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Creative Commons Publishes Study of “Noncommercial Use”
Mike Linksvayer, September 14th, 2009
San Francisco, California, USA — September 14, 2009
Creative Commons announces the publication of Defining “Noncommercial”: A Study of How the Online Population Understands “Noncommercial Use.” The report details the results of a research study launched in September 2008 to explore differences between commercial and noncommercial uses of content found online, as those uses are understood by various communities and in connection with a wide variety of content. Generous support for the study was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The study investigated understandings of noncommercial use and the Creative Commons “NC” license term through online surveys of content creators and users in the U.S., open access polls of global “Creative Commons Friends and Family,” interviews with thought leaders, and focus groups with participants from around the world who create and use a wide variety of online content and media. The research behind Defining “Noncommercial” was conducted by Netpop Research, under advisement from academics and a working group consisting of several Creative Commons jurisdiction project members as well as Creative Commons staff and board members.
Creative Commons provides free copyright licenses to creators who want to grant the public certain permissions to use their works, in advance and without the need for one-to-one contact between the user and the creator. “Noncommercial” or “NC” is one of four license terms that creators may choose to apply to CC-licensed content.
Creative Commons noncommercial licenses preclude use of a work “in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation.” The majority of respondents (87% of creators, 85% of users) replied that the definition was “essentially the same as” (43% of creators, 42% of users) or “different from but still compatible with” (44% of creators, 43% of users) theirs. Only 7% of creators and 11% of users replied that the term was “different from and incompatible with” their definition.
Other highlights from the study include the rating by content creators and users of different uses of online content as either “commercial” or “noncommercial” on a scale of 1-100, where 1 is “definitely noncommercial” and 100 is “definitely commercial.” On this scale, creators and users (84.6 and 82.6, respectively) both rate uses in connection with online advertising generally as “commercial.” However, more specific use cases revealed that many interpretations are fact-specific. For example, creators and users gave the specific use case “not-for-profit organization uses work on its site, organization makes enough money from ads to cover hosting costs” ratings of 59.2 and 71.7, respectively.
On the same scale, creators and users (89.4 and 91.7, respectively) both rate uses in which money is made as being commercial, yet again those ratings are lower in use cases specifying cost recovery or use by not-for-profits. Finally, both groups rate “personal or private” use as noncommercial, though creators did so less strongly than users (24.3 and 16.0, respectively, on the same scale).
In open access polls, CC’s global network of “friends and family” rate some uses differently from the U.S. online population—although direct empirical comparisons may not be drawn from these data. For example, creators and users in these polls rate uses by not-for-profit organizations with advertisements as a means of cost recovery at 35.7 and 40.3, respectively—somewhat more noncommercial. They also rate “personal or private” use as strongly noncommercial—8.2 and 7.8, respectively—again on a scale of 1-100 where 1 is “definitely noncommercial” and 100 is “definitely commercial.”
“As more people have begun to make, share, and use content online, the question of what constitutes a ‘commercial use’ versus a ‘noncommercial use’ has become increasingly important to understand,” said Josh Crandall, President of Netpop Research. “With this study, we were particularly interested to see that—contrary to what many might believe—there is little variation between creators and users in the perceived ‘commerciality’ of particular uses of copyrighted content. Furthermore, where they do differ, users tend to have a more conservative outlook than creators. This study provides useful data and perspectives—from both members of the general public and people who work closely in the world of copyright—that can help people begin to think more clearly about the issue.”
The study report and its associated data are available at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Defining_Noncommercial, where members of the public can contribute feedback about the report. Defining “Noncommercial” is published under a Creative Commons Attribution license, and the research data is available under a CC0 public domain waiver.
“We’re excited that the results of this important project will be available for all kinds of uses—including commercial use—by anyone,” said Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons. “We encourage researchers and our community to use what we’ve done and expand this investigation further, building upon the data we collected and incorporating more perspectives from Creative Commons adopters worldwide.”
In the next years, possibly as soon as 2010, Creative Commons expects to formally launch a multi-year, international process for producing the next version (4.0) of the six main Creative Commons licenses. This process will include examination of whether the noncommercial definition included in licenses with the NC term should be modified or if other means of clarifying noncommercial use under the CC licenses should be pursued. The results of Defining “Noncommercial” and subsequent research will be an important thread informing this process.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, Google, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, Omidyar Network, Red Hat, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public. For more information about supporting Creative Commons, please contact development@creativecommons.org.
About Netpop Research, LLC
Netpop Research, LLC is a San Francisco-based strategic market research firm that specializes in online media, digital entertainment and user-generated content trends. Netpop Research has fielded numerous studies for major profit and nonprofit entities, and is the creator of the Netpop tracking study of Internet usage among broadband consumers in the United States and China.
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Mike Linksvayer
Vice President
Creative Commons
ml@creativecommons.org
+1 415 369 8480
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No Comments »YouTube’s Glenn Otis Brown Returns to Creative Commons as Board Member
Eric Steuer, July 24th, 2009
San Francisco, CA, USA – July 24, 2009
Creative Commons, a global nonprofit focused on the growth and preservation of openly shareable and reusable culture, science, and education, officially announced today that Glenn Otis Brown has rejoined the organization as a member of its board of directors. Brown was CC’s executive director from 2002-2005 and is currently YouTube’s music business development manager.
