(SOO logo here. Earth icon licensed CC BY by Erin Standley from the Noun Project.) After months of discussions, deliberations, and planning between CC staff, African Regional Coordinators, African Affiliate teams, and others in the open space, Creative Commons Africa is set to storm Africa by having a continent-wide launch for School of Open in…

Back in November, we launched the CC Toolkits project with the aim of invigorating the CC Community through affiliate events. CC Argentina collaborated with Wikimedia Argentina to hack out a template for the toolkits during a sprint, creating a starting point for just about anyone to collect open content about CC, and publish it on…

Creative Commons is working with Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Law School in Rio de Janeiro to create Brazil jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Brazil List Project Lead: Ronaldo Lemos da Silva Júnior License draft. English explanation of substantive legal changes. Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives. More…

Creative Commons is working with The Berkman Center to create United States jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi United States List Project Lead: John Palfrey, Phillip Malone There are currently no email discussion lists for the US project. The creation of United States jurisdiction-specific Creative Commons licenses is a far simpler project…

Creative Commons is working with Law & Technology Program at the University of Ottawa to create Canada jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Canada List Project Leads:  Marcus Bornfreund, Andy Kaplan-Myrth, and Olivier Charbonneau License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the…

Creative Commons is working with CRID, Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit / Centre for Research on Computer Law, University of Namur to create Belgium jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Belgium List Project Lead: Séverine Dusollier, License draft in English (PDF). License draft in Dutch (PDF). License draft in French (PDF).…

Creative Commons is working with Universitat de Barcelona to create Spain jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Spain List Project Lead: Ignasi Labastida i Juan License draft (PDF). English re-translation (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives. Archives English explanation of substantive legal changes (v1.0) (PDF). More…

Creative Commons is working with European Academy of Law and Computing and the Institute of Law and Informatics at Saarland University to create Germany jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Germany List Legal Project Lead: John Hendrik Weitzmann Public Project Lead: Markus Beckedahl License draft. English explanation of substantive legal changes. Post…

Creative Commons is working with Digital Allmend to create Switzerland jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Switzerland List Legal Project Leads: Philippe Perreaux and Simon Schlauri Public Project Leads: Martin Feuz License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives.…

Creative Commons is working with Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) to create Jordan jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Jordan List Project Leads: Ziad Maraqa (Legal Cases & Court Decisions Manager, AGIP) and Rami Olwan (Researcher at CCI ARC Center for Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation). License draft v3.0 (PDF). English re-translation…