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Creative Commons License (CCL) in South Korea- a new way of respecting content owner’s rights
On 26 February, Naver (www.naver.com), the largest Internet search engine and a portal service provider in South Korea (5th in the world), announced that it officially introduce Creative Commons License(CCL) to its blogs and café services (web community service) and began a grand campaign for promoting CCL with cartoons, videos and so on. As for the largest portal service provider in user size at home, Naver has been struggling with copyright infringements, content and blog posting piracy activities of users. With this announcement, Naver becomes the third next to Daum (www.daum.net), which has already adopted CCL to its blog and café (community) services in 2005, and Paran (www.paran.com) in 2007. In addition, the largest social networking service provider, Cyworld (www.cyworld.com) also decided to adopt CCL as its official license and copywrite protecting method, starting in May 2008 (creativecommons.or.kr).
![[Naver’s CCL page including CCL introduction cartoon, movie, FAQ]](http://www.jayyoon.com/attach/1/1214319862.jpg)
[Naver’s CCL page including CCL introduction cartoon, movie, FAQ]
What is CCL?
Creative Commons is a Massachusetts-chartered 501(c) (3) tax-exempt charitable corporation. Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright — all rights reserved — and the public domain — no rights reserved. Their licenses help content owners keep their copyright while inviting certain uses of their work — a “some rights reserved” copyright (creativecommons.org).Using a Creative Commons License (CCL) means offering some of individual’s right to any member of the public but only on certain conditions.
[conditions that a content uploader need to select before post a content, source: creativecommons.org, 2008]Conditions are symbolised and easily attachable to contents. There are four conditions when a content creator can use on a post:
Attribution. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.
Non-commercial. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only
No Derivative Works. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
‘Free Cultural approved for works’ seal. Creative Commons recently added the seal to Creative Commons Licenses that qualify as Free Culture Licenses according to the definition of Free Cultural Works — Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike. According to Wikipedia, Free Cultural Work is defined as works or expressions which can be freely studied, applied, copied and/or modified, by anyone, for any purpose. It also describes certain permissible restrictions that respect or protect these essential freedoms, but it distinguishes between free works, and free licenses which can be used to legally protect the status of a free work. The definition itself is not a license; it is a tool to determine whether a work or license should be considered “free.” When CCL is added on content, it means the owner of the content will get the appropriate license expressed in three ways such as: a. Commons Deed. A simple, plain-language summary of the license, complete
with the relevant icons.
For example,
means it allows others to download the content owner’s works and share them with others as long as they mention the content owner and link back to the original content page, but they cannot change the content in any way or use them commercially. shows the content is downloadable and redistributes the original content, and they also translate, make remixes and produce new stories based on the original work. However the content needs to be non-commercial in nature. means the content is allowed for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the content owner.b. Legal Code. The fine print that you need to be sure the license will stand up in court (an example of the legal code is available to view at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode).c. Digital Code. A machine-readable translation of the license that helps search engines and other applications identify your work by its terms of use. (creativecommons.org)
How it works
Examples below show how CCL works in a South Korean community portal site Daum.
When someone writes a post, CCL information will be shown at the bottom of the content uploading tool, and the content uploader can select CCL conditions. When the post is uploaded, CCL is displayed at the right-bottom of the post, showing what the condition of this content is.
[The content upload is completed and CCL is displayed within the content]
It has been three years since the introduction of Creative Commons License in Korea. So far, Korea has emerged as the third or the fourth of CCL user country in the world except USA. Additionally, Naver’s CCL policies were expected more to invigorate CCL in the near future. On the other hand, Naver’s announcement about CCL has triggered enormous concerns in Korean blogosphere. Some of them were worried about possible side effects of unintended commercialisation of CCL, which could lead to emphasising the role of CCL as stirring up people’s sense of copyright orderliness rather than real Open Culture. But most bloggers were for it in view of CCL promotion in Korea and expected its impact on spreading CCL in Korea (creativecommons.or.kr).The United Kingdom and CCL
CCL has not been widely adopted or well-known among the UK Internet users yet. However the UK: England and Wales license has now been integrated into the Creative Commons Licensing process, so it is able to license one’s works under the jurisdiction’s law. Scotland has its one way of integrating Creative Commons License but it is provided by Creative Commons’ UK also under the Scotland’s jurisdiction’s law (www.creativecommons.org.uk).
