[Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
Jack Qiu
jacklqiu at gmail.com
Sun Sep 23 23:01:40 EDT 2007
Dear all,
The workshop idea sounds great. If it happens, I may bring a bunch of
graduate students from CUHK. That is, as long as it doesn't happen to be in
the busy times like finals week. Most likely, the students will be from our
programs MA in Global Communication, M.Sc. in New Media, perhaps a couple
Ph.D. in Communication students as well. If there's anything I can do to
facilitate this, let me know.
Best,
Jack
On 9/24/07, Rob Rogoyski <rrogoyski at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> My name Robert Rogoyski. I am an LLM student in the IP stream here at HKU.
> I will be working with the legal team doing research for the localization
> process. I look forward to working with all of you.
>
> cheers,
>
> -Rob
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 7:17:41 PM
> Subject: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
>
> 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.
>
> If all goes well, our legal team hopes that drafts of the licenses will be
> 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
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