Case Studies/MiYoung Yi (Netstrolling)
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Overview
MiYoung Yi is an artist and CC activist in Korea. She has self-published her works after sketch travel Eastern Europe and Meditterrean area under CC BY. These works also can be found on the Internet on Flickr and her blog in image files and PDF book format, applied the same license.
License Usage
All her works are distributed under CC BY. She prefers free culture, and is willing to experiment the potential of content sharing.
Motivations
MiYoung Yi has been a CC activist since 2008. This experience brought her many opportunities to meet with content creators, and let her face with the hardship that it is not easy to persuade existing creators to participate in content sharing. She decided to create works and distributed under CCL by herself. She is now experimenting sustainability to survive and prosper as a CCL artist.
Impact
Her works are now being used and remixed without burden of copyright among many people. MiYoung Yi collects the cases of re-use and remix of her works on her blog. Furthermore, she is leading a local group called <Come! Monday Book Meeting> to inspire people to have fun in everyday life and think of the value of sharing.
