Today marked the beginnig of iCommons summit at Harvard Law School. Photos of the event.
Larry Lessig started the summit by telling the story of how creative commons has grew into internetional movement. Lessig ended by saiyng that this is not his idea and that the direction of CC is up to you (icommons leaders) Then Neeru Paharia presented the technology CC has developed to foster the "freedoms of creators".
Lessig also announced that the generic license will be turned into generic WIPO license from the USA license it has been for long.
Lessig and Paharia both said that Google will publish soon their CC technology.
After the presentation of the staff, technology and program, questions from the iCommons leaders started:
It's a top down organization. What do you mean its up to us to decide where to go?
How can we raise money to cover the cost of adaption process?
How do we do business under CC’s name?
Can we get more transparent data regarding use of licenses in each country?
I presume that some of these questions can be answered while most of them were left unanswered.
Seemed that this summit came at last moment. One can sense some frustration in the air. To my experience there are more questions gathering over Creative Commons that get answered. I think that this is a great chance to discuss the legal issues that project leads have had. This is why my biggest interest is on afternoon session of legal issues. Corante has talked about CC celebrating their victories but not talking about the pressing legal problems that hang over the licenses. You can tell success stories online but talking about hard complex subjects like collecting societies, cross culture compatability of licenses could be solved by this crowd of CC volunteers.-> I could be wrong. These are not the things that iCommons leaders should have to worry about.
Still this is a very important meeting in the history of Creative Commons. Seeing over 80 people around the world talking about Creative Commons and free culture is amazing.
The photo is CC by 2.0 licensed. (could find the author...)
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