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CC-JPThe current state of play

Keisuke Kamimura (GLOCOM)Motohiro Tsuchiya (Keio University/GLOCOM)

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GLOCOM: Who we are

■Established in 1991 as what is now called a social enterprise, under the International University of Japan.

■Specializing in the study of (again) what is now called 'information society'.

■Under a University system, but managed independently both in financing and staffing.

■Engaged in policy research on regulation and deregulation of telecommunication, and Internet and broadband.

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How did Creative Commons Japan begin?

■March, 2003: Conversation with Creative Commons in Stanford

■April, 2003: Signed in MoU and CC-JP launched■May, 2003: Word-to-word translation of the generic li

cense set completed.■March, 2004: CC-JP license set completed.■March, 2005: "Creative Commons: Intellectual Prope

rty Rights in the Digital Age" (ISBN 4-7571-0152-X) published from NTT Publishing.

■May, 2005: Joint research with CC-UK funded by British Royal Academy and the Japan Society for Promoting Science.

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The Book

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■Co-authored by two lawyers, two law professors (including Professor Lessig), one political scientist, and a socio-linguist(!)

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Joint research with CC-UK

■Comparative study on copyright systems from a creative commons perspective.

■UK: Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University

■Japan: GLOCOM■Reciprocal visits to Jap

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Problems, or struggles

■Fund-raising□Joint research with CC-UK came only after the num

ber of failed proposals.

■Encouraging content creators□commonsphere is trying to address this.

■Less legal expertise□Fewer lawyers and legal experts participated than

other iCommons projects. (which may or may not be good....)

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The way forward

■Two teams□Legal/licensing: iCommons and other existing acti

vities□Media and content: 'commonsphere', a portal site

for content published under creative commons licenses is planned.

■Derivative Only License (DOL): Strong requirements from the Japanese cultural geeks (animations, video games...)□No reproducing of the content as it is!

■And a Creative Commons forum in Asia region!

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Thank you!