some of the cc-licensed projects in taiwan
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Slides for the session "CC-Licensed Projects in the Asia & Pacific Region", in "Commons Crossroads: Defining the Roadmap for CC in Asia & the Pacific", Manila, Philippines, 2009-02. (http://www.cc-asiapacific.net/)TRANSCRIPT
Some of theCC-licensed Projects
in TaiwanCommons Crossroads: Defining the roadmap for CC in Asia & the Pacific
2009-02-04&05 Manila, Philippines
Tyng-Ruey ChuangCreative Commons Taiwan
Except for quoted texts and images, this work is released under the Creative Commons “Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 Taiwan” License.
Several Kinds of Projects• Community-based collaborative web
sites– Taiwan Baseball Wiki– Wekey Wiki
• Services/products by companies– streetvoice.com– PowerDirector 7
• Government agencies and programs– TELDAP (Taiwan e-Learning & Digital Archives
Program)
Taiwan Baseball Wikihttp://twbsball.dils.tku.edu.tw
• A collaborative Wiki documenting Taiwan baseballhistory and current events.
• Started in April 2005 by Prof. Sinn-Cheng Lin atTamkang University.
• Currently maintained by 1,400+ users, and has14,000+ pages.
• Use the CC “BY-NC 3.0” license. Made a transitionfrom GNU FDL to CC “BY-NC” in April 2006.(Want to include third-party photos that areallowable only for non-commercial use.)
Wekey Wikihttp://wekey.westart.tw/
• A collaboratively maintained directory andresource portal on free software packages.
• “We key in the information using Wiki.”• What’s in the Wiki: What packages are
available, where to download, how to use, andwhere to get help.
• Use the CC “BY-SA 2.5 Taiwan” license.• A nice example of the mutual benefits — and
cross promotion — of free software andopen content.
streetvoice.com
• A social networking site for music makersand music lovers.
• Allow users to upload tracks with theirown licensing conditions, including thoseof the Creative Commons licenses.
• The site is operated and owned byNeutron Innovation (BVI) Ltd, a concertorganizer and cross-promotion company.
“Creative commons photos and audio:Don't limit yourself to your own photosand sound clips.Now you can directly import photos fromFlickr™ and audio from Freesound.Creative Commons licenses allow you touse other people's work for free as longas you follow the wishes of the artist,such as provide attribution or use it fornon-commercial projects.Each artist has their own terms of use.”
Text in the previous slideis found on the
production description pagesin a company web site!
A video editing tool sold by CyberLink Corp.
PowerDirector 7http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/main_4_en_US.html
TELDAP Union Cataloghttp://catalog.digitalarchives.tw/
• A union catalog of digitized content collectionsfrom multiple institutions (museums, libraries,etc.).
• 3,600,000+ items, all with metadata.• Citable and (permanently) linkable.• The default license for each item was CC “BY-NC-
ND 2.0 Taiwan”.• Now under reconsideration: Issues of rights
clearing, institution responsibility, and publiclicensing policy.