Creative Commons Hong Kong

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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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大家齊唱我的歌：創意共享多麼多麼的高興！
獨立媒體離線沙龍：Bloggers + Creative Commons
OpenRadio開台：Blogger Cafe報導

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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

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

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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