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At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more
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ccTaiwan rocks at the Formoz Festival
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 During the Formoz Festival, which was held from 28 to 30 July, Creative Commons Taiwan (ccTaiwan) cooperated with TRA Music, the host of the event, to promote Creative Commons to performers and attendees. The Formoz Festival is an internationally reputed music festival, which sees the meeting of over 100 music groups from Taiwan and around the world; and tens of thousands of attendees and music enthusiasts. Now in its twelfth year, the Formoz Festival has been the longest-running music festival in Taiwan.
In preparation for the event, ccTaiwan used ccHost to build a website for performers to upload their music. The site is available here. A CD was especially produced by ccTaiwan for the Formoz Festival; it is available here.
A traditional Taiwanese band, Kou (���) agreed to upload ten songs to the website and licensed these songs under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. Added to this collection were the other three Taiwanese Creative Commons licensed songs, 'Jesus Rocks', 'River' and 'Children of the autumn'.
ccTaiwan set up a stall at the Formoz Festival, and offered to burn these songs onto CD for festival-goers. The CD burning was free, although donations to support artists who have adopted Creative Commons licenses were highly encouraged. The artists' original CDs were also available for sale. On the evening of the third and final day of the festival, Chu Yue Hsin, an active Creative Commons advocate and a popular local creator gave a live performance to promote the ideas of the movement.
ccTaiwan collected donations to the value of NTD 2000 at the event as a result of burning 50 CDs and selling seven original Creative Commons licensed albums. The donations were given directly to the artists.
By burning and selling Creative Commons licensed music at the Formoz festival, ccTaiwan attempted to reduce the gap between the local artists and users. It is a good start and we believe through this kind of activity, the public can experience and learn more about Creative Commons directly.
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