[cc-community] Powerhouse Museum goes all CC

Gavin Baker gavin at gavinbaker.com
Fri Apr 3 10:41:52 EDT 2009


Great for them, but --

has anyone mentioned that these are 2 incompatible licenses?

In other words, a re-user can't mash-up the two types of the museum's
OWN content. Am I wrong?

Jessica Coates wrote:
> From the CCau website:
>  
> Those who have been following CC and the public domain in Australia will
> know that the Powerhouse Museum
> <http://creativecommons.org.au/node/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.powerhousemuseum.com>
> in Sydney has long been one of the best local advocates of open access
> in action. Not only have they released hundreds of public domain photos
> <http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/04/08/powerhouse-museum-joins-the-commons-on-flickr-the-what-why-and-how/>
> from their collection as part of the Flickr Commons
> <http://www.flickr.com/commons?PHPSESSID=ea7b4da468f5935f24b65f41dbfc356f>,
> they also publish much of their teaching material
> <http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/> and their ‘photo of the day’
> <http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/> blog under CC.
> 
> Yesterday they announced
> <http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/>
> they were going one step further. In an Australian (and possibly world)
> first, they’ve released all of their collection documentation under CC.
> From now on, all the online descriptions of their objects will by under
> CC Attribution-Noncommercial
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au/>, while the mainly
> factual data about each object will be under CC Attribution-ShareAlike
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/au/>.
> 
> This will make the material much more usable by the general public, and
> will clear up some uncertainty about how such simple materials can be used.
> 
> Read more about it here: http://creativecommons.org.au/node/225
>  
> Congratulations PHM. You can continue to be an example for us all.
>  
> Jessica Coates
> Project Manager
> Creative Commons Clinic
> Queensland University of Technology
>  
> ph: 07 3138 8301
> fax: 07 3138 9395
> email: j2.coates at qut.edu.au
>  
> 
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