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  • From: Dani�le Bourcier <bda AT cmb.hu-berlin.de>
  • To: Tomislav Medak <to-me AT mi2.hr>
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  • Subject: [Cc-europe] cc: re: iSummit session on internal/international CC governance,was: Re: Fwd: Creative Commons International - letter from the jurisdictionproject leads
  • Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 17:38:57 +0200

Dear all, As a step forward into the discussion on CC governance (which is a
recurrent question since Amsterdam 2004 : where is the draft of the CC Chart
proposed by Paul?),I totally agree with the project of this session for
iSummit'08. Any "institution" even CC, by growing up and complexifying needs
a self thinking on its governance evolution.

1- I should prefer to put on the agenda both governance: internal governance,
and "external" or international governance (many links between both);
2- Because it is a bottom up process : on behalf of CC project leads;
3- Both a part private and a part public (the latter as a part of a process
of inclusive participation).

Best
Daniele

>Title: International IPR Governance, Internal Deliberation and Creative
>Commons
>
>Abstract:
>International and regional institutions such as WIPO or the European
>Commission increasingly constitute the fora where the decision making for
>the future direction of IPR policies takes place. Whereas global,
>commons-oriented organizations, such as Creative Commons, are acknowledged
>as important stakeholders in the process of global IPR policy formation,
>they have often been absent from the consultation process.
>
>Taking into consideration the importance of consultations as an IPR policy
>instrument in national, regional and international level, we seek to examine
>the way in which Creative Commons could be more actively and substantially
>involved in such processes.
>
>Creative Commons having an organizational structure comprising both of
>national projects and global headquarters has the potential of playing a key
>role in the formation of such policies. Such role would be compatible with
>its intent to produce tools for supporting a moderate Copyright policy and
>could constitute an important add on to the licence building and maintenance.
>
>The lack of adequate involvement in such consultation procedures in the
>local or international level may be the outcome of several factors, both
>external and internal. External reasons may relate to the resistance of
>existing stakeholders to accept pro-commons rather than pro-property input
>or to the institutional design of international consultation and decision
>making procedures that may prohibit legally or practically organizations
>like CC to participate in such discussions. Internal factors may relate to
>the capacity of organizations like CC to coordinate as a single entity, to
>produce common positions and to be aware of the consultations happening in
>the local level and their impact on the international or regional level. For
>instance, whereas national CC projects leads may participate to national
>consultations there is no set procedure either for transferring this
>knowledge across jurisdictions or scaling it up in the international level.
>What we further need to explore is the mapping and relationships between
>various commons-advocacy organizations and CC all over the world and how
>inter-organizational collaboration may be achieved.
>
>In this session we propose to discuss if and how Creative Commons and its
>international projects in now over 45 countries of the world - as one such
>global commons-oriented organization - should strive towards setting up an
>internal process of co-ordination and consultation on important IPR-related
>policy proposals being debated in national and international forums.
>Furthermore, should this internal process be set up, what structure needs to
>be created in order for it to effectively advocate its positions at
>international forums.
>
>Among our objectives is the suggestion of specific tools that we should be
>developing in order to achieve better participation to local-global IPR
>decision making procedures. Such tools could be of three types: (a)
>organizational (e.g. procedures for decision making without over-burdening
>of national representatives) (b) legal (i.e. development of common positions
>in relation to e.g. Copyright Exceptions/ Fair Use/ Fair dealing or Orphan
>works) and (c) technical (e.g. wikis, document repositories or on-line fora)
>
>Moderators:
>Tomislav Medak, Prodromos Tsiavos
>
>Participants:
>CC-board member(s), CCi-representative, representatives of CC-affiliates
>from different continents and continents, representative from regional CC
>groups (e.g. CC Asia, CC Europe)
>
>Follow-up:
>We view this event as a starting point for a broader discussion regarding
>the ways in which CC could move into the next stage of its development as a
>local-global organization aiming at the production of tools supporting the
>commons. The discussion could be advanced both in the regional (e.g.
>Australia-Asia, Europe, America, Africa) and national level. Provided that
>we are able to suggest an initial structure or a communication procedure we
>may start working on the CC representation in the next specific regional
>(e.g. EU consultation on orphan works) or international (e.g. WIPO on
>exceptions) consultation.
>
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Dr Danile Bourcier
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