Auteursrechtgesprek zondag 18 april

Voor diegene die interesse hebben in cultuur en auteursrecht is er morgen een vertoning van RIP, a remix manifesto in het Louis Hartlooper Complex in Utrecht.

Na afloop is er een gesprek/discussie over auteursrecht en muziekcultuur. Hierbij zal ik Paul Keller (Creative Commons Nederland) vervangen als moderator. Verdere deelnemers aan dit gesprek zijn Pitto (DJ, winnaar Grote Prijs van Nederland in de categorie dance), Joost Gerritsen (De Gier | Stam & Advocaten) en Mirko Tobias Schaefer (faculteit Geesteswetenschappen UU). Meer info is hier te vinden: http://www.xpertcmkb.nl/?p=1527

First commit of a theme for all Creative Commons chapters around the globe?

Today, I finally added my first commit of the Creative Commons Netherlands(CC NL) wordpress theme (see also ‘New Creative Commons Netherlands site launched’) to the Creative Commons.org git repository. This means that other local CC chapters only need to install WordPress and install this theme to have their own Creative Commons website. For example, Creative Commons France could now easily update their website and have a look and feel similar to Creative Commons Netherlands (and thus Creative Commons.org), without having to develop a theme on their own. By using this template, local Creative Commons organizations show more cohesion between the different CC chapters and allow them to be identifiable as part of the global Creative Commons movement.

I’m very interested in the response on this theme, although it’s still kinda rough around the edges. I still need to find some time to replace the Dutch names for English, write something down on how to use the theme  and there’s probably tons of stuff that might need some tweaking, but at least it’s in the repository.

If you’re interested in using it yet something is keeping you from doing this feel free to contact me and I’ll see what I can do to help you.

Last but certainly not least, I would like to thank:

- Paul Keller (Creative Commons Netherlands) for recognizing the potential use of this theme for other local CC chapters around the world.
- Mike Linksvayer and Nathan Yergler from Creative Commons.org for their enthusiasm, help and infrastructure.

New Creative Commons NL site launched

Today I’ve launched the new Creative Commons Netherlands (CC NL) website. CC NL asked me to make their website more similar to the creativecommons.org version, which I did and the result can be viewed online. We used the USA design (thanks to the USA webteam!) as a guideline and tweaked it until we were satisfied. A more in depth posts will be posted in the portfolio after the dust settles.For now I’m too occupied with finishing other projects.