[Cc-be] Creative Commons Belgium public lead: we recruit
Severine Dusollier
severine.dusollier at fundp.ac.be
Mon Jun 23 05:54:44 EDT 2008
Belgium was amongst the first countries having
adapted the Creative Commons licenses into
Belgium law. The Belgian CC Licenses were indeed
launched in 2004. Many people in Belgium use
Creative Commons Licenses to disseminate their
creative works to the public.
From the beginning, the Belgium public lead for
the creative commons project is Séverine
Dusollier, Professor at the University of Namur
and, more exactly a team of researchers of the
CRID (Centre de Recherche Informatique et Droit,
University of Namur). Other persons have been
active in the launch of the licenses (Constant
asbl, Digitaal Platform van de steunpunten IAK en
IBK) and in the Dutch translation (CIR,
University of Leuven)
In the last years, the Belgium chapter of
Creative Commons has not been inactive, as we are
currently working on the version 3 of the
licenses, but has not done much on the promotion
of licenses and other activities related to the
use of Creative Commons licenses in Belgium.
Creative Commons Belgium deserves better : the
lead of the project should be restructured and
entrusted with new people. The CRID would
continue however to ensure the legal tasks of
porting the licenses.
The main tasks of the Public Lead would be:
- set up a new website for Creative Commons Belgium
- monitor the creative commons Belgium mailing list
- answer to the demands of information or
assistance regarding the use of the licenses
- be involved in iCommons and CC-Europe mailing lists
- be the middle-wo-man between Belgian users of
the license, CC Belgium and Creative Commons
international
Other tasks can be imagined (organise public
events around the licenses, ...) but are not
mandatory.
Being a Creative Commons Public Lead also means
to belong to an international network and to the
overall Creative Commons initiative. Each year,
this network gathers to discuss the licenses
(this year, in Japan, see
http://icommonssummit.org/). Every three months,
the European Public Leads also meet to discuss
issues around the licences.
Financial resources can be provided to enable travels to such events.
Leading a national chapter of Creative Commons is
not paid and is a completely voluntary job,
except if you can find funding on your own.
If you feel interested in jumping in this amazing
project or know someone who would be, send an
email to severine.dusollier at fundp.ac.be,
explaining your motivation and your experience
with Creative Commons licenses or more generally
with open access...
Being a legal association would help, namely to be able to ask for funding.
If you feel like taking the responsibility of
some limited tasks, such as the website, it is
also possible
We are organising a meeting of CC-Europe on the
29th of June in Belgium. If you are interested in
the CC Belgium Lead, that might be a good
opportunity to see how it works. Contact me
rapidly then.
Our idea is to announce the new public lead in
Fall and to release simultaneously the version 3
of the licenses for Belgium.
I am staying at your disposal if you have further questions.
Séverine Dusollier
Creative Commons Public Lead
on behalf of the CC Belgium team
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Severine Dusollier
Professor at the University of Namur
Director of research at the Research Center in IT and Law (CRID)
Rempart de la Vierge 5 Tél: +32 81 72 47 60
5000 NAMUR Fax: +32 81 72 52 02
BELGIUM severine.dusollier at fundp.ac.be
http://www.crid.be
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