CCi Ecuador List

Project Leads: Dr. Juan José Puertas Ortega, Carlos Correa Loyola
Team members: Dra. Patricia Pacheco Montoya and Abg. Verónica Granda González, Abg. Gabriela Armijos Maurad.

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More about the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

The Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja was founded by the Ecuadorian Marist Association (AME) on May 3rd, 1971.

UTPL was officially recognized by the State of Ecuador under Executive Decree 646, published in the Official Register Nr. 217 of May 5th, 1971, in which it was constituted as an autonomous legal entity on the basis of the “Modus Vivendi” Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Ecuador, following the Church’s regulations in its organization and government.

On October 27th, 1997, the Diocese of Loja transferred indefinitely to the “Idente Association of Christ the Redeemer, Idente Missionaries” the operation of the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, to be conducted with total autonomy and in accordance with Idente charisma.

In 1976 the UTPL inaugurated the Distance Education Modality, the first in Latin America. The current statute, approved by the National Council of Higher Education, CONESUP, on January 30th, 2002, established that the institution would offer higher education at undergraduate and graduate levels through the following modalities: Traditional, and Open and Distance, with its variants: a) Traditional Distance; b) Mixed Mode; and c) Virtual.

The UTPL educational model is centered on “Productive Entrepreneurship” in which the students and the professors take part in real projects in the Centers for Research, Technology Transfer, Extension and Service (CITTES)

In summary, the academic life of UTPL combines all the dimensions of the university: the CITTES, the Schools, their programs in the Traditional and Distance Modalities, and service to society, with a strong humanist perspective.

CC Thailand Project Team:

Phichai Phuechmongkol, President, and Worasete Phueksakon, Director, Dharmniti Law Office(DLO); Sunit Shrestha, Director, TRN Institute; and Arthit Suriyawongkul, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University.

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More about Dharmniti Law Office

Founded in 1947 by Pradit Premyothin and with the guidance of Buth Khandhawit in 1978, The Dharmniti Law Office Co., Ltd. (DLO) has become one of the most well-respected law offices in Thailand providing quality legal services for both local and international clients. DLO provides a full range of legal services with a staff of over 100 persons including over 50 talented lawyers.

Recognizing the rapidly changing needs of its international clients, The Dharmniti International Co., Ltd. (DHI) was founded in 1990. DHI, also with a staff of extensive experience, is one of the few international law firms in Thailand designed to understand and serve the needs of both foreign and domestic clients.

For more information about Dharmniti Law Office, visit http://www.thailandlawoffice.com/ (in English) or http://www.dlo.co.th/ (in Thai).

More about TRN Institute

TRN Institute has been designing social innovation initiatives since 2001. Our sole purpose is to inject innovation into the social sector and corporate’s sustainable practice via design-thinking, innovative financing, partnership building and the use of ICTs.

Our social innovation designs range from micro-scale sustainable agriculture in dry land for the poor, Thai Open Courseware with the ministry of Education, Internet-based volunteer and philanthropy portal as well as social venture capital for emerging innovative social-startups.

For more information about TRN Institute, visit http://www.trnlab.org/.

More about Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University

Thammasat University has been established in 1934, two years after the 1932 Siamese Revolution, in the name “University of Moral and Political Science”, to educate a fledgling democracy at that time on law and political science. Since then, the university played an important role in social movements. In 1992, the university together with its industrial partners founded Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT) to provide research and education in engineering, technology, and management for the country’s development. Its School of Information and Computer Technology hosts one of the country’s largest research groups in knowledge and information science.

For more information about SIIT, visit http://www.siit.tu.ac.th/.

CCi Hong Kong List

Legal Project Leads: Dr. Yahong Li (Associate Professor) and Ms. Alice Lee (Associate Professor), The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law

Public Project Lead: Rebecca MacKinnon (Assistant Professor), Journalism and Media Studies Center

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More about the Journalism and Media Studies Center

Founded in 1999, the Journalism and Media Studies Center (JMSC) is a teaching and research unit at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong’s oldest university. The JMSC offers an undergraduate and graduate degree, and professional programs for working journalists and executives.

The JMSC is committed to the pursuit of excellence in journalism and supporting Asian voices in the international media. JMSC’s activities, such as the Media Law Project and the China Media Project, strive to promote civil society and an informed citizenry through a vibrant and professional news media. The JMSC works in partnership with Hong Kong University faculties and departments and a vast network of professional groups in Hong Kong, China and beyond.

