12 June 2009
June last year in 2008, before the launch of Creative Commons Hong Kong, members of the preparatory committee, Oiwan Lam and Ben Cheng joined force with InMedia to organise a talk on “Bloggers + Creative Commons”. The video recordings of the event are now available for viewing online or download in Ogg format.
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3 June 2009
On June 1st, the Hong Kong Government established the Create Hong Kong agency to promote the development of creative industries.
The Creative Industries in Hong Kong produce over $60 billion of revenue yearly, which is equivalent to roughly 4% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). According to the latest statistics, more than 170,000 practitioners are engaged in about 32,000 establishments.
Creative Commons Hong Kong is seeking ways to serve and support the creative industries and we would also like to hear from you on how we can best achieve this.
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CreateHK Office established
22 May 2009
Yesterday the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees passed a resolution to include Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) as the primary content licence while keeping GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL). This resolution follows a vote among the international Wikimedia community, where 88% of all voters who expressed an opinion supported the change.
This resolution aims to make all Wikimedia project content more interoperable with existing CC-BY-SA content and easier to re-use. When Wikipedia was founded in 2001, the project founder, Jimmy Wales, only had a limited choice in selection of licences that supported the ideal of free sharing. Creative Commons licenses were not yet created and thus he chose GFDL, which was very much catered for printed software manuals. Creative Commons now is widely used in online content sharing and thus a suitable licence for the content of Wikimedia projects.
The above resolution is the achievement of the collaboration between three parties: Wikimedia Foundation, Free Software Foundation and Creative Commons. Hopefully, making all Wikimedia project content compatible with both licences will encourage participation and re-use. The Wikimedia Foundation planned to implement the change in licences next month.
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Wikimedia Foundation announces important licensing change for Wikipedia and its sister projects
Wikimedia Foundation board approves license migration
30 April 2009
Kwun Tong is about to go through urban renewal plan in the near future. A group of people who care enough about the area build an online sanctuaryA Map Of Our Own – Kwun Tong Culture and Histories and employ digital technology to capture the moments before they past. The content is released under Creative Commons licenses, which can eliminate copyright hassles in preserving the materials. Moreover, Creative Commons licences encourage sharing, reuse and remix. Here is a message from one of the contributors, Anson Mak:
dear friends,
we are happy to soft-launch this project — A Map Of Our Own – Kwun Tong Culture and Histories. we have been working on it for 2 years and will go on for another 12 years.
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22 April 2009
 A follow-up from the last post, three last interviews from the CC Education Kit are released. Just to recapitulate regarding to the production of the CC Education Kit, it was a part of the effort to prepare for the Launch of Creative Commons in Hong Kong on the 25 Oct 2008. The content of the kit is based on interviews of renowned artists, composers, bloggers and IT experts. The kit starts with an introduction of the concept of some rights reserved and the relevance of CC to Hong Kong. The three videos released are from Sidekick, Syaoran and Edmon Chung. |
Sidekick
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Sidekick - Famous Hong Kong Blogger
Website: http://sidekick.myblog.hk/
Syaoran
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Syaoran likes to consume creative works in different medium, and he is a creator too. In his spare time, he has been a citizen journalist, published novels, composed lyrics, hosted online radio programmes and produced radio dramas, also designed Chinese fonts… He tried to pack all the above into his career and now he is working in the media industry. Personal Blog: http://www.cuhkacs.org/~syaoran/blog
Edmon Chung - CEO, DotAsia Organisation; Vice Chair, Internet Society HK
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Edmon Chung is currently serving as the Vice Chair for the Internet Society HK. Edmon is also serving as an elected member of the Elections Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, an elected councillor of the ICANN GNSO Council, and Secretariat for the ICANN APRALO (Asia Pacific At-Large Organisation).
In 2002, Edmon became involved with the region-wide .Asia initiative to create the first global top-level domain in Asia. Edmon played a leadership role in the project and was instrumental in bringing the headquarters of the DotAsia Organisation to Hong Kong. In 2006, Edmon is designated as the CEO to lead the organisation in the historical launch of the .Asia Internet domain.
Edmon is an inventor of patents underlying technologies for internationalized domain names (IDN) and email addresses on the Internet. He founded Neteka Inc. in partnership with the University of Toronto Innovations Foundation in 1999, and went on to win the Most Innovative Award in the Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurship Award in 2001. In 2000, Edmon was selected by The Globe and Mail as one of the Young Canadian Leaders.
Edmon has a Bachelor of Applied Science and Master of Engineering from the University of Toronto, and is a PhD candidate at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
The kit can be downloaded here. Please contact us if you want to obtain physical copies of the education kit.
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