Working with The Public Sector in Using CC Licenses: Lessons Learned

Working with The Public Sector in Using CC Licenses: Lessons Learned CC Asia Conference 2010 Tyng-Ruey Chuang Creative Commons Taiwan @ Research Center for Information Technology Innovation Academia Sinica

Outline • Who we are and where we come from • Outreach to the public sector about CC licenses • Some observations and perspectives

Disclaimer My observations and opinions are my own. They not necessarily represent those of my employer or any of the organizations or projects in which I am involved.

• Who we are – Creative Commons Taiwan – A project hosted in Academia Sinica, a government-funded research organization • Where we come from – Started in 2003 as part of the “law and policy” work in an open source initiative – CC Taiwan licenses launched in 2004 – In a unique position to talk to the public sector, educators/students, and the public

The Public Sector • Direct administration funded through taxation • Publicly owned corporations • Partial outsourcing [of public projects] • “Grants” from government departments – Grants not necessarily given to CC Taiwan – Relationships transcend grants

“Copyright Crimes and Remedies” • The “piracy problem” • CC licenses as infrastructures for large scale people-to-people content sharing and reuse • Grants to develop contents, and to hold seminars about public licensing (in particular the CC Licenses) • The audience: The public; educators and students • Importance of long-term relationships

Government Publications • Make them more accessible, and produce them in less cost • “More fun, less work” • Grants to develop contents, and to hold seminars about the CC Licenses • The audience: Civil servants and “decision makers” • Various types of government publications • “historical problem” v.s. “new process” • The need for best practices

Content Holders and Producers • Entities holding large content collections of high cultural and economic values – Archives, museums, public television services, etc. • “What are others doing with their collections?” • Seminars and consultations on pubic licensing • Audience: Program staff and stakeholders • There are always managerial considerations • Need to look into sustainability models

Observations • CC Licenses are getting very popular – questions about details; licenses not “cure all” • Issues of liability – how to resolve conflicts, and how to take responsibility “if something goes wrong”? • In-house counsel; sustainability model – the path from “nice idea” to “good practice” • Learning from your neighbors – eventually everyone is a smart neighbor! • Policy decisions have great implications – few major policy decisions so far, however

Perspectives • Need new strategies to get major policy changes – dealing with bureaucratic reality – bottom-up and top-down approaches • Is legislative process a good option? – may put people in difficult positions • Joining force from the open standards and free software movements • Voices from the younger generations (even in the public sector)

Thanks • Intellectual Property Office, Ministry of Economic Affairs (TIPO) • Computer Center, Ministry of Education (CC/MOE) • The Council for Cultural Affairs (CCA) • The Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission (RDEC) • Public Television Service (PTS) • Taiwan E-Learning and Digital Archive Program (TELDAP) and many more

Working with The Public Sector in Using CC Licenses: Lessons Learned

by Tyng-Ruey Chuang

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