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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.

Thank you!


Best regards,
Jerry Hua




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    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>


> 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
> "The world is talking. Are you listening?"


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