Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

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

Hi all

 

I know it's late on a Friday, and hopefully you're all off having fun times, but I thought I'd take a moment to draw your attention to a few big stories on the CCau website.

 

First of all, you only have a few more days to take part in the second and final round of the Creative Commons survey looking at the meaning of noncommercial (http://creativecommons.org.au/node/230). This survey will go towards shaping Creative Commons' future policy. So if you've ever argued over whether an ad-supported blog was a commercial use or not, now's your time to have your say.

 

After you've filled out the survey, those Wikimedian's among you can pop over to Wikipedia and vote on whether you want the free encyclopedia to have a CC BY-SA licence applied to it (http://creativecommons.org.au/node/231). This may not sound very important, but it's a big step towards making it easier for people to re-use material across the many arms of the free culture community. And it will mean that the entire of Wikipedia - that's right, more than 6 million articles - will be CC licensed.

 

And finally, those interesting in open access to public sector information will be happy to hear that the wonderful Government Information Licensing Framework project (GILF to their friends) have launched their own website (http://creativecommons.org.au/node/229). GILF is a world-leading project that is almost single handedly responsible for most of the movement happening around open access to PSI in Australia at the moment - so it's great to see them spreading their message of innovation through openness even further.

 

Have a good weekend - and for all the Australians and New Zealanders out there: Happy Anzac Day.

 

 

 

Jessica Coates

Project Manager

Creative Commons Clinic

Queensland University of Technology

 

ph: 07 3138 8301

fax: 07 3138 9395

email: j2.coates AT qut.edu.au