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[Catharina Maracke <catharina AT creativecommons.org>]

Dear all,

thank you very much for the update and the minutes of the meeting! Its great news that Laikwan Pang could attend as well!

As many of you already know, I am in contact with Prof. Yahong Li and we are discussing details. Please understand, that the decision to take over responsibility for a CC project might need careful consideration. I will also meet with Yat Siu in Berlin next week to talk about the next steps. 

Best wishes,

Catharina

 

On May 16, 2007, at 2:05 AM, Jon Phillips wrote:

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 07:56 +0800, Mr. Pindar Wong wrote:

On May 16, 2007, at 3:03 AM, Jon Phillips wrote:

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 00:05 +0800, uta lam wrote:

Hi Pindar,

Wow, you guys really discuss a lot of issues in the meeting.

it was quite informative actually and fortunately went  beyond the  

initial exchanging of  pleasantries ;)

I would imagine that a first formal meeting would be even more so...

But as I remember that the key of starting the project is to identify

a legal lead first, any potential candidates nominated from the

meeting?

In trying to understand the status of the project thus far, we also  

named  Ms Yahong Li and Prof. Matthew Yuen (from Jon's first meeting  

on this subject back in 2006)!

As far as we could tell, based on postings to this list,

1) we've two legal scholars  Ms. Yahong Li (HKU) and Rebecca Ong  

(City U - kindly introduced by Kenneth)

2) several individuals associated with 'academic'  bodies -  applied  

research (ASTRI) and universities (HKUST, CU, HKU ... ) law faculties/ 

media/cultural studies departments

So Uta ...  several potential candidates and institutions!  ;)

CC may have already identified both (from Jon's email below) -- which  

is *fantastic* to move things forward! :)

Although the ligh-level process for formation was clear ( http:// 

wiki.creativecommons.org/Worldwide_Overview ), we nevertheless had  

several operational/logistical/strategic user-related questions as  

well as some practical ones e.g.  whether our existing commercial  

contacts could be used to leverage  pro-bono work from a commercial  

law firm (Bakers, JSM, Slaughter&May etc) for the initial review  

(given that we've a common law history and version 3.0 released )

So, with the combined experience on this list, we should have enough  

clue to answer the 'known unknowns' !

As Jon, who was at the first meeting in 2006, mentioned both

Any plan to contact those candidates?

Ah... well they're all on the list and assumed to be periodically  

reading mail.

Based on Yahong's email of May 8th, she would not be available till  

July (earliest) and the thought of organising a 1st meeting in July  

was in deference to this reality.

Yahong: Would it be possible for you to propose a convenient date in  

July per your scheduled?

Matthew: Would it be possible for you to host this meeting in HKUST?

Jon: Would it be possible to participate by teleconference/video  

conference (we could rig something up)?

Sure, but Catharina, is really the ideal person to do this :)

Jon

p.

Thanks,

Uta

Ms Yahong Li and Prof. Matthew Yuen

There is a chance that both Catharina and myself will be at  

wikimania in

taiwan in AUG, so depending if either of us get there, could possibly

swing through. Catharina is your best bet...

I will potentially travel through though in the next 6-9 months  

because

my family lives in Guangzhou...and I'm scouting out places to live in

China/HK ;) (a little personal info for you all :)

Jon

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