[Cc-hk] license public discussion

Rebecca MacKinnon rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 06:55:16 EST 2008


Hi everybody. So far nobody has asked any questions about the license. If we
are going to launch in June, we need to make sure that we are able to obtain
robust feedback from Hong Kong's IP and legal community by Chinese New Year.
Otherwise we are in danger of running out of time to do revisions and
further consultations if something really controversial comes up in order to
have a license everybody is happy with in time for a June launch. So if we
aren't likely to get much feedback before CNY we might need to consider
delaying the launch. If we decide to delay the launch until the Fall or
Winter we need to make that decision before the end of this month. A late
July or August launch is best avoided due to the Olympics, which would
guarantee the least possible amount of attention and highest possible
airfares/hotel rates for people coming in. Then I assume Larry has to teach
in the Fall and won't be so easily available again until Winter break.

So please, everybody, help us out with your own feedback and by soliciting
feedback from others.
Note that the URL to download the draft license is here:
http://creativecommons.org/international/hk/

I have asked Henry Oh to work with all of you to make sure that in the next
two weeks we reach out to everybody in the legal and IP policy community who
needs to be aware of the impending launch of the license, and whose
comments/feedback/criticism would help us avoid problems later on. So you
can expect to hear from him both on and off list as he works to mobilize our
efforts.

Meanwhile, as a non-lawyer and non-expert in IP I am going to kick off the
discussion with some dumb questions for our legal team that probably seem
obvious to IP lawyers and CC-insiders, but since I am neither and the
answers aren't obvious to me, they might not be obvious to other people
either.

1. We only have the draft of the
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike3.0license. Is that because it
addresses all the issues that are present in all
the other licenses?

2. Notes in the draft refer to changes that were made. However it is not
made clear which version of the license your changes were made from. What
was the original license version that you were working from and where can we
see a copy? Was it the UK license or the un-ported international license? If
it was the UK license, I note that on the CC website only the 2.0 version is
available... so is the 3.0 version available somewhere else online or can it
be sent to us so that we can actually look at what the draft has been
changed from?

3. More general question: what were the main challenges you faced in
adapting the license from whatever the original was? Are there particular
things you would especially like to get feedback on?

Thanks!!

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
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