Cross-Cultural Partnerships

The Cross-Cultural Partnership working group first met in late 2006, with the stated goal of "bring(ing) together people from different networks, both indigenous and electronic, for the purpose of envisioning a legal and cultural framework for sharing connected knowledge in a way that is responsible and sustainable."

Berkman Fellow Wendy Seltzer joined with members of the Wampanoag, Micmac, and Penobscot Nations, along with Still Water of University of Maine's New Media Dept., Creative Commons, and social anthropologist James Leach to devise a framework for cultural copyrights that infused the traits of "fairness between partners: duties of loyalty, of care, of disclosure, of good faith and fair dealing," that are typically involved in business transactions.

Visit the project's website to see the different contexts for their work and a template of the possible agreement.