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["Chong Chan-yau" <chanyau AT hku.hk>]

Dear All,
I have developed a new email chain devoted to the subject of organizing a
practical workshop on the use of CC materials.
Rebecca: My idea originates from the need of the HKU students who work for
the U-Radio.  But I think it would be good to open it up if a workshop is
being organized.
Charles, Ben and Jack all support the idea.
To start with:

Proposed Date: 17 or 24 November (Saturday morning)
Venue:  I offer to book a place at HKU;
Organizing Units: HKU CEDARS (my department) pls add others;
Title:  Practical Workshop on the Use of CC Materials
Duration: three hours with a break. 
Content:  
-  Pls suggest;

Moderator:  Rebecca offers to do it. Can u make it on these two dates or
other dates?
Speakers or demonstrators:  Charles or others.

Target audience:  university students interested in using CC materials for
fun, creative work, etc.
Size:  30 to 40.

We can take care of the cost.
Rgds.
Chan Yau


 

Dear all,

The workshop idea sounds great. If it happens, I may bring a bunch of
graduate students from CUHK. That is, as long as it doesn't happen to be in
the busy
times like finals week. Most likely, the students will be from our programs
MA in Global Communication, M.Sc. in New Media, perhaps a couple Ph.D. in
Communication
students as well. If there's anything I can do to facilitate this, let me
know.

Best,
Jack 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben [mailto:chpapa AT gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 1:28 PM
To: Charles Mok
Cc: Chong Chan-yau; cc-hk AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Cc-hk] FW: CC-HK progress report

Hello Chong and Charles,

If there will be a practical workshop, I would like to help on this.
The workshop idea is good for students, they will know what kind of
materials they can use, and also clarify some of the confusion -- for
example, some students without proper understanding on CC put their own
CC-license tag on copyrighted materials and think that by doing this they
can use the materials as they want..... Well...

I think as long as we make sure other people understand that the activities
are not come from the CC organization and Creative Common license is not
localized Hong Kong Law which means it may not effective, it is great for
different people try to introduce the idea of CC to their own community.

Ben

On 9/21/07, Charles Mok <mok AT hknet.com> wrote:
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> Yes, I think a practical workshop on "what is CC and how can you use it"
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> Charles Mok 莫乃光  charlesmok.blogspot.com
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> From: Chong Chan-yau [mailto:chanyau AT hku.hk]
>  Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:13 PM
>  To: 'Charles Mok (gmail)'; cc-hk AT lists.ibiblio.org
>  Subject: RE: [Cc-hk] FW: CC-HK progress report
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> Dear Charles,
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> Dare Charles,
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> Thanks for your offer.
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> I agree with your analysis..
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> How about a small scale workshop type of thing.
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> Popularising the use of cc materials on international sites may already be
a agood end for some of our students.
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> Rgds.
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> Chan Yau
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> From: cc-hk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:cc-hk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Charles Mok 
> (gmail)
>  Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 9:32 AM
>  To: cc-hk AT lists.ibiblio.org
>  Subject: [Cc-hk] FW: CC-HK progress report
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> I can offer to co-organize this, Chan Yau.  But, I think we really need to
have some better progress and a firmer timetable before we should do more to
attract a wider audience, or else we may risk (1) not having enough things
solid to share, or (2) attracting more people to complicate matters even
more.  We must _focus_ on the legal drafting issues first at this stage
although I know a lot of the rest of us are eager to move.
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> Charles
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> Charles Mok 莫乃光  charlesmok.blogspot.com
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> From: cc-hk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:cc-hk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Chong Chan-yau
>  Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 6:25 AM
>  To: 'Rebecca MacKinnon'; jerryhua AT hkusua.hku.hk
>  Cc: cc-hk AT lists.ibiblio.org; 'Doreen Weisenhaus'; 'Peter Yu'; 'ying chan'
>  Subject: Re: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
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> Dear Rebecca and all,
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> Thank you for your update.
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> Much progress seems to be happening.
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> I would like to propose a workshop or seminar where the use of CC can be
promoted to a wider audience than the people signing up to this list.
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> Rebecca indicates that she will be more available in the fall.
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> I offer to take the initiative to do the organizing.
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> Any one who is interested as a speaker, etc.
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> This seminar is intended for the laymen, internet users, students etc.
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> It should contain demonstration, experience sharing, etc. Some background
introd, and overlap may be useful.
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> Will let you the progress. Welcome expression of interests.
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> Chan Yau
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> From: cc-hk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:cc-hk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca 
> MacKinnon
>  Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:03 AM
>  To: jerryhua AT hkusua.hku.hk
>  Cc: cc-hk AT lists.ibiblio.org; Doreen Weisenhaus; Peter Yu; ying chan
>  Subject: Re: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
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> Thanks Jerry, great to meet you. There are several people on this list
with IP expertise and familiarity with CC, so please feel free to ask for
help!
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> On Sep 21, 2007, at 11:51 PM, jerryhua AT hkusua.hku.hk wrote:
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> 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.
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> ----- Message from rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com ---------
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> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:17:41 +0800
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> From: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com>
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> Reply-To: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Cc-hk] CC-HK progress report
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> To: cc-hk AT lists.ibiblio.org
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> Cc: Doreen Weisenhaus <doreen AT hku.hk>, Peter Yu <peter_yu AT msn.com>, 
> ying chan <yychan AT hku.hk>
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> Hello everybody!
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> 1. LEGAL WORK: Our legal leads at the HKU Law Faculty, Professors 
> Yahong Li
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> Gary
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> Kong CC
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> 4. NEXT MEETING? Some people have asked when we will have another 
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> 5. BEN CHENG: Ben Cheng, who attended our July meeting, has been hired
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> and relations. When we get further along in the license-porting 
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> Any further questions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, etc. are greatly
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> Rebecca MacKinnon
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> Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.
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> Rebecca MacKinnon
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> E-mail: rmack AT hku.hk | Tel: +852-2219-4005
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