CC 4 Years Global Birthday Party
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On the afternoon of December 16, 2006, a birthday party was held by Creative Commons China Mainland (CC China Mainland) in Beijing to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the launch of the first CC licenses, live with people in other seven cities around the world.
December 16th was the most freezing day in Beijing since the beginning of this winter. However, people from colleges, websites, associations, companies and law firms, who concern and support CC with their great passion, assembled in the FIT Complex of Tsinghua University to celebrate CC’s birthday. The design and decoration were made by volunteers from Law School of Renmin University of China. Two groups of fantastic “CC” slogan consisting of colorful balloons on the walls seize your sight immediately. Different kinds of attractive posters exhibiting “CC” slogan also can be seen everywhere. These posters extended basic theory of CC, “Share, Reuse and Mix legally”. They were all designed by Patrick Deegan, a teacher of the Digital Art Department in the Software Institute of Peking University, and Zhangjing, a postgraduate student of Xu Beihong Art School in Renmin University of China.
And the party began. It was hosted by Wang Chunyan, project lead of ccChina and associate professor of Law School of Renmin University of China. She gave her sincere appreciation to people who were concerned about and in favor of CC, welcomed attendants and wished that there could be a great promotion of CC through this party.
attendants show their concerns and support for CC through personal presentations and small group talks or discussions. The official website of CORE adopted the CC protocol since the China Mainland version of CC licenses launched in March 29, 2006. Mr. Gong Zhenyang from CORE shared the significance of licensing open resources for education under a CC license. Chinese Wikipedia is also the user of CC licenses. It administrator, Shizhao, introduced that they had adopted two of the most liberal licenses of CC to publish their works. The CEO of Feedsky, Lv Xinxin, showed his favor for CC directly, and proposed that when compiling the setting of Feed, the official CC China Mainland licenses would be chosen with no doubt.
Caiqing, the founder of New Photo Net, said despite that they encountering CC last year, the public knowledge of CC’s use and value were far from enough, however, he also hoped that the introduction of CC could bright their users’ terminals more effective copyright protection. Moreover, they showed the photos releaseed under CC licenses in NPhoto.net and Wikipedia. The AllWiki’s administrator, named Han Yuwen, learned about CC when attending the Chinese Wiki Summit Forum just a week ago. With great interest in CC, he believed that it was needed to have creators’ commercial benefits protected more effectively while sharing their works. He also suggested that CC should promote itself more to let more people know about it. The production manager of CCW, Lin Jiuzhe, said that CC had offered people flexible ways to manage their copyrights, “To preserve some rights” rather than the rigidity traditional idea, “To preserve all rights”. At the same time, he emphasized that privacy of customers and rights to choose on one’s own should be respected by websites.
Kenneth Fields and Patrick Deegan, who are both teaching at the Department of Digital Art in Software Institute of Peking University, are zealous supporter of CC. They have made significant contribution to Creative Commons China Mainland. during the party, Patrick shared his experience of CC with others. and his students also brought us their creative multimedia works licensed under cc.
People from Music Copyright Society of China, Central Conservatory of Music, Hoodong.com, China Education Net, Sun Microsystems(China) also expressed their great interest in CC.
At the birthday party, attendants also watched the animation,and documentary introducing and explaining about CC. the live shoot in LA sent us the CC founder, Prof. Laurence Lessig’s impressive talks and the fever that people were enjoying at the CC b-day celebration. Attendants also interacted though the second-life. Eric Eldred, a member of CC Committee, also celebrated CC’s birthday with people at the party via Internet. A student from China University of Political Science and Law brought us a vivid joyful tone. People drank warm tea, enjoyed snacks and talked. The birthday party lasted for more than two hours in a wonderful atmosphere. At last, Li Xu from Law School of Tsinghua University, a member of ccChina, expressed his appreciation of attendants and his wish that the party would be open to everybody interested in CC.
