Slides for Jeremy Clarke's talk at the Creative Commons International Summit 2017 in Toronto, Canada. It covers how we use the CC-BY license to great effect and it's role in the creation of our world-class translation community.

1. GLOBALVOICES.ORG
How our CC license spawned a world class
translation community and never slowed us down
http://jeremyclarke.org • @jeremyclarke
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2. JER IS AN EARTHLING WEB DEVELOPER
• Communications Studies at Concordia
University.
• HTML+CSS since 2003
• Montreal WordPress Organizer
• Code & Design for GlobalVoices

3. “THAT’S ALL OVER,
YOU NEEDTO
LET GO.”
- IAIN COOK
WHY CREATIVE COMMONS?

4. SINCE 2004

5. • Founded in 2005 by
Rebecca Mackinnon
and Ethan Zuckerman
• Incorporated in the
Netherlands 2008
• ~4000 contributors
over 11 years

6. “THE WORLD ISTALKING,
AREYOU LISTENING?”

7. “CITIZEN MEDIA STORIES
FROM AROUNDTHE WORLD”

9. “ALL CONTENT CREATED BY GLOBAL
VOICES IS PUBLISHED UNDER A CREATIVE
COMMONS ATTRIBUTION-ONLY LICENSE.
YOU ARE FREETO SHARE, REPUBLISH,
TRANSLATE OR REMIX OUR STORIES SO
LONG ASYOU ATTRIBUTE AND LINKTO
GLOBALVOICES ANDTHE AUTHOR CLEARLY
ASTHE ORIGINAL SOURCE.”

10. GOALS ❤ CC-BY
• Create content collectively ✅
• Disseminate stories widely ✅
• Encourage researchers to use our data ✅
• Incorporate free multimedia ✅

12. CC-BY = PARTNERS

13. PARTNERSHIPS
• We want them to use our content
• They will pay for our unique perspectives
• Action-oriented organizations want content and
want it spread widely
• Republishers increase reach enormously
• They ask permission anyway

18. GROWING A COMMUNITY
• Make it easy to contribute
• Delegate leadership
• Show appreciation
• Value-driven decisionmaking
• Real-life meetings
• Meet people where they’re at

19. THE COMMONS:
BACK AND FORTH FOREVER
94k stories
125k translations

20. 10 years of free culture!

21. HELP
• Read and share our global stories
• Write about the local perspectives around you
• Translate stories so everyone can read them
• Donate to help our mission continue

22. GLOBALVOICES.ORG
How our CC license spawned a world class
translation community and never slowed us down
http://jeremyclarke.org • @jeremyclarke
Download these slides:
http://slideshare.net/jeremyclarke
Creative Commons Share Alike
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/