Poets, artists, singers, film directors meet in Taiwan

The Creative Commons Collage Party held on 21 July, was a great success. The party was hosted by Creative Commons Taiwan (ccTaiwan) and Creative Commons Garden (ccGarden), a Taiwan based organisation which brings together artists, musicians, film makers, writers, painters and other members of the creative community, who meet to share their ideas and their common vision around Creative Commons.

The hosts expected about fourty people to attend, and for the party to last from 19:00 until 21:30, but they were surprised when about 100 people filled the venue to bursting point; and most people hesitated to leave after the official event and stayed chatting until midnight, thanks to the owners of the Nan Hai Gallery, where the event took place.

Creative Commons Collage party in Taipei

On Friday 21 July, Creative Commons Garden (ccGarden), a local Creative Commons (CC) promotion-oriented organization, in collaboration with Creative Commons Taiwan (ccTaiwan) will host a ‘Creative Commons Collage Party’ in Taipei. The concept of the party is to invite creators to bring their CC-released works to the party and encourage them to remix and collage their works with one another at the event.

At the Collage party, several popular Taiwanese musicians and digital artists will present their works live and share their creative experiences with the participants. The performers include Lim Giong, a DJ renowned for his Cannes-nominated music work for the film ‘Millennium Mambo‘; Chu Yue Hsin, who released the very first CC-licensed album, ‘Jesus Rock!!!‘ to the Chinese-speaking market; Angelika Wang, a senior film planner, who also organised the ‘Taiwan International Children’s TV & Film Festival‘, the ‘Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival‘ and the ‘Purple Ribbon Arts Parade’. A documentary related to ccGarden, made by students from the Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts of the National Taiwan University of Arts will be also played at the party.

Next week icommons.org will bring you a report on the party and the work of ccGarden in the last few months, so stay posted.

 

『CC拼貼派對』

      DBN‧音樂‧影像‧文字=創意 N次方

在網路與通信科技發展下，全球社會逐漸邁向「分享與溝通」的環境，針對此未來「分享與溝通」的網路社會，美國法學教授在2002年提出可能符合未來網路社會的新智慧產權概念：「Creative Commons」（以下簡稱CC）。此運動在四年來已經在全球四十個國家落腳，而在台灣，也有一群創作者願意秉持「創作‧分享」的單純理念，開始在其作品來採用CC授權機制，允許散佈、使用、改作等權利，讓作品生命得以延續，透過「創作、分享」為未來累積更豐富的文化公共創意智慧財產。

而這群具有「創作、分享」的創作人、學者、公司團體，就在今年二月組成『嘻嘻樂園（ccGarden）』，並以「愛與分享」為主題，於21日假南海藝廊舉辦「CC拼貼派對」，結合電腦音樂、數位影像、DBN電腦程式、動畫等創作元素，探索在CC授權機制下，如何在「分享」的能量下，創造更寬廣的「創作」與「溝通」空間。

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A Garden of Artistic Delights

by iCommons, Open Community

In Chinese, the word ‘garden’ is often confused with the word ‘band’. In English, the word ‘band’ has a variety of meanings - we think of a group of instrumentalists who play together to make music, one of the best examples of a creative association; or we think of a ‘band of brothers’, a group of people with a united cause; or maybe even a band used to bind or tie something together.

It is appropriate then, that a collaboration of creative professionals in Taiwan has been formed under the name ‘Creative Commons Garden’ (ccGarden). ccGarden represents the singers, artists, writers, website content providers, film makers, law professors and media professionals of Taiwan who are committed to developing creative works which will be licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

“The environment under current intellectual property rights separates the communication between artist and audiences, artist and artist. The members of ccGarden believe Creative Commons allows a much better environment for them to communicate with other artists and users,” said Kuo-Wei Wu, founder of ccGarden and CEO of the National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association (NIIEPA), a non-profit organization in Taiwan focused on developing national information infrastructure.

The first official meeting of ccGarden took place on 22 March and has a membership of 28 people, a number which is growing at a fast pace. Membership includes the band PigHeadSkin (who gave ccGarden its name), sites such as music543.com and yam.com, blogs such as silentagreement.com, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and organizations such as the Campaign for Media Reform (CMR) and the Taiwan Documentary Development Association.

“I knew many artists who are interested in the concept of Creative Commons. By the end of 2005, several artists came to visit me to discuss the idea. After several meetings, I decided to participate and to organize this community using NIIEPA’s strength in strategy, planning, financial and administration support,” Wu explained.

While ccTaiwan provides information to explain Creative Commons licences, more than 75% of ccGarden consists of creative workers, who are focused on producing content licensed under Creative Commons. The goal of ccGarden, as Wu said, is “to create more works under the concept of Creative Commons: we believe the best way to promote Creative Commons is to create more songs, art, films, novels and content under Creative Commons licenses. So, the more works under Creative Commons license, the more examples there are of choices for creators and users, so as to generate an alternative to the current intellectual property rights in Taiwan.”

ccGarden plans to meet its participants every six weeks to update a list of creative works released under Creative Commons licenses. “With more creative works under Creative Commons, we can communicate with creators and consumers much easier. We believe it is the right way to deliver the concept of Creative Commons,” he said.

The organization also aims to share their work with the rest of the world, by hosting Creative Commons events in Taiwan or by sending representatives to any other Creative Commons event in the world. As Wu said, “Sharing and communication should be the best way to collaborate.”