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[Christian Ahlert <ca AT openbusiness.cc>]

Hi all, community, CC interested folk:

after the initial porting of the England and Wales Creative Commons  
licenses they are now out there!  For nearly half a year and widely  
used. But much more could and needs to be done.

Creative Commons had a great start in England and Wales at the  
Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford, but now we  
are moving organizationally.

From the start Creative Commons entirely relied on a team of  
volunteers representing an eclectic mix of inspired lawyers,  
scholars, media activists and in general creative people.

Now we are finally having an office in London at the Michael Young  
Foundation - youngfoundation.org.uk - where we will focus on the  
educational, cultural and media policy related issues concerning  
Creative Commons, copyright, innovation and creativity in an  
increasingly digital world.

For those of us involved over the past 20 months it was a lot of work  
to get the licenses out, to get a website up and running and to  
finally find an office. Yet, in one word: we need your help!

What can we offer: a nice office in the East of London based at  
exciting foundation, which in the memory of Michael Young (founder of  
the Open University), fosters social entrepreneurship.

We offer virtual volunteering as well as physical internships. Both  
have some obvious advantages: if you are interested in helping with  
some website maintenance, copy writing for website, or simply have  
some good ideas on what we should feature on the Creative Commons EW  
site, pls contact us. This could be done very much virtually!

If you are more enthused about Creative Commons and want to help  
building an organization which can support what I call for lack of a  
better phrase "Open Culture" you could come more regularly to the  
foundation. We would offer training and a nice office, as well as  
lots of room to implement ideas.

Currently we seek people who could help with organizing events - one  
remixing event with a gallery and kids is planned for ie -  
fundraising, or specific research projects we have created. One  
example is: Openbusiness.cc

If you are more interested in the legal side of things please  
contact: Prodromos Tsiavos <prodromos.tsiavos@socio-legal- 
studies.oxford.ac.uk>

If you are interested in the above, or want to become more involved  
pls write to me

Christian Ahlert
public project lead Creative Commons EW


On 3 Nov 2005, at 10:48, Marieke Guy wrote:

> New Aslib Course, Monday 21 November 2005, Aslib Training  
> Department, London
>
> http://www.aslib.co.uk/training/4/25.html
>
> Creative Commons (CC) licences are a way to clarify the conditions of
> use of a work and avoid many of the problems current copyright laws
> pose. This half-day workshop is a basic introduction to Creative  
> Commons
> and its implications for the information professional. Participants  
> will
> look at the process of choosing a licence; then through discussion and
> group work will consider related issues and the role Creative Commons
> will play in the future.
>
> *******************
> Marieke Guy
> Interoperability Focus Officer
> UKOLN, University of Bath, BA2 7AY
> Web site: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/
> Email: M.Guy AT ukoln.ac.uk
> Phone: 01225 385105
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