Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

["thomas scovell" <thomas AT thomasscovell.com>]

Hi all,

also new here. online project manager interested in
opensource/freeculture etcetera.

There was a post to the creativecommons RSS list saying the NZ port
was out this month:

Upcoming Launch Dates

   * New Zealand: April 2007
   * Greece: Spring 2007
   * Luxembourg: June 6,2007
   * Puerto Rico: June 25–30, 2007
   * Guatemala: August 2007
   * Singapore: August 2007
   * Norway: open
   * Nigeria: open

However that post has disappeared (it was...
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7319)

There is also nothing under the "project jurisdictions" for NZ. Is
there a timeline for the port or?


On 3/30/07, Paul Murrell <p.murrell AT auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hi
>
> My first post to the list, so a brief introduction:
> I'm a lecturer in the Department of Statistics at Auckland University
> and my research is mostly involved with an open source statistical
> software project called R.  I have joined this list for two reasons:
> (i) I'm generally interested in the Creative Commons and the "Free
> Culture" movement and (ii) I am negotiating with a publisher regarding a
> book idea and I want to retain copyright and release an electronic
> version under a Creative Commons licence.  So I'm interested and excited
> to see people working to set up an NZ port of CC.
>
> My question for today is this:
> Is there any plan to "port" the CC Public Domain Dedication mechanism to
> NZ?  (or is that a strictly US-only concept?)
>
> Thanks for any info and thanks for all the work being put into the CC port.
>
> Paul
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