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Appendix 12 Interview Record (Participant K)

Appendix 12 Interview Record

(Participant K)

Date: 12:00 p.m.-12:20 p.m., December 1, 2018
Means: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Interviewee: Participant K, a student in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Questioner: Huang Weijie

Huang: Nice to meet you! My name is Weijie Huang. I am doing my Ph.D. study on
intellectual property right in the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. My Ph.D.
thesis is about UGC (User-Generated Content) and copyright. UGC refers to content
that created by amateurs rather than professional creators, such as fanfictions, parodies,
remixes, samplings, etc. UGC is fundamentally different from traditional copyrighted
works in many aspects, such as the non-economic incentives and collaborative
authorship. This brings significant challenges to copyright law. Since you are a student
majoring in arts, Briefly, I would like to discuss the inherent conflict between the
convenience of copying and exclusiveness of copyright. Since you are from Nanyang
Academy of Fine Arts, I guess you create UGCs quite often. Could I know something
about how you create UGCs and your attitudes toward copyright law through this
interview.
Participant K: No problem.

Huang: What is your major? What kind of work you create in your daily life? Works of fine
art, musi cal works, literary works, video works or any others?
Participant K: I major in urban planning in the department of architecture. We have an Art
course in which we create works of fine art. In specialized courses offered for our major,
we generally use graphic language.

Huang: Do you remember in which year did you begin your journey of creation? Have you
engaged in creation frequently?
Participant K: I began to create in 2014 but I don’t create frequently.
Huang: Have your works been uploaded online or publicized through other means? Have
you earned some profit from creation?
Participant K: Nope and I haven’t earned any profit.

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