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• Joi Ito: Sharing & Happiness

  Published: August 5, 2007, 6:30 am

  Tags: Creative Commons, Free Culture

  get involved with the web, free culture, and online citizen media. Joi's keynote speech on the final day of Wikimania was not about wikis or Wikipedia specifically - but about the core set of beliefs underpinning this community: free culture and what Joi calls the "sharing economy." Joi (who has been reading the Dalai Lama

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• Hong Kong's first Barcamp - a great success!

  Published: December 16, 2007, 11:54 am

  Tags: Free Culture, Freedom Of Speech, Hong Kong, Web Tech, Yahoo

  you can think of. free coffee, cookies, chips and sandwiches were provided. it's surprising to see so many talented and generous people in HK who came here to share their love. or just to learn...like why i was there. Daisy estimates there were probably just under 100 people: It seems to me that almost 40% were developers, 30% were

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• Creative Commons - Draft Hong Kong license seeks feedback

  Published: January 12, 2008, 6:23 am

  Tags: China, Creative Commons, Free Culture, Hong Kong, Taiwan

  to Creative Commons and the free culture movement. We're hoping to catch up. I'm pretty optimistic that we will, given that we've got some awesome people committed to the project. One in particular is Ben Cheng who works with me at Hong Kong U. An open source programmer, wikipedian, and dedicated free culture advocate with strong community

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• Asia Commons Meeting Kicks Off

  Published: January 19, 2008, 4:08 am

  Tags: Asia, Creative Commons, Free Culture

  The International Workshop for Asia and Commons  has had a successful first day. To get a sense of the variety of projects and commercial enterprises using Creative Commons licenses and/or open source software around Asia, check out the very useful case study booklet compiled by Creative Commons Australia, downloadable here (PDF).

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• Hong Kong 2.0

  Published: January 26, 2008, 1:11 am

  Tags: Free Culture, Hong Kong, Web2 0

  Congratulations to Charles Mok on the publication of his new book, Hong Kong 2.0!  He had a well-attended launch event on Thursday, at which he asked me to say a few words. Charles, who has become a good friend and ally over the past year, invited me to write a preface for the book. Since my written Chinese isn't up to the task I wrote

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• What is "Asia" and what is "Commons" anyway??

  Published: January 24, 2008, 1:47 pm

  Tags: Asia, Creative Commons, Free Culture

  terrms like "free culture." The problem, as Liang pointed out, is that the words "free" and "freedom" have been irreparably polluted by American geopolitics and tainted by perceived agendas of regime change, making anything labeled with those words a hard sell in the developing world. Riffing off the

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• Why Hong Kong needs Creative Commons

  Published: January 23, 2008, 4:07 am

  Tags: Asian Tech, Citizen Media, Copyright, Creative Commons, Free Culture, Hong Kong

  ...Hong Kong is one of the freest economies in the world. So let the market decide. The Creative Commons license should be there by default. Once it's there then we can start doing things that are very interesting... This is a starting point not an ending point.JOI:...The problem is that the mass production and delivery of content is the main

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• Creative Commons Adds Deed Seal

  Published: May 19, 2008, 12:09 pm

  Tags: Articles, Legal Issues, Prevention, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Creative Commons, Free Culture, Open Source, Plagiarism

  says “Approved for Free Cultural Works”. The objective, according to their announcement, is “distinguish among the range of Creative Commons licenses” and support projects as Wikipedia, that only accept free cultural works as part of their efforts. The logos are only applied to Creative Commons Licenses that provide

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• Kotaku's Pre-E3 Party [E308]

  Published: July 13, 2008, 6:00 pm

  Tags: E308, Free, Culture, Drinks, Event, Golden Gopher, Kotaku Party 08, Kotaku S Party, Original, Top

  us once you arrive for the free drinks. The party is 21 and older only, unfortunately. Sorry. Golden Gopher

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• Why’d They Take That YouTube Video Down?

  Published: July 19, 2008, 6:31 pm

  Tags: Websites, Mit Free Culture, Youtomb, Youtube

  play innocent. Anyway, MIT Free Culture has a website called YouTomb, where you can find who took down what video, how long it had been viewable and why it was removed. YouTomb

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• Peng’s links for Tuesday, 5 August

  Published: August 5, 2008, 2:28 pm

  Tags: Entertainment, Gnu Linux, Open Source, Tech, Ubuntu, Compiz, Eye Candy, Free Culture, Google Earth, Google Maps, Meteorology, Street View

  Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is born! Ubuntu comes with a package called example-content that shows off some of the kinds of content you can use in Ubuntu. But why not update the content and really show off what free culture artists are doing? Frank Taylor/Google Earth Blog: New Street Views in Australia and Japan in Google Earth and

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