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CC10Musicians Mobile App Now Available in Android

cc — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:16:27 +0900

Thank you for your patience, Android users.

CC10Musicians mobile app is finally available in Android now!

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Discover the Coolest CC Musicians! The "CC10Musicians" Mobile App

South Korea: Public Interest in Internet Governance Issues Rekindled by Jae Yeon Kim

cc — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:55:27 +0900

On January 3, 2013, Creative Commons Korea,Korea Association for Information Law [ko] (a Creative Commons project lead by Jay Yoon, a presiding judge at the Seoul Northern District Court), and Haja Center (an alternative educational institution for Korean youth) organized a public event on Internet governance entitled “Global Great Power Rivalries on the Internet”.

The meeting was especially focused on the outcomes of the recent World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT) held in Dubai, on December 2012. The primary aim of this event was to inform the public on the main sources of contention raised by South Korea's approval of the controversial WCIT resolution, also know as the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR). South Korea was indeed one of a few democracies who voted in favor of a resolution that many other countries decided not to sign for reservations over potential dangers for Internet freedom.

Susan Crawford, former President Barack Obama's Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy, was a speaker during the meeting. Other panelists included Professor Kilnam Chon from Keio University, a pioneer of the Korean Internet and an outspoken advocate for open Internet and digital commons, Professor Jaechon Park from Inha University, a long-time expert on Internet governance in South Korea. Judge and Creative Commons Korea project leader Jongsoo Yoon (who is better known outside Korea by his English name “Jay Yoon”) moderated the event.

Public interest in Internet governance issues rekindled

Although the public event was hosted during weekdays, the conference room was full of attendees—a sign that Internet governance has gained interest among Korean media and public.

On December 15, 2012, Professor Kilnam Chon already ignited public interest on these issue by addressing the significance of the voting results at the last WCIT. During the Creative Commons' 10th anniversary party held in Seoul, he argued that the WCIT resolution demonstrates that the age of innocence was gone due to states' rising interest in influencing the Internet. Furthermore, he stressed the fact that only a small number of democracies voted in favor of the resolution like South Korea.

In a response to Professor Chon's public statement, I contributed an article [ko] to Bloter.net, an influential online tech newspaper. In that article I explain why the South Korean government lacks concern for Internet freedom due to its authoritarian legacy, and how it approved of a potentially dangerous resolution for the future of the Internet.

Why did South Korea vote in favor of the WCIT resolution?

Professor Susan Crawford. Photo by Creative Commons Korea volunteer Moira (CC BY 2.0)

During her lecture, Professor Susan Crawford said that the reason why the U.S. did not sign the new ITR was because they do not believe state control of the Internet is desirable for reasons related to Internet freedom and its association with economic innovation, cultural diversity and political empowerment. She explained that for the same reasons many western countries decided not to sign the new ITR. According to Professor Crawford, the U.S. vision is to keep and develop a multistakeholder approach which has been the modus operandi of the Internet from its nascent stage. She pointed out that a multistakeholder approach is more democratic, more accountable and more beneficial for the long-term development of the Internet.

From the left, Judge Jongsoo Yoon, Professor Jaechon Park, and Professor Cho (Han) Hae Jung. Photo by Creative Commons Korea staff member Dayejung (CC BY 2.0).

Following Professor Crawford's brief lecture, Professor Jaechon Park tried to explain why South Korea made a somewhat weird decision considering its status as one of the most wired nations in the world. As a chairperson of Korean Internet Governance Alliance (KIGA), a Korea Communications Commission affiliated organization, he was able to provide an insider perspective on the issue.

He started by pointing at the “severe imbalance existing in the Korean delegation to the WCIT”–a team that was selected by the government. Although it was known in advance that the WCIT would address Internet governance issues, most members of the team came from the traditional telecommunications sector, with only a few Internet experts. Only one member of the civil society was included in the team. The team could therefore hardly claim to represent the diversity of interests and values within the Korean society.

