[cc-community] Powerhouse Museum goes all CC

Peter Troxler peter at waag.org
Fri Apr 3 10:50:12 EDT 2009


Gavin: interesting -- could you expand on the incompatibility issue?

/ Peter

On 3 apr 2009, at 16:41, Gavin Baker wrote:

> 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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