[cc-community] Stick this in your memory hole - opening the doors to political debate
Jessica Coates
j2.coates at qut.edu.au
Tue Oct 2 01:29:02 EDT 2007
Aduki Independent Press <http://www.aduki.net.au> , a boutique publishing
company based in Melbourne, has today announced the publication of a new
book - Stick
<http://www.aduki.net.au/images/stories/books/stiymh%20info%20sheet.pdf>
this in your memory hole by Tristan Clark. This collection of 37 essays uses
satire, insight and the occasional foul language to critique the state of
politics and society in contemporary Australia.
Why is this important to CC, I hear you ask? Because the book, in its
entirety, is being made available under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial
licence.
As far as we are aware, this is the first case of a book being released
independently by an Australian publisher under a CC licence. Sure, we've
published a few books ourselves (including the excellent Open
<http://creativecommons.org.au/ocl> Content Licensing: Cultivating the
Creative Commons), and rumour has it there are some self-publishing efforts.
But Aduki seems to be the first independent publisher in Australia to get
behind its author's wish to truly share their book with the nation using CC.
Breaking out from the pack and taking the plunge into open content licensing
isn't an easy decision for a small publisher to make, and Aduki deserves to
be congratulated. But, as they say in their press
<http://www.aduki.net.au/images/stories/books/stiymh%20info%20sheet.pdf>
release, with its strong message in support of free speech 'Stick this in
your memory hole' is the perfect book to begin with.
As Emily Clarke of Aduki press puts it "We really liked the idea of giving
people easy access and the right to use the work without seeking our
permission as the book has an important message that needs to be shared."
For more information on the book, check out http://aduki.net.au
<http://aduki.net.au/> or http://creativecommons.org.au
<http://creativecommons.org.au/> .
Jessica Coates
Project Manager
Creative Commons Clinic
Queensland University of Technology
ph: 07 3138 8301
fax: 07 3138 9598
email: j2.coates at qut.edu.au
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