Professor Park also thinks the Korean delegation voted with diplomatic concerns primarily in mind. South Korea doesn't want to upset a certain number of countries ahead of the plenipotentiary meeting of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) (the UN agency in charge of global telecommunications regulations and the WCIT organizer), to be held in 2014 in the city of Busan.

Professor Kilnam Chon, the “father of Korean Internet.” Photo by Creative Commons Korea staff member Dayejung (CC BY 2.0)

Professor Kilnam Chon, the “father of Korean Internet,” noted that South Korea wasn't in the majority among democracies (see the following “infogr.am.”) Although not sure himself why his country voted in favor of the ITR, he asked the audience to think about what it means for the country, the Internet and the future.

In conclusion, Professor Chon shared his vision of the future of the Internet in South Korea. He argued that Internet leading countries not only are advanced in terms of their technological infrastructure but also in their social infrastructure. Among the elements of that social infrastructure he cited “digital commons” as a crucial element because of their liberating potential for the creativity and therefore the economy and the society as a whole.

Professor Chon also said that he will commit himself to working on initiating a digital commons project as part of his Korean Internet History[ko], an open project which started in 2012 (the 30th anniversary of the birth of Korean Internet) and has documented Korean Internet development history with the aim of sharing that experience with the world. The goal of this new project, Professor Chon notes, is to “enhance civic interests and norms in Internet governance in South Korea and elsewhere.”

Written by Jae Yeon KIM

Discover the Coolest CC Musicians! The "CC10Musicians" Mobile App

cc — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:03:09 +0900

The "CC10Musicians" app is now available on iTunes App Store!

Click the button below for iTunes download link:

Creative Commons turns 10 years old this month. CC Affiliates from all over the world are celebrating this week (Dec 9 - 16) as #CC10 celebration week. 10.creativecommons.org

CC Korea came up with something fun and different. It's called "CC10Musicians" mobile app project: creating an application firstly on iPhone then Android, which introduces some great CC artists and provides their music in streaming. It's a non-commercial project, and created by CC Korea volunteers. The app is now available for iPhone on iTunes App Store. (http://bit.ly/cc10app) Android version is also coming up soon.

The "CC10Musicians" app screenshots. The CD on the player spins when you play the music.

Swipe left to move on to the next artist.

CC Korea has selected the artists among the candidates recommended by CC Global network. Including YEIZON from Korea to Fhernando from Mexico, many fantastic musicians are waiting to be discovered by you via this app. We tried to include the coolest and most worthy of notice musicians from all across the globe. You'll be able to find artists from various genre, such as hip-hop, Afro-Samba, Modern Rock, Electronica, and Synth Pop.

"CC10Musicians" app allows you to listen to the 10 selected artists' work on live streaming, and share some spread-worth music with your Facebook and Twitter friends. Celebrate the open artists by letting all your friends know about them!

You can also share the download link (http://bit.ly/cc10app) with your friends to spread a word about this cool application.

The quickest way to receive the "CC10Musicians" news such as an update notice is, to follow CCKOREA on Twitter! You can also hear about other total fun-filled projects from CCKOREA, which is one of the most energetic affiliates among Global CC Network. The hashtag for any CC 10th anniversary related issues is "#CC10". To know more about CCKOREA, visit our website: cckorea.org.

This project was supported by Korea Copyright Commission, and Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. KT also supported with streaming service. CC Korea Volunteers have put lots of their effort to this project as well. Jongeun Lee, Joo Young Oh, and Seoul Kim each performed as a developer, planner, and designer. We would like to send our greatest appreciation to those who helped us to actualize this project.

This article is written by Diane Jung(@dayejung).

