New Arabic Website for Creative Commons

The largest Arabic online community Jeeran launched an online channel in cooperation with the non profit organisation Creative Commons.
The culture of protecting creative works is still in its early stage in the Arab world. With the brand new Jeeran Arabic channel, Creative Commons aims to provide the Arab users with information on how to protect a creative work and at the same time share it legally within the online community. The ultimate goal is to foster content creation in the Arabic language and encourage Arab people to create and disseminate their own contents on digital media in order to share it with the rest of the world.

The new Jeeran Creative Commons channel will feature blog posts and informative articles on how to license a creative work according to its final destination and goal. Videos, caricatures and music will be featured, as well as successful case studies on how Creative Commons is being used in the Arab Region. The Creative Commons Al Jazeera repository (http://cc.aljazeera.net) will be highlighted and the footage released by Al Jazeera under Creative Commons licenses will be featured on the Jeeran channel. A section about news and updates on Creative Commons events, meetings and happenings in the Arab Region will be hosted by the Jeeran channel.
The Jeeran Creative Commons channel will also feature competitions and call for proposals to encourage Arab artists to use CC licenses and remix other creative works coming from the Region.
Creative Commons will launch its first Arabic licenses on 15th November in Amman in cooperation with Talal Abu Ghazaleh Organisation which hosts Creative Commons Jordan lead by Ziad Maraqa and Rami Olwan.