Creative Commons - Belgium

[Severine Dusollier <severine.dusollier AT fundp.ac.be>]

Title: Belgian license and launch event

Thanks to all of you who have showed interest in the discussion on the Belgium CC and welcome in that discussion list.

I am the leader of the Creative Commons project in Belgium and the CRID (University of Namur), in which I am working, has translated the CC licence into French. Melamnie Carly, from the KUL has carried out the translation into Dutch.

I'd like to make some clarifications.

Due to a technical problem at CC staff, the licenses that have been posted on the Belgium website, are not the definitive ones. We are still waiting for the definitive licences, including the Dutch one, to be put on line by CC staff. Meanwhile, please don't download those licences. We will really start the discussion once the definitive texts are available to you.

Philippe Laurent, Melanie Carly and myself, who have been in charge of the translation, will be then happy to read your comments and to answer to your questions. The goal is to make those licences as good as possible.

As to the launch event, the CRID and the KUL are organising it with the collaboration of Constant vzw (www.constantvzw.com) and the IAK / IBK - Digitaal platform. Note that it will take place in Brussels, on December 10th, 2004. The date has been chosen as to include the event in the Jonctions / Verbindingen festival, organised by Constant, whose theme this year is precisely the copyleft movement and licences.

We will post more details on that launch event very soon.

I also would like to encourage everyone in that list to post her / his comments in her /his own language (French, Dutch or English). The discussion has started in English, which explains the language I have used, but at Belgium CC, we would like to keep it as multicultural as Belgium is.

Thank you

Severine