The JMSC assumed the role of host organization for Creative Commons Hong Kong in August 2007. The project’s Public Lead is Rebecca MacKinnon, Assistant Professor at the JMSC, while the role of Legal Lead is shared by Dr. Yahong Li and Alice Lee of The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Further updates about CC-HK’s activities can be found at the Hong Kong Fans of Creative Commons community wiki.

CCi New Zealand List

Project Lead: Dr Brian Opie
Legal Team: Associate Professor Susy Frankel, Andrew Matangi, Paul Sumpter

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More about Te Whāinga Aronui The Council for The Humanities

The Humanities Trust of Aotearoa New Zealand

Te Whāinga Aronui The Council for the Humanities is a charitable trust. The Trust Board includes among its members leaders in academic, cultural and public sector organisations. Its objective is to promote recognition of the value of the humanities-aronui in the creation, conservation and transmission of knowledge essential to personal well-being and the cultural, social and economic development of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Te Whāinga Aronui The Council for the Humanities is committed to recognising the importance of matauranga Maori as an indigenous taonga and its unique role in establishing and supporting the contemporary strategic development of the humanities in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Council is further committed to facilitating the ongoing involvement by Maori scholastic communities in achieving the mission and goals of the Council. For more information, refer to http://www.humanities.org.nz.

Examples of this work include:

The Humanities Research Network Te Whatunga Rangahau Aronui — “Linking Minds and Energies in the Arts, Culture and the Humanities”

Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand — The Council for the Humanities is leading the project to establish Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand in 2007. The Creative Commons site is being managed by the Humanities Research Network Board.

CCi Argentina List

Project Lead: Professor Ariel Vercelli.

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More about NGO Bienes Comunes

Bienes Comunes is a non-profit and non governmental organization (NGO) founded in 2005 and located in the Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is formed by people interested in the research, promotion, regulation and protection of the commons of our societies. Its mission could be synthesized as the study, research, development, promotion, spread, citizenship education in its use and production, protection, conservation, defence, assertion and regulation of every unalienable commons that conform and sustain our human condition.

Bienes Comunes can be graphically understood as a laboratory of the nature, reach, regulation and fate of cultural, digital, biological and material commons. Bienes Comunes works as a hub between private, public and communal networks, connecting and collaborating with researchers, technicians, institutes, research centres, libraries, laboratories, enterprises, non-profit civil associations, foundations, cooperatives, chambers or governmental agencies interested in the commons.

During 2005 Fundación OSDE gave support to Ariel Vercelli and the NGO Bienes Comunes in the first phase and translation of the Creative Commons licenses in Argentina. The NGO Bienes Comunes leads the Creative Commons local chapter and during these years has developed many projects related to free and open licenses for all kind of intellectual works: among others, Negocios Abiertos [a project to work, design and share open business models in Latin America], Aprender la Libertad [an initiative to work with digital commons and collaborative production of educational contents] and Librecultura [a space to promote and define the free culture movement in Argentina and Latin America].

For more information about NGO Bienes Comunes visit http://www.bienescomunes.org/. Please contact Ariel Vercelli and the NGO Bienes Comunes for any issue related with the local chapter:

Our generic licenses are jurisdiction-agnostic: they do not mention any particular jurisdiction’s laws or statutes or contain any sort of choice-of-law provision. The licenses are, however, based on the U.S. Copyright Act in many respects. This means that, though we have no reason to believe that the licenses would not function in legal systems across the world, it is at least conceivable that some aspects of our licenses will not align perfectly to a particular jurisdiction’s laws.

Our licensing model includes three levels: the human-readable Commons Deed, the lawyer-readable Legal Code, and the machine-readable Digital Code or metadata. The International Commons project will port the Legal Code to accommodate a specific jurisdiction’s legal background rules, while the Commons Deed and Digital Code will remain the same.

After the ported licenses are launched, CCi continues to collaborate with the international affiliates to maintain the legal framework and to adapt later versions of the licenses. In this way, CCi works to maintain an international license architecture and a network of legal experts around the globe. 

Creative Commons

Brazil Movie

In the spring of 2004, a documentary film crew followed Creative Commons staff to Brazil. This ten-minute video covers the launch event, the impact on the country, and the people behind the project. It’s a great look at how a country adopts the licenses and what it means to them.

Translating our movies

Those wishing to translate our movie explanations into other languages can download all the related files on our movie translation page.