thanks for the feedback! I would also love to hear back from the others who were there in order to get more points of view salamat dona
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Riyadh Al-Balushi <[email protected]>wrote: > I just got back from the CC Global Summit in Buenos Aires and I thought I > would share some of my experience at the event with you guys. > > The was my first time to attend a CC Global Summit, but the place was not > too unfamiliar as I saw many friends from CC communities in the Arab World. > The Arab World community was represented by members from Morocco, Tunisia, > Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar and Oman. We were seven people in total, and > apparently this was the largest number of participants from the Arab region > to ever attend a CC summit. > > The summit was a great opportunity to meet and connect with the CC HQ > staffers and other members from CC communities around the world. We learnt > a lot about what CC HQ and the affiliates are doing around the world > through the numerous sessions of the 3-day event that covered topics in the > areas of law, culture, government & public sector information, open > education resources, and science & research. Specific sessions explored the > opportunities of CC in education, business, and science. The summit also > discussed the latest updates to the upcoming version 4.0 of the licenses, > which as a lawyer I found very interesting, especially the discussion on > how the treatment of the derivative of share-alike licenses may be changed > in a way that allows the fulfilment of the obligations of the share-alike > license by using a future version of the license. > > One of the most interesting sessions around the event was the debate on > the role of CC in advocating copyright reform. CC HQ has a legal > restriction in the US on how much lobbying they can do, however, many CC > affiliates are regularly involved in advocating copyright reform in their > respective countries but are hesitant from using their CC hat in this > context to avoid violating the conditions imposed on them by CC HQ. Some > opponents of copyright reform have recently also used the success of CC to > argue that current copyright works fine as CC proves that people can choose > to share their works easily if they wish to do so. This issue was discussed > thoroughly during a mini-conference a day before the main CC Summit, and > led to have the CC Board of Directors agree to issue a statement to clarify > the position of CC in regard to copyright reform. > > The CC summit was rich with contributions from affiliates from all over > the world. The Arab world participated in a delivering session about CC and > the creative industries and another session on copyright developments > around the world. > > It was a great privilege to be part of this summit and I cannot wait to > see what comes next out of the CC community. > > > -- > 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. > للمزيد من الخيارات، انتقل إلى https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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. للمزيد من الخيارات، انتقل إلى https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
