Dear Mo, I am interested to know more about your digital activities and Internet business in the Arab world. Could you please point out your fields and your web page/blog if any?
Cordially -- Pierre el Khoury Ph.D, LL.M, DEA Sector 5, Street 21, No 3 Baouchrieh - Beirut LEBANON cel. +96170265619 --- This electronic message may contain privileged, confidential and copyright protected information. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all its attachments. Please ensure all e-mail attachments are scanned for viruses prior to opening or using. On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:51 PM, moe <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
