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

Hi everybody. So far nobody has asked any questions about the license. If we are going to launch in June, we need to make sure that we are able to obtain robust feedback from Hong Kong's IP and legal community by Chinese New Year. Otherwise we are in danger of running out of time to do revisions and further consultations if something really controversial comes up in order to have a license everybody is happy with in time for a June launch. So if we aren't likely to get much feedback before CNY we might need to consider delaying the launch. If we decide to delay the launch until the Fall or Winter we need to make that decision before the end of this month. A late July or August launch is best avoided due to the Olympics, which would guarantee the least possible amount of attention and highest possible airfares/hotel rates for people coming in. Then I assume Larry has to teach in the Fall and won't be so easily available again until Winter break. 

So please, everybody, help us out with your own feedback and by soliciting feedback from others.
Note that the URL to download the draft license is here: 
http://creativecommons.org/international/hk/

I have asked Henry Oh to work with all of you to make sure that in the next two weeks we reach out to everybody in the legal and IP policy community who needs to be aware of the impending launch of the license, and whose comments/feedback/criticism would help us avoid problems later on. So you can expect to hear from him both on and off list as he works to mobilize our efforts. 

Meanwhile, as a non-lawyer and non-expert in IP I am going to kick off the discussion with some dumb questions for our legal team that probably seem obvious to IP lawyers and CC-insiders, but since I am neither and the answers aren't obvious to me, they might not be obvious to other people either. 

1. We only have the draft of the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike3.0 license. Is that because it addresses all the issues that are present in all the other licenses? 

2. Notes in the draft refer to changes that were made. However it is not made clear which version of the license your changes were made from. What was the original license version that you were working from and where can we see a copy? Was it the UK license or the un-ported international license? If it was the UK license, I note that on the CC website only the 
2.0 version is available... so is the 3.0 version available somewhere else online or can it be sent to us so that we can actually look at what the draft has been changed from?

3. More general question: what were the main challenges you faced in adapting the license from whatever the original was? Are there particular things you would especially like to get feedback on?

Thanks!!

Rebecca


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Rebecca MacKinnon
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University of Hong Kong   (http://jmsc.hku.hk
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