Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

["Danyl Strype" <strypey AT riseup.net>]

Kia ora koutou

Thanks for that Jane, great news for CC.

I'm curious as to whether the CC license being recommended for the  
public sector includes a non-commercial clause or not? I can see  
arguments for both sides. On the one hand, I think it's reasonable for  
people and entities making a private profit from information resources  
created with public funds to return some of that profit to the public  
purse. On the other hand, businesspeople are taxpayers too, and I can  
imagine them arguing (quite fairly) that they shouldn't have to may  
for this information twice.

Thoughts?
Nga mihi
Danyl

Quoting "Jane Hornibrook" <janehornibrook AT gmail.com>:

> Here is some great news posted by Jessica Coates from CC Australia on
> several discussion lists. Please see below.
>
> - Jane
>
>
> *Hi all*
>
> *Anyone interested in copyright might have seen the two big Australian court
> cases that are getting a lot of airtime at the moment ? one stating that the
> iiNet ISP isn?t liable for its users bittorrenting, and the other saying
> that Men at Work are liable for using part of ?Kookaburra sits in the Old
> Gum Tree? in ?I Come from the Land Downunder?. *
>
> *But because of this you might have missed another big Australian free
> culture announcement - the Victorian Government has become the first
> Australian government to commit to using Creative Commons as the default
> licensing system for its public sector information.*
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