[cc-community] CCau v3.0 public launch

Jessica Coates j2.coates at qut.edu.au
Thu Jun 12 03:13:30 EDT 2008


Hi all

In the lead up to our Building an Australasian Commons <http://creativecommons.org.au/australasiancommons> event, CCau is very pleased to announce that we have (finally) finished the first drafts of our version 3.0 licences.

So, in the spirit of crowd sourcing and open democracy, before we finalise them we thought we'd see what others had to say about them. So we're releasing two of the draft licences for public consultation: Attribution (BY) <http://creativecommons.org.au/materials/BY_v3_Aus_June_08_draft.pdf> and Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA) <http://creativecommons.org.au/materials/BY_NC_SA_v3_Aus_June_08_draft.pdf>.

Getting everyone's feedback on the proposed v3.0 licences is particularly important because we've decided to depart slightly from our traditional drafting approach. Rather than writing the licences as a straight translation from the Unported licences provided by CC International, we've instead decided to base them on the excellent plain English licences produced last year by our friends in New Zealand, which they in turn based on the England and Wales licences. We're also adding some clarifying language on the licensing of derivative works to the BY and BY-NC licences which isn't in either the Unported licences or the New Zealand licences - so we wanted to see what people thought about this.

So if you have the time, take a glance over the new licences and let us know what you think. If you have any comments, you can send them to us directly at info at creativecommons.org.au. Or, better yet, send them to the CCau mailing list <http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-au>  - that way we can get some community discussion going on any issues raised.

You can find out more about the licences and the public consultation process here: <http://creativecommons.org.au/v3draft>


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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