http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/garlick/" href="http://icommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/Mia.jpg">![]( "Mia Garlick source: <!-- BBCode auto-link start --><a href=") http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/garlick/" id="image29" alt="Mia Garlick source: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/garlick/" src="http://icommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/Mia.jpg" />The first day of the iCommons Summit sees a significant meeting of Creative Commons legal and project leads to discuss the issues and challenges they experience on a daily basis in their respective jurisdictions.
According to the program, the Creative Commons Policy Workshop will deal with 'issues relating to Creative Commons license development, collecting societies, cc Version 3.0 and Creative Commons' WIPO strategy.'
This will provide an important platform for Creative Commons Project and Legal leads from around the world to give feedback about the licensing process. Mia Garlick, General Council to Creative Commons San Francisco, is running the workshop along with Christiane Henckel von Donnersmarck, Creative Commons International Executive Director.
Garlick believes that the responses from individual experiences can point to larger issues that will require global or regional responses. Thus the workshop will provide a way for participants to share their experiences and find collective solutions. She continued, 'Creative Commons is nothing without its international network - if they don't like something, it's important that they tell those of us who are supposed to provide them with support and assistance so we can fix it.'
The workshop, and the Summit as a whole, will provide a way for the numerous volunteers who are involved in the Creative Commons International network, but who do not have as much time to devote to the cause as they would hope, to set aside a moment to share their experiences. As Garlick said, 'I think there have been challenges in the sense that all of us are either legal practitioners or project leads trying to do the same thing in our respective jurisdictions but without the benefit of face-to-face contact and daily meetings or discussions to share ideas, experiences and solutions.'
Garlick hopes that the workshop will provide constructive feedback on how to develop new and improved policies and structures to support the Creative Commons International network and license development.
'Last year, I came back from the summit with both a dumbstruck amazement for the talent, passion and enthusiasm of all participants and also a headache from thinking about how many things there were to do coming out of the summit,' she said. 'Hopefully, after the next summit, once the headache has worn off, we can then turn to implementing all that we discuss at the summit,' she said.
Creative Commons Legal and Project Leads are encouraged to attend the Creative Commons Policy Workshop, which will be held on Friday 23 June after 10am. Register for the workshop here.
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