[Cc-hk] FW: CC-HK progress report
Rebecca MacKinnon
rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 00:20:30 EDT 2007
Chan Yau,
I have a question. This activity you want to organize, is it mainly
for HKU students who are currently involved with media creation? Or
for a broader community in Hong Kong?
Thanks.
Rebecca
On Sep 22, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Chong Chan-yau wrote:
> Dear Charles,
> Dare Charles,
>
> Thanks for your offer.
> I agree with your analysis..
> How about a small scale workshop type of thing.
> Popularising the use of cc materials on international sites may
> already be a agood end for some of our students.
> Rgds.
> Chan Yau
>
> From: cc-hk-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:cc-hk-
> bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Charles Mok (gmail)
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 9:32 AM
> To: cc-hk at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [Cc-hk] FW: CC-HK progress report
>
> I can offer to co-organize this, Chan Yau. But, I think we really
> need to have some better progress and a firmer timetable before we
> should do more to attract a wider audience, or else we may risk (1)
> not having enough things solid to share, or (2) attracting more
> people to complicate matters even more. We must _focus_ on the
> legal drafting issues first at this stage although I know a lot of
> the rest of us are eager to move.
>
>
>
> Charles
>
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> Charles Mok 莫乃光 charlesmok.blogspot.com
>
> From: cc-hk-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:cc-hk-
> bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Chong Chan-yau
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 6:25 AM
> To: 'Rebecca MacKinnon'; jerryhua at hkusua.hku.hk
> Cc: cc-hk at lists.ibiblio.org; 'Doreen Weisenhaus'; 'Peter Yu'; 'ying
> chan'
> Subject: Re: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
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> Dear Rebecca and all,
>
> Thank you for your update.
>
> Much progress seems to be happening.
>
> I would like to propose a workshop or seminar where the use of CC
> can be promoted to a wider audience than the people signing up to
> this list.
>
> Rebecca indicates that she will be more available in the fall.
>
> I offer to take the initiative to do the organizing.
>
> Any one who is interested as a speaker, etc.
>
> This seminar is intended for the laymen, internet users, students etc.
>
> It should contain demonstration, experience sharing, etc. Some
> background introd, and overlap may be useful.
>
> Will let you the progress. Welcome expression of interests.
>
> Chan Yau
>
>
>
> From: cc-hk-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:cc-hk-
> bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca MacKinnon
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:03 AM
> To: jerryhua at hkusua.hku.hk
> Cc: cc-hk at lists.ibiblio.org; Doreen Weisenhaus; Peter Yu; ying chan
> Subject: Re: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
>
> Thanks Jerry, great to meet you. There are several people on this
> list with IP expertise and familiarity with CC, so please feel free
> to ask for help!
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rebecca
>
>
>
> On Sep 21, 2007, at 11:51 PM, jerryhua at hkusua.hku.hk wrote:
>
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> Hello everyone,
>
>
>
> I am Jerry Hua, the graduate student recently recruited in the CC-
> HK project. I am fist-year PhD under the supervision of Ms Yahong
> Li, doing research in IP. As a fresh research student, I have not
> developed expertise in IP yet, but I do hope I could make efforts
> to promote the progress of this project and learn from you all.
>
>
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> Thank you!
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> Best regards,
>
> Jerry Hua
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> ----- Message from rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com ---------
>
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:17:41 +0800
>
> From: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com>
>
> Reply-To: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com>
>
> Subject: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
>
> To: cc-hk at lists.ibiblio.org
>
> Cc: Doreen Weisenhaus <doreen at hku.hk>, Peter Yu <peter_yu at msn.com>,
> ying chan <yychan at hku.hk>
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>> Hello everybody!
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry for the long silence. Many people were away in August, then
>> things
>>
>> have been very hectic at HKU with the start of the new semester.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have several developments to report:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. LEGAL WORK: Our legal leads at the HKU Law Faculty, Professors
>> Yahong Li
>>
>> and Alice Lee, have recruited two graduate students to work on
>> localization
>>
>> of the CC license into HK law. I've just added them to the list so
>> hopefully
>>
>> they will introduce themselves.
>>
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>> If all goes well, our legal team hopes that drafts of the licenses
>> will be
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>> available for your comment by the end of the year. Then after an
>> appropriate
>>
>> comment period (the length of which depends on the community), we
>> hope that
>>
>> the licenses can be finalized and CC-HK can be launched by the
>> middle of
>>
>> 2008.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. CC CONTENT DIRECTORY PROJECT: Two other new additions to this
>> mailing
>>
>> list are Prof. Thomas Lee of the HKU Computer Science department
>> and Gary
>>
>> Tsui, a graduate student in the CS department. They are interested in
>>
>> exploring the possibility of creating some kind of directory of
>> Hong Kong CC
>>
>> content and also possibly Chinese-language CC content more
>> generally. Of
>>
>> course, we first need to localize the license in order for such a
>> project to
>>
>> get fully underway, but it's worth starting to think about. So we
>> welcome
>>
>> ideas and interest.
>>
>>
>>
>> 3. HK GOVERNMENT CIO: The government CIO's office has expressed an
>> interest
>>
>> via Thomas in learning more about Creative Commons. Thomas and I will
>>
>> probably go and talk to them some time in early October just to
>> explain more
>>
>> about how CC works and what it is. Then, I hope that after the
>> license gets
>>
>> localized for HK law, our community can encourage them to use it.
>>
>>
>>
>> 4. NEXT MEETING? Some people have asked when we will have another
>> meeting
>>
>> or get-together. Others have said they think that the next time we
>> meet, we
>>
>> need to have very specific goals that we want to accomplish in
>> order to make
>>
>> it worthwhile. I welcome your thoughts about whether people think
>> it would
>>
>> be useful to hold another meeting sometime in October, and if so
>> what the
>>
>> objectives of the meeting would be, or whether people prefer to
>> wait until
>>
>> we have a draft of the licenses for comment.
>>
>>
>>
>> 5. BEN CHENG: Ben Cheng, who attended our July meeting, has been
>> hired
>>
>> part-time by my Journalism & Media Studies Ctr here at HKU to help
>> us out
>>
>> with a number of things, including CC-HK community building,
>> organization,
>>
>> and relations. When we get further along in the license-porting
>> process and
>>
>> start to think about a launch date, etc., he will be a key person
>> to help
>>
>> coordinate activities and projects.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any further questions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, etc. are greatly
>> welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> If any other people who recently joined the list would like to
>> introduce
>>
>> themselves, that would also be great.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rebecca
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Rebecca MacKinnon
>>
>> Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.
>>
>> University of Hong Kong (http://jmsc.hku.hk)
>>
>> E-mail: rmack at hku.hk | Tel: +852-2219-4005
>>
>> Blog: http://RConversation.blogs.com
>>
>> Co-founder: http://GlobalVoicesOnline.org
>>
>> "The world is talking. Are you listening?"
>>
>>
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> Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.
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> University of Hong Kong (http://jmsc.hku.hk)
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> E-mail: rmack at hku.hk | Tel: +852-2219-4005
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> Blog: RConversation.com
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> Co-founder: GlobalVoicesOnline.org
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Rebecca MacKinnon
Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.
University of Hong Kong (http://jmsc.hku.hk)
E-mail: rmack at hku.hk | Tel: +852-2219-4005
Blog: RConversation.com
Co-founder: GlobalVoicesOnline.org
"The world is talking. Are you listening?"
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