As one of the core members of the Creative Commons team in the organization’s early days, Brown was instrumental in developing many of CC’s earliest successes, including the first two versions of its machine-readable copyright licenses, its international expansion, and the remix-friendly Wired CD and accompanying Wired Magazine cover story. Brown subsequently joined Google as a products counsel, where he worked on projects including Google Image Search, Blogger, Google Talk, the Google WiFi initiative, and Google Sitemaps. As the music business development manager for YouTube, Brown works with major and independent labels, publishers, and artists to build new business opportunities around both official music videos and fan-made tributes.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled to have Glenn join the board,” says Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito. “As Executive Director of the organization in its early days, Glenn established many of the critical ideas and relationships that CC is built upon today. That background, combined with his experience in developing creative projects and partnerships at YouTube, gives him particularly valuable insight into the opportunities for Creative Commons in the worlds of business, media, and culture at large.”
“It’s great to be involved with Creative Commons again,” Brown says. “It’s both humbling and exciting to see how much the organization has grown in influence and reach. Seven years ago, there was no easy way for creative people to declare ‘Some Rights Reserved,’ to invite open interaction with their work, while keeping their copyrights. Today, Creative Commons is the go-to solution for safe, legal sharing for folks as different as Ridley Scott, Wikipedia, MIT, or President Obama’s transition team.”
Brown joins a board of directors that includes technologist Joi Ito, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, cyberlaw and intellectual property experts Lawrence Lessig, Michael Carroll, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, and Eric Saltzman, Flickr founder Caterina Fake, MIT computer science professor Hal Abelson, documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, and Public Knowledge founder Laurie Racine.
Glenn Otis Brown biography
Glenn Otis Brown is currently the music business development manager at YouTube. Before that, he worked as a products counsel at Google, where he worked on Google Image Search, Blogger, Google Talk, the Google WiFi initiative, and Google Sitemaps, among many other projects. Glenn was Executive Director of Creative Commons from summer 2002 through spring 2005. In 2003-2004, Glenn was a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he co-taught a class on copyright licensing with Lawrence Lessig. He clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Miami, where he worked on the Wind Done Gone copyright appeal, among other cases. Glenn has also worked stints at The Economist’s Washington D.C. bureau, reporting on general U.S. news during the 2000 elections, and at “Digital Age,” a New York public TV show hosted by Andrew Shapiro, where he was assistant producer for a season. Glenn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A.) and Harvard Law School (JD). Glenn was a member of the Harvard Law Review and worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he organized the first Signal or Noise conference and concert in cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He lives in San Francisco and plays in a band called Magic Me.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Eric Steuer
Creative Director, Creative Commons
eric@creativecommons.org
Creators Celebrate Local Creative Commons Licenses in the Czech Republic
Michelle Thorne, April 15th, 2009
Prague, Czech Republic and Berlin, Germany
Creators in the Czech Republic can now publish and share their creative works using free Creative Commons (CC) tools adapted to Czech language and law.
The Czech Republic will become the fifty-second jurisdiction worldwide to offer localized Creative Commons licenses. Following extensive consultation with local and international legal experts and in close collaboration with Creative Commons International, Creative Commons Czech ported the licenses and will celebrate their launch on April 16 at an event during the Multiplace festival in Prague.
Already the Czech project is finding support from diverse content creators and curators keen to use the local licenses.
“Throughout the year it took to port the licenses, we established a strong coalition of people and groups from a range of backgrounds,” explains CC Czech Project Lead Marek Tichy. “The joint efforts of lawyers, librarians, musicians, teachers, artists, geeks, journalists and other specialists delivered not only what we were aiming for – the localized CC deeds and legal codes – but also proof that the ideas behind CC echo in many areas both professional and amateur. From archiving original Czech web content, to educational materials, to works from independent music producers and performers, CC opens up a wide spectrum of possibilities. There is no doubt the today’s launch is only the beginning of the Czech Creative Commons story.”
The launch event will be held in Prague’s DigiLab AVU on April 16 from 10:00am-4:00pm. It will feature a workshop on CC license usage, followed by a press conference and launch ceremony. Prominent speakers include Vít Richter (Deputy Director of the National Library of the Czech Republic), Jan Pavelka (Association of Independent Artists), Paul Keller (Creative Commons Netherlands), and Petr Kadlec (Wikimedia ČR).
Creative Commons Czech, led by Marek Tichy (Iuridicum Remedium), Lukáš Gruber (National Library of the Czech Republic), and Petr Jansa, was initiated as a part of Iuridicum Remedium’s project “Reclaim Your Rights in the Digital Age”, supported by CEE Trust. Creative Commons Czech has also received endorsement from the Copyright Department of the Ministry of Culture and Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University of Prague.
About Iuridicum Remedium
Iuridicum remedium (IuRe) is a non-governmental non-profit organization promoting human rights. It focuses on broad infringements of individual rights as a result of legislative action and also deals with specific cases of human rights violations. IuRe’s activities include current threats to human rights in the fields of Social Exclusion; Human Rights and Technologies; and Human Rights and Public Administration. IuRe is active in the areas of legislation and legal assistance, and disseminates information to both the professional community and the general public. Iuridicum Remedium is a member of EDRi, European Digital Rights network. For more information, visit http://www.iure.org/.
About the National Library of the Czech Republic
The National Library of the Czech Republic works on Creative Commons within its Webarchive. The Webarchive is a project which aims to archive the entire content of the Czech internet. Webarchive is dedicated to porting the Creative Commons licenses in order to resolve legal issues in making the archived content available to public. For more information, visit http://www.nkp.cz/ & http://www.webarchiv.cz/.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Dr. Catharina Maracke
Director, Creative Commons International
catharina@creativecommons.org
Press Kit
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
http://creativecommons.org/international/cz
Esther Wojcicki Becomes Creative Commons Board Chair
Mike Linksvayer, April 1st, 2009
San Francisco, CA, USA — 04/01/2009
Noted educator, education innovator, and journalist Esther Wojcicki today became Chair of the Creative Commons (CC) Board of Directors, taking over from founding board member James Boyle. Wojcicki first joined the board of Creative Commons last July. Creative Commons is a world wide non-profit organization that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works.
