Hi there a very good news before the week end starts! Our friends in Jeeran.com the largest Arabic online community have just set a Creative Commons dedicated channel which is visible here:
http://www.jeeran.com/ccarabia/ There are some details that we are still trying to adjust but I'd like you guys to have a look cause I think this is a great achievement for CC community. I owe a big thank to Laith and Omar the founders of Jeeran and their fantastic team, and to Rami Olwan and Bassel Safadi from our CC community who helped writing and reviewing all the Arabic content. Also a big thank to the Al Jazeera team that has provided us with the most interesting so far video footage to be posted online under CC..we hope more will come soon! Pls feel free to post suggestions, opinions, tips on the CC Jeeran channel We are going to use this also to advertise the CC launch and upcoming Salon in Jordan. I know there are groups of people that are organising content competitions for this, I kindly ask you to send us stuff and news to post on the channel Last but not least the good thing is that Jeeran will post the articles themselves under CC licenses and inshallah will soon give to their users the option to choose CC licenses for all the content Again, I'd like to thank all the team that has contributed to this work which I hope you will enjoy Pls find the English press release on Jeeran-CC cooperation here attached Salam dona CC JEERAN PRESS RELEASE Arabic online largest community Jeeran launches Creative Commons channel Jeeran, the largest Arabic online community with 1.5 millions registered users and more than 7 millions visitors per month, will launch on 13th October 2009 an online channel in cooperation with the San Francisco based non profit organisation Creative Commons. Creative Commons, founded in 2001 by Stanford Law Professor and Internet media guru Lawrence Lessig, works in the domain of digital rights and knowledge sharing by providing free tools that let authors, scientists, artists and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. Creative Commons changes the copyright terms for a creative work from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved", helping to create a balance between the right to protect intellectual property and the right to access to knowledge and share it. The culture of protecting creative works is still in its early stage in the Arab world. With the brand new Jeeran Arabic channel, Creative Commons aims to provide the Arab users with information on how to protect a creative work and at the same time share it legally within the online community. The ultimate goal is to foster content creation in the Arabic language and encourage Arab people to create and disseminate their own contents on digital media in order to share it with the rest of the world. Jeeran is the ideal partner to this operation, considering all the work done on the domain of Arabic content creation and language preservation on the Internet – with innovative experiments as Seejal, an old Arab tradition of poetry that has been transferred on the web- . The new Jeeran Creative Commons channel will feature blog posts and informative articles on how to license a creative work according to its final destination and goal. Videos, caricatures and music will be featured, as well as successful case studies on how Creative Commons is being used in the Arab Region. The Creative Commons Al Jazeera repository (http://cc.aljazeera.net) will be highlighted and the footage released by Al Jazeera under Creative Commons licenses will be featured on the Jeeran channel. A section about news and updates on Creative Commons events, meetings and happenings in the Arab Region will be hosted by the Jeeran channel. The Jeeran Creative Commons channel will also feature competitions and call for proposals to encourage Arab artists to use CC licenses and remix other creative works coming from the Region. Creative Commons will launch its first Arabic licenses on 15th November in Amman in cooperation with Talal Abu Ghazaleh Organisation which hosts Creative Commons Jordan lead by Ziad Maraqa and Rami Olwan. On 16th November the Royal Film Commission of Jordan will host the first ever Creative Commons Salon dedicated to Arab artists, bloggers, IT people, etc. coming from the whole Region. The Jeeran Creative Commons channel and the cooperation between the two organisations will be highlighted in Rome next 13th October during the meeting “Oriente.com” dedicated to Arab creativity and innovation on the Internet. About Jeeran www.jeeran.com Jeeran was launched in 2000 as the first Arab web hosting community, with a young and futuristic vision to provide Arab users with the latest web technologies and the means to communicate and connect. Its services translate to more innovation and creativity and they open new opportunities to the advertiser to reach millions of users by relating to their interests and demands. The Jeeran community has reached over 1.5 million members, and over 500,000 active websites and blogs, and attracts over 7 million unique visitors per month. Its social network revolves around its user's content and the relationships between its members, and thus it has been a pioneer in pushing for the power of user generated content ever since it was launched. Jeeran has recently added French language to address its growing audiences in North Africa. In the past2 years, Jeeran launched two other sites; Sejaal, an online community for Arabic Poetry Competitions, and Khabbr, the leading Arabic social bookmarking site. About Creative Commons (CC) www.creativecommons.org CC was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, professor of Law in Stanford University and author of many important books about copyright issues, cyberspace law and the sharing of creativity on the Internet. Joi Ito, the current CEO of CC, is a well known venture capitalist investing in many successful web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Technorati, Last.fm and Flckr. He has been named by World Economic Forum as one of the “100 leaders of tomorrow” while he was listed by Time Magazine one of the members of the “cyber elite”. CC is an international non profit organization which provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." The idea of Creative Commons licenses has gained lot of credibility over the years, and we now have many artists, organizations and institutions using them, such as US President Obama and the White House, Al Jazeera Satellite Channel and MIT, the Boston based well known and prestigious university. CC licenses are becoming popular also among broadcasters: this year the idea of “Some Rights Reserved” was brought to Cannes Mip Tv international market, where Joi Ito was invited to give a keynote speech and to explain how a broadcaster or tv producer can use CC licenses to protect its work, and at the same time strengthening the relation with audiences and users that are in this way allowed certain uses of the work according to the chosen license. The footage repository launched by Al Jazeera under Creative Commons licenses during the Gaza war (http://cc.aljazeera.net ) has been rewarded worldwide as a successful example of using CC open licenses in the broadcast sector. Donatella Della Ratta is in charge of media relations and community development in the Arab region. Contact her at [email protected] Ziad Maraqa and Rami Olwan are Creative Commons project leads in Jordan http://creativecommons.org/international/jo/ The Creative Commons Jeeran channel is maintained by Rami Olwan ([email protected]) and Bassel Safadi ([email protected]). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
