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  • From: "Alison Stevenson" <Alison.Stevenson AT vuw.ac.nz>
  • To: "Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion" <cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-nz] Creative Commons License for NZETC digital resources
  • Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 08:22:38 +1200

Hello,

Chris is quite right, our intention in using the CC licenses it to make
the digitised editions of these works available for sharing and re-use.
We have never asserted any rights over the original work. We'll update
the words on our "Copyright and Conditions of Use" information page to
make this clear.

In terms of CC licensing for original works which are in copyright we
have not talk to any of our contributors about this yet. However now
that we can demonstrate the license in use on the site it will be easier
to offer it as an option and we'll certainly talk to authors about this
in future projects.

Kind Regards,

Alison

Alison Stevenson, Director
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
www.nzetc.org

Victoria University of Wellington
P.O. Box 3438
Wellington
New Zealand
Tel: +64-4-463-6847 Mobile: 027-5636847






-----Original Message-----
From: cc-nz-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:cc-nz-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Esther
Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2008 8:11 a.m.
To: Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion
Subject: Re: [Cc-nz] Creative Commons License for NZETC digital
resources

Alison

NZETC is a fabulous resource and the use of CC licences is a great way
to indicate that people can freely copy, transform, derive and use those
licensed resources.

I am right in assuming that although the originals are out of copyright
that NZETC is asserting copyright over the digitised copies of the
works, therefore it is NZETC who is licensing the works and those who
use the works should attribute to NZETC?

Does CC licensing form any part of your acquisition process? Many of
those authors of current copyright works are still alive and can give
permission for them to CC license their work so that it can be made
available prior to the end of the copyright term.

Regards
-c-






On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Alison Stevenson
<Alison.Stevenson AT vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> People might be interested to know that we've just updated the NZETC
> site to use a Creative Commons license for those digitised works where

> the original is now out of copyright. There are now 433 individual
> titles available under the CC Attribution-Share Alike license
> including Walter Buller's "A History of the Birds of New Zealand", the

> 1914 edition of the Edmond's Cookery Book, Katherine Mansfield's
> fiction, Elsdon Best's monographs, and the many 19th century New
Zealand novels.
>
> We hope this will encourage more use of the resources by making it
> obvious to our users that in many cases they can take the digital
> editions to share and transform as they like (as long as the
> attribution and share-alike conditions are met).
>
> Of course much of the material in the NZETC collection remains in
> copyright to the original author and/or publisher. For those texts we
> have retained a conditions of use statement which advises users that
> they must seek explicit permission to re-use the digitised material.
>
> The information as to which conditions apply to a given text will
> appear in the left sidebar. If you go to a digitised text at the
> moment and don't see the license information you might just need to
> force the page to refresh as the old copies of the pages will still be
sitting in our cache.
>
> We look forward to seeing what creative uses people put the material
to ....
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Alison
>
>
> Alison Stevenson, Director
> New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
> www.nzetc.org
>
> Victoria University of Wellington
> P.O. Box 3438
> Wellington
> New Zealand
> Tel: +64-4-463-6847 Mobile: 027-5636847
>
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