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From: Journalism and Media Studies Centre <jmscbj AT hkucc.hku.hk>
Date: 2008/9/30
Subject: Practical workshop: Using Creative Commons copyright licenses for teaching and learning
To: hkubj AT hkusua.hku.hk
Cc: kyliec AT hku.hk


The Journalism and Media Studies Centre invites you to a…

Practical workshop: Using Creative Commons copyright licenses for teaching and
learning

By Rebecca Mackinnon, Assistant Professor, Journalism and Media Studies Centre

Date: Thursday, 9 October 2008
Time: 4p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Foundation Chamber, G/F, Eliot Hall, The University of Hong Kong

About the workshop:

As educators and researchers, how can we share our course material as widely as
possible and maximize the impact of our ideas while getting proper
attribution?
How can we better educate our students about intellectual property? Creative
Commons provides some innovative solutions to these problems.

The 2002 brainchild of Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons
is a new and more flexible form of copyright licensing that enables one to
publish, perform, or disseminate works with "some rights reserved" instead of
the traditional "all rights reserved."  This enables works to be more easily
and legally shared while still requiring attribution of the original creator
under law.  Educators worldwide are using CC licenses to share their knowledge
not only with their own students but also with the entire world. Famous
examples of how global education is being facilitated by CC licenses include
the MIT Open Courseware project, the global Open Courseware Consortium, and the
Chinese-language Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (www.myOOPS.org).

The Creative Commons Hong Kong licenses will be launched on October 25th
(http://jmsc.hku.hk/cms/content/view/433/1/), preceded by a public lecture by
Prof Lawrence Lessig on October 24
(http://jmsc.hku.hk/cms/content/view/432/1/)

This workshop in advance of the launch will cover:

1) An overview of Creative Commons licenses and examples of how they are used;

2) Discussion of how use of Creative Commons licenses in education can help
educate students about copyright law;

3) Practical demonstration of how to publish online course materials, writings,
lecture powerpoints, and other kinds of works under Creative Commons licenses.

Registration is required for this workshop.  For enquiries and registration
please contact Kylie Chan at kyliec AT hku.hk or 2219-4416.

Thank you.

Bachelor of Journalism Programme
Journalism and Media Studies Centre
The University of Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2859 1156  Fax: (852) 2858 8736
E-mail: jmscbj AT hku.hk  Website: http://jmsc.hku.hk





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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?"

Public lead: Creative Commons Hong Kong
http://hk.creativecommons.org