Philippine Commons

CC is turning 5 and to celebrate we’re throwing a party. We, in Creative Commons Philippines, are also taking the opportunity to soft launch the finished Creative Commons Philippine jurisdictional licenses, and the Philippine Commons, on the same event. The latter is a prelude to the formal launching of the licenses and the Philippine Commons in January 2008.

The event will be held at the Arellano University School of Law, Taft Avenue corner Menlo Street, Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines at about 2:00 p.m. on 15 December 2007.

The programme, for the event, is as follows:

• Ladder to main:
  • Introduction to Creative Commons and Creative Commons Philippines
    • Speaker: Atty. Jaime N. Soriano, CC-PH jurisdiction project lead
  • Introduction to Creative Commons Philippine Licenses
    • Speaker: Atty. Michael Vernon M. Guerrero, CC-PH jurisdiction deputy project lead
  • Soft launch of Creative Commons Philippine licenses (prelude to license hard launch on 14 January 2008)
  • Soft launch of the Philippine Commons (relates to CC licensing, FLOSS, OpenEd, Free Culture, etc.)
• Main:
  • CC 5th Birthday Party (includes free discussion, food, and alcohol)

The porting process for the Philippine jurisdictional Creative Commons license is nearing its end. The XHTML files for the jurisdictional license drafts for CC-PH have been submitted to Creative Commons International.

Creative Commons Philippines’ Deputy Project Lead Atty. Michael Vernon Guerrero spoke about “Copyright: Issues and Concerns” at the 6th National Conference on eLearning: “Learning about Technology, eLearning with Technology for the Academe and Industry”, at the University of Santo Tomas, St. Martin de Porres Auditorium (Medicine Auditorium).

This event was organized by the Philippine e-Learning Society.

The one-hour talk (which aimed to provide a legal orientation to seminar participants) compressed the following concepts:

• Part 1: Basics of Copyright (For those who intend to create works)
  • What is copyright?
  • The intangible nature of intellectual property (e.g. copyright).
  • Understanding Works.
  • Who creates works?
  • Who owns works?
  • Which works are protected by law?
  • When are works protected by law?
  • Term of protection.
  • What are owner’s rights under copyright?
  • What the law does not protect, even if expressed.
  • Works of the government vis-a-vis public domain.
• Part 2: Legal utilization of Works Protected by Copyright (within the context of strict Copyright regime)
  • Limitations to Copyright
  • Fair Use
  • Reproduction of published work
  • Reprographic Reproduction by Libraries
  • Reproduction of Computer Program
  • Importation for Personal Purposes
  • Penalties to Illegal acts
• Part 3: Issues and Concerns in the digital age
  • Electronic documents
  • Rights over images
  • Legal Software
  • Public (repository) vs. Public domain
  • Licensing

Creative Commons Philippines’ Deputy Project Lead Atty. Michael Vernon Guerrero spoke about “Creative Commons” at the Kapihan sa PeLS at the College of St. Benilde in Taft Avenue, Manila.

Update 5 October 2007: Details of the Kapihan are available at the PeLS Blog (http://www.elearning.ph/news/)

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