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The interns and a Google Policy Fellow at CC HQ in San Francisco have finished their summer programs today. A recording of their informal final presentations is available on Ustream. The first 10 minutes are by Greg Leones from Australia, who demos the new online Jurisdiction Database (dubbed the “Miracle Database”), an excellent tool for analysing different jurisdictions, including english re-translations. Luxcommons is pretty proud to find that the luxembourg licences are, so far, the only french language versions included. Have a look at the query interface. Thanks for the effort Greg!

The two other presentations are from Alea Garbagnati, a legal intern from UC Hastings, talking about her work on restructuring and redrafting the CC FAQs and Tal Niv, the Google Policy Fellow (and PhD student at UC Berkeley) detailling her work on the CC Contribution Project.

More videos on the Creative Commons Ustream channel.

Jonathon writes:

We recently attended a workshop in Luxembourg as part of Communia, the EU policy network on the digital public domain. There was a focus on bringing together themes from previous events to make a series of policy recommendations to the European Commission (watch this space!).

Below are a few notes highlighting some of the talks and discussions that we thought might be of particular interest to readers here:

Read on:
http://blog.okfn.org/2010/02/03/7th-communia-workshop-luxembourg/

Extensive report (in french)
http://www.europaforum.public.lu/fr/actualites/2010/02/communia/index.html

Dear all,

The seventh Communia workshop in Luxembourg City is approaching fast!

It’s the policy recommendation workshop and thus crucial for the goals of Communia. The working groups meet on the 31st January to finalise their recommendations. The first workshop day is a general overview of different policy fields relating to the public domain, the second day is devoted to alternative compensation systems and a policy recommendation wrap up session.

Sunday 31st January: Communia Working Group meetings (full day)
Monday 1st February: Communia Policy Workshop (full day)
Tuesday 2nd February: Communia Policy Workshop (ends at 16h)

The workshop page is at http://www.communia-project.eu/ws07
There you will also find the programme, links to the registration page, hotel and travel information and a Google map with additional info.

Please register and book your hotel (using the provided form) as soon as possible!

Very much looking forward to welcome you in Luxembourg,
On behalf of the organisers:
EEAR, Germany, NEXA, Italy and Luxcommons, Luxembourg with the support of CRID, Belgium and CERSA, France
Patrick Peiffer,
Luxcommons asbl

Luxembourg based music service Jamendo hit the german news site heise.de with their Jamendo pro service.

Jamendo pro allows you to buy a certificate as proof that you only play their music, openly licensed and with rights cleared. This saves filling out the many, many forms that german music collecting society GEMA otherwise requires as proof (Yes, you’d have to notify them for the complete Jamendo repertoire of 200.000 songs). GEMA and paperwork, again.

Jamendo pro is a perfect turn-key solution for public music licensing like doctor’s waiting rooms, shops, etc. Yet again proof of the IP innovation potential of open content licences like art libre and creative commons.

Of course, Jamendo pro still has limits for private listening, one-person companies or people listening to music while at work. If you’re interested in the big picture and problems for moving beyond the incumbent’s paradigm of “mechanical reproduction” towards an internet “flat-rate” solution, see this french study from 2005 (english, french pdfs) and this brandnew german study (english pdf).

Note: This brilliant comment from RAIDer found that the name Jamendo contains many important english and german words, “(…) enthält viele wichtige deutsche und englische Worte wie Ja, Amen, end, mend,
do.”, hence the remix with the pink Creative Commons Luxembourg sticker above.

we had 2500 of these printed, if you want some or need other fileformats, let me know.

patrick.luxcommons@gmail.com

New Flyer (printer-ready, pdf, french)