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.
Creative Commons Korea, which registered as a non-profit corporation in March 2009, held its first annual general meeting on February 20, 2010.
The meeting was attended by more than 15 board members and directors and was started by the opening remarks by Prof. Jung Jinsup, chief of CC Korea, followed by brief self-introductions of board members.
Kang Hyun-suk and Yi Mi-young, staff members of the organization, explained the organization's previous works for the past year and its future plan in 2010. As to the review of the orgnization's accounts and related fiscal information for the past year, members were notified that an audited annual financial statement was in progress and would soon to be released online.
An amendment of the bi-laws was proposed to make the body to be recognized as an organization eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable contribution and was approved by the members.
The Copyright Protection Center, a state-run organization under the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, announced that it issued two reports titled "Clean Site Guidelines & Certification System Research" and "CCL & Clean Site Guidelines" on Feb 11, 2010.
The former included guidelines for and a detailed introduction on the assessment system of the "Clean Site" project, which is designed by the authorities to identify and recognize websites that are committed to promoting copyright protection. The government officially designates websites that can serve as models for protecting copyright as clean sites according to 18 assessment criteria.
"CCL and Clean Site Guidelines" includes various examples of adopting CC License and raise a need to incorporate CC License element into Clean Site Guidelines. It asserts that if the guidelines include how to offer CCL option in the menu so that users can choose CCL when they post and upload files, it will help reduce illegal uploads.
The two reports will be distributed to about 100 bodies including the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, copyright-related organizations, legal circles, schools, and online service providers.
Recently, discussions on government 2.0 are gaining momentum around the world. In an attempt to consider the possibility of adopting government 2.0 in Korea, a policy forum was held under the title of "How to adopt Government 2.0" in the National Assembly Library of Korea on January 15, 2010. Many experts were invited to participate from various fields from legal circles, public service, academia, technology, to the business sector. Judge Yoon Jong-su, project lead of CC Korea, also gave a presentation titled "Government 2.0 in Web 2.0 Era" and pointed out that while the basic concept of government 2.0 was found in Korea's legal system it was still far from being developed to a practical level. He also asserted that the government should be ready to transform itself into a platform to communicate with the public.
Meanwhile, the panels agreed on the fact that this idea involves issues such as risks of privacy invasion and reliability and authenticity of information. Some asserted that further policy measures are needed to improve the quality of the disclosed information and to secure the credibility of provided information. In addition, it was also pointed out that a change in the perception within the government about public participation, openness and sharing is a prerequisite in this endeavor.
Pandora TV, Korea's leading video sharing operator, reached an agreement with SBS, one of the nation's major terrestrial broadcasters, to allow the uploading of short video clips from SBS without prior permission. Under this agreement, users can upload edited or original SBS programs, no longer than three minutes in length, to Pandora website under CC licence (BY-NC-ND). Most programs including soap operas, entertainment and sports that have been aired this year are applicable except news programs. The uploaded contents are also allowed to be streamed on other community sites.
Both parties expect that while users would enjoy more and easier access to free video clips, this agreement will also offer a win-win solution for both video sharing operators such as Pandora TV and content providers especially in dealing with copyright infringement issues.
2009 CC Hope Day "CC Friends Party" was held at club TOOL in the Hongdae neighborhood on the chilly evening of December 17, 2009.
Every year around this time, CC Korea throws a party called 'CC HOPE Day' to celebrate Creative Commons' birthday and to reflect back on the year thus far by inviting CC supporters.
And this year's CC Hopeday was especially meaningful as we were joined by friends who believe in the value of sharing ideas; OCW, IgniteSeoul, TEDxSeoul, TEDxMyeongdong, and TEDxSookmyung cooperated to celebrate the 7th birthday of Creative Commons and wrap up the year 2009 by sharing their knowledge and experience.
Although the weather didn't cooperate with us with the bitter cold temperature and the party venue was too small to accommodate the many passionate attendees, the friendly and enthusiastic atmosphere of our commoners really made the place come alive.
We are sure that the year 2010 will also be another greate year for us to spread ideas and share knowledge and experience.
Thank you all for preparing this wonderful event and for sharing the great moments!
