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

Dear All,

Sorry I couldn't make it.

I'm excited by the progress.

The notes do not seem to contain reference to the need for setting a formal organization to run CC.

Is this being considered?

Do we need a 'company limited by guarantee' to 'run and promote' CC?

Rgds.

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: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:38 PM
To: cc-hk
Cc: Marco marco AT montaniglobal.com; Peter Yu; ying chan
Subject: [Cc-hk] Saturday meeting follow-up

Hello everybody!

Thanks so much to those of you who came to 
our planning meeting last Saturday. From now until the launch (exact timing tba) 
it was agreed we should have monthly gatherings to touch base and exchange 
ideas. Ben will be in charge of organizing those.

Thanks to Ben for 
posting meeting notes. I've also posted a list of the attendees (first names 
only) on the wiki here: 
http://cchk.wetpaint.com/page/Jan+26
For 
convenience I am also pasting Ben's notes at the bottom of this 
email.

Here is where we now stand:

- We agreed on a timeline for 
license consulation and completion of the license, to be spearheaded by Yahong 
and Alice with assistance from Ben and Henry and others as needed. 
- The 
launch will no longer be on June 15th because people felt we can't do it 
properly if combined with the Chinese internet research conference at HKU. 
- 
After the meeting a number of us had further discussion via e-mail about the 
launch timing. Due to our present limitations on resources, time and personnel, 
we realized it's actually unrealistic to do a full public launch in June if we 
are going to do it separately from the other conference. 
- Therefore, the 
current plan is to do a "soft launch" of the license in June and aim for a 
formal public launch, with VIPs and media and celebrations and whatever else, in 
the Fall or Winter.

Because this e-mail list has been made public in 
order to invite public discussion of the CC-HK draft license (which we need a 
lot more of!), Ben has created a new google group for everybody who is 
interested in being involved with the launch in any way. If you have not been 
added and want to be on it please e-mail  him at chpapa AT gmail.com

We remain very 
excited about launching CC  in Hong Kong in 2008, but we want to make sure 
we do it 
right.

Thanks!
Rebecca

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NOTES 
FROM JAN.26 MEETING:

Important Point / Quick Agreement
- If we 
want to have the license by late-June, final draft of license have to be done by 
early to mid-May
- Legal team expresses that the difficult part is the choice 
of terminology. The terms have to be easy to understand and also in-compliance 
with legal requirement.
- It is important to change the culture, and get more 
supportors, independent contributors.
- We need to change the date of CC-HK 
Launch, decoupling with CIRC (the original schedule is to have it at 15 June) 
(Note: It was generally agreed that we need to reconsider weather a June launch 
is a good idea after the meeting)
- A CC-HK Education Kit which should 
includes local show case of copyright problem and how CC may help was 
suggested.
- Generally agreed that we should use the general CC logo 
but a slogan specific for CC-HK is acceptable. 
- A new email group 
for preparing the CC-HK launch will be created for those who will commit to help 
the launch. To avoid sending lots more email to the general CC-HK mailing 
list.

Todo's
- Yahong: Need to find a people to translate the 
license into Chinese (next week or after CNY)
- Macro: Contact collecting 
society for comments
- Alice: Will send out a clear version of the draft 
license
- Someone? : Inform the government about the draft of CC-HK
- 
Aaron: Find some companies want to use CC
- Rebecca: Will check with Lessig 
for another CC Launching Day
- Ben: Draft a timeline and budget plan for the 
CC-HK education kit.

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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
Blog: http://RConversation.blogs.com
Co-founder: 
http://GlobalVoicesOnline.org
"The 
world is talking. Are you listening?"