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["Rebecca MacKinnon" <rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com>]

Thanks Catharina! This is very exciting. I look forward to seeing the feedback from people on this list. 

One question: how much general publicity about the public discussion is customary for CC projects at this stage? Some questions have arisen here at the JMSC about whether we should issue a press release. I had been under the impression that this phase of public discussion is largely for people who know something about IP law and/or who are already familiar with CC, but please correct me if I am wrong about this. 

Questions have also arisen here about whether and when we should translate these materials into Chinese sooner than later given that some parts of our core target community may feel excluded by an English-only discussion. I know that in August it was decided we should do the English license first since it's valid in Hong Kong law then do the Chinese language translation later. I also know that Yahong and Alice do not have the time to do the translation on their own. Any suggestions or thoughts from anybody out there?

Cheers,
Rebecca

On Jan 3, 2008 5:21 AM, Catharina Maracke <catharina AT creativecommons.org> wrote:

Dear all!

Welcome to the discussion of the Creative Commons license for Hong Kong! You will find the draft including some comments of the substantial legal changes here: http://creativecommons.org/international/hk/

I would like to take this opportunity and thank Dr. Yahong Li, Alice Lee (Legal Project Leads) and Rebecca MacKinnon (Public Project Lead) for their wonderful work and effort on this project.

Please feel free to review, comment, and make suggestions to things that will help the licenses comply with Hong Kong law. The role of the discussion is to start the public debate and to make the least amount of changes necessary to bring the license into accord with Hong Kong law. Also, please feel free to ask general questions about the Creative Commons licenses in the cc-mailing list:  http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses

Part of the fun of this discussion will be, I hope, that we get to compare the quirks and eccentricities of our respective nations' copyright laws.

We expect the archived discussions to serve as a history of this experience. That way, your input will continue be useful to anyone from any country even after the discussion for Hong Kong is completed. 

I am very much looking forward to a fruitful and open discussion!

Thank you very much.

All the best,

Catharina

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