Reference: www.creativecommons.org, www.naver.com, www.daum.net
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Miss Spell, Miss Quote, Make up: a new approach to writing for the web?
I’m a self-professed spelling fanatic. As an English graduate, the mantra of ‘check, check and double check’ is something that’s deeply ingrained in my daily life. So when it comes to writing for the web, a simple case of poor spelling has the potential to drive me to distraction. But while I was browsing the usual suspects online this morning, I found an article which was taking the chance to say something different on the subject: when writing online, why not try deliberately inserting typos, creating new (and potentially ridiculous) words and misquoting well-known sayings?
Now surprisingly enough, while this maybe a bit controversial for the ‘purists’ among us, it is not entirely alien. There are always the established principles that should underpin a good piece of well-crafted copy, but it is also true that introducing humour or trying to do something different with your content can take it to the next level. And that’s exactly what this does – by subverting the user’s expectations, the writer starts to draw them in, intrigue and amuse them and hopefully, provoke a response.
So perhaps what we should be saying is: if you’re going to use wordplay, don’t just be careful – be clever about it. As we always say, the key to success online is in understanding your audiences. An intelligent tweak of wordsmithing can add spice to your content, but if you pitch it wrong then you could both alienate your audience and devalue your online offering.
Have a look at the article and see what you think: ‘Made You Thunk: Engage Your Readers With Typos and Misquotes’ – and in the words of author Nick Cernis, ‘Use your new power responsibly!’
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What’s your Google Sucks Index?
I just read an interesting article in Business week by Jeff Jarvis (the Dell hell blogger). You should read it, especially if you’re concerned about your brand and what people are saying about you online. Yes online (as I really have to point this out).
With the rise of the ’social web’ there are endless places where people are discussing anything and everything online, including your brand. These conversations can be both good and bad, hence responding, leveraging and monitoring (or whatever else you should do) are now a priority. In fact, this probably explains why we always have a waiting list for our digital marketing seminar (just helping our marketing team - this one is for you Fiona
So what are people saying about you online? Or to be blunt - how much does your brand suck? Obviously our digital marketing team are the best people to answer this question (sorry, yes, I will stop this self promotion now.
Adam winks at Dean and they high five each other). However if you’re on a shoestring budget, you can still measure some aspects of this by following Jeff’s simple advice in Business Week. The magazine should be at your local newsagent. (OK, it is official I’m now worse than a used car salesman - I’m even promoting Business week!).Anyway, if you really are on a shoestring budget (
you are screwed) or for any other reason can’t get a hold of the magazine. Here’s the advice in a nutshell:- go to Google
- enter your company’s brand followed by the word ’suck’
- the number of results is your Google Sucks Index (GSI)
- compare your index with your competitors’ (and laugh out loud)
The moment of truth - Do you suck?
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Problems with Google Analytics Stats?
I recently heard from Dean that some clients noticed that their statistics were lower using Google Analytics vs. their normal server-based analytics such as Webtrends and Nettracker. I asked several people who might be able to answer the reason but I could just hear “please let me know if you find the answer” or “that was what I was wondering about”….. Anyway, I found the answer and thought it might be useful for everyone especially for consultants. In fact, the answer was easily found on the Google website- Google Analytics Help Centre!
And today is the New Year’s Day in many Asian countries including China, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and many more. Wish you the happy new year of the rat, especially to someone who was born in the years of the rat, 1996, 1984, 1972, 1960….(I won’t say who they are..=p)
Ok, here is the answer;
Why does Google Analytics report values that are different from some other web analytics solutions? Different web analytics products may use a variety of methods to track visits to your website. Therefore, it is normal to see discrepancies between reports created by various products. However, we generally believe that the best way to think of metrics across different web analytics programmes is to think in terms of trends, as opposed to numbers by themselves. One example is to compare related metrics, such as page views (e.g. 15% of traffic went to page x). In addition, the comparison of data over time could be valuable; information such as “conversions increased by 20% over the past 3 months,” or “our site gained 10% more page views in the month of March.” In most cases, you will notice that different analytics solutions, though different in numbers, will generally depict the same trends.While we are not able to provide side-by-side comparisons of Google Analytics with other web tracking solutions, the following list points out some of the main reasons why your actual numbers may differ:
- Terminology: The terminology used in one programme may not mean the same thing or may not be measured in the same way as in another programme. Page views are generally similar between vendors; however, it is much more difficult to define a visit or a visitor. In Analytics, if a user comes to your site twice within thirty minutes without closing his/her browser, it will be registered as one visit. Other web analytics solutions may treat this behaviour as two visits, depending on their definitions.
