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

[sorry for crossposting]

Hi all,

as some of you might have heard, the initiative "C3S" 
(http://c-3-s.org/index_en.html) is working on establishing a new type 
of pan-european collecting society that is compatible with alternative 
licensing models and the inner workings of which are to be more 
grassroots-like than authoritarian.

The initiative has come a long way already: A core team has formed, 
drafting the bylaws is almost finished, the community around the idea 
grows and so does media attention. But there's a lot to do still and 
much of it involves legal work. That's why I volunteered to send out 
this call:

If you are a lawyer with experience in media/(collective) 
licensing/international associations/CCPL/corporate law and with a taste 
for adventure ... you are called upon to join the C3S effort and help out!

The budget is extremely limited, coming mostly from crowd funding. This 
means that any work done will at least initially need to be pro-bono, 
while there are ideas to set up a kind of karma system from which to 
remunerate professional supporters once the project takes flight.

Main reason for this approach is to strictly keep venture capital out of 
the C3S birth process. And foundation support or the like is hard to get 
for a project that ultimately is meant to be a commercial enterprise.

Let me know if you're interested so I can get people in touch with each 
other.

Best regards from Berlin
John