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.
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 conference will be a chance to see what has been achieved since the introduction of CC license in Korea and to share ideas about where to go in the future.
With the opening remarks from the chief of CC Korea Prof. Jinsup Jung and the keynote speech of Prof. Lawrence Lessig, the CEO of Creative Commons, this international event consists of four sessions. Which have scholarly literature content, public sector content, business and arts and media.
Specifically, each session will proceed in two pairs separately reflecting relevance to each other. During the program, you can meet many prominent experts who can usher us in the right directions through various case studies and evaluations on them. Please come and register to join with us.
At the end of the conference, an open discussion will wrap up the whole sessions by setting new agendas and projects regarding how to promote more opening friendly environment on the basis of what would be discussed in the former sessions.
This special occasion can be a great help for those who are in content related sectors or for those who perceive the importance of Open Culture. As a partner of your efforts toward Open Culture, Creative Commons Korea is always being with you and hopefully expecting you to benefit greatly from this conference.
If you have any questions or remarks on the conference, please reply on our blog. We always welcome any suggestions and opinions to be a better us. :D
Thank you for your great support and participation in advance.
- Naver, Korea’s biggest portal service provider, chooses to introduce CC License
On 26 February, Naver, one of the major portal service providers in Korea, announced that it officially introduces Creative Commons License to its blog and café services and began a grand campaign for promoting CCL with cartoons, videos, etc. As for the largest portal service provider in user size at home, Naver has been struggling with copyright infringements, content and blog posting piracy activities of users. In a hope to find a reliable solution against them, Naver has chosen to introduce the CC license scheme. And it is very welcomed.
Relatively belated, but thanks to their introduction, most of the Korean portal sites take part in CC licensing. With this announcement, Naver becomes the third next to Daum , which has already adopted CCL to its blog service in 2005, and Paran in 2007. These portal sites are known to grab more than 90% of Korea's portal market.
It has been three years since the introduction of Creative Commons License in Korea. So far, Korea has emerged as the third or the fourth of CCL user country in the world except USA. Additionally, Naver’s CCL policies are expected more to invigorate CCL in the near future. On the other hand, Naver’s announcement about CCL has triggered enormous concerns in Korean blogosphere. Some of them were worried about possible side effects of unintended commercialization of CCL, which could lead to emphashizing the role of CCL as stirring up people’s sense of copyright orderliness rather than real Open Culture. But most bloggers were for it in view of CCL promotion in Korea and expected its impact on spreading CCL in Korea.
Upon its launching, Naver is going to participate in the first CC Korea conference at Business session which is to be held on March 14, 2008 in Seoul. In this conference, the new member of CCL will present details of the introduction of CCL and reveal the follow-up plans on it under the title of ‘New Invitation to CC’. Daum also will make a pretantaion under the title of 'Community and CC' in Art and Media session.
Still, there remain much to be done. Besides the increase in CCL users in Korea, efforts to spread Open Culture in true sense should be redoubled. CC Korea is planning to work more closely with Naver and Daum for the better future of CCL in Korea.
