"Working with The Public Sector in Using CC Licenses:Lessons Learned", a 15-min presentation given at the CC Asia Conference 2010. June 4-5, Seoul, Korea. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Asia_Conference_2010

1. 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

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

3. 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.

4. • 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

5. 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

6. “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

8. 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

10. 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

12. 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

13. 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)

15. 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