“I am thrilled to take on this new role,” said Wojcicki. “I strongly believe that the Creative Commons approach to sharing, reuse, and innovation has the power to totally reshape the worlds of education, science, technology, and culture at large. My main goal as chair is to make average Internet users worldwide aware of Creative Commons and to continue building the organization’s governance and financial resources. I am also very eager to help CC’s education push at high school and college journalism programs worldwide.”
Wojcicki is a journalism and English teacher at Palo Alto High School, where she leads one of the largest high school journalism programs in the nation. She leads a variety of award-winning journalism projects, including a newspaper, a magazine, a website, a television program, and a sports publication. Over the past 20 years, these projects have won Gold and Silver Crowns from Columbia Scholastic Press Association, the PaceMaker Award and Hall of Fame Award from National Scholastic Press, and best in nation from Time Magazine in 2003. In February 2009, she was awarded the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Key Award in a special ceremony at Columbia University for “outstanding devotion to the cause of the school press … and service above and beyond the call of delegated duty.” She is the president of the Friends of the Lurdes Mutola Foundation to support girls’ education in Mozambique and is a consultant for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
The outgoing chair, James Boyle, expressed delight that Wojcicki has accepted the position. “Esther is a wonderful choice for Chair of Creative Commons. She brings so much to the table. She is an award winning teacher, a journalist, and someone who has spent her professional life exploring the connections between education and technology. She will keep us focused on making Creative Commons licenses simple and clear and on solving actual problems people have. What’s more, she will make sure we do a good job explaining what Creative Commons and Science Commons can actually do for the world. I am incredibly happy that we persuaded her to take the position.”
Boyle was on the original board of Creative Commons, serving from 2002 to 2009, the past year as chair, and was co-founder of Science Commons and ccLearn. He has stepped down from the board upon vacating the Chair. Boyle is a founder of the modern movement to recognize, protect, and grow the intellectual commons, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke University, and author of the recent book The Public Domain: The Enclosing of the Commons of the Mind.
“I have been a Creative Commons board member from the beginning. Apart from raising my kids, my work with Creative Commons and Science Commons is one of my proudest accomplishments,” continued Boyle. “Though I will be stepping down from the board to focus on other projects, I will continue to be an ardent supporter of CC, both financially and professionally. I am excited about the organization’s future and I can’t think of a better person to lead us forward than Esther.”
Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito added that the appointment of Wojcicki to board chair marks an important step in the maturation of Creative Commons. “Esther’s ascension to chair demonstrates that we have successfully completed the leadership transition from visionary founders to a team that is operationally scaling that vision to become the global infrastructure for sharing in culture, education, and science,” Ito said.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Mike Linksvayer
Vice President, Creative Commons
ml@creativecommons.org
1-415-369-8480
Press Materials
http://creativecommons.org/about/press/
No Comments »Barriers to Sharing Lowered by Creative Commons Licenses in Thailand
Michelle Thorne, March 31st, 2009
Bangkok, Thailand and Berlin, Germany
Creative Commons Thailand has adapted the Creative Commons licenses to Thai law. The localized licenses, launching April 2, enable Thai creators to easily share creative works by lowering legal barriers and prohibitive transaction costs.
The Thai team, led by Mr. Phichai Phuechmongkol of Dharmniti Law Office (DLO), conducted the porting and public discussion of the Thai licenses with local and international legal experts. These efforts draw upon partners working pro-bono on the project from DLO, Change Fusion Institute, Thammasat University, and Prince of Songkla University, with generous support from the Thai Health Promotion Foundation’s ICT Plan for Online Health and Partner Support.
The localized licenses, the fifty-first completed worldwide, are the result of close collaboration with Creative Commons International, the coordinator of Creative Commons’ global projects.
In a statement on the launch’s importance, CC Thailand explains, “Adoption of the six core Thai licenses will lead to a cordial climate for sharing knowledge and creative works. This climate is especially desirable in a developing nation such as Thailand, whose citizens are dedicated to a culturally sustainable society that is also open to integration and cooperation. The Creative Commons licenses will help Thai society achieve these goals by enabling practical and reasonable copyright protection, while facilitating the sharing, distribution, use, and adaption of creative works both existing and newly-created.”
The launch will be held at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre on April 2 from 1:00-4:00pm. It will feature a seminar on Free Culture and Open Models of Digital Distribution and a CC showcase. Project Leads Phichai Phuechmongkol and Sunit Shrestha will conduct opening remarks, followed by speeches from key supporters: Wanchat Padungrat (Pantip.com), Supap Rimthepathip (Creative New Media Network), and award-winning author Prabda Yoon.
CC Thailand also announces its outreach campaign. “This launch does not mark the end of our efforts. Rather, it is the beginning of an ambitious campaign to promote the licenses for Thai creators. Our network will reach out to diverse content providers and present them with the concept of free and open culture. We hope to eventually persuade them to revisit their licensing policies and consider more flexible, reasonable solutions like Creative Commons.”
About Dharmniti Law Office
Founded in 1947 by Pradit Premyothin and with the guidance of Buth Khandhawit in 1978, the Dharmniti Law Office Co., Ltd. (DLO) has become one of the most well-respected law offices in Thailand, providing quality legal services for both local and international clients. DLO offers a full range of legal services with a staff of over 100 persons including over 50 talented lawyers.
For more information about Dharmniti Law Office, visit http://www.thailandlawoffice.com/ (English) & http://www.dlo.co.th/ (Thai).
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public.
