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Lebanon Launches Creative Commons Chapter

Written by jessica. Filed under For Local NGOs, For Trainers, News. Tagged , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
Slide of the CC logo that says some rights reserved
Since 2003, the international nonprofit Creative Commons (known as CC) has endeavored to “save the world from failed sharing.” CC, as it’s called, aims to address the lag of copyright law in keeping pace with changes in digital technology b facilitating sharing. The organization, founded by law professor and author Lawrence Lessig, has created six [...]

Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon, Oh My! Digital and Social Media Training in the Arab World

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We can’t keep up. It seems like every time we open our inbox, another digital media training is taking place in the Arab world, in Jordan or Egypt (update May 19: we learned about another training in Egypt from ifikra)—or, of course, at the end of this month in Lebanon, as we initiate our own [...]