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.