- 24/7/2010

Your might not know much about freewares or "open source movement", but you must know "Linux" and "internet".  Many programmers have contributed their work freely to other people for not even a few words of appreciation under "GPL" (General Public Licence). In the world of art and design, some artists are doing the same things; they offer their works to the public free of charge under "creative common licence." They make the world more beautiful. Don't think that what they offer is irrelevant. The backbone of interenet is built on the basis of freewares like Unix, Linux and Apache. To know more about their world and philosophy , click the above icon to enter our "freestuff" page.

Since 2006, we started to make our contribution to the community of free culture by building up our own free sharing sites including:

<blog.um-gallery.net>,
<imagebank.um-gallery.net> and
<videoworks.um-gallery.net>

Our creative works are offered to the general public at no cost on these sites. Knowledge and imaging are our specialties so we offer them as a documentary record witnessing the development of our world. At the end of 2007, we built an unofficial site voluntarily for Hunghom Commercial Centre where our company located. The site <http://hhcc.um-gallery.net> has been serving as a plateform for communication among all owners and tenants and a provisional information centre for customers. The latest site we build is <essence.um-gallery.net>, which hosts carefully selected ancient chinese books in the public domain for the reference of youngsters and chinese culture lovers.

We would like to demonstrate  that free culture is not contradictory to the intellectual property right and private ownership which have been abused and dirverted to a wrong direction adverse to the interest of the general public. Our philosophy and rationale are summaried in a number of essay written by our colleagues. To learn how we think, click the following URLs which link you to  their corresponding essays telling the philosophy behind our actions:

《Introduction to Freeware:》
<http://blog.um-gallery.com/unofficial_release_intro2freeware.html>

《Free Art:》
<http://blog.um-gallery.com/unofficial_release_freeart.html>

《Art without Boundary》:
<http://blog.um-gallery.com/unofficial_release_art_wo_boundary.html>

《Opinion on the Review of Copyright Ordinance 2007》
<http://blog.um-gallery.com/unofficial_release_opinion_n_ip070730.html>

《Opinion on the Amendment to the Copyright Ordinance 2010》
<http://blog.um-gallery.com/unofficial_release_submission_copyright100302.html>