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  • From: Jessica Coates <j2.coates AT qut.edu.au>
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  • Subject: [ccAustralia] aph.gov.au adopts CC v3.0
  • Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:59:46 +1000

Hopefully most of you have seen the official launch of the Australian v3.0
licences earlier today (http://creativecommons.org.au/version3).

We’re very pleased to announce that the licences, only a few hours old,
already have their first significant adopter. A couple of weeks ago the
Australian Parliament officially announced, via the Australian Library and
Information Association's mailing list, that it will be porting its central
http://www.aph.gov.au website across to a Creative Commons v3.0 BY-NC-ND
licence. This is the website which houses all the most important documents of
Australian Fedreal Government – including all bills, committee reports and,
most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings – so this
is a major move for Australian government.

>From the Australian Parliament announcement:

The Parliament of Australia is committed to open access to the resources it
publishes to support a vibrant democracy. Recognising the important of
ensuring access to its resources published on the website the parliament has
approved publication under a Creative Commons 3.0
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/) instead of copyright
protection. Full implementation will occur when the new web site is released
in late 2010. Until then a notice appears on the copyright page advising of
this change.
...
We are enormously excited at this step to open up parliamentary information.


Since its endorsement of open access as its preferred default in its response
to the Gov 2.0 Report last month
(http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/295), the Federal Government has
released the Budget, the NBN implementation study and the Gov2.0 response
itself all under CC licences (http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/297).
This latest announcement solidifies the Australian government commitment to
openness and transparenct and means that the entire public record of our
government will now be available for non-commercial reuse by anyone, without
the need for additional permissions.




  • [ccAustralia] aph.gov.au adopts CC v3.0, Jessica Coates, 06/06/2010

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