International
Seminar and Expert Meeting took place on 6th December, 2011 in
Moscow at the premises of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in
Education (IITE UNESCO). The seminar brought together 45 representatives from
Russia and CIS countries - Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Armenia,
Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Regional Project Manager
for Europe Jonas Öberg participated in the seminar as a representative of
Creative Commons HQs.
From the
Russian side the representatives of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass
Communications, Ministry of Education and Science, Federal Agency for Press and
Mass Communications, Federal Antimonopoly Service, State Duma of the Russian
Federation, Research Center of Private Law at the President of the RF, Chamber
of Commerce, legal experts in the field of intellectual property rights,
representatives of libraries, higher education and academic institutions, NGOs
and mass media attended the events.
Welcoming
speeches to the participants of the Seminar and Expert Meeting were delivered
by Dendev Badarch, Director of UNESCO Moscow Office and Yuri Hohlov, Chairman
of the Board of Directors of the Institute of the Information Society (IIS).
Within the
Seminar framework analytical report “Use of Creative Commons Licenses in the
Russian Federation” prepared by IIS experts with partial financial support of
UNESCO Bureau in Moscow was. The Report a large amount of information on
history of CC in Russia and use of CC licenses is provided along with the list
of Russian internet-projects publishing their content under CC licenses. Analytical report also covers the legal
aspects of Creative Commons licenses use, describes the legal status of CC licenses in terms of Russian law and foreign law enforcement practice, considers in detail the basic elements of CC licenses and contains conclusions and recommendations for future
activities aimed at introduction of
Creative Commons licenses in our
country. The annexes to the report contain information on what the "creative
commons" are, the results of the CC Global Summit 2011, held in Warsaw in September 2011, the strategic priorities and prospects of
Creative Commons development, as well as
the experience of foreign countries in
use of CC legal tools in various areas, such as state governance,
culture, education and science. This
report is published on www.creativecommons.ru and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
 Representative
of CC HQs Jonas Öberg in his speech resumed
outcomes of CC Global Summit 2011 and presented strategic decisions on future
development of Creative Commons made during the Summit, including development
of a new universal CC 4.0 version, which will give the opportunities to all
jurisdictions to use CC licenses without necessity to implement “porting” process. The process of public
discussions of new CC licenses version should start in December 2011 and will
be finished in the end of 2012. It is planned that new 4.0 version will be based
mainly of the international treaties and take into account peculiarities of
national laws of the different jurisdictions.
During the
first session of the seminar Head of the
Department on Economics of Intellectual Property of Moscow institute of Physics
and Technology, Deputy Chairman of Research Council on economic problems of the
intellectual property at the Social Science Branch of Russian Academy of
Sciences (RAS), Doctor of Economics Anatoliy Kozyrev made presentation on theme
“Economy of Media Content, Media Piracy and Open Licenses”. Executive director
of non-commercial partnership “Wikimedia Ru” Stanislav Kozlovskiy outlined
advantages and shortcomings of CC licenses version 3.0.
Within the
second session of the Seminar representatives of CC affiliates from Azerbaijan,
Armenia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine made reports on the practical works done by
them in order to introduce CC licenses in their countries. Representatives from
Belarus described legal status of CC licenses in the current legislation
framework of the Republic of Belarus.
Participants
of the Seminar discussed legal and practical issues of use of Creative Commons
licenses in the Russian Federation and worked out recommendations on further
actions in 2012. It was recommended to take active part in the coming process
of development of new CC 4.0 version, which will allow to use CC licenses suite
in Russia without “porting” process, to raise awareness of Russian governing
authorities on CC licenses and create short and clear guidelines for
practitioners in the fields of culture, education and science on how to choose
and apply CC licenses etc.
Within the
Expert Meeting the representatives of Moscow State University of Economic,
Statistics and Informatics (MESI) presented the online training course for
educators of CIS countries on issues related with creation and use of open
education resources, which they developed under the contract with IITE UNESCO.
Participants of the meeting discussed the course and provided their
recommendations of its improvement and use. |