For more information about Creative Commons, visit
http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Dr. Catharina Maracke
Director
Creative Commons International
+49 302 191 582 66
Press Kit
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
http://creativecommons.org/international/th
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ลดอุปสรรคในการแบ่งปันงานสร้างสรรค์ในประเทศไทย ด้วยสัญญาอนุญาตครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์
2 เมษายน 2552 – กรุงเทพ, ประเทศไทย และกรุงเบอร์ลิน, ประเทศเยอรมัน
เครือข่ายครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ประเทศไทย ได้ปรับแก้สัญญาอนุญาตฉบับทั่วไปของครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ ให้สอดคล้องกับกฎหมายไทยเสร็จเรียบร้อยแล้ว สัญญาอนุญาตสำหรับประเทศไทย ซึ่งจะเปิดตัว ในวันที่ 2 เมษายน ศกนี้ ทำให้ผู้สร้างสรรค์ชาวไทย สามารถแบ่งปันงานสร้างสรรค์ ได้ง่ายขึ้น โดยการลดค่าใช้จ่ายและอุปสรรคทางกฎหมายในการเผยแพร่งานสร้างสรรค์
คณะทำงานชาวไทย นำโดยคุณพิชัย พืชมงคล จากสำนักกฎหมายธรรมนิติ (Dharmniti Law Office : DLO) ได้ปรึกษาหารือกับผู้เชี่ยวชาญกฎหมายชาวไทยและต่างประเทศ อย่างเปิดเผยผ่านเวทีสาธารณะ และดำเนินการปรับแก้สัญญาอนุญาต แบบไม่มีค่าตอบแทน โดยได้รับความร่วมมือจากบุคคลและหน่วยงานจำนวนมาก เช่น สำนักกฎหมายธรรมนิติ, สถาบัน Change Fusion, มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์, และมหาวิทยาลัยสงขลานครินทร์ และได้รับการสนับสนุนจากแผนงาน ICT เพื่อสุขภาวะออนไลน์และภาคีเครือข่าย สำนักงานกองทุนสนับสนุนการสร้างเสริมสุขภาพ (สสส.)
สัญญาอนุญาตสำหรับประเทศไทย ซึ่งได้ปรับแก้ให้สอดคล้องกับกฎหมายท้องถิ่น เป็นลำดับที่ 51 ของโลก เป็นผลงานที่เกิดจากความร่วมมืออย่างใกล้ชิดระหว่างสำนักกฎหมายธรรมนิติ กับ Creative Commons International ซึ่งเป็นองค์กรประสานงานทางสากลของครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์
เครือข่ายครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ประเทศไทย อธิบายถึงความสำคัญของการเปิดตัวสัญญาอนุญาตสำหรับประเทศไทยว่า ” สัญญาอนุญาตหลักหกฉบับสำหรับประเทศไทยนี้ จะส่งเสริมบรรยากาศในการแบ่งปันความรู้และงานสร้างสรรค์ ให้เสรีและเปิดกว้างมากยิ่งขึ้นในสังคมไทย บรรยากาศเช่นนี้ เป็นผลดีอย่างยิ่ง โดยเฉพาะต่อประเทศกำลังพัฒนาเช่นประเทศไทย ที่ซึ่งชาวไทย มุ่งหมายในการรักษาวัฒนธรรมของสังคมไทยให้ยั่งยืน แต่ก็เปิดกว้างในการร่วมมือและแลกเปลี่ยนกับสังคมอื่น ๆ สัญญาอนุญาตของครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ จะช่วยให้สังคมไทยบรรลุถึงเป้าหมายทั้งสองด้าน คือการปกป้องคุ้มครองลิขสิทธิ์ในงานสร้างสรรค์ที่เหมาะสมและมีเหตุผล ในขณะเดียวกัน ก็อำนวยความสะดวกในการแบ่งปัน เผยแพร่ ใช้และพัฒนางานสร้างสรรค์ ทั้งที่มีอยู่เดิมและที่จะสร้างขึ้นใหม่ ”
งานเปิดตัว จัดขึ้นในวันที่ 2 เมษายน เวลา 13:00 – 16:00 น. ที่หอศิลปวัฒนธรรมแห่งกรุงเทพมหานคร ในงานมีการเสวนาเรื่อง “วัฒนธรรมเสรีกับการเผยแพร่เงานสร้างสรรค์ดิจิทัลแบบเปิดกว้าง ” และตัวอย่างการใช้สัญญาอนุญาตครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ คุณพิชัย พืชมงคล ผู้นำโครงการฯ และคุณสุนิตย์ เชรษฐา เป็นผู้กล่าวเปิดงาน ตามด้วยการอภิปรายของผู้สนับสนุน รายหลัก ๆ ได้แก่ คุณวันฉัตร ผดุงรัตน์ จากเว็บพันทิพดอทคอม (Pantip.com), คุณสุภาพ หริมเทพาธิป จากเครือข่ายสื่อใหม่สร้างสรรค์ และคุณปราบดา หยุ่น นักเขียนผู้ชนะรางวัล
เครือข่ายครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ประเทศไทย ประกาศโครงการรณรงค์ส่งเสริมการใช้สัญญาอนุญาตครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์โดยกล่าวว่า “การเปิดตัวสัญญาอนุญาตครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ ไม่ได้หมายความว่า งานของเราเสร็จแล้ว หากแต่เป็นการเริ่มต้นของโครงการรณรงค์ที่ใหญ่กว่าเดิม ในการสนับสนุนผู้สร้างสรรค์ชาวไทย ให้นำสัญญาอนุญาตครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ไปใช้กับงานสร้างสรรค์ของตน เครือข่ายฯ จะเข้าไปปรึกษาหารือกับผู้สร้างสรรค์งานประเภทต่างๆ เพื่อนำเสนอแนวคิดวัฒนธรรมเสรีและเปิดกว้าง เราหวังว่า ในที่สุด จะสามารถชักชวนผู้สร้างสรรค์งานเหล่านั้น ให้ทบทวนแนวทางการอนุญาต และพิจารณาแนวทางที่ยืดหยุ่นและมีเหตุผล ด้วยการใช้สัญญาอนุญาตของครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ ”
เกี่ยวกับสำนักกฎหมายธรรมนิติ
สำนักกฎหมายธรรมนิติ ก่อตั้งในปี 2490 โดยคุณประดิษฐ์ เปรมโยธิน จนเมื่อปี 2521 คุณบุศย์ ขันธวิทย์ ได้นำสำนักกฎหมายธรรมนิติ สู่การเป็นสำนักกฎหมายที่ได้รับความเชื่อถือมากที่สุดแห่งหนึ่งในประเทศไทย สำนักกฎหมายธรรมนิติ ให้บริการทางกฎหมายที่มีคุณภาพแก่ลูกค้าทั้งในประเทศและต่างประเทศ แบบครบวงจร ด้วยทีมงานมากกว่า 100 คน รวมถึงนักกฎหมายที่มีความสามารถมากกว่า 50 คน
