Dear all some updates concerning the first CC Arab Salon. So it seems that we'll be doing this in Amman inshallah on 16th Nov. thanks to the great support of the Royal Film Commission of Jordan that is going to host the event. It will be a rich event and plenty of great surprises:) but most of all it will be the first opportunity for Arab artists, musicians, filmakers, bloggers, photographers, journalists, media people etc. to showcase and discuss their works made under CC. CC Jordan, which is the first CC license in Arabic, will officially be launched on 15th November and this will open the way to the use of CC licensing in Arabic all across the Arab world inshallah In this perspective, the Salon is an extremely important step, cause it features artists, media outlets, IT people, who have used CC licenses for their work and would like to share the results of opening up their work. In a CC Salon people explain practically how they use CC licenses for their artistic works, which licenses they use and with which results. CC licenses are in fact not only for lawyers and law experts: the final goal is to encourage people to use them to make art, music, video, journalism, pictures, etc. People can learn from others’ experience and build up from previous knowledge. In the Arab world, due to the late development of copyright and CC, there is still only a little amount of work licensed under CC in Arabic. Therefore this Salon should serve to encourage the creation of more Arabic content for digital media and to increase the sharing of this knowledge created in Arabic. The support of RFC is therefore key: we share the same commitments for content production and knowledge sharing, and we would all like to see more works of art to be created and shared in the Arabic language over digital media
We are still discussing with the friends in RFC the logistics and the details about the Salon. But this will be of course an open event where everybody is invited to take part. We just have a limitation of space and time in terms of artists that we can showcase at the RFC during the evening..but I guess we have also a limited number of artists using CC for their work in the Arab world:) Usually the Salon showcases people who have already made use of CC licenses and have a long experience in using it..but giving the peculiar situation of the Arab world and being CC at a young stage here, I will also encourage new CC users to submit their works and join us in Amman. I'd like to encourage you from our community subscribing to this list to help us figure out interesting people to invite, by telling us about intresting "local case studies" and also by encouraging local artists in your countries to use open licenses for their intellectual work and showcase it at the Salon. Now, for those of you who are interested to spread the word about the Salon locally in your country and/or thru your networks, I'll encourage you to send the list or myself by private email suggestions and portfolios of the artists that would like to be featured at the Salon (with at least some work, song, poetry, etc. released under CC!). If you need to post an announcement concerning the Salon I would suggest the following: WHAT IS A CC SALON? http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Salon CC Salons are global, informal events focused on building a community of artists, developers, and creators of all kinds around Creative Commons licenses, standards, and technology. The first event took place in San Francisco in 2006 with the idea to replicate in other locations internationally. Since then salons have sprung up in cities around the world (see the list online at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Salon) The format for each event varies based on the location, but the overall concept is simple. CC Salons are open forums for people who are interested in the issues surrounding Creative Commons and global participatory culture. Pls do not hesitate to ask me any question. Anyway, this is just an update. More details to come later this week inshallah salam dona --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في مجموعات Google مجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي". لإرسال هذا إلى هذه المجموعة، قم بإرسال بريد إلكتروني إلى [email protected] لإلغاء الاشتراك في هذه المجموعة، ابعث برسالة إلكترونية إلى [email protected] لخيارات أكثر، الرجاء زيارة المجموعة على http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
