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  • From: Daniel Alvarez Valenzuela <daniel AT derechosdigitales.org>
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  • Subject: [Cc-cl] [Fwd: [Cc-icommons] Creative Commons and iCommons]
  • Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:01:45 -0300

Hola a tod@s.

Les reenvío información oficial de CC international, para que estén enterados de los cambios que se vienen.

Saludos

Daniel

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Subject: [Cc-icommons] Creative Commons and iCommons
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:10:50 -0800
From: Paula Le Dieu <paula AT creativecommons.org>
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Dear All,

Recently Creative Commons celebrated the 24th launch of a Creative Commons local jurisdiction license (congratulations Slovenia!). With at least 70 local jurisdiction licenses expected over the next couple of years and millions of CC licensed objects, it is clear that Creative Commons is an extraordinary international phenomenon. However, as we started to discuss at the iSummit in June, this rate of growth brings with it the need to re-think the organisational structure and to think carefully about how Creative Commons presents itself to an international public.

As we've grown, we've come to recognize that the diversity and energy of the communities that have been started under the iCommons project need their own institutional structure. That institution needs to support more than the licensing project that has been the core mission of Creative Commons.

We have therefore decided to migrate the iCommons project to its own separate legal entity. That entity will be called "iCommons"; it will have its own board, and is now incorporated with nonprofit status in the UK. I will serve as the executive director of this new entity. For now, iCommons continues as a subsidiary of Creative Commons, and will be supported by Creative Commons. But eventually, depending upon how iCommons grows, it could become a wholly separate entity, devoted to spreading CC licenses, as well as addressing the wide range of issues that have the attention of our iCommons partners. Whether, and how, iCommons develops will depend upon what you decide.

Creative Commons will continue to work to launch Creative Commons licenses within legal jurisdictions around the world. Christiane Asschenfeldt will direct that project from Berlin with the help of a new assistant, Eva Lutterbuese (eva AT creativecommons.org), as well as with Tessi Rieber, who will continue to work for the Berlin office as a student intern for two days per week. It has been Christiane's work so far that made the the international movement of Creative Commons possible. But if we are to keep the high quality that the licensing project requires, it is essential that Creative Commons keeps strong direction over the licensing project, as distinct from the other great work of the iCommons community.

Therefore, in the future, new countries entering into the porting project will work with Christiane to launch licenses within their jurisdiction. Those licenses will continue to be maintained both locally and through Creative Commons. Then, depending upon the interest within the country, community members can then join iCommons. We expect iCommons to be a home for many "free culture" projects internationally. But the core will always be you. Christiane's project to internationalize the work of Creative Commons will be named "Creative Commons International." That project will continue to be supported within Creative Commons.

Over the next months, we will be adding a great deal more detail to this new structuring and in doing so we hope we will address many of the questions that are raised by this first email. However it is important to note that while the world of Creative Commons International will be very defined in keeping with the renewed focus on the licenses, the world of iCommons will be far more open. Start to think about how you think you would like to contribute to iCommons, how it should be structured as a volunteer organisation and about the kinds of activities it should be engaged in. Remember, Creative Commons is supporting iCommons initially but the responsibility for it in the long term resides with the community. What do you want to achieve and how can we structure it to ensure that you succeed?

There are lots of questions that we will be answering in a second email that is coming on Monday, so stay tuned.


Paula Le Dieu
Executive Director
iCommons
paula AT creativecommons.org




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Daniel Alvarez Valenzuela
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Corporación Derechos Digitales

Fono: +562.632 3660
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  • [Cc-cl] [Fwd: [Cc-icommons] Creative Commons and iCommons], Daniel Alvarez Valenzuela, 11/18/2005

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