studies” and the lessons learned during 8 years of advocating Creative Commons in Israel. We will then present our idea of a differential approach, promoting different, specific aspects of the project vis-a-vis different types of audiences. Sharing and discussing past experiences and future strategy among affiliates, old and new, will hopefully help improving the effectiveness of local and global advocacy efforts.

Creative Commons and Collecting Societies pilots for the music sector

• Session type: Panel
• Leads: Diane Peters, Paul Keller, Claudio Ruiz, Carolina Botero
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• Time: 15:30 - 16:30
• Description: It has been 7 years since the first CC collecting society pilot launched with Buma/Stemra (Holland), implementing a project where members could use Non Commercial CC licenses, and BUMA could collect royalties for all other uses outside the scope of those licences. In 2013, Buma/Stemra the pilot concluded and the society has now made the ability of its members to use the NC licenses a permanent option for its members. There are other pilots in Europe and an increasing interest in Latin America where Creative Commons is working with at least 3 new possible pilots. It is an excellent opportunity to review the pilots to date and consider their future role. Importantly, the European Union is debating a new directive (law) on collective management of rights. As part of that debate, the ability of members to use open content licenses is currently being discussed. Those discussions have netted various policy proposals, such as the right to use Creative Commons NC licenses, or allow members to withdraw works from collective management altogether. This discussion has the potential to solve the issue in the European context.

Supporting Affiliates Through Technology

• Session type: Panel
• Leads: Maarten Zeinstra
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• Time: 15:30 - 16:30
• Description: Affiliates frequently deal with similar overhead issues like running a website, giving advice on how to implement CC licenses in project and helping local initiatives find relevant open content. A discussion about the current tools that CC and its network offer and a vision about what tools are necessary in the future.

European OER Project

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OER: mythbusting and fighting commons obstacles

• Session type: Workshop
• Leads: Kamil Śliwowski
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• Time: 16:30 - 17:30
• Description: Discussion and practical workshop on how to work with non-governmental organisations to open their resources.

10 year community plan

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• Time: 16:30 - 17:30
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CC in the real world

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Friday, 23 August

Board and affiliates session

• Session type: Panel
• Leads: Cathy Casserly, Jessica Coates
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• Time: 09:00 - 10:00
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Legal strategy session

• Session type: Workshop
• Leads: Diane Peters, Sarah Pearson, Kat Walsh
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• Time: 10:00 - 11:00
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Communication skill sharing

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Correctly licensing and marking data

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Building Toolkits and Learning Resources for the Global Network

• Session type: Workshop
• Leads: Billy Meinke
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• Time: 11:30 - 13:00
• Description: Working session to discuss progress and plans to refine the toolkit/learning material template(s), as well as auditi open content in key subject areas needed to build these materials.

Fundraising Workshop

• Session type: Workshop
• Leads: Jessica Coates
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• Time: 11:30 - 13:00
• Description: This workshop, facilitate by HQ staff and experienced affiliates, aims to assist affiliates to develop fundraising skills, and clarify how HQ can help affiliates become more financially sustainable.

= Education Strategy

• Session type: Workshop
• Leads: Cable Green
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• Time: 14:30 - 16:00
• Description: Help drive CC Education work and strategy by reviewing 2012-2013 accomplishments and drafting 2014 CC Education strategies.

Translation hackathon

• Session type: Workshop
• Leads: Jessica Coates
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• Time: 14:30 - 16:00
• Description: This workshop will invite affiliates to work collaboratively to translate simple CC resources, with an aim to having "standardised" CC explanations and materials available worldwide in as many languages as possible.

CC Strategy wrap up

• Session type: panel
• Leads: Cathy Casserly
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• Time: 16:00 - 16:45
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Saturday, 24 August

Expanding the School of Open: Affiliate showcase and panel discussion for ways forward

• Session type: panel
• Leads: Jane Park
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• Time: 09:30 - 11:00
• Description: Creative Commons affiliates present their School of Open projects and courses, including the School of Open Kenya Initiative, School of Open in German, Open data for GLAMs, and more. Discuss lessons learned, and how to scale the initiative globally in online, offline, and multilingual settings.

Open Government: A challenge and opportunity for CC Affiliates

• Session type: panel
• Leads: Renata Avila
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• Time: 09:30 - 11:00
• Description: With the Open Government and Open Data movement and with the increased number of countries engaged in the Open Government Partnership, new opportunities and interested communities in CC 0 and other licensing options are opening, especially in the Global South. But it is also a challenge for local chapters.

Copyright developments around the world

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Argentina showcase

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• Time: 11:00 - 12:00
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Update on the Open Policy Network: Focus on OER

• Session type: panel
• Leads: Cable Green, Timothy Vollmer
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• Time: 11:00 - 12:00
• Description: Update on the Open Policy Network and future planning with affiliates, especially for OER policy adoption

Lightning Talks

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• Time: 11:00 - 12:00
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Science strategy

• Session type: presentation and workshop
• Leads: Puneet Kishor
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• Time: 12:00 - 13:00
• Description: From Science Affiliates to Science Salons, the CC Science Program is building up, growing out, asking questions and speaking its mind. The method to this madness is to support CC’s mission. Come find out what we are cooking up, and pitch in with your own ideas to take us there from here.

Public Domain works digitization

• Session type: panel
• Leads: Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
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• Time: 12:00 - 13:00
• Description: The panel brings together practitioners and academics to discuss issues related to the digitization of Public Domain works by cultural heritage institutions. The session will try to develop guidelines for marking PD works in the context of digitization projects with the tools provided by CC.

Project grants showcase

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• Leads: Jessica Coates
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• Time: 12:00 - 13:00
• Description: This session would showcase all or some of the projects that have received grants from CC under its Affiliate Project Grant program for 2013: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/38602

OER in practice showcase

• Session type: panel
• Leads: Beibei Sun
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• Time: 13:00 - 14:00
• Description: Affiliates will introduce what’s happening in the OER field of their jurisdiction and their new OER practices. Including updates from New Zealand, Mongolia, India, and China Mainland. There will be Q&A, as well as discussion after the presentations.

Copyright reform report back

• Session type: panel
• Leads: Paul Keller, Delia Brown, Alek Tarkowski, Timothy Vollmer
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• Time: 13:00 - 14:00
• Description: We'll provide a report back from the Thursday copyright reform miniconference and have a discussion with affiliates and board about next steps.

CC and creative industries

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• Time: 13:00 - 14:00
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Measuring success the CC way

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• Leads: Cathy Casserly
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• Time: 14:00 - 15:00
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Closing session

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• Leads: Cathy Casserly
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• Time: 15:00 - 16:00
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