This document summarizes recent activities and future priorities of Creative Commons Japan. It discusses Creative Commons Japan's organizational structure, notable adoptions of Creative Commons licenses in museums, academics, music, and universities. It also discusses areas where adoption has been missed, such as public broadcasting. The document outlines Creative Commons Japan's awareness activities, monthly meetings, projects, organizational growth, and accomplishments facilitating photo sharing in art museums and live music events. It concludes by identifying priorities around license translation, FAQ renewal, meeting reform, and fundraising, as well as challenges around reporting and open government opportunities.

1. CC Japan – recent activities,
future priorities
Lunch & Learn at Creative Commons
Sep 29, 2011
Tomoaki Watanabe

2. About

3. Who we are
A Non-Profit Organization (“Creative Commons
Japan”)
Started as a project at a University,
Then became independent
Have a board of directors & a board of advisors

4. CC in Japan: High Profile Adoption
Cases
- Museums – ongoing, some notable
- Academics & thought leaders (copyright,
cyberlaw, digital culture)
- Musicians
- Universities (OCW)
- Platforms (photo, video)

5. Adoption Missed
- NHK, the public broadcasting company
- NicoNico Video , popular video platform
- PiaPro, remix& collaboration site for Vocaloid
- Some others

6. CC Awareness
- Academics
- IT journalists
- Librarians, Academic Publishers
- IT professionals
- Government
- Database interoprability people
- Music
- Fine Art

7. Activities
Monthly meeting (required): information
sharing, assignment/ team formation, task
articulation, discussion, etc.
Mailinglist for internal communication
PR: twitter, blog, email newsletters
Support: mainly email-requests, some involves
f2f meeting
Projects: coming from volunteers &
stakeholders

8. Organizational Growth
About 1-2 new volunteer members / month.
Less academics & students, more professionals
(law, photography, publishing, fine art)
Started internal study sessions, drinking get-togethers
Transition from Board-driven to Staff-driven?
Funding still small

9. Accomplishments

10. Art Museum x CC
Visitors can take photos
They can share photos under a CC license
Ai Wei Wei Yoko Ono many other artists
(The art works are not themselves licensed, only
the photos)

11. Into Infinity, DubLab, etc.
- Many live music events:
using CC-licensed works
offering panels of artists, academics
iPhone App
more musicians understand CC licenses

12. Science Commons Translation Project
- Small team of volunteers. (Yuko is involved; a
separate group from CC Japan)
- Most of the Sci. Comm. materials are now in
Japanese.

13. Resolution of basic issues
- Translation for the license engine
- Website renewal
- Email newsletter troubleshooting
- Organizational reform/ capacity building
(interview guideline; mentorship; study
session, etc.)

14. Priorities

15. Basic Issues
- CC Zero translation; CC-3.0 Porting
- FAQ renewal/ expansion/ restructuring
- Meeting reform (monthly, advisory, member)
- MOU renewal
- Socializing, knowledge& resource pooling
- Fundraising

16. Some Challenges/ Opportunities
- Reporting/ Case Studies/ Effect Measurement
- Open Government / PSI licensing
opportunities
- Take advantage of high profile partners in …
video sharing, academic publishing, museums

17. License
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