Preface of Lawrence Lessig's book "The Future of Ideas" by Jay Yoon

cc — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:31:11 +0900

In this steamy hot Summer in Korea, CC Korea volunteers are studying Lessig’s book The Future of Ideas every Sunday. This book has been around for ten years by now, but the insight is still valid. In fact, the circumstances that Lessig pointed out are happening exactly in Korea in the year of 2012. We’re not sure to rejoice that the book is timeless classic, or morn due to the situations that happened then are still ongoing a decade later in the Korean digital world, which is usually known for its nature of rapid change.

Jay Yoon, the Project Lead of CC Korea and a good friend of Prof. Lawrence Lessig, has written a preface for the Korean edition of the book. It introduces cases that freedom and innovation have been oppressed by copyright and restriction, and demonstrates Jay’s concerns and hopes on the future of ideas. Here’s the translated version (translator: DaYe Jung) :

This content is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY South Korea 2.0.

Preface for the Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig

Original text:
윤종수
Jay Yoon

http://jayyoon.kr

@iwillbe99

Translator:
정다예
DaYe Jung
@dayejung

I still can remember like yesterday the thrill I had when I faced the very first message on my computer confirming it was connected to the web. It was just a black screen with some white letters on it, but clearly a bridge to the new world. The reason why I was so thrilled with the new world was, ironically, that I had no idea what was ever possible to do in that new world. Neither sophisticatedly weaved contents nor a kind guide existed then. Only the message on the black screen, I, and people like myself so impressed by the potential of the new world were there. That was how my PC communication started. And a few years later, Internet appeared and the new world was even more indefinitely expanded beyond the limit of PC communication.

John Perry Barlow, the lyricist of “Greatful Dead” and founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation, has published the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace in 1996. (https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html) “We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge”, “The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule,” he states in this document, which was motivated by the Declaration of Independence of the United States. He was filled with confidence toward the new hope and possibilities.

Barlow and I were living on the other side of the globe from each other, but we had the same kind of excitement. The overwhelming thrill I had and the sense of confidence Barlow had all came from the same fact: freedom. The freedom created from uncertainty that is not predictable, possibility that is liberated from any physical, economical limit of reality. This freedom delivered by tangled power cord network and computer code rapidly made the dreamt possibilities come true and changed our lives. Internet, the land of freedom and possibility, seemed that much invincible.

However, in the beginning of the new millennium, Prof. Lawrence Lessig stated that computer code, which became another “code” for online world just as heavy as code law in offline world, is now oppressing the Internet in Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, his first book. According to him, code which made online world free then is now ruining it to be even more restrictive than the offline world, only 4 years after John Perry Barlow declared the independence of cyberspace.

The Future of Idea: the fate of the commons in a connected world is Prof. Lawrence Lessig’s second book. It is similar to the first book by Lessig in a way that it talks about how the value and freedom of the Internet is in hazard. But this time, Lessig is more approaching to the issue in creativity- and innovation-wise. He utilizes the keywords ‘commons,’ ‘contrast,’ and ‘control’ to develop his argument about the meaning, possibility, and crisis of creativity and innovation in the field of culture and industry.

‘Commons,’ which can be understood as “share asset,” is about freedom. Commons is resource that every member of the society can use freely without any permission. Commons do not only exist in the world of the Internet. It has been there, although exceptionally, in real throughout the history. Public roadways or parks that allow access of anyone in the community can be called ‘commons.’ But when commons played such a magnificent role was the early Internet era. Commons becomes meaningful not just when it brings freedom, but when it brings values and innovation occurred because of freedom. Lessig explains what is commons in the Internet, what kind of values and innovations it brought out, and what we can learn from it. This book is a priceless opportunity to realize and correct our ignorance and misunderstanding about commons.

The second keyword ‘contrast’ is about the contrast between the real and cyber space. He clarifies that why we could feel the freedom from the Internet--so different from the real world filled with restrictions, and continues what kind of changes we have experienced from the Internet era innovation case by case. A story of creativity and innovation born upon freedom and commons, and a story of potential and hope is told.

