Abstract
The CC-Monitor project at Singapore Management University has already collected and presented data from multiple sources on the global use of Creative Commons licenses. We have showed that CC is steadily becoming the online licensing model of choice for creative content, but we still believe that not all CC users think alike. CC and the free culture movement are global, but does the background of an author not matter after all? I will focus on what we have thus observed concerning licensing attitudes among Asian CC adopters and how these may differ compared to licensing behavior in the West. The aim is to continue the discussion that started at the last iSummit on CC statistics, but this time with an emphasis on Asia, in an attempt to understand whether economic, cultural, historical or other factors influence perceptions of copyright in Asia in unique ways and consequently how CC is perceived as a tool for freeing up content or sometimes perhaps misperceived as a means of copyright enforcement.
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Giorgos Cheliotis
Visiting Assistant Professor
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
Giorgos Cheliotis is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Information Systems, SMU. He is also the head of SMU's Participatory Media Lab, and the principal investigator of the CC-Monitor project, an interdisciplinary project between the School of Information Systems, the School of Law and Creative Commons. Giorgos worked for 5 years with IBM Research in Switzerland, where he was leading research efforts on the management and economics of telecommunications and grid computing. His work has been published in academic journals and presented in international conferences in the fields of e-commerce, telecommunications, distributed computing, virtual worlds, law and policy. Before joining SMU Giorgos worked for 3 years as an independent consultant and with the premier management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He holds a PhD in Telecommunications and Information Systems from the National Technical University of Athens and is a member of ACM, INFORMS and ISAST. Giorgos is also the co-Lead of Creative Commons Singapore and an Associate Fellow of the Center for Asia Pacific Technology Law and Policy (CAPTEL).
