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["andrew garton" <ag AT apc.org.au>]

This is indeed exciting news... I'm amazed too because of the number of
brick walls I had personally encountered within the Vic Gov re: CC
licenses and open content policies in general.

It's not often one hears such good news... thank you for sharing!

> But lost in all this copyright excitement we have another excellent piece
> of news - the Victorian Government has just committed to using Creative
> Commons as the default licensing system for all its public sector
> information
> (http://www.diird.vic.gov.au/diird-projects/access-to-public-sector-information).
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>  The commitment is part of its response to the report coming from its
> Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee's Inquiry into
> Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data
> (http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/250), which recommended that the
> Victorian Government adopt a "hybrid public sector information licensing
> model comprising Creative Commons and a tailored suite of licences for
> restricted materials." Specifically, the Government "endorses the
> committee's overarching recommendation that the default position for the
> management of PSI should be open access. The Victorian Government further
> commits to the development of a whole-of-government Information
> Management Framework (IMF) whereby PSI is made available under Creative
> Commons licensing by default with a tailored suite of licences for
> restricted materials."
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> As well as accepting the committee's CC recommendation without
> reservation, in its response the Victorian Government cites favourably
> CC-friendly recommendations from the Government 2.0 and Venturous
> Australia reports and endorses the CC default licensing systems used by
> the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Queensland's Government
> Information Licensing Framework.
>
> So definitely a good day to be a free culture advocate in Oz.
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> Jessica Coates
> Project Manager
> Creative Commons Clinic
> Queensland University of Technology
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> ph: 07 3138 8301
> fax: 07 3138 9395
> email: j2.coates AT qut.edu.au
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