Die vier Teile der Reihe Creative Commons einfach erklärt von Advisign sind jetzt komplett und ein guter Einstieg in die Materie.
Presentation videos are all online now (thanks to Bruno of flash007)
Creative Commons Luxembourg Launch
CRP Tudor, Boulevard John F Kennedy, 29, Kirchberg, 15th October 2007
Google Maps link, Directions to the JFK29 building: link (pdf)
Programme
– Creative Commons, l’expérience au Luxembourg (Patrick Peiffer, président Luxcommons asbl)
– Les licences ouvertes: culture et économie (John Buckmann, Board member Creative Commons, Founder Magnatune et Bookmooch)
link to video, presentation at Slideshare
– Creative Commons et héritage culturel: bibliothèques (Lionel Maurel, coordinateur scientifique, portail de numérisation Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
link to video, also: his excellent article on CC and libraries, as pdf.
– Jamendo, ouvrez grand vos oreilles : Une startup Technoport basée sur Creative Commons (Laurent Kratz, Founder Jamendo)
link to video, also check out Jamendo’s blog.
– Sociétés de Gestion Collective et CC: “The CC-NL & Buma-Stemra pilot project in the Netherlands” (Paul Keller, Project Lead CC-Netherlands)
link to video, also check here for CC-Buma Pilot explanation.
Some materials we used: A3 poster.
The luxembourgish CASES node (Cyberworld Awareness Security Enhancement Structure) has launched using the CC-LU BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence!
CASES is run by the Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade and aims to inform companies and citizens about information security, privacy and knowledge exchange. Complete CASES Mission statement.
Right on time.
Since yesterday afternoon, the Luxembourg jurisdiction licences are available.
A big thank you to all whose help, work and sponsoring made this possible.
Some links:
Jan enjoyed it, although she doesn’t speak French.
Paul has some pictures on flickr.
The first videos are coming in at flash007
Presentations are at the conference page.
(This press release attached as PDF: CC-Luxembourg PR 20071014)
LUXEMBOURG 40th JURISDICTION TO OFFER PORTED CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES
San Francisco, CA, USA and Luxembourg, Luxembourg — October 15, 2007
The launch of the Creative Commons licensing suite today in Luxembourg
marks the 40th jurisdiction worldwide to offer Creative Commons
licenses adapted to national law. Creative Commons worked in
collaboration with Luxcommons ASBL, a local non-profit for researching
and developing Open Content headed by Patrick Peiffer, to
linguistically and legally port the licenses to Luxembourgish law.
An event to commemorate the launch will be held today at the Public
Research Center Henri Tudor (CRP) in Luxembourg, featuring speeches by
John Buckman, founder and CEO of Magnatune.com and Board Member of
Creative Commons, and Paul Keller, Project Lead for Creative Commons
Netherlands.
The ceremony will also include a presentation by Laurent Kratz,
founder Luxembourg’s Jamendo, one of the largest music portals
offering Creative Commons-licensed works, and Lionel Maurel,
scientific coordinator from the National Library of France.
The Creative Commons licenses were “the first instrument of choice” in
Luxcommons’ efforts to lead innovation in intellectual property and
promote Open Content in their region and around the world. The
licenses, available free of charge at http://creativecommons.org,
allow authors and artists to mark their works as free to copy or
transform under certain conditions, and thereby enable others to
access a growing pool of raw materials without legal friction.
About Luxcommons
The non-profit Luxcommons was founded in 2005 with the goals of
promoting, researching, and developing of Open Content. Thanks to
funding from “2007, Luxembourg and Greater Region, Cultural Capital of
Europe,” the National Cultural Fund and with the Support of the
Technoport Incubator (an initiative of the Henri Tudor Research
Center), Luxcommons was able to start transposing the CC 3.0 License
to the Luxembourg jurisdiction. For the future, a stronger linking of
similar initiatives in the Greater Region and stronger tie-ins with
institutional partners is sought to keep the Luxembourgish CC project
on stable footing. For more information about Luxcommons, please visit
their website http://www.luxcommons.lu/.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001,
that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works,
whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright
licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and
educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms
that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional
copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.
Creative Commons is sustained by the generous support of organizations
including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar
Network, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, as
well as members of the public. For more information about Creative
Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Dr. Catharina Maracke
International Coordinator
Creative Commons International, Creative Commons
+49.30.280.93.909
Press Kit
Von Cory Doctorow war hier schon des Öfteren die Rede. Dass er seine Romane stets unter einer CC-Lizenz veröffentlicht ist wohl bekannt – dass allerdings Random House – Heyne – jetzt die deutsche Übersetzung seines Erstlings, Backup, als CC-lizenzierten Download ins Internet stellt – das kommt dann doch etwas überraschend.
Es wird interessant sein die Verkaufszahlen des Romans zu beobachten und zu schauen ob diese Vertriebsform nun tatsächlich die Zahlen senkt oder eher hebt. Laut Corys Aussagen ist sein Verlag sehr zufrieden mit den Verkaufszahlen der englischen Printausgaben…
Download des Buches und die Verlagsmitteilung hier.
(Found via NETBIB newsletter)
A couple of weeks from the CC Luxembourg launch conference, here’s a small selection of prominent sites that use Creative Commons licences in Luxembourg.
Art/Audio/Video community project to document the Cultural Capital with online remixing: www.flash007.lu
Almost a global player, the notorious Jamendo music site:
Beautiful photographs from the “Our” nature parc in Luxembourg:
Cultural Heritage, digitised print from the National Library:
Example: A-Z illustrated magazine 1934
The city of Luxembourg, using CC for their website
“Family of Man 2007” youth project: Photo contest/exhibition and book
www.foma2007.org
If you know others that should be included in this list, please drop an email to patrick DOT luxcommons AT gmail DOT com. I’m sure there’s more, a Google search for the phrase “creative commons” in the Luxembourg web gives nearly 2 million hits!
And if you haven’t registered yet for the launch conference on the 15th October, please do so: www.sitec.lu/conference
(please not: all presentations will be in French!)
Luxcommons asbl 