But what Lessig really wants to emphasize is the third keyword, ‘control.’ The third chapter is about how the Old started to control and oppress the New. He demonstrates some cases to show how the law and the code, another law in the cyberspace, is ruining commons and freedom of the Internet. The short several years of history of all the collapse of the innovations from chapter 2 is so disconsolate, almost dramatic.

Many people thought Lessig’s first book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace was too pessimistic when it firstly came out because most of them had limitless hope and expectation toward the idealistic freedom of cyberspace then. Many also suggested the cases were very mendable, not to be worried. Though Lessig discloses his grief in his second book, only came one year after his first book. The existent circumstance got even worse than he expected.

After 10 years it has been published, Lessig’s argument still strikes me with a piercing insight. Lessig’s prophecy was proved to be right, and The Future of Ideas became even more suitable to the reality in present. 10 years, which is a long enough time period to change many things in the offline world, changed the sea-changing digital world even more massively. I happened to read this book closely to supervise, but I had a doubt how much a 10-year-old book would carry the story of the contemporary world. Fortunately or unfortunately, this book is more valid than ever now. The Future of Ideas talks about rigid and fierce current state more than any books that came out recently because of his insight and principle. The problems in the prophecy 10 years ago are still ongoing as he indicated.

Recently, an interesting court case has occurred. A portal site user has uploaded a video clip of his 5-year-old daughter singing and dancing to a K-pop song, and was sued by Korea Music Copyright Association claiming for copyright. This incident symbolizes the author’s contention that the creativity and culture of the Internet is absolutely persecuted in this era. Another hilarious story arose when the people concerned gathered for the court case--they came up with an idea that if the content user sings well too much and exceeds the original singer, the copyright holder, it could violate the fair use of copyright content. What a comedy, I would say.

“Soribada,” which has experienced many lawsuit for several years since their first indiction for charge of crime, finally lost its original identity of free music share P2P and became a common, nothing-too-special music file sale shop. The reason was that they refused to distribute selected files only but share any files, although they have upgraded their version to music fingerprint recognition filtering and watermark technology. It was the exact identical case to “Napster.” “Napster” was a brilliant and most effective E2E-implementable information search distribute technology in the human history, but the existing right and industry system unwelcomed the new innovation. P2P, still, is a hotbed of illegality and constantly monitored and restricted.

The Copyright Term Extension Act, or “Mickey Mouse Act” so called, which Lessig lamented, became our reality as well. Copyright was supposed to be a temporary right meant to inspire the creators’ incentive, but this original purpose faded long ago. Now it is protecting the copyright for 70 years after the creator’s death, and this was included in Korea-EU and Korea-U.S.A. Free Trade Agreement. In the end, Korean copyright law was revised due to this Act. People express their concerns what if every content using activity on the Internet is controlled by the authority in close future as revised Korea-U.S.A Free Trade Agreement contains an article saying temporary saving is also counted as copying.

The Internet, once neutral and open based on the free protocol, is now being administered and controlled by the network owners. And therefore, the situation that the network commons is also threatened its existence is ongoing. There has been an intense discussion on network neutrality in Korea recently. Nonetheless, not too many people are realizing what is network neutrality and why it should be treated for a broad discussion. As following the result of the discussion, it is more focusing on how much it would permit the network owners to have an effective network administrating right rather than guaranteeing the neutrality and openness to the most. Lessig began his point from the potential of commons share spectrum, but Korea seems far behind even from that point since only getting connected to wi-fi with smartphones had to go through such a complicated hardship.

