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[Ben <chpapa AT gmail.com>]

Hello everybody,

I am Ben Cheng, as Rebecca introduced, I has been hired part-time to
help out with CC-HK community building. A brief introduction to
myself: I had founded a small group called "Intellectual Property
Issues Watch" two years ago, during these period we have organized
several forums, workshop on Free Culture issues in Hong Kong, we have
regular update to a blog about Intellectual Properties News in Chinese
here:
http://intellectualproperty.wordpress.com/

Personally I had also talked about what is Creative Common and other
related stuffs in some speech, news media and radio.

I hope I can really help to coordinate activities and projects in
CC-HK, and I think it is really important that we have more
participation and ideas from this community.

Most important, any ideas and opinions are welcomed :-)

Bests,
Ben

On 9/21/07, Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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