CC-be Relaunch – Creative Commons Belgium

It’s been almost half a year since we’ve decided to reboot the Belgian Creative Commons affiliate. During these last couple of months we’ve been busy to get organised, reconnect with the different communities and setting up this website. So now I’m pleased to announce that we are once again an official and fully operational Creative Commons affiliate. On top of that, Creative Commons worldwide is celebrating it’s 10th birthday this December. I don’t know about you guys, but we sure think this calls for a little get-together!

On December 8th we are setting up a very exclusive re-launch event with the help from the nice people from PACKED and SMartBe. The event will be hosted by iMAL in their lovely location in the heart of Brussels The programme will consist of both showcase moments where Creative Commons artists and projects will be presented to you and an informative track where we will provide you with some more info about the licenses, the CC-BE team, our vision and goals for the next year and a round table discussion about the future of copyright with some prominent guests. Afterwards the bar will be open and we invite everyone to come and find us to talk about their interest in CC!

The programme currently looks like this but is still up for some changes:

13u30 – 14u00: Welcome with coffee and introduction of the iMAL Fablab that will be open for a visit and workshops throughout the day

14u00 – 14u15: Introduction of the CC-be team and the 2013 Road Map

14u15 – 14u30: Pieter de Vos about his CC-documentary: Mathilde’s Misses

[14u30 – 15u30] : First screening of Mathilde’s Misses

14u30 – 15u00: Infosession about the Creative Commons licenses

15u00 – 15u15: Opencultuurdata.be by Henk Vanstappen (PACKED)

15u15 – 15u30: CC and journalism by someone from dewereldmorgen

15u30 – 15u45: Coffeebreak

[15u45 – 16u45] : Second screening of Mathilde’s Misses

15u45 – 16u00: MathieuG about CC-design

16u00 – 16u30: Sebastiaan ter Burg about his fotography/visual work and how he makes a living as a CC-artist

16u30 – 17u30: Round-table discussion “User generated content and copyright: reflections on the future” with Dirk Vervenne (SMartbe), Frédéric Young (Directeur SACD), François Coppens (lawyer), Tobias McKenney (Google). Moderated by Séverine Dusollier (Professor intellectual property rights at the University of Namur, CC Belgium Legal Lead)

17u30 – 17u45: Chatz Kostas about why he works with Creative Commons

17u45 – 19u00: Networking with drinks while listening to a live performance from Chatz Kostas/CC-DJ’s (Netwaves)

The event will be in French, Dutch and English and it is completely free. We do ask you to register though, so we can keep track of the number of guests we can expect. There are only 100 tickets available, so don’t hesitate to register if you want to join us!