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[John Hendrik Weitzmann <jhweitzmann AT mx.uni-saarland.de>]

Hi all,

drawing on what was discussed in the cc europe meeting on saturday @ 
NEXA, below there's a first draft of a mission statement/about text for 
the envisioned cc europe web presence. Compared to the MoC draft(s) the 
material content was cut down quite radically.

For those who were not present at the meeting: The MoC process seems to 
have catalyzed the thoughts and discussions of the previous meetings to 
a point where no consensus could be reached on any kind of signed 
document, partly because of issues of nearing a factual legal entity. 
So, as a lowest common denominator we decided to strictly limit cc 
europe to a web presence, email address and phone line, have a 
spokesperson and keep on with deciding all the rest without 
structures/informally. The residue of the MoC draft (= what is 
compatible with the informal model) is to be put online as an about page 
of the web presence.

Feel free to comment on this text, opinions welcome ...

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About

CC Europe is the central online platform of the european Creative 
Commons Jurisdiction Projects. It is primarily intended to offer a 
contact point for organisations, authorities and individuals who want to 
get in touch with Creative Commons experts in relation to any kind of 
questions or projects of pan-european scale and scope. Likewise, CC 
Europe is the channel through which statements and common opinions of 
the CC Jurisdiction Projects are communicated to european-level 
organisations and policy makers, f. e. in the course of consultations on 
European Union legislation.

The further purpose of the CC Europe platform is to help coordinate the 
european CC Jurisdiction Projects for organising meetings and other 
events aimed at fostering collaboration and exchange between the 
participating Projects, for raising additional funds for transnational 
activities like studies, surveys and networking initiatives and for 
promoting Creative Commons licensing and open access in general by 
increasing the outreach of the free licensing community.

Also, CC Europe seeks to take a proactive role in expanding and building 
the Creative Commons Communities in Europe and endeavour to help 
identify networks and potential cooperation partners particularly in 
countries where no recognised Creative Commons Jurisdiction Projects 
exist. Apart from that case, questions and suggestions related to the 
application of Creative Commons licenses under a specific national 
jurisdiction within Europe should be sent to the respective CC 
Jurisdiction Project directly (see contact page for details).

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