Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Jessica Coates <j2.coates AT qut.edu.au>]

Hi all

In the lead up to our Building an Australasian Commons 
<http://creativecommons.org.au/australasiancommons> event, CCau is very 
pleased to announce that we have (finally) finished the first drafts of our 
version 3.0 licences.

So, in the spirit of crowd sourcing and open democracy, before we finalise 
them we thought we'd see what others had to say about them. So we're 
releasing two of the draft licences for public consultation: Attribution (BY) 
<http://creativecommons.org.au/materials/BY_v3_Aus_June_08_draft.pdf> and 
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA) 
<http://creativecommons.org.au/materials/BY_NC_SA_v3_Aus_June_08_draft.pdf>.

Getting everyone's feedback on the proposed v3.0 licences is particularly 
important because we've decided to depart slightly from our traditional 
drafting approach. Rather than writing the licences as a straight translation 
from the Unported licences provided by CC International, we've instead 
decided to base them on the excellent plain English licences produced last 
year by our friends in New Zealand, which they in turn based on the England 
and Wales licences. We're also adding some clarifying language on the 
licensing of derivative works to the BY and BY-NC licences which isn't in 
either the Unported licences or the New Zealand licences - so we wanted to 
see what people thought about this.

So if you have the time, take a glance over the new licences and let us know 
what you think. If you have any comments, you can send them to us directly at 
info AT creativecommons.org.au. Or, better yet, send them to the CCau mailing 
list <http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-au>  - that way we can get 
some community discussion going on any issues raised.

You can find out more about the licences and the public consultation process 
here: <http://creativecommons.org.au/v3draft>


Jessica Coates
Project Manager
Creative Commons Clinic
Queensland University of Technology

ph: 07 3138 8301
fax: 07 3138 9598
email: j2.coates AT qut.edu.au