What’s of interest? Invitation to contribute to Creative Commons International: A Collected Memoir
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We are gathering personal essays and reflections from people who helped build and shape Creative Commons during its CCi years: roughly 2003 to 2013, when Creative Commons International coordinated the worldwide porting of CC licenses and connected an extraordinary network of volunteers, scholars, artists, lawyers, educators, and technologists.
This decade marked a period of vibrant experimentation for Creative Commons with initiatives such as iCommons, Science Commons, ccLearn, and ccMixter that expanded the CC vision far beyond licenses. It was also a time when people across continents adapted CC to their local languages and legal systems, convened their own summits and workshops, and translated “the commons” into lived practice.
Together, this constellation of projects and people created an era of extraordinary collaboration that culminated in the launch of the global 4.0 license suite in 2013 and the transition toward the Creative Commons Global Network.
The project
Creative Commons International: A Collected Memoir is an open (CC BY-SA 4.0), multilingual anthology of first-person stories from that formative decade. Its purpose is to preserve the diversity of experiences that shaped CC’s early international growth before those memories and archives fade.
We invite contributions from anyone who participated in Creative Commons during that time, whether as: members of CCi local teams or affiliates; participants in iCommons, Science Commons, ccLearn, ccMixter, or related efforts; CC staff, board, or legal experts; volunteers, event organizers, translators, or community advocates.
If you were part of Creative Commons’ global work in those years, your perspective belongs in this collection.
Where is it?: https://cci-memoir.commons.tw/
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