A workshop about creative commons was held in April 22, 2010 during Al-jazeera sixth international documentary film festival, the workshop was hosted by New Media in Al-Jazeera, Mohamed Nanabai - Director of Al-Jazeera English online - presented about the cooperation between Al Jazeera and Creative Commons.

I made an introduction about Creative commons licenses and examples of films using it.

Big thanks to Ammar for video recording the workshop and writing the original post on his blog.

Contamination and the Commons by: Mohamed Nanabhay – Head of Online – Al Jazeera English.

Source

http://blip.tv/file/get/Aljazeeraasset-1473.MP4

Web

http://blip.tv/file/get/Aljazeeraasset-1595.mp3

Portable (iPod)

http://blip.tv/file/get/Aljazeeraasset-1566.m4v

Web

http://blip.tv/file/get/Aljazeeraasset-1116.flv

Introduction to Creative Commons, by: Basel Safadi- Creative Commons lead in Syria.

Source

http://blip.tv/file/get/Aljazeeraasset-2637.MP4

Web

http://blip.tv/file/get/Aljazeeraasset-2814.mp3

Portable (iPod)

http://blip.tv/file/get/Aljazeeraasset-2970.m4v

Web

http://blip.tv/file/get/Aljazeeraasset-2393.flv

Today, the Al Jazeera Documentary International Film Festival hosted Remix, the first ever Creative Commons workshop in the Arab world entirely dedicated to filmmakers.

Basel Safadi kicked off the workshop, explaining in both English and Arabic the basics behind Creative Commons licenses. Safadi also presented case studies of select films and documentaries already released under a CC license including Brett Gaylor’s RIP: A Remix Manifesto, Nina Paley’s Sita Sings The Blues, and Arce-Rujelah’s To Shoot an Elephant. Mohamed Nanahbay, Head of Online at Al Jazeera English, was also present to discuss the Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository and its recent addition of footage from Lebanon.

The CC Al Jazeera repository and its importance will be at the center of a panel discussion hosted by Perugia International Journalism Festival on Friday, April 23rd. The panel will focus on how the availability of high-quality footage for free and legal download is affecting the future of video journalism. Featured participants include Moeed Ahmad, Head of Al Jazeera New Media, and Laith Mustaq, one of the most prominent bloggers at Al Jazeera Talk.

Brad posted this up at Fabricatorz blog announcing OCAL 2.1:

The Librarians at The Open Clip Art Library have been working around the clock to deliver a solid followup, building upon the success of their April 2.0 release. With the help of members of our Fabricatorz team, mission accomplished!

Key features of this new release aim to reward OCAL users and contributors by increasing usability and functionality. Among these new features, the ability for authors to delete images they’ve uploaded allows for revisions on work, while also reducing clutter and the need for duplicate graphics. Users from years past who are itching to get back into the contribution space are encouraged to dust off those old accounts, as The Open Clip Art Library now has recovery options for name/password information.

Head on over to check out Open Clip Art Library and read the rest of the post about the new release. If you are press, we’ve got you covered too with the official Open Clip Art Library 2.1 press release!

The biggest change to the site is the new thumbnail previews and the easily browsable PNG bitmap downloadable files. The artist and artwork are the focus of the new site. It's easier than ever before for anyone to upload clipart. Also it is important to note that all works submitted to OCAL are free for use by the public, for all purposes, under the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication. The community does encourage that those using the graphics point back to the original source of the work in some way, but its not a requirement. The project encourages all artwork to spread globally, as is the case with much of the clipart landing onto Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects.

A more subtle, but massive change happened behind the scenes. Due to the hard work of Bassel Safadi, Michi, Ronaldo Barbachano, Brad Phillips and others, the website is now driven by the Aiki Framework. Aiki Framework is a new and flexible  platform that allows designers and programmers to easily create and work with content management systems from the web. OCAL, via well known Inkscape artist and developer Andy Fitzsimon, has provided a fresh new theme, and new logo from Robert Martinez to compliment the new site features found in the 2.0 release!

Also, much of the work building the Aiki Framework and the Open Clip Art Library 2.0 has been done by the Fabricatorz based in San Francisco. The Fabricatorz on this project are Bassel Safadi, Ronaldo Barbachano, Brad Phillips, and Jon Phillips. If more features for Open Clip Art Library or other projects are desired for creation using Aiki Framework, please contact the Fabricatorz.

However, it should be noted that with all the massive changes to the Open Clip Art Library, the librarians encourage all to help make the project better by filing bugs, feature requests, helping develop Aiki, and updating the project's wiki. Some extras are disabled at present in favor of providing the most high priority features using Aiki, thumbnails and quick uploading functionality.

The librarians ask for help in celebrating this release of the project by supporting the 2010 Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM2010) from May 27-30 Brussels. This annual event is in it's fifth year and provides a great opportunity for makers and users of Free and Open Source graphics software to meet and collaborate face to face. In anticipation, the Open Clip Art Library is setting a new goal of 50,000 pieces of uploaded clip art by LGM 2010. The project also is refocused on a monthly development cycle, detailed at http://openclipart.org/wiki/roadmap. The Open Clip Art Library always needs new Librarians to help tend to clip art and develop the project's website through the roadmap.

Highlights

* More than 26,000 pieces of clip art.
* 14,000 more images uploaded since last year's release!
* aikiframework now driving the website.
* Rendered thumbnails added.
* New site theme for 2.0 release developed by Andy Fitzsimon
* Call for Participation for Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels in May 2010.

Downloads

As with past releases, the Open Clip Art Library provides a large package of clipart for download in multiple packaged formats. The Librarians ask for help to the project by alerting websites, Linux distributions and companies, to use the packages actively. We provide tarball, zip files, a Windows installer, and many other formats for consumption.

http://openclipart.org/packages

About Open Clip Art Library

Since 2004, the Open Clip Art Library aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration.

The Open Clip Art Library. Drawing Together.

For more information

http://openclipart.org
http://aikiframework.org
http://fabricatorz.com