Monday, December 21, 2009

DotAsia and Creative Commons Join Forces to Foster Creativity and Sharing in Asia

The adroitness of Asia's humans will be accurate and aggregate acknowledgment to a new abiding cardinal affiliation amid the DotAsia Organisation (DotAsia, www.registry.asia) and Creative Commons (CC).

DotAsia, the not-for-profit anthology abettor for the ".Asia" Internet top-level domain, affairs to accomplish US$100,000 to Creative Commons in abutment of its cause, beat and association efforts in Asia. In addition, DotAsia will accord time and accomplishment into acceptable in the allocation of events, activities of CC's bounded capacity and assorted added socio-technical initiatives, such as a next bearing absorb anthology project.

The affiliation will be appear by the CEO of Creative Commons, Mr. Joi Ito, and Mr. Edmon Chung, the CEO of DotAsia, during the barrage celebration Saturday afternoon (Oct 25) for Creative Commons Hong Kong (CCHK) at the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Kowloon, Hong Kong. For added data about the barrage accident visit: http://hk.creativecommons.org.

"We are captivated to plan with Joi and the ablaze aggregation at Creative Commons", said Edmon Chung, "the affiliation matches the amount mission of DotAsia to advance Internet development and acceptance in Asia. It aswell helps strengthen our affiliation to the common IPR community. Stay acquainted on www.creativecommons.asia for CC activities in Asia."

"The addition from DotAsia is actual allusive to the development of Creative Commons in Asia. Through our affiliation with DotAsia," Joi Ito added. "CC can attending advanced to architecture stronger affinity with the artistic and cultural communities in Greater China and Asia."

Earlier this year DotAsia and the International Federation Against Copyright Theft – Greater China (IFACT-GC), apery the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in Hong Kong, agreed to authorize a accommodating apparatus for the online aegis of movies and to advance the proactive acceptance of the .Asia area by, and educational programs for, the artistic industries about Asia.

About DotAsia Organisation:
DotAsia Organisation (http://www.registry.asia) is a not-for-profit association with a mission to advance Internet development and acceptance in Asia. The alignment oversees the ‘.Asia’ top-level Internet area name, and is formed as an accessible bunch of 20 official top-level-domain authorities about the region, including .CN (China), .JP (Japan), .KR (Korea), .IN (India), .NZ (New Zealand), .PH (Philippines), etc., and 5 bounded Internet organizations including APNIC, APNG, APCERT, PAN and APTLD. In the accomplished two decades Asia has developed into a all-around force in the commercial, political and cultural network. The .Asia area aspires to embrace this action in the Asia Century to become a nucleus, circle and ancestry arena for Internet action and development in the region.

About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the artistic re-use of bookish and aesthetic works, whether endemic or in the accessible domain. Through its chargeless absorb licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the best of a adjustable ambit of protections and freedoms that body aloft the "all rights reserved" abstraction of acceptable absorb to accredit a autonomous "some rights reserved" approach. Creative Commons was complete with and is abiding by the acceptable abutment of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as able-bodied as associates of the public. For added advice about Creative Commons, appointment http://creativecommons.org

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