- Tracking methods: There are two main methods of tracking activity: cookie-based and IP + User Agent.
- Cookie-based tracking relies on a browser setting the cookie. If cookies are disabled, cookie-based analytics programmes (such as Google Analytics) will not count the visit. This would exclude, for example, hits from a robot or spider.
- IP + User Agent tracking typically uses log file analysis for its data. This may report higher numbers than reported by cookie-based tracking because of dynamically assigned IP addresses and spider and robot visits.
- First-party vs. third-party cookies: Even among cookie-based tracking solutions, there is a difference between first-party and third-party cookies. Because third-party cookies are set by a source other than the website being visited, they are often blocked by browsers and security software. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies.
- Third-party images: Some browsers give users the option to disable images that are requested from domains other than the current page. Disabling such images will prevent data from being sent to Google Analytics.
- Filters/settings: Many web analytics solutions provide dat_ filters. Differences in the way that filters are applied, or creating different filtering altogether, can drastically affect the data in your reports
- Time zone differences: If your Web analytics solutions group data using different time zones, your daily or hourly data will be affected.
- Visitor browser preferences: Visitors must have JavaScript, images and cookies enabled in their browsers in order for Analytics to report their visit. Depending on their method of collecting data, other analytics solutions may still register these visitors.
- Caching: Google Analytics directly calls Google’s servers each time that a page is visited, even if the page has been cached. Other analytics solutions may not record an additional visit if the page is pulled from a user’s or server’s cache.
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“Modern Universities’ websites: trends, observations and best practice
We recently sent out the first in a series of reports that we are producing on the University sector. This report will shortly be followed by other reports on traditional universities and other higher education establishment’s websites.
These reports are also closely linked to our seminars on the same topic. At the end of 2007 we ran a very successful seminar based on the findings of the Modern Universities report and we will be hosting this again in the spring of 2008.
We will follow this with a second seminar to launch the new report on the Traditional Universities report – a practical and thought-provoking seminar aiming to surprise, educate and ultimately provide university marketeers with the tools and knowledge to improve their organisation’s online offering.
We would like to hear from people interested in this area… so if you have any feedback, good or bad, feel free to leave us a comment.
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Is the writing well and truly on the wall for the Precedent blog?
I received the below email today…its not the most complimentary of emails as you can see. But I couldn’t agree with it more… I feel that our blog is far too worthy for its own good. Of course there are interesting nuggets in there but I believe a really successful blog needs to show attitude and display the personality of its authors. In fact the larger and more controversial, the personality the better! On the flipside this can mean that most successful bloggers may also be the most obnoxious and self obsessed… the kind of person that you don’t want to meet in a bar! Interestingly our director of Strategy Neil Davis touches on this phenomenon in his seminar “The Democratic Web.” But enough of this shameless self-promotion - back to the matter in hand.My question is: given that I have gone out of my way to fill Precedent with talented people whose company I enjoy and who are nothing like the obnoxious individuals mentioned above - how do you balance the obnoxious with the engaging, self-grandisation with nuanced discussion in order to develop a “kick arse attitude”? Or maybe we shouldn’t worry about that and just chat and blog.
Tell me I’m curious, John it’s quite alright to respond through the comments on the blog that’s what they’re there for, I’m looking forward to hearing your views
Email from John Smith
Surely the point behind a blog on a companys website is a desire to communicate, if not excite and engage, with the audience (clients or potential clients). A blog who’s tone of voice is superior and condescending and who’s subject matter is neither fresh or exciting, will do nothing but alienate the audience it is aimed at.
Just have a look down at the comments and feedback. No comments, no comments, no comments, no comments, no comments…
Has this piece of communication failed? Are your audience unaware or do they simply not care about what you are saying? Or worse, is the tone and content of your communication actually turning people off?