The iPhone app “Seoul Bus” case clearly demonstrates the argument this book talks about. This app was developed by a high school student in November of 2009, when iPhone was finally introduced to Korea. Seoul city and Kyunggi provincial government was running a homepage showing location of buses with GPS technology, and the “Seoul Bus” app brought this data to iPhone users on the street. Frankly, who would need bus locations more, those who are home in front of computers or out at the bus stop waiting for the buses to come? The potential of GPS technology system finally became real life useful with the application rather than the ineffective, incomplete previous method. However, Kyunggi Province reacted that they claimed for stopping the “Seoul Bus” service and threatened the developer for legal issues. They insisted that their rights were violated by the developer since he had not asked them for a permission to use the system. Although the service continued due to the existing users’ resistance, this case obviously depicted how the ignorance of the previleged can restrain the innovation brought by freedom and commons.

All these cases tell us that the coerced regulations are making the freedom and commons of the Internet disappear just as Lessig has predicted, and this is on progress. Despite this book is 10 years old, his insight did not expire but still effective--the sorrowful foresight from 10 years ago is now reality, even more severe in the intensity. This is why this book gives its readers such a chill.

Nevertheless, the biggest alert that the Future of Ideas throws at us is about our “forgetting.” We are gradually losing our memory on numerous paradigm-shifting conversions, and the progress and values which became possible because of that conversions in this competitive reality. We are now forgetting how the innovation occurred, mistaking them for like they have been around for ever, and in result--not appreciating them anymore. And our sense of taking these innovations for granted, is leading us to neglect the attempts to threaten and eliminate the innovations.

While only focusing on the existing intellectual property right system, we are missing out things that are very crucial. We are disregarding why the notion of intellectual property right came out in the first place. It was made for incentive of re-creation, in the minimum boundary of respecting the commons for re-creation, not for controlling the utilization. We are neglecting the fact that this confusion is from that the old, analog system cannot handle the energy of the active culture sharing and new creativity of the digital world.

We are missing out that what presented the new industry and creative business people then in the innovative time was free and opened protocol, not the network owners’ control, while we gave too much attention on the impact of the new businesses based on the already existing ones and feeling of insecurity of uncontrolled circumstances.

This “forgetting” causes confusion in us. It makes us to take the ironical situation that the Old suppresses the New as logical, and the unreasonable situation that the essentials of innovation is being removed as a proper alternative. It is a problem that the ones who are in power have not experienced or reasoned the innovation. However, the bigger problem is that the ones who have experienced the innovation are “forgetting” the nature of innovation.

“For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries … and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.” Lessing uses this quote from the Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli to refer to the regretful current circumstance that those who can support the innovation are not even sure and hesitate to raise their voice. But I am even more regretful to those who agree to elimination of innovation without any realization, although once they have experienced the innovation.

It has been approximately 7 years that I first met Lawrence. Even though he is one of my closest friends, he is still my great mentor and teacher. He cleared up my view on the value of the openness and the freedom of the Internet, and showed me how a true innovation is made. For his guidance, I could balance myself in between two of the extremes of one or the other, whether in the area of intellectual property right or Internet governance. He inspired me to live a life full of fun and meaning to prove the innovation, not only just as one of those ordinary jurists.

Lessig’s point is always crystal-clear. It has been always like that in his lectures(which are even better than Steve Jobs’ keynote to me), any of his books, or personal conversations. He never gives the reader a riddle or puzzle. He delivers any complicated stories easy with his appropriate metaphors and remix. I readily get amazed by his logic that does not miss a single key point. I first thought that this came from his brilliance and vast knowledge, but now I know that this is from his genuine heart and continuous deliberation. Genuine heart is more persuasive and clear than any other logic. The continuous deliberation brings a penetrating insight, which is not for granted at all. These two characteristics exceed any technical knowledge and method of study.

I could witness Lessig’s insight by meeting with real innovators who created astonishing changes in culture and industries based on freedom and commons.

Jamendo (jamendo.com) is a music distribution site initiated in 2004 by Sylvain Zimmer, a charming young fellow from France in his early 20’s. This website applies Creative Commons Licenses (CCL) to all of its wonderful music sources over 310,000 for its users for free play and download. It is a great platform for indie musicians to promote their music and have more fans. But it is also a good representative for the musicians to collect usage fee from commercial uses such as background music of a store or soundtrack of a film so that the musicians can continue their musical career on the income.

