Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Jane Hornibrook <janehornibrook AT gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Thank you for your continuing interest and support for Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand throughout 2009.

CCANZ's host, Te Whainga Aronui The Council for the Humanities has officially decided to join the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2010 as a committee representing the humanities. Consequently, the Council will no longer be able to host New Zealand's Creative Commons project. However, we are delighted to tell you that CCANZ and the Council have been in negotiation with the Royal Society of New Zealand concerning their ability and suitability to take over the CC project jurisdiction in 2010. 

These discussions have been extremely positive, and we hope to continue on this path toward a more stable project jurisdiction in the new year. Please feel free to add any comments or queries to the forum entitled "CCANZ in 2010" and "Creative Commons and the Royal Society". We will be mostly offline until February, but will try to respond as we can. For a press release about the humanities entering the Royal Society of New Zealand, see http://www.humanitiesresearch.net/news/royal_society_of_new_zealand_embraces_the_humanities

Merry Christmas everyone.

Jane Hornibrook and Stephanie Pietkiewicz



P.S. Our friend Browyn Holloway-Smith has just now alerted us to a new CC artwork she has been working on as she describes below. Well done!

"I thought you might be
interested to hear about a new artwork commission I've just completed
for Massey University that has a Creative Commons component to it.

Titled "Ghosts in the form of gifts" the work is comprised of 10
objects that have been printed with the open source 3D printer - the
Rep Rap - and I've put the 3D design files up on my website for free
download under a BY-SA license. It's an exciting experiment of sorts
for me to be starting to incorporate CC licenses into my work, and to
be able to promote and support the movement!"

The files and some images are here:
http://bronwyn.co.nz/projects/gifts.html


 
-- 
Jane Hornibrook
Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand
Ph  +64 4 472 9488
Cel +64 2761 98139
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