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Youth Public Organization Falanster, is a brunch of Creative Commons in Belarus aimed to  popularize Creative Commons public licenses (hashtag #ccbelarus).

For this purpose, we contribute to research and application of legal mechanisms which allow overcome copyright barriers

We hold are interested in discovering this issue through public events, such as contests, open lectures, discussions, reading and educational materials.

The project has the public campaign title - "Tasty creativity".

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+new version of the presentation (08.2014)

The area of activities of our brunch for 2014-2015 is described as follows:

Short description

From the Law on Copyright (copyright) it follows that everything that is not granted by the author (right owner) is restricted.

On the Internet such problem is aggravated by the fact that it is hard to find a right owner and negotiate a use of his creation even in noncommercial purposes.

There is a scope of licenses which allow authors and right owners to grant а part of their rights еo the content users.

However, we cannot entirely benefit from the potential of public licenses in Belarus. It is necessary to explore the needs of authors and content creators, as well as users, in order to change the current situation.

Objective:

To examine public licensing in Belarus and to develop conditions for their implementation.

Aims

1. To explore the demands of both interested parties (authors and users).
2. To inform communities and public on current situation.
3. Draft changes into the Copyright Law.

Steps

1. Legal and academic research.
2. Distribution of results, public presentation of the research and a discussion.
3. Drafting amendments to Copyright Law and a petition.

First step. Research

1. Compilation of questions from people interested in the area of public licensing.
2. Communication with public authorities on the subject of the place of public licenses in legislation.
3. Legal consultations; consultations with academics, search for answers to the compiled questions.
4. Exploring international practices

Second step. Discussion

1. Publication of the results from the research in an open access.
2. Running events featuring interested parties (government authorities, organizations, art communities, authors, etc.)
3. Online discussions of different Copyright Law project proposals.

Third step. Contact

1. Drafting of alternative law on the application of public licenses in Belarus and online petitions.
2. Publication of draft law and promotion of petitions.
3. Make the legislative authorities aware of the draft law and petitions.

What tools, people, funds, resourses we are looking for:

1. Legal advice - EUR 300-500
2. Licenses translation EUR 200
3. Premises for holding presentations for 30-40 people - EUR 200
4. Online platform set up and support - EUR 200

Budget: EUR 1100 or the skills and time from people
 

Expected results (2014-2015)

1. Creative Commons licenses are translated into Belarusian.
2. Сompilation of questions on public licensing.
3. A round-table featuring interested parties on amendments to the Copyright Law
4. Having draft law using crowdsourcing done
5. Having 1000+ signatures in favour of new proposals collected.

*Presentation on copyright issues

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Useful links

• Official wiki-page of the Creative Commons organization branch in Belarus
• About Creative Commons organization in Wikipedia.
• Research of CC and part 2 in Belarus
• Analysis: The main local and global copyright barriers plus part 2
• Presentation about correspondence with officials
• Original resource of the document head pictures
• The "Free creativity ecosystem" on the crowdsourcing platform Talaka
• Leaflet of the  project "Ecosystem of Free Creativity"
• The "Tasty Creativit" project is on startidea.by