Draft licence discussion documents

These documents contain the text and discussion of the draft licences created as part of the process of translating (or porting) of the US Creative Commons licences to the Australian jurisdiction.

The following materials were made available for discussion and comment. Please note that the materials provided here are drafts only, and are not necessarily consistent with the final licences.

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There has been some debate about whether moral rights should be explicitly disavowed or included into the licence. The most recent draft includes moral rights (cl 4(h)).
* Draft translated license (v0.4) (PDF).
* Draft with annotated explanation of substantive legal changes (v0.4) (PDF).

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EngageMedia

EngageMedia wants to show you what you might never have seen.

It is a website and network for distributing video works that you probably won’t see at the cinemas or on TV. They are growing a user-led community around films focusing on social justice and environmental issues in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. They want to harness the potential of digital tools such as peer-to-peer networks and increased bandwidth to create a distribution platform for high-resolution video that is free from “the control of big media conglomerates.”

The site uses Creative Commons licences as a way of rights managing the distribution of the uploaded content.