Hi Guys, This is my Mohannad Yousuf and I am in digital content and Internet business since 15 years. Being part of the Internet community, I feel that I need to express my opinion about the development of the CC project in our region the Middle East.
I was watching the CC progress in the middle East from a distance for quite a long-time, maybe it is a little late to step in now, however I found it proper to post what I have in my mind regarding the development of the CC in the Arab World. I remember the first time I looked at the CC website was in 2004, and I found the 1st project for the Middle East was CC – Jordan, and there was no other project in that region, and I was happy to see the first Jordanian Arabic license among all other non-Arabic countries license, and today we are in 2013, I came back after 10 years to check about CC in the Middle East, and in my humble opinion still not much has been accomplished. Too many emails going back and forth and five or six meetings in the region but not sure what has been achieved. Now we have the Egyptian license finally ready, but I am still not sure whether it will create more Arabic content in the Middle East. You can say now that there is Arabic license but how much this will help to build community and how many people will be using it and what kind of content will be available under the Egyptian license. There are 22 Arabic countries "I hope I got the count right :)" , and all of them have different laws with different levels, do you think a blogger for example in Morocco will publish his work under the Egyptian license, why he should choose it? Is it because it is in Arabic? Can’t he simply use the CC generic license to protect his content? Now after almost 10 years I believe that the only reason that the CC wants to publish the Egyptian license is simply because they don’t have any other license written in Arabic and they want to tell the community that they have a license in Arabic, even if it is not usable for the whole CC community. Respectfully M -- لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في المجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي" من مجموعات Google. لإلغاء اشتراكك في هذه المجموعة وإيقاف تلقي رسائل إلكترونية منها، أرسِل رسالة إلكترونية إلى [email protected]. للنشر في هذه المجموعة، أرسل بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى [email protected] انتقل إلى هذه المجموعة على http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar. للمزيد من الخيارات، انتقل إلى https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
