Recently, in a talk "YouTube and Beyond" by Kevin Lim (see also the post-event coverage by Rambling Librarian), the topic of creative commons has been brought up. If Singapore is seriously pursuing the digital interactive media industry, it is important that the citizens need to find alternatives to the present intellectual property system. Particularly, with the increasing trend in the west to adopt creative commons, if Singapore wants to be an advanced nation, the government should look at the creative commons issue seriously. Interestingly, if you look at the drafting and eventual adoption of jurisdiction-specific licenses worldwide, Singapore is not in the list of countries (although in the website, the person in Singapore who is working on this is Professor Samtani Anil, Deputy Director Nanyang Business School). In this article, I will provide a short introduction and why Singapore needs to consider Creative Commons seriously.
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