Hi Dona, Thanks a lot for your reply. I am not sure I agree with all the points, specifically the content creation one. CC isn't responsible for boosting content creation as much as it is responsible for content creation as much as it is responsible for promoting the license in an effective way that guarantees as much available content is possible is under CC license.
Every region and language has its specific cultural issues that can slow down things or direct them to a certain way. If are discussing how law-abidance and cultural issues in "general" are the main problem for CC operations. Then probably we shouldn't consider CC Arabic activities at all. My two cents is that we focus on little specific things that can make a difference on the short term. Community creation is key to any activity, specially volunteer one, so if you can tell is what is CC's strategy towards community creation in our specific region, then maybe we can help. Or if there is a strategy in general for Arab world, in any direction, whether community or content creation or lobbying, etc, then maybe interested people can help. Thanks a lot, M 2012/3/23 donna d.r. <[email protected]> > Hi Moushira > first of all sorry for posting this message only now, actually I `ve > realized only now that it has been pending for some days! > > Very quickly (then I`ll leave others answering to you and giving their > opinions): Jordan had done an advanced work indeed, but for different > reasons didnt get finalized into the proper ported license > > Egypt is very close to achieve this, but the team is waiting for final > comments from HQ on the legal side > > The other official affiliates are not focusing on porting work, you should > know that CC has put the porting work on hold and privileged community > building work. HQ is currently working on 4.0 so for now no more porting > happening (not only in the Arab world: anywhere) > > We can discuss what we need to be done to get the legal work improved in > the Arab world and what`s the reason for it being behind other regions > (whether a financial or poltiical or cultural reason if any) ..but my > feeling is that the Arab world needs to create content before starting > licensing it..and, considering all the political and human rights issues we > are facing now in many places in the region I guess that abiding by the > copyright law is the least problem whereas the major problem is still > abiding by the law in general > > Anyway, every country has a different situation as you know better than > me. I feel it would be good for us to work together on improving the legal > work but, if we can, even more useful would be to work together towards > encouraging content creation, peer-productions and collaborative work > > my two cents:) > I`ll leave the others respond > best > dona > > > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Moushira Elamrawy < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All: >> >> Happy Spring! Am not sure if this have been discussed before, but I have >> been tracking the archived messages trying to figure out how far have CC >> reached when it comes to legal recognition. It looks like Jordan has done >> an advanced work, however, I can't figure out from the messages, if it is >> indeed a license that is legally recognized and has laws of violation or >> not yet. >> >> On the other hand, I couldn't tell how does CC stand in the rest of the >> active nodes: Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar, UAE.*.(Well, I kind of know the >> situation in Egypt. Will meet with Hala tomorrow to discuss this into >> details)*, do CC groups support lobbying in their areas of action? Is >> the CC foundation doing any help in this regard? Do we need a legal >> council that can push this forward, region wide? Is the problem financial? >> Do we need more volunteers..or do we need more structure? >> >> I think, there is noway open source, software, content, hardware, courses >> (anything!)..can move forward without licensed recognition and lobbying. >> So if you can help me define the current status and what is needed to move >> forward, I will appreciate it. >> >> Thanks, >> Moushira >> >> >> >> >> -- >> لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في المجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع >> الإبداعي" من مجموعات Google. >> للنشر في هذه المجموعة، أرسل بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى >> [email protected] >> لإلغاء اشتراكك في هذه المجموعة، أرسل رسالة إلكترونية إلى >> [email protected]. >> للحصول على مزيد من الخيارات، يمكنك الانتقال إلى هذه المجموعة على العنوان >> http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar. >> > > -- لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في المجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي" من مجموعات Google. للنشر في هذه المجموعة، أرسل بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى [email protected] لإلغاء اشتراكك في هذه المجموعة، أرسل رسالة إلكترونية إلى [email protected]. للحصول على مزيد من الخيارات، يمكنك الانتقال إلى هذه المجموعة على العنوان http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar.