A blog with no interaction is no more an effective piece of communication than scrawling a message on a toilet wall.
Surely a ‘communications agency’ would be more aware of the power of any piece of communication it generates and be more interested in getting the right message across, rather than ticking the ‘ive got one of those’ box.
So, is the writing well and truly on the wall for the Precedent blog?
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Shake, rattle and roll
I’m too busy working on some great new projects to write a very long post, but couldn’t resist letting you know about a very interesting interface design developed at my old university, University of Glasgow.
Its a tactile and audio interface called ‘Shoogle’. (I can’t help wondering if the name would make any sense to those not lucky enough to be born in the west of Scotland…)
Shoogle is a lovely piece of software that enables users to check their mobile’s battery life and for unread / unheard messages by just shaking the handset.
So, you shake your phone and a combination of sound and vibrations mimics blocks or liquid trapped within. A phone full of liquid equals a full battery, just a few drops inside means time to find a charger.
Now, if someone develops a universal charger that works for every kind of mobile my life will be complete…
If you want to see, and hear, Shoogle in action visit the microsite:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jhw/shoogle/index.html
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Vote for Sustrans’ Connect2!
Connect2 is a UK-wide project from one of our favourite clients, Sustrans, that aims to create new walking and cycling routes to encourage us all to make greater use of sustainable transport for those everyday journeys. There are local schemes in every country within the UK, some in our most deprived boroughs.
Sustrans’ Connect2 is competing to win £50 million for walking and cycling as part of The People’s £50 Million Lottery Giveaway.
At Precedent, we’re backing Sustrans and we’d like to encourage you to do so too.
Find our more about the project at:
http://www.thepeoples50million.org.uk/projects/connect2You can vote online for Sustrans now at:
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Kindle has arrived. Long live the book!
I’ve been a bookworm for as long as I can remember. My shelves at home are groaning under the weight of books that go back to my early reading days. They’re starting to stack up on the floor too. I have a ‘to read’ stack, a ‘must re-read stack’, a ‘recently read’ stack and several random stacks.
So ‘Kindle’ should be the answer to my prayers, and save me from having to move house within the next year or so too.
Amazon’s new ‘ipod of reading’ is an amazing idea. Downloading books, blogs and newspapers onto a single device which you can carry around with you and buy the instant you want to should be my idea of heaven. I need never run out of reading matter again. I can be reading the next Richard Flanagan or Margaret Atwood the minute it’s launched, even if I’m miles from a bookstore.
But…
Where I was quite happy to relegate my CD collection to a drawer and leave my CD player untouched in favour of my ipod, I attach far more sentimentality to books. CDs are plasticky and nasty; books are tactile, they ooze wisdom and experience, they smell fantastic, they’re design objects in their own right. The perfect combination of paper and type and image makes each book distinctive. A well designed and printed book is a wonderful thing. Reading books on a screen that claims to look like paper, using a wheel to scroll and running out of power just at the most important bit just doesn’t appeal to me at all. And how will I lend a book to my friends saying ‘you must read this!’?
And is it just me or does it look UGLY?
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA
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The customer isn’t right
Taking care of customers, even when they are leaving you, really matters. It’s so tempting to cast them off, forgetting to give them a reason to come back to you one day. However much you think they are making a mistake and particularly in an age when choice matters more than ever.
I’ve been thinking about this ever since my phone call to An Unnamed Mobile Provider to break the news that I was off, iPhone in hand. Being polite, I went out of my way to reassure them that I hadn’t had any particular problems with their service. Best of luck and all that.
Confession: I am one of those people who bought an iPhone on day one. I’ve been waiting for the thing for years, and I’ve not been disappointed. It is a thing of beauty. Highly usable, enjoyable beauty.
“Well, I’m not going to get you to try and change your mind…”
Good stuff.
“But…”
Hmm, don’t like the sound of this
“You’ve got to wonder about people paying for a handset.”
Oh dear.
“I mean, it’s not as if it does anything more than the what we already do”
Sigh. You know, he might be right. O2 might be a nightmare. I might hate my new phone. I might yearn for the days of my old provider and my old phone.
But trying to tell customers who have already made a decision that it’s the wrong one isn’t smart business. The company formerly known as my mobile phone provider won’t be getting business from me again.
And you won’t believe the number of people I’ve told about either…
