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  • From: Jessica Coates <j2.coates AT qut.edu.au>
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  • Subject: [cc-au] FW: ccNewsletter: Shepard Fairey Remixes CC!
  • Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:50:57 +1000

Hey all

For those who aren't on the CC International mailing list, here's the latest
newsletter.

All kinds of exciting stories and case studies - and Mashup Australia gets a
mention.


Jessica Coates
Project Manager
Creative Commons Australia
Queensland University of Technology

ph: 07 3138 8301
fax: 07 3138 9395
email: j2.coates AT qut.edu.au

-----Original Message-----
From: Melissa Reeder [mailto:melissa AT creativecommons.org]
Sent: Saturday, 10 October 2009 11:01 AM
To: Jessica Coates
Subject: ccNewsletter: Shepard Fairey Remixes CC!

ccNewsletter October 2009

Annual Fundraising Campaign Launched! Shepard Fairey Remixes CC!
As of Monday, October 5, we are pleased to announce the launch of our 5th
annual fundraising campaign, this year featuring a special-edition remixed
Creative Commons T-shirt, designed by Shepard Fairey. Check out the remixed
logo and donate today to get your limited-edition shirt and help us reach our
$500,000 goal!

https://support.creativecommons.org/donate

We cannot do it without you, so please support CC in whatever way you are
able: make a donation that will go to covering our core operations, spread
the word about CC and the value of online sharing, start or continue
licensing your works and using CC licensed works, or get some nifty CC swag
from our online store (just relaunched!). We're counting on you to help us
bring CC to all corners of the globe. We're off to a good start, but we've
still got a long way to go. Check out all the ways you can help out and
support CC during our fundraising campaign and beyond:
https://support.creativecommons.org/

As always, we encourage you to stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to
our weblog:<http://creativecommons.org/weblog>
and following us on Twitter:
<http://twitter.com/creativecommons>

In this Newsletter:

* Defining Noncommercial Report Published
* United States Government CTO on Creative Commons
* CC Zero Endorsed in Nature Opinion Piece
* New Zealand and Australian Governments Promoting Open Data
* Report on First Meeting of CC Leads in Latin America Now Available
* Open Educational Resources: Managing Incompatible Content in OER
* Dutch Public Broadcaster VPRO Releases CC-licensed Documentaries
* Does your sharing scale?


Defining Noncommercial Report Published

Almost one year ago we launched a study of how people understand
"noncommercial use." The study, generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, included in-depth interviews and two waves of in-person and
online focus groups and online questionnaires. The last included a random
sample of U.S. (geographic restriction mandated by resource constraints)
internet users and in an extended form, open questionnaires promoted via our
blog. The resulting Defining Noncommercial study report and raw data are now
published, released under a CC Attribution (CC BY) license and CC0 public
domain waiver respectively.
Full story: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127


United States Government CTO on Creative Commons

Aneesh Chopra, the US Government's Chief Technology Officer, recently spoke
on CNET about his thoughts on copyright. When questioned about the future of
copyright reform, Chopra mentions how he "embraced the Creative Commons
licensing regime" when he worked with the Commonwealth of Virginia to publish
their Flexbook platform. Chopra then states that he thinks that it was this
experience that really informs his perspective on how intellectual property
should be remixed, shared, and reused.
Full story: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17863


CC Zero Endorsed in Nature Opinion Piece

A new opinion piece in Nature, the international weekly journal on science,
addresses post-publication sharing of tools and explicitly recommends open
sharing and the use of CC Zero (CC0) to put data in the public domain. The
special issue of Nature focuses on data sharing and is now online and
accessible free of charge. The piece, "Post-publication sharing of data and
tools," comes out of this year's CASIMIR conference in Rome, and discusses
the sharing of biological materials, specifically but not limited to mice and
embryonic stem cells.
Full story:
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/09/09/cc0-endorsed-nature/


New Zealand and Australian Governments Promoting Open Data

"There's a trend going around the world for open data," says Mark Harris,
former manager of web standards at the New Zealand State Services Commission
and co-organizer of Wellington's recent Open Govt Data Barcamp and Hackfest.
He's right, and New Zealand is certainly trailblazing. Last week, Creative
Commons New Zealand reported that their national government released an open
access and licensing framework draft (NZGOAL) for public feedback. The
framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by
encouraging the New Zealand State Services agencies to license material for
reuse on liberal terms, and recommend Creative Commons as an important tool
in this process.
Meanwhile in Australia, the Government 2.0 Taskforce announced the
MashupAustralia contest asking people to show what can be done with open
public sector information. To help people get started, 59 datasets from more
than 15 different government bodies have been released on
data.australia.gov.au under CC licences (usually Attribution). All this
material, which spans from the Federal electoral boundaries to Powerhouse
Museum's collection database to the locations of Canberra's public toilets,
is now free to be reused, reimagined and repurposed by anyone.
Full stories: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17352,
http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/262


Report on First Meeting of CC Leads in Latin America Now Available

Last year "Latam Commons 2008: Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Open
Education" was the first meeting of CC leads in Latin America, and also the
first meeting of its kind to focus specifically on open education and OER.
The fruits of the meeting have shown themselves over time, as Latin America
has been working towards greater openness in education and otherwise, with
our very own Carolina Botero joining as a ccLearn liaison for that region of
the Spanish-speaking world. Now, the particular results of that first meeting
are recorded for the first time, in both English and Spanish, in a report
entitled "Open Education: First meeting of CC leads in Latin America."
The report was a joint production of CC Latin America and ccLearn, and is
licensed under an Attribution (CC BY) license so it can be further translated
into other languages. We encourage you to check it out!
Full story: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17815


Open Educational Resources: Managing Incompatible Content in OER

Gaining a deeper understanding of the ways in which copyright exceptions
function globally and how these exceptions interact with open licensing is an
important move for the OER community. The education wing of Creative Commons,
ccLearn, hopes to lead the way in this effort. At the OpenEd conference in
Vancouver in August, ccLearn's General Counsel, Lila Bailey, presented a
paper entitled "Otherwise Open: Managing Incompatible Content in OER," which
outlines this problem in detail. The final published version of that paper is
now available. We encourage you to check it out and provide feedback.
Full story: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17240


Dutch Public Broadcaster VPRO Releases CC-licensed Documentaries

VPRO, a public broadcaster in the Netherlands, has begun releasing current
documentaries under the CC BY-NC-SA license. According to Bregtje van der
Haak, coordinator of the VPRO's Century of the City project, releasing these
documentaries under a Creative Commons license contributes to efforts to
better serve the VPRO's public:
"We are producing a lot of documentaries that are of interest to specialized
communities. In the case of urbanization this includes architects, urban
planners and students. From research we know that a growing segment of the
VPRO's audience is watching less and less television but continues to highly
value this type of content. By offering content for download we are
increasing the life cycle of these programs and enabling a whole number of
new forms of re-use of our productions. As a public broadcaster we have the
obligation to make our productions available to the public in as flexible a
manner as possible."
Full story: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18128


Does Your Sharing Scale?

Creative Commons makes sharing easy, legal, and scalable. Easy and legal are
obvious -- what about scale? Triggered by a discussion in the blogosphere at
Techdirt and elsewhere, this article explains why standard licenses and
public domain tools such as those offered by Creative Commons are necessary
to realize the web's potential for collaboration and sharing, from Wikipedia
and OpenCourseWare to bands and individual bloggers.
Full story: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17422

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and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, Omidyar
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