Introduction to
Creative Commons
Student Society of Computing of OUHK
Presented by Dr. Haggen So
Project Manager
Creative Commons Hong Kong

CC Video

Copyright
Limitation on Creativity
To stimulate more Creativity

Copyright
1710
Statute of Anna 14+14 yr
to
1988
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
(Mickey Mouse Protection Act) 95 yr

Prof. Lawrence Lessig

History of Creative Commons
2001 Kick-Off
2002 Six Licences
2005 台灣創用 CC
2006 中国大陆知识共享
2008 香港共享創意

licence elements:
Attribution 署名
Non-Commercial 非商業性
No Derivative Works 禁止衍生
Share Alike 相同方式共享

the licences
6 variations
Attribution
(by)
Attribution Share Alike
(by-sa)
Attribution No Derivatives
(by-nd)
Attribution Non-commercial
(by-nc)
Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike
(by-nc-sa)
Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives
(by-nc-nd)

授權條款
6 個不同條款
署名
(by)
署名 相同方式共享
(by-sa)
署名 禁止衍生
(by-nd)
署名 非商業性
(by-nc)
署名 非商業性 相同方式共享
(by-nc-sa)
署名 非商業性 禁止衍生
(by-nc-nd)

three expressions:
Human-Readable: Commons Deed
Lawyer-Readable: Legal Code
Machine-Readable: Digital Code, Metadata

Common Deed 法律條款的摘要

Legal Code 授權條款全文

Digital Code 數碼源碼
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-
sa/3.0/hk/"><img alt="Creative Commons License"
style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-
sa/3.0/hk/88x31.png" /></a><br />&#26412; &#33879;&#20316;
&#20418;&#25505;&#29992;<a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-
sa/3.0/hk/">&#20849;&#20139;&#21109;&#24847;
&#32626;&#21517;-&#38750;&#21830;&#26989;&#24615;-
&#30456;&#21516;&#26041;&#24335;&#20849;&#20139; 3.0
&#39321;&#28207;
&#25480;&#27402;&#26781;&#27454;</a>&#25480;&#27402;.

Creative Commons 共享創意
Choices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Web_2.0_Map.svg (CC BY-SA)

Participation
from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0
Read Only
vs
Read Write

Twitter

Long Tail
Popularity
Products
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Long_tail.svg

Growth of CC Works

Onion Club
http://blog.roodo.com/onion_club/

Freedom
Know your Freedom:
Know the Problems in Copyright System
Borrow Strategies from other Movements
Exercise your Freedom:
Started the Creative Commons Project
Share your Freedom:
Provide a framework for Sharing

Credits for Sources
Not yet Acknowledged
Rebecca McKinnon (2008). Creative Commons:
Copyright in the digital age for Greater China
and Hong Kong, from
http://www.slideshare.net/rmackinnon/cc-
hku-129484