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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>I base my understanding of “commons” on the study of the history of journalism, including the posting of broadside documents in the town “commons” (usually the crossroads of a social / commercial zone). In abstraction, I see it as an ecosystem that facilitates the exchange of ideas -- a locus, (physical site or perhaps virtual), that is accessible to and broad enough to accommodate a population of individuals who seek opportunity to enter for the purpose of exchanging thoughts and other resources. In a sense the Korean Studies listserv media is a “commons.”<BR>
My proposing Creative Commons is to emphasize the embolden text below:<BR>
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<I>Creative Commons mission is to develop</I></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><I><FONT FACE="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">, support and steward legal and technical infrastructure that <B>maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation<FONT COLOR="#404040">. </FONT></B>Our vision is nothing less than realizing the full potential of the Internet — <B>universal access </B>to research and education, <B>full participation in culture</B> — to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity.<BR>
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</B>I hope this helps.<BR>
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Lauren<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann@koreaweb.ws><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann@koreaweb.ws>, Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:01:06 -0700<BR>
<B>To: </B>Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [KS] Korean Commons?<BR>
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Lauren Deutsch wrote:<BR>
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> There is a very active “creative commons” online through <BR>
> which wonderful exchanges are flourishing ...<BR>
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> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</a><BR>
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Lauren, I cannot follow? Can you please explain what you mean to say. <BR>
The link and website you refer to is about an alternative, and now <BR>
world-wide very popular licensing contract, mostly <BR>
used by programmers (as explained in my earlier posting: <BR>
<a href="http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2012-September/009813.html).">http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2012-September/009813.html).</a> <BR>
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As an EXAMPLE, if you download the commercial (paid, for profit) Linux <BR>
operating system "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" for your home computer or <BR>
for an Internet server, then you need to agree to the very license you <BR>
are referring to in your posting (when installing it)--see here: <BR>
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Resource_Management_Guide/index.html<BR>
And, when you download the more popular free remake of the very same <BR>
OS, CentOS, then the same license is applied.<BR>
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In the end, all this STILL is about protecting intellectual rights of <BR>
authorship, just in a somewhat 'softer' way, in the spirit that the <BR>
inner workings of the Internet as such introduced to us.<BR>
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Best,<BR>
Frank<BR>
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