สำหรับข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับสำนักกฎหมายธรรมนิติ เข้าชมได้ที่ http://www.dlo.co.th/ (ภาษาไทย) และ http://www.thailandlawoffice.com/ (ภาษาอังกฤษ)
เกี่ยวกับครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์
ครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ (Creative Commons) เป็นองค์กรประเภทไม่แสวงหาผลกำไร ก่อตั้งเมื่อปี 2544 เพื่อส่งเสริมการนำงานด้านศิลปะและวิชาการ ทั้งที่มีลิขสิทธิ์และที่เป็นสาธารณสมบัติ มาใช้งานซ้ำอย่างสร้างสรรค์ ครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ เสนอให้นักเขียน ศิลปิน นักวิทยาศาสตร์และนักการศึกษา เลือกใช้สัญญาอนุญาตแบบต่าง ๆ ซึ่งมีลิขสิทธิ์และไม่มีค่าใช้จ่าย โดยยืดหยุ่นตามระดับความคุ้มครองและเสรีภาพที่เหมาะสม บนพื้นฐานของแนวคิด “สงวนสิทธิ์บางประการ” แทนที่การใช้สัญญาอนุญาตตามกฎหมายลิขสิทธิ์แบบดั้งเดิม ที่อยู่บนพื้นฐานของแนวคิด “สงวนลิขสิทธิ์ “ ครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ ก่อตั้งและได้รับการสนับสนุนอย่างมากจากหน่วยงานต่าง ๆ ได้แก่ ศูนย์เพื่อสาธารณะสมบัติ (Center for the Public Domain), เครือข่ายโอมิดยา (Omidya Network), มูลนิธิรอคกี้เฟลเลอร์ (Rockefeller Foundation), มูลนิธิจอห์น ดี. และคาเธอรีน ที. แมคอาร์เธอร์ (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation), และมูลนิธิวิลเลียม และฟลอร่า ฮิวเล็ทท์ (The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) รวมทั้งได้รับการสนับสนุนจากสาธารณะชนทั่วไป
สำหรับข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ เช้าชมได้ที่ http://creativecommons.org.
ติดต่อ
Dr. Catharina Maracke
Director
Creative Commons International
+49 302 191 582 66
ข้อมูลสำหรับสื่อ
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
http://creativecommons.org/international/th
UNCENSORED INTERVIEW AND CREATIVE COMMONS TEAM UP TO GIVE FREE ACCESS TO ARTIST INTERVIEWS
Eric Steuer, March 9th, 2009
Thousands of Videos Featuring Musician Interviews Now Available Under CC’s Permissive Attribution License
New York, NY, USA and San Francisco, CA, USA — 03/09/2009
Today, Uncensored Interview, a video producer and licensor of musician interviews, announced a collaboration with Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization focused on building a body of openly shareable and reusable creative work, by releasing thousands of videos from its interview footage archive under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY) license. Previously, Uncensored Interview’s library consisted of premium content available for commercial licensing, but now includes videos available via download in Ogg Theora, a free and open video compression format. Under CC-BY, users of the content are only required to give attribution to Uncensored Interview as the content source.
“This is a visionary move on the part of Uncensored Interview,” said Eric Steuer, creative director of Creative Commons. “By offering this vast and amazing body of work to the public under our most permissive license, the people behind Uncensored Interview are making a clear statement that allowing the sharing and creative reuse of material – even for commercial purposes – can enhance the value of that material for its creators. In promoting a “some rights reserved” approach to distribution, Uncensored Interview is opening up a wide variety of possibilities, and we’re very excited to see the kinds of projects that result from this pioneering effort.”
By working with Creative Commons, Uncensored Interview opens a direct line for fans to download, share, remix and promote select interview videos of their favorite artists. Uncensored Interview’s videos will be clearly marked as available via the CC license, while simultaneously providing a mechanism via the CC+ protocol for partners to seek out licensing permissions beyond those already granted.
“Consumers are not just consumers any more. They are creators and collaborators in their own right. By licensing our premium content under Creative Commons in Ogg Theora, we immediately enable use of our content as source material for online users while simultaneously promoting the artists and their points of view,” said Sander van Zoest, Chief Technology Officer for Uncensored Interview.
Many of the artists interviewed by Uncensored Interview are supporters of Creative Commons.
Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk said, “I think many people are starting to see the artistic and financial benefits of allowing their art and music to be appropriated and recontextualized. Creative Commons are making that whole process much easier.”
“Creativity is so often restricted by bureaucracy and financial matters. I think, CC can be a healthy solution for creative collaborations. It can help bridge the gap between the artist and fan, which I think would be a positive change”, said UK singer-songwriter Findlay Brown.
Uncensored Interview will release select interview videos under the Creative Commons license (CC-BY) on an ongoing basis. To download Uncensored Interview content, go to http://www.uncensoredinterview.com/topics/cc.
About Uncensored Interview
Uncensored Interview (http://www.uncensoredinterview.com), a subsidiary of ZenCat Productions, LLC, is a video production and licensing company focusing on the community of music artists and their fans. UI’s primary business is to produce interviews in a free-format style with musicians of all genres and license high-definition quality footage to partner companies. UI beta launched in November 2007 and has created distribution relationships with all areas of the music and digital industry, including broadcast networks, digital retail hubs, the music blogosphere, leading major and indie music labels and prominent music festivals and tours. Uncensored Interview has been recognized for many awards including the SXSW Interactive Web Awards and the Webby Awards. UI has interviewed hundreds of acclaimed acts including Stereolab, Hercules and Love Affair, The Kooks, Vivian Girls, The New Pornographers, Dizzee Rascal, Lykke Li and many more.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Melinda Lee
Chief Content Officer, Uncensored Interview
Email
Eric Steuer
Creative Director, Creative Commons
Email
Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License
Eric Steuer, January 13th, 2009
Doha, Qatar – January 13, 2009
Al Jazeera Network today announced the world’s first repository of broadcast-quality video footage released under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Select Al Jazeera video footage – at this time, footage of the War in Gaza – will be available for free to be downloaded, shared, remixed, subtitled and eventually rebroadcasted by users and TV stations across the world with acknowledgement to Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera will release its exclusive Arabic and English coverage produced by the Network’s correspondents and crews in the Gaza Strip online at http://cc.aljazeera.net. The ongoing war and crisis in Gaza, together with the scarcity of news footage available, make the repository a key resource for anyone producing content about the current situation.
This is the first time that video footage produced by a news broadcaster is released under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license, which allows for both commercial and non-commercial use.
Mohamed Nanabhay, who headed New Media at Al Jazeera and launched the project, stated: “As one of the only international broadcasters in Gaza, our coverage of the war has been unsurpassed. The launch of Al Jazeera’s Creative Commons Repository means that our Gaza footage will be made available under the most permissive Creative Commons license (CC-BY). With the flexibility of the license, we expect to introduce our outstanding coverage to an even wider audience across the world. This means that news outlets, filmmakers and bloggers will be able to easily share, remix, and reuse our footage.”
Lawrence Lessig – founder of the Creative Commons organization and Professor of Law at Stanford University – stated: “Al Jazeera is teaching an important lesson about how free speech gets built and supported. By providing a free resource for the world, the network is encouraging wider debate, and a richer understanding.”
Joichi Ito – CEO of Creative Commons and a world-renowned technology entrepreneur – added: “Video news footage is an essential part of modern journalism. Providing material under a Creative Commons license to allow commercial and amateur use is an enormous contribution to the global dialogue around important events. Al Jazeera has set the example and the standard that we hope others will follow.”
As a pioneer in news and media, Al Jazeera is always looking for ways to make its unique content accessible to audiences across the world and the launch of Al Jazeera’s Creative Commons Repository is another concrete step in this direction.
For details on downloading and accessing content from Al Jazeera’s Creative Commons Repository please go to http://cc.aljazeera.net or contact creativecommons@aljazeera.net.
About Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera started out over twelve years ago as the first independent Arabic news channel in the world dedicated to providing comprehensive television news and live debate for the Arab world. In 2006, Al Jazeera was ranked by brandchannel.com as the most impactful television broadcast news brand globally. As a result of its expansion and the creation of new channels and services, Al Jazeera was formally named the Al Jazeera Network in March 2006, transforming its operation into an international media corporation. The Al Jazeera Network now consists of the flagship Al Jazeera Arabic channel, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Documentary, Al Jazeera Sport, Al Jazeera.net (the English and Arabic web sites), the Al Jazeera Media Training and Development Center, the Al Jazeera Center for Studies, Al Jazeera Mubasher (Live), and Al Jazeera Mobile.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, the Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public. The Creative Commons licensing suite has been ported to 50 jurisdictions around the world. For more information about Creative Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Lauren McCollough
Media Relations, Al Jazeera Network
press.int@aljazeera.net
+974 489 6046
Eric Steuer
Creative Director, Creative Commons
eric@creativecommons.org
Donatella Della Ratta
Arab World Media and Development Manager, Creative Commons
donatella@creativecommons.org
++39 339 2248940
++963 949095651
Creative Commons International and Wikimedia Germany in closer collaboration, shared office space
Michelle Thorne, December 9th, 2008
Berlin, Germany
Building on existing collaborations with local Wikimedia projects, Creative Commons International (CCi) will be moving its current office in Berlin-Mitte to Berlin-Schöneberg to share workspace with Wikimedia Germany. The move reflects the organizations’ growing efforts and long-standing mutual support.
Wikimedia Germany, the first independent national Wikimedia chapter, is known the world over for its high quality articles and exemplary member participation, leading the first international Wikimedia conference “Wikimania” in 2005 in Frankfurt am Main and establishing Wikipedia Academies in 2006.
“The free culture and free content communities in Germany are incredibly strong, and this collaboration will help build bridges across projects, people, and resources. It is my hope that these ties will extend to community members worldwide.” CCi Director Dr. Catharina Maracke remarks.
