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In this presentation the activities of CC Russia team in 2010-2011 is described, as well as legal status of CC licenses in the existing Russian legislation was provided
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CC Russia Affiliate Activities and Legal Aspects of CC Licenses use in the Russian
Federation
Louisa Rizmanova, Project Manager Svetlana Vorozhbit, Legal Expert on IPR
Institute of the Information Society
Creative Commons Global Summit 2011, 16-18 September 2011, Warsaw, Republic of Poland
in Russia
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• On 15 March, 2010 the initial Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between IIS and Creative Commons;
• In December, 2010 – January, 2011 IIS prepared Affiliate Team Road Map for year 2011 (published on CC Wiki);
• On 3 March, 2011 IIS and Creative Commons signed new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), stating that IIS became an official CC Affiliate in the Russian Federation.
Partnership of IIS and Creative Commons
in Russia
Creative Commons Global Summit 2011, 16-18 September 2011, Warsaw, Republic of Poland
• In April - IIS implemented research on “Legal Status of Creative Commons licenses in the existing legislation of the Russian Federation”.
• In second half of 2010 - discussions of CC licenses introduction and use in Russia were organized in the course of the following significant events held with participation of IIS:
IIS activities related to CC use in Russia - 2010
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in Russia
7th Tver Social and Economic Forum “Information Society” (8-9 July, 2010, Tver).
Thematic Session “Legislation in the Information Society».
http://www.tver-forum.ru
5th Forum of Arts and Science Intelligentsia of the CIS Member-States (14-15 October, 2010, Moscow).
Panel Discussion: “Information Society for All: Humanitarian Aspects of Modernization».
http://www.mfgs-sng.org/news/449.html
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CC Russia Affiliate Activities and main landmarks in 2011
in Russia
• February – meeting of Dr. Yuri Hohlov, Public Lead, with representatives of Research Center of Private Law at the President of the Russian Federation and discussion of the draft amendments to the Civil Code Part IV (Art. 1233) instructing authors to register use of their content under free license on the Rospatent website.
• Mid April – finalization of professional translation of Attribution CC BY 3.0 (Unported) and CC0 (published on CC Russia page at CC Wiki) in Russian language (with scientific editing by CC Russia lawyers) .
• 29 April – President of the Russian Federation met representatives of Russian Internet Society and related governmental authorities and discussed with them possibility of CC licenses use.
• 1 May – launch of website for Creative Commons community in the Russian Federation - www.creativecommons.ru.
• 2 June – Dmitry Medvedev, President of the RF, instructed Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications (Minkomsvyaz) and Council on Codification to prepare proposals on amendments to the existing legislation facilitating introduction of CC licenses.
• Mid May – development of comments on draft amendments to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation related to the use of CC licenses, presented at UNESCO Joint Seminar on OER and IPR.
• June-July – participation in the number of meetings held by Mincomsvyaz and submission of IIS comments on report sent by the Ministry to the Administration of the President of the RF on 1 August ,2011.
• Beginning of September – finalization of translation and scientific editing of the rest of CC licenses suite (CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY NC-ND) and publishing them on CC Wiki.
Creative Commons Global Summit 2011, 16-18 September 2011, Warsaw, Republic of Poland
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CC Russia web-site launch in 2011in Russia
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2011 events with participation of CC Russia Team
in Russia
Joint Workshop on Open Educational Resources and Intellectual Property Rights (31st May-1st June, 2011, Moscow).
http://iite.unesco.org/news/387945
8th Tver Social and Economic Forum “Information Society” (30th June -1st July, 2011, Tver).
Parallel Session: “Legislation in the Information Society”
Round Table: “Intellectual Property in the Information Society”. http://www.tver-forum.ru
Interview of Dr. Yuri Hohlov, CC Russia Project Leader, Chairman of the IIS Board of Directors, on CC licenses use in Russia to Internet-newspaper “Firstnews” (http://www.firstnews.ru/interview/society/44210/)
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Publications
in Russia
Creative Commons Global Summit 2011, 16-18 September 2011, Warsaw, Republic of Poland
29 June 2011
IIS prepared and published electronic version of two-volume edition “Proceedings of the 7th Tver Social and Economic Forum "Information Society": Tver, July 8-9, 2010“under the license Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (CC BY-SA).
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Some more CC activities in Russiain Russia
The article about Creative Commons in Wikipedia (in Russian) was significantly expanded by IIS.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
PingWin Software Company (Russia) published the concept of “Electronic municipality” under license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The first internet-newspaper, which is published under the conditions of CC BY 3.0 license by Ivan Zassourskiy.
http://www.chaskor.ru/
Project of Ivan Begtin “OpenGovData.ru” - non-commercial project devoted to access of the citizens to the open government data.
http://www.opengovdata.ru/
ВИКИПЕДИЯСвободная энциклопедия
Who uses CC in Russia :
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in Russia
Creative Commons Global Summit 2011, 16-18 September 2011, Warsaw, Republic of Poland
Content of the website of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev (www.kremlin.ru can be used on the conditions similar to Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.
Websites of the President of Bashkortostan, Administration of Volgograd Region, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region, Rosnano Corporation, Moscow State Institute of International Relations etc.
RIA NOVOSTI, “Eternal Valuables” project, President Dmitry Medvedev uploaded to Wiki Storage first 100 photos to launch the project.
Materials of this collection will be provided to the users under CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
Totally 83 projects and persons use CC licenses for their content in internet, for the details, please see: http://creativecommons.ru/who-uses-cc-in-russia
CC Russia web presence (1/2):
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in Russia
LIVEJOURNAL
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Creative Commons Corporation
Chair of new media and theory of communications of the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University (Ivan Zassourskiy, Head of Chair)
WEBPUBLISHERS•RU Association of Webpublishers
Our partners:
in Russia
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Recommendations of Round-table “Intellectual Property in the Information Society” with regard to CC (8th Tver Forum
“Information Society”, 1 July 2011)
in Russia
Creative Commons Global Summit 2011, 16-18 September 2011, Warsaw, Republic of Poland
• To develop a common position in order to modernize the law on intellectual property, taking into account the changes that were caused by the extensive use of information technology;
• To balance the interests of intellectual property rightholders and the rights of citizens on information, self-expression, privacy;
• To liberalize the law construction of contracts in respect of IP, legalize licenses similar to Creative Commons.
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Discussion Points
in Russia
Creative Commons Global Summit 2011, 16-18 September 2011, Warsaw, Republic of Poland
• Formal requirements to contracts in general and copyright licenses, in particular;
• Moral rights – the right of integrity – extant and alienability;• The role of Collecting Societies;• Civil procedure rules – the concern of users how to prove that their
use is authorized by a right holder;• Registration of copyright licenses – is it a solution?!
Contact us:The Institute of the Information Society
4, Makarenko Str. Tel.: +7 (495) 625 42 03
[email protected]; Веб-сайт: www.creativecommons.ru
www.iis.ru
Project Leader: Yuri Khohlov, Project Leader, Chairman of IIS Board of Directors
in Russia
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Creative Commons Global Summit 2011, 16-18 September 2011, Warsaw, Republic of Poland