Creative Commons Korea is a non-commercial organization supporting Open Culture in which each and every one can come together for creativity and sharing. And also CC Korea provides Creative Commons License as a free tool that lets authors, artists, scientists, educators, bloggers and ordinary online community members easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry and entitles them to share remix and reuse others work legally.
Open Culture meets Business -
How to Open Business Seminar to be held on Nov 13, 2009
Open culture can not only create public value but also generate business opportunities.
Aiming at providing a strategic approach to developing new open-based business models, Creative Commons Korea holds "How to Open Business" seminar in Seoul on November 13, 2009.
In the seminar, various open-based business models will be presented through examples while attendees will have the opportunity to identify new business models of their own.
The one-day event will start with the opening remarks by Prof. Jinsup Jung, chief of CC Korea, to be followed by the keynote speech by Sangki Steve Han, the Graduate School of Culture Technology of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
CC Korea staff Su-jeong Han will give a general introduction on open business strategies through practical examples and case studies.
The seminar will be highlighted by two well recognized international figures: Sylvain Zimmer, founder and CTO of Jamendo, and Chiaki Hayashi, founder and PMO of Loftwork, will share their valuable knowledge and experience about developing a viable and profitable business model based on open culture.
Double Deck, a Korean digital music performance group, will also rock the audience with their powerful live performance. Double Deck is one of the first Korean musicians who shared their works under creative commons licenses.
The final session of the event is "Open Business Speech," where anyone can present their open business ideas and be given the rare opportunity to receive consultation and business advice from established experts from various fields.
On the following day, the seminar presenters will also be joined by those who share the value of open culture in the CC Salon. Guests from different industries such as music, design, technology and business will share their views and experience on a variety of issues related to open culture and have in-depth discussions on open business models in various areas including music and art.
GSCT is established with the intent to emphasize inter-disciplinary studies among technology, arts, business and design. And its curriculum is well customized to educate prospective leaders with the knowledge and skills covering the fields of developing science and technology that will develop the culture industry in Korea.
As of now, KAIST GSCT is to open its various academic content and research materials created by the graduate school to the public under CC licenses, building an archive site designed for it. Additionally, both parties agree to work together in multifaceted directions including the followings:
Holding a series of seminars on the subjects related to sharing creative work on a regular basis
Exchanging personnel in research projects and other activities
Opening CC Korea sessions within KIST GSCT educational programs like Youth CT Experience Center
By taking coming projects with KAIST GSCT as a momentum, Creative Commons Korea hopes to see other domestic academic entities come together in making academic content open to facilitate free flow of ideas and information to create greater values for the Korean society as a whole.
Sincerely, CC Korea would like to extend gratitude to KIST GSCT for the opportunity for this partnership.
The First Seoul Youth Creativity Summit & ccMixter Korea
Under the title of ‘Creativity Meets Life in Crisis', Seoul Youth Creativity Summit is on going in Seoul(from June 1 to 5). Started as an international symposium for educatiors and various exports around the globe to seek a better future of youth creativity education in 2008, the event has grown to an international annual event including various workshops designed to pump up creativity to the young minds. the festivial office said that they work to make the creativtity summit a festive place where participants can experience “connection and communication,” “participation and public ownership,” and “reciprocity and friendship.
Greatly, ccMixter Korea volunteer team has been preparing for a beatbox workshop at the festivial, targeting teenagers with little beatboxing experience as a part of the workshop programs. Even though it's not easy for beatboxers and musicians to lead workshops with lay people and create a collaborative work within limited time, CC Korea volunteer musicans, DJjjanga and TKO did such a splendid job and presented great moments to all of the youth took part in the workshop. The piece of beatboxing work will be uploaded as remixed with CCL music sources to ccMixter Korea website(www.ccmixter.or.kr).
And all other mixter volunteers also did their best with such a great support and love for ccMixter. Not to lose this momentum, ccMixter Korea is planing to hold other multimedia creation workshops and redouble its promotion efforts to reach for musicians
Creative Commons Kroea can expect to have an army of competent developers and online service providers sharing CC values in Korea. That's because CC volunteer programmers has just formed an official developer network community. By doing so, they are to engage in preemptive efforts to build more CC licensed content-friendly environment in Korea.
When it comes to the use of CCL for their content licensing, Korean users are in the leading groups across the globe, greatly due to recent licensing policies of major domestic OSPs including Naver, Daum. But so far, it's only quantity-wise.
We can see great room for CC Korea to raise public perception among domestic CCL users on what they can expect to see with wider range of CCL option adoptations. Against this backdrop, members of CC Korea Developer Network are being involved in some projects, so that they can see more favorable technological conditions for a more various CCL uses. The projects are as followed:
1. Building a repository system for CCL content sponsored by the Korean government.
2. Organizing seminars on technical issues surrounding Creative Commons so as to help better understandings of the machine readable licensing expression among developers, OSPs as well as lay people.
3. Participating in CC Tech Summit, exchanging ideas and issues, In particular, they plans to do presentations at 2009 CC Tech Summit in Turin, Italy.
In an effort to do that, they had their first seminar as an event of CC Korea Open Seminar Series at Design Cluster Center on 30 May, 2009. Around 30 attendees including software developers, online business people and users were present.
< Program >
Session Subject Presenter
First Session Introduction to Free Licenses- GPL, CCL
CC Korea Project lead
Jong Soo Yoon
Second Session Meta Data- ccREL, RDFa
CC Korea Developer Network
by Jung Pyo Lee
Third Session Licensing Validatior Check
CC Korea Developer Network
by Mi Young Lee
Fourth Session How To License Chooser
CC Korea Developer Network
Won Ki Joo
Fifth Session
Q & A
Creative Commons Korea has dreamed of having its own developer network. And now, with this first step, CC Korea would like to see their activities contribute to creating a virtuous cycle of free use of various content at home and abroad by tackling technical challenges and encouraging greater participation in the Korean developers' circles.
- 2009 CC Korea Orientation for New Volunteer Candidates
< Collaborative Artworks by CCK members during the Orientation>
Hello, CC commoners out there, Here in Seoul, CC Korea welcomed volunteer candidates by throwing orientation sessions over the last two Saturdays. From a restaurateur from other province to a cartoonist, 12 out of 17 applicants enthusiastically presented and made the event special. In particular, it was quite mutually inspiring to new comers and host volunteers.
< Sketch of the Orientation>
Above all, it was such a good icebreaker! Thanks to various attempts and programs by existing members, in particular, media artist, Seung Joon Choi, the ultimate doer in CC Korea, who introduced OST(Open Space Technology), drawing work reflecting SPT(Structure Preserving Transformation)concept to encourage participants to experience collaborative communication and sharing, those who took part in the sessions easily came to know each other and opened their hearts and minds.
At the same time, it worked as a cushioning zone for new candidates. Judge Yoon, the project lead of CC Korea, kicked off the first session with his “updated” version of lecture having 101 CC values and the latest changes and shifts regarding CC at home and abroad. Other volunteers covered ongoing projects in CC Korea and shared their personal experiences and what they’ve found in CC volunteer activities to usher new volunteers.
< Lectures And Group Discussions>
Finally, it was really encouraging for each member of CC Korea since we could see some obvious hints of organizational evolution in running volunteer community system enhanced by intangible assets accumulated so far and collective effort of each of us.
Hope all the new candidates find their own joy and values in their future activities with CC Korea.