CCi works closely with other local Wikimedia chapters, including Wikimedia Serbia, one of the institutional hosts of the CC Serbia project, and Wikimedia Indonesia, which will shortly begin porting the CC licenses to Indonesian law. Nordic CC and Wikimedia communities are also strengthening ties, as demonstrated by the recent “free society” conference FSCONS, organized by CC Sweden, Wikimedia Sweden, and the Free Software Foundation Europe.
Beginning December 10, 2008, the CCi office will be based in Eisenacher Straße 2, 10777 Berlin, Germany.
About Wikimedia Germany
The organization Wikimedia Germany (Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.) was founded in June 2004 by active contributors to the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Its mission is to foster Free Knowledge through information and education in general and through the support of diverse projects led by volunteers who are making knowledge freely available to everyone. Wikimedia Germany focuses its efforts on Wikipedia and related projects driven by the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please visit http://wikimedia.de/.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, the Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Dr. Catharina Maracke
Director
Creative Commons International
Press Kit
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
http://creativecommons.org/international
DotAsia and Creative Commons Join Forces to Foster Creativity and Sharing in Asia
Melissa Reeder, October 24th, 2008
The creativity of Asia’s people will be supported and shared thanks to a new long-term strategic collaboration between the DotAsia Organisation and Creative Commons (CC).
DotAsia, the not-for-profit registry operator for the “.Asia” Internet top-level domain, plans to commit US$100,000 to Creative Commons in support of its cause, outreach and community efforts in Asia. In addition, DotAsia will contribute time and effort into assisting in the coordination of events, activities of CC’s regional chapters and various other socio-technical initiatives, such as a next generation copyright registry project.
The collaboration will be announced by the CEO of Creative Commons, Mr. Joi Ito, and Mr. Edmon Chung, the CEO of DotAsia, during the launch ceremony next Saturday afternoon (Oct 25) for Creative Commons Hong Kong (CCHK) at the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Kowloon, Hong Kong. For more details about the launch event visit CCHK’s
website.
“We are thrilled to work with Joi and the brilliant team at Creative Commons”, said Edmon Chung, “this strategic alliance matches the core mission of DotAsia to promote Internet development and adoption in Asia. It also helps strengthen our connection to the worldwide IPR community. Stay tuned here for CC activities in Asia.”
“The contribution from DotAsia is very meaningful to the development of Creative Commons in Asia. Through collaboration with DotAsia,” Joi Ito added. “CC can look forward to building stronger rapport with the creative and cultural communities in Greater China and Asia.”
About DotAsia
DotAsia Organisation is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to promote Internet development and adoption in Asia. The organization oversees the ‘.Asia’ top-level Internet domain name, and is formed as an open consortium of 20 official top-level-domain authorities around the region, including .CN (China), .JP (Japan), .KR (Korea), .IN (India), .NZ (New Zealand), .PH (Philippines), etc., and 5 regional Internet organizations including APNIC, APNG, APCERT, PAN and APTLD. In the past two decades Asia has developed into a global force in the commercial, political and cultural network. The .Asia domain aspires to embrace this dynamism in the Asia Century to become a nucleus, intersection and breeding ground for Internet activity and development in the region.
About Creative Commons Hong Kong
Creative Commons Hong Kong (CCHK) is hosted by the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. CCHK works with Creative Commons to localize and promote the use of Creative Commons licenses in Hong Kong.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public.
Contact – Melissa Reeder, Development Manager, melissa@creativecommons.org
No Comments »Hong Kong Promotes Education, Creativity with Creative Commons’ 50th Launch Event
Michelle Thorne, October 23rd, 2008
[Text in English and Chinese]
Hong Kong and Berlin, Germany
The localized Hong Kong licenses, launching October 25, will enable Hong Kong creators to clearly and legally indicate the freedoms they wish their creative works to carry. The launch marks the fiftieth Creative Commons jurisdiction to celebrate the license porting.
When Creative Commons was founded in 2001, the core Creative Commons licenses were drafted according to United States Copyright Law. Following this initiative, global interest in the “some rights reserved” approach to copyright led to the development of national versions of the Creative Commons licenses. To achieve this aim, Creative Commons International (CCi) works in collaboration with a network of legal experts and professionals to build a free, multilingual licensing system that is legally enforceable in jurisdictions around the world. Through a standard license porting process, CCi and CC Project Leads have since ported the licensing suite to fifty jurisdictions. As of July 2008, there are an estimated 130 million CC-licensed works worldwide, and global license usage continues to grow.
On October 25, the Hong Kong launch will be held during an event co-sponsored by the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre and the Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity. Creative Commons founder Prof. Lawrence Lessig and CC CEO Joichi Ito will open the ceremony. Their keynotes will be followed by an open courseware presentation and a panel discussion about how Hong Kong can improve education and promote creativity through Creative Commons. The launch ceremony will be preceded by a performance by the Hong Kong band Snoblind, who have issued a number of their works under a Creative Commons license. After the launch, parallel sessions will showcase workshops and performances from different creative sectors, including the reading of a play, a bloggers’ workshop, a music workshop and two documentary workshops. For more information about the launch please visit http://hk.creativecommons.org.
Legal Leads of CCHK, Dr. Yahong Li and Ms. Alice Lee of the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law, conducted the porting process and public discussion of the licenses with local and international legal experts and in collaboration with CCi. The CCHK project is hosted by the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong, with Rebecca MacKinnon serving as Public Lead. The work of CCHK is also supported by a Preparatory Executive Committee chaired by Internet entrepreneur Mr. Pindar Wong and comprised of members from different sectors in Hong Kong such as the IT sector, education, media, the arts, and politics. The CCHK launch would not be possible without the work of many enthusiastic community volunteers.
