Creative Common: another hope for Thailand?

Creative Common: another hope for Thailand?

I think the basic idea of “Creative Common” is good and it will be another approach to protect the authors’ rights. It also expands the opportunities for the authors to promote and share their copyrighted works into the public which other people also can get the benefits from these copyrighted works while the authors still have the exclusive rights in their works. Thailand has just become the 51st completed jurisdiction worldwide and launched the Localized Creative Common License Project on April 2, 2009. (CCL has to be adapted for Civil Law system in Thailand)

Because CC can be applied to reduce the barriers and costs for people who are interested in the copyrighted work but do not have much time or budget to ask for permission from the authors, CC will be another way to reduce the copyright infringement in Thailand. Moreover CC can help Thailand to promote culture to the world as well.

However, I am kind of a bit worried about CC Thailand because recently Thai people still do not truly realize the importance of copyright and copyright infringement is still the problem. We want time (hopefully not more than 10 years!!!) for our people to understand the process and benefits of Creative Common and also the importance of copyright as well.

Hopefully CC Thailand will get more attention from Thai government and other Thai agencies and companies therefore Thai people can truly use legally and get benefits from copyrighted work.

Creative Common in Thailand
· http://creativecommons.org/international/th/
· http://www.thailandlawoffice.com/node/128