Wikipedia, the famous online encyclopedia, is absolutely one of the most remarkable results of the innovation. It allows anyone to edit, even the contents that someone else has already wrote. This extreme freedom made this challenge the world’s largest online encyclopedia. Numerous editors of wikipedia have no hesitation to make their contributions commons, and that is what leads so many people to be advantaged. They are the true innovators.

We have more examples of commons created by innovators like them: Loftwork, a provider of free illustrations and digital contents, makes profit from tangible product sales or individual art project; Bloter.net, a Korean online news media, allows free distribution through CCL to increase the brand awareness and reduce the expense on right reserving as results; MIT Open Course Ware opens almost every course in the school curriculum, helping anyone around the world who wants to learn, and dragging brilliant individuals to attend the institute; CC Mixter lets its users to upload their performance of a capella content under CCL and permits copying and remixing for free to encourage limitless collaboration work and creativity.

I gained hope for a breakthrough in freedom and commons through their innovations. Even if they are sometimes under pressure or ignorance, but the constant innovations reminds us of what has been making these innovations to be possible. Lessig also does not let go of his hope though he recognizes despites. He calmly explains several ways to reverse this dismal situation, and emphasizes that we are out of the track of innovation and returning to admit the track of control.

I eagerly hope for you that this book can be a turn-arounder, an opportunity to deeply consider what is the best for us. Let us think about rather it is really better to protect intellectual property rights even more severely, more than necessary. Let us think about taht too much control is even worse than little control. Let us question ourselves if “the more, the better” is true in all occasions. Whether you are an expert in intellectual property right or network or nobody, let us think about where these innovations truly came from if they deserve appreciations.

Creativity and innovation are not something too enormous for ordinary people. They come from a free way of thinking and courageous action. And what initiates them is, enlightenment. This not only will decide the future of creativity and innovation but also our future. This is why the title of this book is the Future of Ideas.

Original text: Jay Yoon(@iwillbe99) , translator: DaYe Jung()

After Hackathon

cc — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:25:54 +0900

On July 20 and 21, Codenamu has held a event called <Let’s Shake! Public Data Camp>. Codenamu is an open community

formed by citizens interested in Gov 2.0 and willing to dedicate themselves to make open government. CC KOREA is one of

the partners of the community, and many of our members volunteered as staff.

The format of the camp was a “hack-a-thon.” Participants with various background and languages shared ideas, created

teams, developed and designed apps using public data from the government, and presented the result at the end of the camp.

Civil servants from Metropolitan City of Seoul and National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) came as data helpers.

Won-Soon Park, the Mayer of Seoul City visited on the last day as well.

The program was developed to let the participants freely work on their projects. Because the whole event only ran through 2

days, the schedule was kind of tight and time set was broken into small parts to help the participants use it effectively. Besides

meals, snacks were provided time after time for their convenience. Some exercise time was also provided. Surprisingly,

numbers of teams presented the idea and quite achievement of the projects and services by the end of the event.

The list of the services is below:

<Credible Doctors>
- Targeted people using medical services from hospitals and clinics in Youngdeungpogu
- Lable #1 goes to the most credible clinics and hospitals based on how much of antibiotics and injections they use.
(Antibiotics abuse is a huge issue in Korea.)
- Collected locatoin data from Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service.
- Utilized Ushahidi platform - Available all on Web, iPhone, and iPad

<Lulu Lala>
- GPS information recognizes the users location and provides event information around the area.
- Categorized types of the events
- Poster image viewable interface

<The Watchers>
- Showed how the budget of Seoul City is being used
- Demonstrated the data in visual via various sorting
- Developed API in the team since there was no open API of the dataset available from the gov’t
- Planning to connect to SNS

