[cc-community] PRESS RELEASE: YouTube’s Glenn Otis Brown Returns to Creative Commons as Board Member
Hessel van Oorschot
hessel at tribeofnoise.com
Sat Jul 25 08:54:25 EDT 2009
Eric, that is good news. Congratulations to the CC team!
Eric Steuer schreef:
> PDF attached; text below
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> YouTube’s Glenn Otis Brown Returns to Creative Commons as Board Member
>
> San Francisco, CA, USA – July 24, 2009
>
> Creative Commons, a global nonprofit focused on the growth and
> preservation of openly shareable and reusable culture, science, and
> education, officially announced today that Glenn Otis Brown has
> rejoined the organization as a member of its board of directors. Brown
> was CC’s executive director from 2002-2005 and is currently YouTube’s
> music business development manager.
>
> As one of the core members of the Creative Commons team in the
> organization’s early days, Brown was instrumental in developing many
> of CC’s earliest successes, including the first two versions of its
> machine-readable copyright licenses, its international expansion, and
> the remix-friendly Wired CD and accompanying Wired Magazine cover
> story. Brown subsequently joined Google as a products counsel, where
> he worked on projects including Google Image Search, Blogger, Google
> Talk, the Google WiFi initiative, and Google Sitemaps. As the music
> business development manager for YouTube, Brown works with major and
> independent labels, publishers, and artists to build new business
> opportunities around both official music videos and fan-made tributes.
>
> “We couldn’t be more thrilled to have Glenn join the board,” says
> Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito. “As Executive Director of the
> organization in its early days, Glenn established many of the critical
> ideas and relationships that CC is built upon today. That background,
> combined with his experience in developing creative projects and
> partnerships at YouTube, gives him particularly valuable insight into
> the opportunities for Creative Commons in the worlds of business,
> media, and culture at large.”
>
> "It's great to be involved with Creative Commons again,” Brown says.
> “It's both humbling and exciting to see how much the organization has
> grown in influence and reach. Seven years ago, there was no easy way
> for creative people to declare 'Some Rights Reserved,' to invite open
> interaction with their work, while keeping their copyrights. Today,
> Creative Commons is the go-to solution for safe, legal sharing for
> folks as different as Ridley Scott, Wikipedia, MIT, or President
> Obama's transition team."
>
> Brown joins a board of directors that includes technologist Joi Ito,
> Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, cyberlaw and intellectual property
> experts Lawrence Lessig, Michael Carroll, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling,
> and Eric Saltzman, Flickr founder Caterina Fake, MIT computer science
> professor Hal Abelson, documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, and
> Public Knowledge founder Laurie Racine.
>
> Glenn Otis Brown biography
>
> Glenn Otis Brown is currently the music business development manager
> at YouTube. Before that, he worked as a products counsel at Google,
> where he worked on Google Image Search, Blogger, Google Talk, the
> Google WiFi initiative, and Google Sitemaps, among many other
> projects. Glenn was Executive Director of Creative Commons from summer
> 2002 through spring 2005. In 2003-2004, Glenn was a lecturer at
> Stanford Law School, where he co-taught a class on copyright licensing
> with Lawrence Lessig. He clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on
> the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Miami, where he worked
> on the Wind Done Gone copyright appeal, among other cases. Glenn has
> also worked stints at The Economist’s Washington D.C. bureau,
> reporting on general U.S. news during the 2000 elections, and at
> “Digital Age,” a New York public TV show hosted by Andrew Shapiro,
> where he was assistant producer for a season. Glenn graduated from the
> University of Texas at Austin (B.A.) and Harvard Law School (JD).
> Glenn was a member of the Harvard Law Review and worked at the Berkman
> Center for Internet and Society, where he organized the first Signal
> or Noise conference and concert in cooperation with the Electronic
> Frontier Foundation. He lives in San Francisco and plays in a band
> called Magic Me.
>
> About Creative Commons
>
> Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001,
> that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works,
> whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright
> licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and
> educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms
> that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional
> copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.
> Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous
> support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain,
> Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine
> T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
> as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative
> Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.
>
> Contact
>
> Eric Steuer
> Creative Director, Creative Commons
> eric at creativecommons.org
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