“At a time when Hong Kong is working to improve education and strengthen our creative industries, I see CCHK helping to provide a firm foundation on which to build Hong Kong’s creative capital,” says Pindar Wong, Chairman of CCHK’s Preparatory Executive Committee. “For example, in education, where e-books can be developed and shared over the net using our licenses.”
About the Journalism and Media Studies Centre
Founded in 1999, the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) is a teaching and research unit at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong’s oldest university. The JMSC offers an undergraduate and graduate degree, and professional programs for working journalists and executives. The JMSC is committed to the pursuit of excellence in journalism and supporting Asian voices in the international media. JMSC’s activities, such as the Media Law Project and the China Media Project, strive to promote civil society and an informed citizenry through a vibrant and professional news media. The JMSC works in partnership with Hong Kong University faculties and departments and a vast network of professional groups in Hong Kong, China and beyond.
The JMSC assumed the role of host organization for Creative Commons Hong Kong in August 2007. The project’s Public Lead is Rebecca MacKinnon, Assistant Professor at the JMSC, while the role of Legal Lead is shared by Dr. Yahong Li and Alice Lee of The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Further updates about CC Hong Kong’s activities can be found at Creative Commons Hong Kong website: http://hk.creativecommons.org. For more information about JMSC, visit http://jmsc.hku.hk/.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, the Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.
Contact
Dr. Catharina Maracke
Director, Creative Commons International
catharina [at] creativecommons [dot] org
Press Kit
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
http://creativecommons.org/international/hk
http://hk.creativecommons.org
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香港採用〈共享創意〉推動教育與創意
全球第五十個〈共享創意〉本地化組織誕生
2008年10月23日：中國香港和德國柏林
〈香港共享創意〉是〈共享創意〉組織第五十名成員，剛完成把「保留部份版權」條款因應本地法律的修訂，方便香港創作人在發佈作品時，以合法方式清晰標示如何保留部份版權。
〈共享創意〉在2001年成立時，核心條款是依據美國版權法草擬。此後，全球各地對「保留部份版權」制度積極回應，發展出各地本地化之〈共享創意〉條款。〈國際共享創意〉組織與法律界人士攜手建立一套靈活採用、多語言版本的條款系統，適用於各個國家地區。〈國際共享創意〉和各國各地的領導小組，依據劃一程序，因應當地法律修訂核心條款。迄今已有五十個司法管轄區完成修訂程序。至2008年7月，估計已有1億3千萬項作品在全球各地以〈共享創意〉條款發表。該數目仍在持續增加。
〈香港共享創意〉在10月25日舉行成立典禮，邀請〈共享創意〉創辦人Lawrence Lessig教授和總幹事伊藤穰一蒞臨主禮。當日的活動有開放式課程的簡報和嘉賓座談會，討論香港可如何利用〈共享創意〉改善教育資源和推動創意。其他文娛表演活動還有已經以〈共享創意〉條款發表唱片集的Snoblind二人組現場演奏、朗讀使用〈共享創意〉條款的新劇本、博客工作坊、作曲家講座、以及兩場錄像記錄片工作坊。是日成立典禮由香港大學新聞及傳媒研究中心和香港兆基創意書院聯合贊助。〈香港共享創意〉網址http://hk.creativecommons.org.
香港大學法律系李亞虹副教授及李雪菁副教授連同本地和國際法律專家，與〈國際共享創意〉合作，主持〈香港共享創意〉的法律修訂和公眾咨詢工作。〈香港共享創意〉是香港大學新聞及傳媒研究中心主持的項目，由麥康瑞助理教授出任項目主持人。〈香港共享創意〉籌備委員會由黃平達先生出任主席，得到來自資訊科技、教育、媒體、藝術和政界多個界別的人士以及眾多義工的全力支持。
籌備委員會主席黃平達先生說：「〈香港共享創意〉為香港的創意資本建立穩固的基礎。例如教育界可以創作電子書本，利用〈香港共享創意〉條款在互聯網發表」
香港大學新聞及傳媒研究中心
香港大學在1999年成立新聞及傳媒研究中心，兼備教學和研究專長。除了學士和研究生課程外，中心亦為現職記者和媒體人士提供專業課程。該中心致力提升新聞及傳媒的專業水平及支持亞洲傳媒在國際媒體中發揮更大影響。中心的其他活動，例如媒體法律項目、中國傳媒項目等，旨在通過有活力的專業傳媒推廣公民社會和公民的知情權。中心一直與香港大學各院系、以及香港、中國內地和其他地區的專業團體網絡緊密合作。
新聞及傳媒研究中心在2007年8月啟動〈香港共享創意〉項目，由麥康瑞助理教授主持；法律系李亞虹副教授及李雪菁副教授共同主持法律修訂工作。
〈新聞及傳媒研究中心〉網址http://jmsc.hku.hk/
〈共享創意〉
〈共享創意〉在2001年成立，是一個非營利組織，旨在推廣在公共領域或受版權保護的知識和藝術作品得以創意再用。〈共享創意〉以傳統的「保留全部版權」制度為基礎，倡議一套靈活的「保留部份版權」條款，讓作家、藝術家、科學家和教育家可以自選的方式和條件發表作品。〈共享創意〉組織得到多個美國公共領域團體和基金會以及公眾人士慷慨支持。
〈共享創意〉網址http://creativecommons.org
聯絡人：〈國際共享創意〉總裁Catharina Maracke博士
catharina [at] creativecommons [dot] org
新聞資料
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
http://creativecommons.org/international/hk
http://hk.creativecommons.org