<National Assembly Navigator>
- Visualized National-Assembly-related information based on the National Assembly seating chart
- Data of Members of Assembly collected from National Election Commission
- Difference between <Open! National Assembly> (Similar service provided by Peoplepower21): utilized open government data

<Living Smile>
- Depicted various pro-life facility availability with intuitive facial expression images
- Example: how close good parks from your home, how good the library near you

<Trace of Crimes>
- Showed public restrooms close from the current location and rated them in danger level from 1 to 5 scale
- Restroom location information API wasn’t available - seperate crawling -> converted to MySQL
- Crime rate data from Supreme Prosecutors' Office

<Finding a Missing Child>
- Real-time app for finding a missing child or handicapped person thru collaborative searching
- Missing people information from National Police Agency DB and individuals’ voluntary DB
- Information from the parents + People on search. Clearing out method

<Happy Catalyst>
- Daily issue interesting data from Seoul City in Infographic format
- Soften the look of public data and bring to the citizens

The lucky first prize winner was <The Watchers>, and they were also invited by the Mayer to his office. The rest of the

winners were <Credible Doctors>, <National Assembly Navigator>, and <Happy Catalyst> in order. Some of the teams are

still in touch with each other, and hopefully more improved services can be available and become great role models for public

data users. Through the camp, we could find out the current position of Open Government in Korea and what kind of efforts are

needed to be made to work better. As Codenamu, we’d like to have more enthusiastic dedicators to Gov 2.0 and make some

positive changes in the society.

Codenamu send our appreciation to Public, Corporation, and crowd-funding supporters.

2012 코드나무 Let's Shake! 공공데이터 캠프 from cckorea on Vimeo.

This post was written by @dayejung.

CC Artist MiYoung Yi(@netstrolling)'s Story

cc — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:38:18 +0900

Netstrolling's Travel Drawing http://traveldrawing.cc

MiYoung Yi is a Korean independent artist who publishes her works under CC BY.

"Everyone is an artist"

MiYoung Yi is an artist and CC activist in Korea. She has self-published her works after sketch travel Eastern

Europe and Meditterrean area under CC BY. These works also can be found on the Internet on Flickr and her

blog in image files and PDF book format, applied the same license.

All her works are distributed under CC BY. She prefers free culture, and is willing to experiment the potential of

content sharing.

MiYoung Yi has been a CC activist since 2008. This experience brought her many opportunities to meet with

content creators, and let her face with the hardship that it is not easy to persuade existing creators to participate

in content sharing. She decided to create works and distributed under CCL by herself. She is now experimenting

sustainability to survive and prosper as a CCL artist.

Her works are now being used and remixed without burden of copyright among many people. MiYoung Yi collects

the cases of re-use and remix of her works on her blog. Furthermore, she is leading a local group called <Come!

Monday Book Meeting> to inspire people to have fun in everyday life and think of the value of sharing.

What happened in 2012 CC Art Happening?

cc — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:11:38 +0900

On May 26, 2012, something “happened” at Jungdok Library, Seoul.
Let’s find out what happened in “Art Happening Concert” with the photo traces :)

The word “happening” usually means unexpected incidents. Especially in the field of Art, a modified situation made

the audience to feel shock from coincidence. Somewhat like this description, CC Art Happening was also organized

in free and liberated atmosphere rather than perfectly tailored and planned.

The theme of this year’s CC Art Happening was “family stories.” People uploaded their family stories and photographs

on CC Art Happening website (http://ccarth.net), and composers selected among them. The pick-ups were turned

into music by those composers, and performed at the CC Art Happening Concert. 12 new songs were made in total,

and recorded as live at the very place. We appreciate those you submitted their stories so that the music could be born.

The selected families came as our official guests. Hope the family photographs that we took for them also became a

good present with the music for them.

FYI, the little boy in this picture is the one who was riding a cycle in the opening trailer. He even got nose bleeding

from the passionate acting! True hero.

