Wow! That's great! we are very proud that Amman will host the 1st Arabic CC salon ever ;) I will start to spread the word and to put some announcements on the net and some cultural places here. I am sure there are some artists who are interested in our salon and are ready to publish some work under CC licenses.
2009/10/6 [email protected] <[email protected]> > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
