[Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
Charles Mok
mok at hknet.com
Mon Sep 24 12:22:23 EDT 2007
Good news and thanks Yahong!!
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[mailto:cc-hk-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Li Yahong
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 5:33 PM
To: Rebecca MacKinnon; cc-hk at lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: alicelee at hku.hk; Doreen Weisenhaus; Peter Yu; ying chan
Subject: Re: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
Dear all,
I am pleased to update the new progress we just made on the legal front.
The legal team (Prof. Alice Lee, Rob Rogoyski, Jerry Hua and me) met today.
We went through all necessary documents and identified important issues
worthy of special attention. We divided labor, formed strategies, and set
out timetable for conducting research and drafting the license. Although
heavily burdened by teaching and study load, each one of us is optimistic
about producing the first draft of the license by the end of this year, if
not sooner. We will keep you informed of our progress and ask for your
assistance when needed.
Cheers,
Yahong
on behalf of the legal team
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From: Rebecca MacKinnon <mailto:rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com>
To: cc-hk at lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: Doreen Weisenhaus <mailto:doreen at hku.hk> ; Peter Yu
<mailto:peter_yu at msn.com> ; ying chan <mailto:yychan at hku.hk>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 7:17 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
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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: http://RConversation.blogs.com
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