Trailer Clip

At 7:30 PM, Acoustic band Shinnaneunsum (“Exciting Island” in English) opened the show with cheerful music. Local

visitors who had no idea there was going to be a concert also stopped by and enjoyed the music. The library yard was

filled with music and happy audience’s voices.

After Jae-Eun Park, Head of Institute for Culture & Arts Education Development greeted, the songs were introduced

one by one. The composers described the background of the music, the stories. Not only the concerned families, but

everyone at the place listened the heartwarming stories carefully. Some got teary eyes from sympathy.

The music felt more alive when it was introduced and matched with the real-life family stories. The most special moment

of this event was when families and composers met in person and shared appreciation. The families received the most

special gifts, and the modern classical music composers, usually considered for quite complicated music, got to meet

public.

The six composers participated in Art Happening for the second time following last year’s participation. Just like last

year, they and the performers agreed to distribute the music on the Internet under Creative Commons License. Anyone

who follows the conditions can freely use the music. CC Korea sends our thanks to the musicians.

We hope further “art happening” appears based on this fresh CCL music. Thank you for everybody who engaged in this

event. Please keep your eyes on CC Korea for more fun stuff!

2012 CC Art Happening SoundCloud--------------------

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CC Art Happening Standby (BY-NC)

<천지연천우연천예연천다연>

<그 마음>

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2012 CC Art Happening Photos

This post is written by @dayejung.

CCKorea announces 2012 CC Art Happening

cc — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:26:53 +0900

"Your Family Story transformed into Music"

Finally, CC Korea announces 2012 CC Art Happening Concert. This is the second time to have Art Happening.

Unlike the first time, which we assembled series of exhibitions and a concert together into one name under Art

Happening, we only have a small but delightful concert this time. It is held on May 26, 2012 in Jungdok Library,

Seoul.

We've collected stories of families from public. http://ccarth.net The composers who have been participating

in this project since last Art Happening continuously joined this time again, selected what stories they are in-

terested in, and made music out of them. Each music is going to be performed in the concert for the families

of the stories. We welcome everyone to this enjoyable music experience in the middle of Spring in Seoul.

All the music will be distributed under Creative Commons Licenses, conditions might vary up to the original com-

posers.

This article is written by Diane DaYe Jung(@dayejung).

CC Korea releases as open source

cc — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:34:37 +0900

CC Korea releases CCL-ed content search service <Let's CC> (http://letscc.net) as open source under GPLv3.

<Let's CC> helps finding contents under CCL such as images, video clips, music files or documents by utilizing open API from content providers such as Flickr and Youtube.

You can set your needs from the main page when you start search, and the service automatically selects the condition that meets your requirements.

<Let's CC> has been popular among Korean users who look for CCL contents, but we also received a lot of support from international users for its simple user interface. This release as open source is also a response to requests from foreign fans of <Let's CC>. Thank you very much for your interest, world!

The source is uploaded on Github in the following link:

https://github.com/neomparam/letscc

The first view of the link as screen captured is below:

Hope it provides opportunities to create something innovative and beneficial for more people! Let's CC!

This article is written by Diane DaYe Jung(@dayejung).

The Power of OPEN iPad App released

cc — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:38:51 +0900

The Power of OPEN -- the success stories of sharing with CCL -- for iPad app is released.

The Power of OPEN is a book about success stories that of who believed in the value of sharing, and

cases that applied Creative Commons Licenses to their platforms in various fields such as culture,

art, scholarship, media, publication, and technology.

Downloadable version has been available online in many different languages, such as English,

French, Korean, Japanese, German, Polish, Portugese, or Spanish here.

Dunamu, a Korean App-book publisher, developed this precious collection into an iPad app. You can

find out more in the iTunes link. (Click here)

This service is available in Korean and English.

Meet stories of people who wish to share and grow together with CCL on iPad now.
Spread the idea of OPEN!

This article is written by Diane DaYe Jung(@dayejung).