Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Paul Murrell <p.murrell AT auckland.ac.nz>]

Hi


Brian Opie wrote:
> Kia ora list members
> 
> This update has four sections, the fourth of which asks for a
> response:
> 
> 1. Progress: There is real progress, but it is taking more time than
> anticipated. We now have a Legal Team: Paul Sumpter, Andrew Matangi
> and Susy Frankel. Paul and Andrew are working on the drafting of the
> generic licences, and Susy has agreed to lead the process of
> discussion and inquiry into the need for an indigenous CC licence.
> The latter process will start at the Launch. The date for the Launch
> is yet to  be determined, and depends on the completion of the legal
> work.
> 
> There are three aspects to this work, which have led to unavoidable
> delays:
> 
> The first is a decision by the team to adopt the UK-England version
> as the model, because of the much greater affinity between English
> and NZ IP law, than between Australia and NZ. This has meant opening
> a discussion with the UK - England legal team, who have been very
> supportive.
> 
> The second is the matter of annotations. CCi needs not only the
> generic licences in a form consistent with NZ law, but it needs a
> clear statement of the ways in which the licences (which still
> reflect Amemrcian practice and terminology) relate to the provisions
> of NZ law. This was a potentially larger job than the redrafting
> itself. The current plan is to adapt the UK-England document when it
> is completed.
> 
> The third is an accident of timing. CCi has promulgated version3 of
> the generic licences, and member countries are currently revising
> their licences in relation to the changes in v3. Our team decided
> that it would not be a good use of (volunteered) time to complete the
> drafting of the present licences only then to have to redraft to
> bring them up to date. It has been agreed with UK -England that we
> will be able to make use of their revisions, which are planned for
> circulation in draft form in the next fortnight.
> 
> 2. RE: [Cc-nz] public domain dedications The process we are involved
> in works as follows: We produce draft versions of the licences, which
> are approved by CCi. When they are approved, they are ported to the
> CCi site where they can be accessed through CC-Aotearoa NZ on the CCi
> site. The licences do not sit on the CC-Aotearoa NZ website, but will
> be able to be accessed through a link from this site as well. In
> other words, CCi maintains control over the licences.
> 
> Is this a sufficient clarification?


Not for me unfortunately, but that may be my fault :)

I am referring to the CC Public Domain Dedication licence
(http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2?lang=en).  If I
understand it correctly, with that licence, CC maintain a database of
some sort as "evidence" that the work is in the public domain.  In that
respect, it looks like this licence is a bit different from the other
ones because CC not only host the licence itself, but also a record of
the works under that licence.  I'm not sure whether a NZ version would
require a NZ database for works in the "NZ public domain", if such a
thing exists.  Maybe I need a clarification of the term "public domain"
as well(?)


> 3. CC-Aotearoa NZ website. The first stage of the website design is
> almost complete.
> 
> 4. Community Partnership Fund application We were pleased that the
> Expression of Interest was accepted and we were invited to complete a
> comprehensive application for the building of an interactive site.
> 
> It would be very useful to have some indications from list members of
> what you think is the likely user take up of the licences. If you
> have an individual plan (as say Paul Murrell has indicated) a brief
> account of that would be excellent. If you think that there are
> specific groups of people for whom the licences will make an
> important contribution to their work, it would be good to know about
> that. Emails with your full name (and any organisational conenction
> if relevant) would be quite adequate.


It seems to me that the CC licences are a nice fit for academic work (as
long as the parent institution does not claim to hold the copyright) so
I would expect some uptake amongst academics.  It is also really easy
for academics to try these licences out because we get paid a salary
anyway.  Sorry, I have no feel for the uptake amongst musicians,
artists, etc (basically, anyone who would need to be brave to try out a
CC licence).

Paul


> I would appreciate receiving this information by Monday 16 April.
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Brian Opie
> 
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