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[Jordan S Hatcher <jordan AT twitchgamer.net>]

Hi everyone,

Except for the occasional announcement of a CC related project or  
event, not much has been happening on this list.  I proposed a small  
discussion about CC-UK, where it's at and where it is going at OKCon  
for this Saturday:

<http://okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/Open_Space#head- 
d2d92f2bd2f828b7e9d2ecc48bae9f647dc0e356>

In it, I was hoping that we could start a conversation about a  
sustainable structure for a CC-UK, or (as a prior question) if there  
is any interest in having a more formal structure for CC-UK at present.

I've done some work on CC and related open content licences, and am  
currently working on open data licences and legal tools at http:// 
opendatacommons.org.  In my capacity as a researcher, I did a survey  
of use of open content licences and the cultural heritage sector in  
the UK in 2007.  All of this is a short background to the following  
comment:

I think that quite a few people have the (mis)conception that CC-UK  
is a "chapter" of Creative Commons and so shares in money and  
organisational structure with the "parent" org. This is not so.

As a useful first step to figuring out what interest there is in CC  
in the UK and CC-UK as an org, I've asked Prodomos to speak about the  
relationship between the jurisdiction specific orgs and the parent CC- 
UK in the law and licensing panel at OKCon. It'll be short (maybe 15  
minutes), and is really about starting a conversation on all of this  
stuff.

Please feel free to send me comments offlist or to respond here.

Thanks!

~Jordan

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Mr. Jordan S Hatcher, JD, LLM

jordan at opencontentlawyer dot com
OC Blog: http://opencontentlawyer.com
IP/IT Blog: http://twitchgamer.net

Open Data Commons
<http://opendatacommons.org>

Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007