hi,
Just a small little note to let everyone know that the Mumbai community hosted the Creative Commons workshop yesterday.
We had with us IIT-B Associate Professor and Creative Commons Project Lead (India), Shishir Jha. We had a nice mix of audience - people interested and active in copyright issues, film makers, librarians, publishers, etc. of up to 30 people.
Shishir Jha began his talk with an explanation of the digital economy and then showed a 10 min intro (to give you an idea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BESbnMJg9M; if you know where a copy exists outside of YouTube, please do share!) to Creative Commons after talking about the various Creative Commons licenses.
Ashwin Baindur was present from the Pune community and gave us an insight into Wikimedia Commons. He also explained why Wikimedia used the CC licenses it did and illustrated it with an example.
Gautam John, from the Wikimedia Chapter was also present at the meeting. He presented a brief about the Wikimedia chapter and invited members to join the chapter. He also spoke about Pratham Books' experiment with the use of Creative Commons.
We had a fine and diverse audience who were people who had worked on the ground. They had faced some of the problems related to copyrights and raised good questions.
The project (pad.ma - you can find them at http://pad.ma/) have taken video of the talk which will be released to Wikimedia Commons. We will also upload slides from Shishir's talk if he sends it to us - we have made a request.
The Mumbai community has sponsored the membership for Shishir Jha to the Wikimedia Chapter as a token of our appreciation.
warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas